Federica


 * Letter to the editor of the magazine**

//Dear Sir Reid-Streebling,// //I have read with interest your article, which appeared on the last magazine's edition, on family values that have changed in the time.// //I'm totally agree with you when you say that they changed for the worse but I would like to add my similarly strong views on this subject because I'm young, I'm a student and I think that there are a lot of young persons more that know which are the important values to be followed.// //In my opinion everything turns around the concept of respect. The major problem in today's society is that there is no more respect and without respect it's impossible to speak about values.// //In the past, and when I speak about past I mean a not too distant past, there was a big respect for the parents, for the teachers, for all the old persons in general. Most of children had to work with theirs fathers after the school and then help theirs mothers with the home. The teacher at school was viewed like a guide and parents at home like a model.// //Today the only models that a child has are the television's characters, that are able to stay in a home with other persons for months doing nothing; teachers are only boring people with an ancient cultural heritage that spend their time to repeat in the class "Be quiet"; parents are servants that have to run after their children all the day.// //Respect and concern for families or teachers or friends or neighbours have been replaced by concern for themselves and their desires.// //I'm a student and I see it everyday among my collegues: most of them don't work, they live at home with parents and they don't do anything at home, they should study but really they don't do it at all. Both during the summer and the winter, on the other hand, they want to go on holiday with their friends, always with friends they want to go out during the weekends and they ask always money for the last example of mobile phone or for the last designer cloth.// //I'm not like them and I' m proud of it. May be because I have parents that guide me and show me what is important or less in the life, may be because I have parents that aren't afraid or unwilling to say me NO, may be because I don't think that we are in a "Mac Donald's serve me now generation" where it seems impossible waiting for everything.// //Fortunately I know there are a lot of persons that are agree with me, that know what is the meaning of the word RESPECT, that try to have it everyday for everybody, expecially for the parents that grow you up and for the teachers that give you the culture, that don't believe at all on the expression "Times change, we must change along with them".// //I think that the word NO, although is composed only by 2 letters, is very powerfull and it's meaning can't change during the time.// //May be children or youngers that take everything for granded need only to hear more time NO...// //Thank you very much for the time that you gave me.// //Best regards//