G for Growing up

I don't know what it is these days about children wanting to be adults way before their time..but I don't like it. I know it makes me sound old by saying it but I don't care. Yes I'm twenty and I refuse to grow up but that is beside the point! 

It really upsets me that people want to grow up so quickly, I'd love to be a kid again and not have a worry in the world. I feel that technology probably has played a big role in this. People just do not know how to communicate any more. 

Binge drinking and under age drinking is also a big problem in this country. Younger and younger people are turning to drink as a cure to forget about things that get them down. When the drink doesn't do the job any more they turn to something stronger and this worries me a lot. 

I don't want my children (not that I plan on having any for a long time) to grow up in this kind of world. I want them to read books and play games in the mud in the garden using their imagination. I don't want them to sit in front of a television from morning to night and be exposed to the horror that is out there. 

Growing up means responsibility and reliability. It means doing your own washing, paying your own way and defending yourself and I just do not get why children so young are striving for this so young!