We Have to Let Our Young People Breathe
With an ever increasing population, space in the UK is fast becoming a premium. Unfortunately, this means that the less wealthy miss out, and become confined to ever diminishing spaces. A core group affected by this move to urbanisation of the countryside are our young people. Today, there are very few places where the young ones can hang out. Fortunately, there is a solution: youth shelters.
In the past, young people had plenty of space in which to roam, and they largely kept out of the way. True, every now and then they ventured onto the wrong patch and wound up in trouble, but the majority of the time, they went unnoticed. I should know; I was one.
When I was young, we would simply take a mile or two hike out of our town and play around in the countryside. We had trees to climb, abandoned buildings to explore (- invariably, of course, these became the haunted houses of legend), streams to swim in (freezing cold in winter, but fun nonetheless), fields to play football in, and general places to run, scream, and make as much noise as we wanted without being told off. Kids need this, and they need it more than ever now, because they are under far more pressure than we ever were.
Youth shelters can help because they provide an area where young people can gather and socialise. This is essential to their development; they need more than ever places where they can be free, where they can be private, and where they can cultivate the culture of the next generation. Without this, society stagnates. It is in everybody’s best interests to allow our young people space to breath, and if you cannot give them what we had – the freedom of the countryside – then we can at least give them a space where they can go about their young business without the prying eyes of rascally adults.
If you are interested finding out more information about youth shelters and how they can help to improve the inner cities, then please visit http://www.aceshelters.co.uk
In the past, young people had plenty of space in which to roam, and they largely kept out of the way. True, every now and then they ventured onto the wrong patch and wound up in trouble, but the majority of the time, they went unnoticed. I should know; I was one.
When I was young, we would simply take a mile or two hike out of our town and play around in the countryside. We had trees to climb, abandoned buildings to explore (- invariably, of course, these became the haunted houses of legend), streams to swim in (freezing cold in winter, but fun nonetheless), fields to play football in, and general places to run, scream, and make as much noise as we wanted without being told off. Kids need this, and they need it more than ever now, because they are under far more pressure than we ever were.
Youth shelters can help because they provide an area where young people can gather and socialise. This is essential to their development; they need more than ever places where they can be free, where they can be private, and where they can cultivate the culture of the next generation. Without this, society stagnates. It is in everybody’s best interests to allow our young people space to breath, and if you cannot give them what we had – the freedom of the countryside – then we can at least give them a space where they can go about their young business without the prying eyes of rascally adults.
If you are interested finding out more information about youth shelters and how they can help to improve the inner cities, then please visit http://www.aceshelters.co.uk