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Odd title, but I want to know.
Work is boring today, my boss is now off on holiday until next year so I have little to do.
So I'm sitting there asking what I can do for anyone, and the other 2 PAs shrug. So I offer a suggestion, "Let's go outside and have adventures!" (we have about 5 acres of grounds where I work with forest and lake and stuff).
Well, apart from accepting that going out and having adventures would be excellent, someone said that they don't let their kid outside much to play, in case he gets snatched.
Now when I were a lad, me and my mates used to play out as often as possible as long as we were back before dark.
We used to play war in the forest or play in the stream and along the riverbank etc.
Does this still happen? Or do kids just stay in and play video-games now?
Why do I see small groups of them standing around outside local shops/garages at night?
Do they not have homes they can go to? Someone's house they can congregate in and plan break-ins?
Has the younger generation of today lost interest in "playing outside"? I remember there used to be up to 20-30 kids with guns and knives playing in the woods, but I just don't see that anymore.
Is it me?
Work is boring today, my boss is now off on holiday until next year so I have little to do.
So I'm sitting there asking what I can do for anyone, and the other 2 PAs shrug. So I offer a suggestion, "Let's go outside and have adventures!" (we have about 5 acres of grounds where I work with forest and lake and stuff).
Well, apart from accepting that going out and having adventures would be excellent, someone said that they don't let their kid outside much to play, in case he gets snatched.
Now when I were a lad, me and my mates used to play out as often as possible as long as we were back before dark.
We used to play war in the forest or play in the stream and along the riverbank etc.
Does this still happen? Or do kids just stay in and play video-games now?
Why do I see small groups of them standing around outside local shops/garages at night?
Do they not have homes they can go to? Someone's house they can congregate in and plan break-ins?
Has the younger generation of today lost interest in "playing outside"? I remember there used to be up to 20-30 kids with guns and knives playing in the woods, but I just don't see that anymore.
Is it me?
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My theory is that kids are trying to grow up faster, but not maturing faster.
Which means they act like complete pratts, trying to show each other how masculine they are. Vandalism then becomes the replacement for 'playing'.
Which means they act like complete pratts, trying to show each other how masculine they are. Vandalism then becomes the replacement for 'playing'.
I'm talking about children playing in the dying light of a summer's day and you associate that with...well...ewwwwww
Isn't 'playing outside' a metaphor for, y'know... doing a 'George Michael'?
I've had this conversation so many times with my mates, but kids today are so much more beligerant than I ever was.
I would never have spoken back to an adult, because they would have told my mum and woe betide that my mum got mad at me.
I think the most loutish thing we ever did was knock on someone's door and run away to hide.
We played football outside the house, but when someone came out and told us to "B****r off over the field" we did. (the field is out back of my house, complete with pitch markings and goal-posts), try that today and they smirk at you and refuse to move. It's only when you come out the house brandishing a golf club that they shift.
I don't know, it might just be rose-tinted specs but I remember that when I was a kid, I used to take my Star Wars toys over to a mate's house and we would create worlds to play in.
Or take our guns over the woods and play all day.
It never occured to us to stand around outside shops or menace other kids.
I would never have spoken back to an adult, because they would have told my mum and woe betide that my mum got mad at me.
I think the most loutish thing we ever did was knock on someone's door and run away to hide.
We played football outside the house, but when someone came out and told us to "B****r off over the field" we did. (the field is out back of my house, complete with pitch markings and goal-posts), try that today and they smirk at you and refuse to move. It's only when you come out the house brandishing a golf club that they shift.
I don't know, it might just be rose-tinted specs but I remember that when I was a kid, I used to take my Star Wars toys over to a mate's house and we would create worlds to play in.
Or take our guns over the woods and play all day.
It never occured to us to stand around outside shops or menace other kids.
I don't see why people go round and smash, loot and mug? They must have real problems if they do.
Kids are being kept in more and more these days. Occasionally you get a band of 8-11 year olds, still kickin' it at primary school who ride there bikes up and down the path until it gets dark, but largely kids watch cartoons and play playstation until bed time.
This is not only bringing up social problems in todays youngsters, but is also perhaps responsible for the groups of 14 year olds that use there extra freedom to roam the streets after dark and break things and mug the occasional 12 year old that breaks curfue, thus strengthening parents worries for there children and keeping then off the street until they are 14 when they are aloud out and the sudden freedom causes them to go wild and roam the streets breaking things and occasionally......
This is not only bringing up social problems in todays youngsters, but is also perhaps responsible for the groups of 14 year olds that use there extra freedom to roam the streets after dark and break things and mug the occasional 12 year old that breaks curfue, thus strengthening parents worries for there children and keeping then off the street until they are 14 when they are aloud out and the sudden freedom causes them to go wild and roam the streets breaking things and occasionally......
I always used to play outside quite a bit. I wanted to stay in and play games, but my parents made me. In a way, I'm quite grateful to them for that.
There are some things I'll never forget... like the time we hid in an empty trailer whilst the farmer was harvesting the wheat, and being scared half to death when he started to fill it up, with us still in it. Or the time we dammed the stream and nearly flooded the road.
There are some things I'll never forget... like the time we hid in an empty trailer whilst the farmer was harvesting the wheat, and being scared half to death when he started to fill it up, with us still in it. Or the time we dammed the stream and nearly flooded the road.
Unfortunaltely Goatboy, the current generation seem to be permenantly wired!
Odd title, but I want to know.
Work is boring today, my boss is now off on holiday until next year so I have little to do.
So I'm sitting there asking what I can do for anyone, and the other 2 PAs shrug. So I offer a suggestion, "Let's go outside and have adventures!" (we have about 5 acres of grounds where I work with forest and lake and stuff).
Well, apart from accepting that going out and having adventures would be excellent, someone said that they don't let their kid outside much to play, in case he gets snatched.
Now when I were a lad, me and my mates used to play out as often as possible as long as we were back before dark.
We used to play war in the forest or play in the stream and along the riverbank etc.
Does this still happen? Or do kids just stay in and play video-games now?
Why do I see small groups of them standing around outside local shops/garages at night?
Do they not have homes they can go to? Someone's house they can congregate in and plan break-ins?
Has the younger generation of today lost interest in "playing outside"? I remember there used to be up to 20-30 kids with guns and knives playing in the woods, but I just don't see that anymore.
Is it me?
Work is boring today, my boss is now off on holiday until next year so I have little to do.
So I'm sitting there asking what I can do for anyone, and the other 2 PAs shrug. So I offer a suggestion, "Let's go outside and have adventures!" (we have about 5 acres of grounds where I work with forest and lake and stuff).
Well, apart from accepting that going out and having adventures would be excellent, someone said that they don't let their kid outside much to play, in case he gets snatched.
Now when I were a lad, me and my mates used to play out as often as possible as long as we were back before dark.
We used to play war in the forest or play in the stream and along the riverbank etc.
Does this still happen? Or do kids just stay in and play video-games now?
Why do I see small groups of them standing around outside local shops/garages at night?
Do they not have homes they can go to? Someone's house they can congregate in and plan break-ins?
Has the younger generation of today lost interest in "playing outside"? I remember there used to be up to 20-30 kids with guns and knives playing in the woods, but I just don't see that anymore.
Is it me?
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