Continue to Talk About CBS News Reports "Children of the Recession"

The economic recession is impacting everyone's life. Many people lost their homes, their jobs, and their money. We always tell our children how tough it is during this recession, how hard to live, etc. But have you stopped for one second, took a deep breath, and to think it another way? We are not the only victims of this global economic recession, how about our children? Our next generation? As adults, we lost our homes and jobs, we do suffer a lot of depressions and anxieties, but our children also suffer the same depressions as adults do, and their anxieties are even stronger than ours.

This morning, "CBS News Sunday Morning" aired part of the series of the special report "Children of the Recession", which featured five different young filmmakers telling their own stories about how the current economic recession impacts their lives. Each of their stories is very touching.

12-year-old girl Lenaisha Small's story is one of the stories that I think most touching. She told the reporter that she didn't know what exactly is economic recession before, but everything has changed since November 10, the date that her mother lost her job, and the whole family was facing eviction. Lenaisha still remembers that date, because that date has completed changed her life.

Lenaisha also said many kids would take advice from their friends before they would take it from a grown-up, and she thinks she should start getting into it as well.

Lenaisha then added these touching words, I really wanted to cry when I heard that. She said, "Usually adults look at their childhoods as the best time ever. And it's like you wanna have a good childhood because you want to come out, not just a fairy tale book, but a book that when you share it [with] your children, it comes out decent." Her words touched every adult's heart, her words even fully reflected what the current American children are facing and suffering. I asked myself, how can a 12-year-old girl can say these earnestness words? She said "usually adults look at their childhoods as the best time ever..." Once upon a time, our parents also told us that our childhoods were filled with happinesses, carefrees, nothing to worry about. And now, our generation has become parents, can we just tell our children like the way our parents told us? "Kids, your childhoods are the best time ever..." That is impossible. The lives of our next generation should be better than our own generation, and each following generation's lives should go even better, however, the lifestyles have been completely fallen back because of the economic recession. Our childhoods didn't need to suffer that much, but our children are now facing lots of depressions and anxieties. As an adult, sometimes we cannot suffer that much of depressions, moreover, they are just children!

Just like Lenaisha, and many other American children, the economic recession may have completely changed the ways that they look back their childhoods, and I think this is the sadness brought by the economic recession. Although our children are now facing a lot of difficulties at this time, I still believe children who are living under difficult environment will grow up even faster; I sincerely wish our next generation will be stronger and stronger than us, and more "durable" than us!

You can read more about "Children of the Recession" by clicking here.

Source:
Recession Seen Through The Lens Of Youth; Five Young Filmmakers Show That Economic Anxiety Knows No Age Limit, CBSNews.com, May 24, 2009