the lazy ass youth of today

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

im all for people not busting ass all day..get an education..but if the office life isnt for you ..you best get abit tough..or smart....i think in the last 30 years..things have changed alot..myself 44 years old,,when i was 10-13..i was gone in the am and only came back to eat..my parents didnt have the issues of today.. i guess what im saying is as people have gotten more scared of .pedophiles,gangs ect they have made the tv and x box the "safe play"..all the wile turning the youth into couch potatos who wont get dirty..or work hard....they dont even have gym class in middle school..wtf.

I think when we were young hooves we did have the tempting distraction of the incredible technology that makes the home a play room. It was damn boring with 3 TV channels, all bad.
We played outside constantly. My feet were like leather on the bottom. I could walk through sticker fields by the end of the summer without a second thought. Of course I will also probably get skin cancer.
But outdoors was the place to be. Thats where everybody hung out in the summer. Thats where I worked in the summer as I got older.

I feel lucky to be born when I was. The world is a much tougher place now imo. I would not want to be a kid now.

[GenuineRisk]

I think hooves is right that parents are very wary nowadays of letting their kids go outside unsupervised, so the kids stay home. And don't exercise.

It seems to me, too, though, that there aren't as many open areas for kids to play now, either. Everything gets developed and turned into someone else's private property with no trespassing signs. My parents' development won't even allow clotheslines in the back yard- I can't imagine what they'd do about kids drawing hopscotch boards on the sidewalks out front.