I have been following Twitter a bit too much lately that my blog has been ignored a little bit. Then again it doesn’t take that much effort for me to ignore my blog on ‘other reasons’.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Twitter stuff… I found an interesting ‘conversation’ [1] between Tim OReilly<\/a> and Mark Littlewood<\/a> on a BBC article summarizing a report<\/a> on how inattentive parents are causing more difficulties for present day children.<\/p>\n While it would be nice to believe that parenting can become the mark of a civilized society, it would be interesting to see some more specifics. From what I see at the ground level it is not that easy to achieve. As a parent you only have a limited control of the overall environment a child grows up in. Some of the suggestions by the report are good though. Having more ‘family-oriented’ spaces is a good thing. I am not sure about other countries but in the U.S. and Japan it can be non-trivial to find family-oriented spaces in urban environments. Finding ways to make these available and more accessible to busy parents is overall a good thing.<\/p>\n Some things I could think of off the top of my head that might be nice:<\/p>\n Footnotes<\/p>\n [1] I guess these are conversations in Twitter parlance but it seems more like drive-by thought blurb and commenting to me. Either way some of them can be interesting depending on who is talking<\/p>\n References<\/p>\n\n