[Margaret Pilkington]

I grew up in the days before TV (yes, I'm one of those old B*****s), both my parents went out to work......they had to there were 7 kids to feed.......we were taught right from wrong......we were also taught that if you did wrong you had to expect the consequences.
Some of the parents today don't even know where their children are, let alone what they are doing.
I recently told a mother that her son (aged about 10) was throwing stones at the surveillance camera of a local firm........she told me I was an interfering baggage(or words to that effect)......her son was 'only playing' and shut the door in my face.
Next time I will just phone the company's security staff and they will contact the police to deal with it.
Now if something like that had happened when we were growing up we would have been chastised and made to see the error of our ways.
Everyone knows their 'rights'......but no-one wants the responsibility that accompanies those rights.
I despair!