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n good.” These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a letalone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on holiday.Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students“so inactive”and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, leads to children’s inactivity. “We’re not training kids to work any more,” says Kolmpus. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who have never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying ‘go look it up’, you tell them the answer, it takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their holiday an