We’d never heard of electronic devices when I was a kid… so we didn’t miss them….but we had fun.
Sad if she really had no friends or family to have fun with…no dolls, toys, board games, books, music, crayons, paint…. couldn’t play outdoors…or simply couldn’t find any amusement in those things.
There’s always something interesting to do, including time spent sitting and thinking….
Yes, I love my computer, my smartphone… the internet…. GoComics….
But I feel lucky to have them… not entitled to them.
She shouldn’t be condoning his dependence on electronic stimulation….much less sounding jealous of it.
Even my grandson, at the ripe old age of 29, complains that his nephew, who is four, doesn’t know how to play. “If I sit on the floor and build with his Lincoln Logs with him, he’s fine, but if I leave, he has no idea what to do next.”
tee hee. Each generation strives to make things better for the next. Then each generation complains that the next is lazy, unimaginative or too dependent on the latest entertainment option.
Bored? Are you KIDDING? Riding my bike all over town; before that playing “horses” with my like-minded bf (we were both horse crazy and owned imaginary horse farms;) having weed wars with the neighborhood boys (defending our “turf” in an abandoned farm field); walking all over town looking to see what our friends were up to; making up picnics and places to have them; exploring the swampy, undeveloped area in the corner of the village; softball practice and games; seeing Nancy Drew-type mysteries everywhere; coming up with way we could afford our own horses. And all this is a very ordinary suburban little town. Bored? Only boring people get bored.
Yes, we all have memories of good times without the help of transistors. But don’t forget, Junior hardly ever leaves the three boxes he lives in, so he can’t relate.
It would be very hard to have the kind of childhood most of us enjoyed again. Not because the world is worse off, but because our perceptions make it seem so. Parents now get visits from social services if they let their children roam free. In some states its actually illegal for kids to be left unsupervised. Without electronics to keep him occupied, Junior wouldn’t just be bored, he’d be an outlaw.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 8 years ago
That’s a bad lesson for her to teach Junior…
We’d never heard of electronic devices when I was a kid… so we didn’t miss them….but we had fun.
Sad if she really had no friends or family to have fun with…no dolls, toys, board games, books, music, crayons, paint…. couldn’t play outdoors…or simply couldn’t find any amusement in those things.
There’s always something interesting to do, including time spent sitting and thinking….
Yes, I love my computer, my smartphone… the internet…. GoComics….
But I feel lucky to have them… not entitled to them.
She shouldn’t be condoning his dependence on electronic stimulation….much less sounding jealous of it.
Kristiaan over 8 years ago
Lego! Books! I was never bored, even before I got my first electronic game in 1979.
Dani Rice over 8 years ago
Even my grandson, at the ripe old age of 29, complains that his nephew, who is four, doesn’t know how to play. “If I sit on the floor and build with his Lincoln Logs with him, he’s fine, but if I leave, he has no idea what to do next.”
P51Strega over 8 years ago
tee hee. Each generation strives to make things better for the next. Then each generation complains that the next is lazy, unimaginative or too dependent on the latest entertainment option.
Ubintold over 8 years ago
It’s the old “We had it tough, when I was a kid” routine. I know it well.
dogday Premium Member over 8 years ago
Bored? Are you KIDDING? Riding my bike all over town; before that playing “horses” with my like-minded bf (we were both horse crazy and owned imaginary horse farms;) having weed wars with the neighborhood boys (defending our “turf” in an abandoned farm field); walking all over town looking to see what our friends were up to; making up picnics and places to have them; exploring the swampy, undeveloped area in the corner of the village; softball practice and games; seeing Nancy Drew-type mysteries everywhere; coming up with way we could afford our own horses. And all this is a very ordinary suburban little town. Bored? Only boring people get bored.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 8 years ago
Yes, we all have memories of good times without the help of transistors. But don’t forget, Junior hardly ever leaves the three boxes he lives in, so he can’t relate.
InquireWithin over 8 years ago
It would be very hard to have the kind of childhood most of us enjoyed again. Not because the world is worse off, but because our perceptions make it seem so. Parents now get visits from social services if they let their children roam free. In some states its actually illegal for kids to be left unsupervised. Without electronics to keep him occupied, Junior wouldn’t just be bored, he’d be an outlaw.