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You don't know what you're talking about. Kids today are fat and lazy. I put it on the parents. If your kids learn from you that being fat and stupid is ok it's on you.
What's Happened To Playground Equipment?
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Limiting time in front of screens and getting outside to do actual things is something parents have to impress upon children. If you plug your child into a video game so you can have "your time" you are the asshole that is letting video games raise your child.
I get that interests change, but active versus sedentary is a huge problem humans will face going forward.
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I'm with 51, it's always something.
My parents hated my glamor rock, long hair and holes in my pants.
We did play out more cause wasn't shit in the house... agree there.
My parents hated my glamor rock, long hair and holes in my pants.
We did play out more cause wasn't shit in the house... agree there.
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Keep it to yourself.
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"kids today' Congratulations on being part of the first generation ever to feel superior to "kids today".
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It must be pretty depressing when you realize your entire concept of American youth is a fucking rerun of every other old **** from the last 200 years. I'm sure you realize that in a few years today's 10 year old's will be babbling the same tied bullshit you are puking out today. I love you Urblock but you're a fucking cliche.
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There's kids running around my neighborhood 24/7. Most aren't fat at all. Riding bikes, playing at the park, etc.
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Kids are fatter though I believe. I'd have to check, but I think stats show it's true.
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I don't doubt it at all. Urblock just seemed super duper srs about "kids nowdays" all being lazy and fat
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It appears to me that a lot of the stuff is better nowadays.
The typical playground when I was a kid had swings, that weird caterpillar thing with the giant head, a shitty slide, and if you were lucky enough they had one of those big things with the ladder in the tube up the middle and multiple slides... one of which was always a tube slide.
And on those things, the ladder tube and the tube slide ALWAYS reeked of pee.
Oh- ant they always had a couple of those animals on springs that you rocked back and forth on. inevitably, you would wind up busting your nuts on it in one way or another.
The typical playground when I was a kid had swings, that weird caterpillar thing with the giant head, a shitty slide, and if you were lucky enough they had one of those big things with the ladder in the tube up the middle and multiple slides... one of which was always a tube slide.
And on those things, the ladder tube and the tube slide ALWAYS reeked of pee.
Oh- ant they always had a couple of those animals on springs that you rocked back and forth on. inevitably, you would wind up busting your nuts on it in one way or another.
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Just because your not popular in your grammar school doesn't mean kids aren't still out playing.
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My kids have faults but fat and lazy are not issues. However, I would agree the general trend public health wise is couch potato.
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Darwinism at it's best.
Bingo. And you can bet your motherfucking ass that had GenX'ers or the Baby Boomers had Ipads and Pokémon Go their asses would have been been glued to them like kids nowadays.
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Of course they would have, I do not think anyone is arguing that if the older generations had current technology they would have been plugged in. I think the argument is: Is being plugged in and sitting on the couch all weekend a healthy way to live? Should parents teach their children about getting outside and being more active or just let them plug in and be couch potatoes?
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The same argument could be used as far back as the 50's when the TV was used as a babysitter. The only difference now is the technology level. Dollars to donuts all the crotchety old timers who blither about kids not getting outside because they're outside too much are the same that were glued to Nintendo, Pong, or plain TV.
There's more to it than that, but that would be a sillioquy that would take awhile to type.
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I think you are seeing a decline.... More technology = Less activity.
One of the more cool things I have seen in the last few years is tech that encourages activity, IE: fit bits and motion sensors for Xboxes etc. Some of that is a step in the right direction, but ultimately most technology is really about making life more entertaining and easier for those that are sedentary.
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Not this old timer. I had 3 brothers. We would play sports, ride our bikes, go **** around in the woods or go for a 2 or 3 hour ride on our horses. The day started with feeding the horses and dogs. The day ended doing the same thing. In a good summer we would have a couple of colts to break. Every weekend we would be at horse shows or trail rides. Not much time for tv.
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We did have video games though. As "graphically challenged" as they were, we still played them A LOT, but mostly at night. During the day, we were always out playing baseball, football, fishing, running around and causing trouble...
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See, the difference in my childhood was there was no place to do that stuff in the area I was allowed to wander--and even the area outside of it. Couple that with literally no one my age within biking distance and what choice did I have? Go outside, cause trouble for lack of anything else to do, and end up being invariable grounded, lose myself in a book to escape my mundane reality, lose myself in a TV show to escape my mundane reality, or lose myself in a video game to escape my mundane reality. Hell, I would have given my upper left nut for a game like Pokémon go back then--even though the crotchety old-timers back then would have found some reason to ***** about it.
A lot of my peers it was the same--some didn't live near any of their other peers. But even with all of them there were times they'd during the day, get lost in Nintendo or the like. No pool nearby, no lake, no pond, no playground, etc.
This is not as a "O woe is me" post...far from it. After all the stuff that got me invariably grounded in retrospect was some of the most fun I had (like the giant slingshot I made from an old bike inner tube and a couple of trees...how as I supposed to know that they were using the hot tub at the time???). But I think it does highlight the decline of the neighborhood concept--at least from what my dad grew up in where everything was within wandering distance when he was a kid and you could open up fire hydrants
. Couple that with helicopter parents that shit their pants every time their kids are out of eyeshot and the whole, "Why don't you go play outside?" kinda falls apart. "Go outside" "And do what?" "Play with your friends" "You told me they live too far away" "They do, I don't want you biking there." "Can I go to the playground?" "No, it's too far away." And then the parents come home and wonder (a) why the kid tried to dig a swimming pool in the front lawn and (b) how they got it so deep in so little time.
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When we still lived in town there was hell to pay when a mom caught us jumping off the garage roof with our Superman capes into a willow tree. Very cool. Just kind of a slow crash.