Well, ahem, as a teenager from the 80s I can tell you that our social lives revolved around organised groups eg. scouts, sport, or locally held discos or roller blading.
The general rule from our parents was, "It's not raining, get outside."
The emphasis was to get out of their way to let them do chores - otherwise we got some of the chores to do! They also have a lot of free time now too with technology devising labour saving devices.
You are certainly right to a certain extent coz even my friends from primary school 4-10yo who lived in my area, are still my very dear friends. We played in the streets or in the park, we had no bullying or jealousy - coz no-one had anything of any value :o)
Unfortunately you can't turn back time but now that you've recognised the problem, you and your friends can do something about it. I don't allow the computer or TV on in my house until after 6pm so maybe you and your friends could do something similar. ie. meet up between certain times on a regular basis.
Shoot, I grew up in the '90s and if it wasn't raining, I was outside. If I said "I'm bored" my parents would have plenty of chores for me to do!
It was great. My childhood was wonderful. My group of friends and I wandering through the forests and junkyards having adventures that kids now only see in TV shows. Only a handful of kids we knew had a playstation but their parents would never let us all be in there playing for hours. That wouldn't have gone down well. But then more people got them and before I knew it, no one wanted to come outside =/
It's no wonder to me that kids now have things like depression and ADHD. Lord knows I felt like shit when I was grounded, I'd hate to feel like that EVERY DAY.
Looking back we really did have some great laughs and every time we meet up someone reminds us of another event. Have you ever seen a bunch of 40+ year old women crying with laughter in the bar?
I try to explain to my teenage son that he will only have memories of his times with other people, not the hundreds of hours he spent on the latest computer game. Unfortunately for him, there's no way I'd allow him inside the house during the summer hols - if it's not raining :o)
There are some old-fashioned values that the parents really should impose, even today!
Is it normal that I feel like I was born at the wrong age?
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Well, ahem, as a teenager from the 80s I can tell you that our social lives revolved around organised groups eg. scouts, sport, or locally held discos or roller blading.
The general rule from our parents was, "It's not raining, get outside."
The emphasis was to get out of their way to let them do chores - otherwise we got some of the chores to do! They also have a lot of free time now too with technology devising labour saving devices.
You are certainly right to a certain extent coz even my friends from primary school 4-10yo who lived in my area, are still my very dear friends. We played in the streets or in the park, we had no bullying or jealousy - coz no-one had anything of any value :o)
Unfortunately you can't turn back time but now that you've recognised the problem, you and your friends can do something about it. I don't allow the computer or TV on in my house until after 6pm so maybe you and your friends could do something similar. ie. meet up between certain times on a regular basis.
Good luck in changing the world.
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Shoot, I grew up in the '90s and if it wasn't raining, I was outside. If I said "I'm bored" my parents would have plenty of chores for me to do!
It was great. My childhood was wonderful. My group of friends and I wandering through the forests and junkyards having adventures that kids now only see in TV shows. Only a handful of kids we knew had a playstation but their parents would never let us all be in there playing for hours. That wouldn't have gone down well. But then more people got them and before I knew it, no one wanted to come outside =/
It's no wonder to me that kids now have things like depression and ADHD. Lord knows I felt like shit when I was grounded, I'd hate to feel like that EVERY DAY.
Haha that's what I'm exactly talking about. You must have had a damn fun childhood :O
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Looking back we really did have some great laughs and every time we meet up someone reminds us of another event. Have you ever seen a bunch of 40+ year old women crying with laughter in the bar?
I try to explain to my teenage son that he will only have memories of his times with other people, not the hundreds of hours he spent on the latest computer game. Unfortunately for him, there's no way I'd allow him inside the house during the summer hols - if it's not raining :o)
There are some old-fashioned values that the parents really should impose, even today!