I am SOOOO glad I grew up before video games, before malls, and before cable television. (Before fast food and 12-inch dinner plates, for that matter.) We actually knew how to play in a way that developed imagination, not to mention fitness. We were free to have fun in the real world, without paranoid parents. It’s been a sad time for the couple of generations since. No wonder they have a dim view of life’s prospects. They’ve never really lived.
Kids today have plenty of imagination. Just take their electronics away, and they will entertain themselves the ways we did. Most of the parents I have observed don’t want to go through the hassle of enforcing rules to undo the damage they did when they used the TV to babysit and bought the electronic gizmos in the first place.
Past generations had to use their imagination when they played and had to learn how to lie to themselves and believe it. Now that this generation is old, they continue to lie to themselves and believe the younger generations are “sad” and have a “dim view of life”. .What’s funny, (and since we’re talking in gerneralizations) is that if it were even true that younger generations are sad, guess who is to blame. yup, generations past. Fortunatly, we aren’t misserable. .Electronics and video games actually provide essential components for a fullfilled life: Social involvment, self expression, not speding your whole life at the office and more time spent feeling possitive. All this information i got off a Ted Talk. (if you don’t know what a Ted Talk is you should Google it [if you don’t know what Google is, you should ask you 3 year old granddaughter.])
Coyoty Premium Member almost 11 years ago
They’ll want to see their grandpa.
Bruinsmann almost 11 years ago
He touched Jenkins again … I’ll go get the hand sanitizer.
MeGoNow Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I am SOOOO glad I grew up before video games, before malls, and before cable television. (Before fast food and 12-inch dinner plates, for that matter.) We actually knew how to play in a way that developed imagination, not to mention fitness. We were free to have fun in the real world, without paranoid parents. It’s been a sad time for the couple of generations since. No wonder they have a dim view of life’s prospects. They’ve never really lived.
puggles almost 11 years ago
Kids today have plenty of imagination. Just take their electronics away, and they will entertain themselves the ways we did. Most of the parents I have observed don’t want to go through the hassle of enforcing rules to undo the damage they did when they used the TV to babysit and bought the electronic gizmos in the first place.
Tirasmol almost 11 years ago
Could always go the other way, for example, I play video games with my son.
octabrain almost 11 years ago
Past generations had to use their imagination when they played and had to learn how to lie to themselves and believe it. Now that this generation is old, they continue to lie to themselves and believe the younger generations are “sad” and have a “dim view of life”. .What’s funny, (and since we’re talking in gerneralizations) is that if it were even true that younger generations are sad, guess who is to blame. yup, generations past. Fortunatly, we aren’t misserable. .Electronics and video games actually provide essential components for a fullfilled life: Social involvment, self expression, not speding your whole life at the office and more time spent feeling possitive. All this information i got off a Ted Talk. (if you don’t know what a Ted Talk is you should Google it [if you don’t know what Google is, you should ask you 3 year old granddaughter.])
louieglutz almost 11 years ago
from what i read Facebook is anything but a non-violent game
ewalnut almost 11 years ago
I would have loved video games when I was a kid. Instead I had to watch reruns on TV and play Monopoly with myself.
octabrain almost 11 years ago
Hmm.. if there was a social media site like facebook that incorporated violent video games… i would be all about that.
Michelle Morris almost 11 years ago
SOMEBODY MARRIED JENKINS?? AND ALLOWED HIM TO REPRODUCE??
Ottodesu almost 11 years ago
And there were pool halls before that.Now there was a social activity that was universally accepted as being a positive social mainstay.