Madam, - Perhaps you will allow me to do a bit straight talking to teenagers and speak with an elderly voice to the "young voices" who were quoted in your edition of Friday, February 3rd. I find it incredible that middle-class teenagers, attending good schools, are whining that "there is nothing to do" - a situation that someone out there is expected to remedy.
Don't they get enough homework? Do they help with family chores? Do they read? Do they help the less fortunate? Do they walk in the fresh air with friends? I got through my teens quite happily in this fashion, without benefit of television or computer. The pub was exclusively for adult males and respectable girls didn't sit on the riverbank.
Will the young hands please write out, 100 times, Eleanor Farjeon's poem, "There isn't time, there isn't time, to do the things I want to do"? - Yours, etc,
SHEILA GRIFFIN, Tralee, Co Kerry.