Colin - I totally agree wih your comments of how we as children of bygone years acted, particularly the comments on how we were never bored with our lot.
Today, as in those days, the majority of youngsters are a pleasure to talk to, and their accomplishments in any field (Art/Sport/Education/Sociability) you can mention make me proud to be associated with them. It is very unfortunate that the tiny minority of youngsters who are, to put it bluntly BAD that despite the efforts of many people at all levels of society nothing seems to be able to correct the situation.
It sometimes worries me that the country has taken or made changes in all our ways of life far to quickly and them changes are in my opinion not given enough time to work or not.
I can sympathise with most parents of out of control youngsters, because nobody worried more than me when my child was in his teens and informative years, and that was at the time when drug taking was in its infancy