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My daughter was twelve today

Published on January 18, 2006 at Childhood

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So my daughter was twelve today, I was trying to remember what was important when I was 12, ok I was a boy and therefore things would have been a little different, however its the difference between 1973 and 2006 that fascinates me.

So what did I get her…a mobile phone (thats a cell phone to you guys in the USA) and she loved it…its an item of cool these days for 12 year olds. She gave me a big spontaneous hug I have never seen her look quite so happy and satisfied.

I wonder what I got for my twelfth birthday…probably a stick or something as the legend goes.

I find age a fascinating thing, how much store we put by it and how it defines us within western society. We have become so youth orientated, with so little respect given to theose in middle age unless they drive a Bentley. Money and Youth is all and the trappings that go with this are not object d’art but object t’ech.

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Jonathan has experience in both the nonprofit and business sectors, working in a consultative capacity and as a project manager with PCTs, charities, the arts, trade unions, businesses and individuals in the areas of Information, motivation, direction and communications development. He has helped organisations as diverse as carers charities and magazine publishers to develop strategy, policy and process to make a more efficient infrastructure. One where staff share in the gains of the organisation and the end user, whether client, patient or customer, receives the highest quality service possible. As well as being an expert in applied information technology and communication he is a qualified and experienced counsellor and motivator.