Posted on 05/15/2015 9:09:12 PM PDT by jocon307
Point to ponder. Videogames are the only place left where a kid can actually ‘play’ and have any kind of fun without CPS and the Liberals destroying any imagination, adventure or fun they may have...of course the Gamergate libs are hard at work ending the last outlet they have with SJW crap as well.
A kid today CANNOT have our childhoods. It’s illegal.
Heh. I remember canvassing the neighborhood for someone to come out and play on a coldish saturday morning, and one prospective playmate told me, no, he was watching I Love Lucy. I couldn’t believe it! Couldn’t imagine it! I won’t mention any names, but it was R...... B......
Yeah, that whole “screen” thing is a little out of control.
So, I take my grandson to the park. He’s looking forward to when we go back and bring lunch with us (because it will be warmer).
And when he gets a little older he will be able to count on grandma to point out all the insidious commie infiltration of the media, etc.
I have high hopes for that boy.
First of all, I hardly know what you're talking about! Second of all, surely it's not true. What do you you need? Space, mainly ... grass. True enough, we had cap guns as a mainstay, ... hmmmm ... and jack knives, so ... well there's still marbles!
Unless a kid lives in the country/rural areas, which most American kids do not anymore, they have little recourse but a sedate indoor life. How many stories are posted regularly talking about parents taken to court because some mosy neighbor had a fit that kids were outside ‘unattended’? A lot. Then there’s all the ‘banning’ of once normal activities, park equipment, schoolyard games and the rest.
About 10 years ago I covered a story for a paper about a 10 YO (IIRC) boy that had to attend pyromainia ‘diversion’ at a local FD because he was caught by a neighbor, in his own back yard, while his parents were home, lighting a fire in a fire place. This hardened criminal had recently been shown how to build fires by his father and he was ‘practicing’ for an upcoming camping trip.
That is the world we live in.
The Gamergate thing is long and convoluted. But what it comes down to is a bunch of Liberal Social Justice warriors went on a blacklisting campaign against game media and developers who would not inject liberalism (Gay propaganda, feminism, global warming etc.) into their games and reviews. There was more to it but thats what much of it came down to. The chief instigator of it all was worthy of a Dem nomination as she hit all the buttons including screwing her way into positions to implement a lot of the campaign.
Overall, what I am getting at is today, kids have few options. An indoor lifestyle is all they have without some liberal totally controlling their experiences. They practically can’t even go play in a park anymore without a parent getting sued. The VERY rural area I grew up in is so hyperregulated no one can do a fraction of what I did growing up. Child or adult.
I’m a boomer with 5 kids from 7-26
Article is bullshit
I’ve devoted my life to family
Younger parents cling because the wives have the power in the families and overprotect like women do cause women are by nature more fearful
Rock Fights?
This sounds more like the baby boomer generation. My parents never saw me from dawn to dusk in the summertime.
” Why is this necessary and how do we delineate “generations” as every one melds seamlessly into the next?”
Blame Madison Avenue. It all began with a marketing campaign to target the parents of the ‘Boomers and then ‘Boomers themselves. Get your Davy Crockett hat and your Hula Hoop.
“You know we invented skateboards in the early sixties, when I was in high school, by nailing the back and front of metal wheeled skates to a board, a 1” plank, usually.”
Been there, done that.
I’m genX. The article is complete nonsense.
I’m with you. Nonsense.
Lol. That was my first thought. Yes I witnessed some bad injuries, even caused at least one. But no fatalities :)
No, we didn't carry any housekeys with us, because our houses were never locked (we lived in the boondocks, and the house never unoccupied anyway).
Parents greeted us with "Put your school bags down, get your work clothes on - you've chores to do!" (Full disclosure: They never actually had to say that - we knew it already.)
After supper, more chores, then dropping dead into our beds.
Regards,
You betcha. A standard thing in the fifties. I caught one in the head at six years old, on a dirt pile at a construction site of course, and went to the hospital for stitches. Right on the top of my head. I didn't even know what was going on, at that age. I thought we were "playing". A neighbor mom cleaned me up a little before my mom saw me.
“And Garanimals ??? “
That threw me, too. I don’t remember any brands from childhood other than Levi’s—back when Levi stood for pioneering spirit, not rainbows and skittle poop.
Our gen ping...
Along the same line of thinking:
The Overprotected Kid
A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
Why?
How can a generation be just a few years?
I wonder when generation (fill in the blank) fatigue is going to set in?
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