Today's kids have it so easy!

[OneEmerald]

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears

with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were

when they were growing up; what with walking

twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill

BOTH ways

yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in

hell I was going to lay

a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it

and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of

thirty, I can't help but look ar ound and notice the

youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my

childhood, you live in a damn

Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you

don't know how good

you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The

Internet. If we wanted to know something,

we had to go to the damn library and

look it up ourselves, in the

card catalog!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write

somebody a letter with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and

put it in the

mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to

steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it

yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the

beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
were on the phone and

somebody else called they got a busy signal, that'sit!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either!

When the phone rang, you
had no idea who it was! It could be your sch ool,
your mom, your boss, your
bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you
just didn't know!!! You had
to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video
games with high-resolution
3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
like 'Space Invaders' and
'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You
actually had to use your
imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen
forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting
harder and harder and
faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such
thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy
or some old broad with a hat
sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were
just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
was only like 15 channels
and there was no o n screen menu and no remote
control! You had to use a
little book called a TV Guide to find out what was
on! You were screwed when it
came to channel surfing! You had to get off
your ass and walk over to the TV to change the
channel and there was no
Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons
on Saturday Morning. Do you
hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK
for cartoons, you spoiled
little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up we had to
use the stove or go build a frigging fire ..
imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing
and shake it over the stove
forever like an idiot.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted
five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

[mesue]

cute!

[HipKat]

Totaly true, however, kids have something we never had to deal with;fear.
Peer pressure amoungst kids is worse than ever.
And the fear of erupting violence affects everyone, not just the kid that that everyone else picks on.
Actually, that's the kid to be most afraid of.
And with all the advantages, now kids have few excuses to fail.
We moved up a little each year, level by level, and what we did as 9th graders, kids are learning in 5th grade now.
The internet is a wonderful tool: to allow predators into oour kids livces from the comfort of their own houses; To allow our kids to be exposed to topics that should only be viewed by adults.

And the family unit is more broken today than it was 25 yrs ago, putting added pressure on kids, and less attention from their parents, resulting in increased teen pregnancies and teenage violence.

No, like with everything else, for everything you get, you have to lose something, and for all the tools and excesses and privileges, our children are trading in their innocence.

The job outlook is more bleak.The cost of living is immense.
The world has grown smaller, but colder, to someone just getting ready to enter it, from childhood.
When I left school, the military meant figting a silent "cold" war.
Now it means a real, endless war.

Those things you listed may be nice, but I'll take pond hockey and Irv, Rick and Tom anyday!!

[kma516]

Speaking of our childhood ... does anybody remember the old Rocketship 7 show????

[keyboard150]

Totaly true, however, kids have something we never had to deal with;fear.
Peer pressure amoungst kids is worse than ever.
And the fear of erupting violence affects everyone, not just the kid that that everyone else picks on.
Actually, that's the kid to be most afraid of.
And with all the advantages, now kids have few excuses to fail.
We moved up a little each year, level by level, and what we did as 9th graders, kids are learning in 5th grade now.
The internet is a wonderful tool: to allow predators into oour kids livces from the comfort of their own houses; To allow our kids to be exposed to topics that should only be viewed by adults.

And the family unit is more broken today than it was 25 yrs ago, putting added pressure on kids, and less attention from their parents, resulting in increased teen pregnancies and teenage violence.

No, like with everything else, for everything you get, you have to lose something, and for all the tools and excesses and privileges, our children are trading in their innocence.

The job outlook is more bleak.The cost of living is immense.
The world has grown smaller, but colder, to someone just getting ready to enter it, from childhood.
When I left school, the military meant figting a silent "cold" war.
Now it means a real, endless war.

Those things you listed may be nice, but I'll take pond hockey and Irv, Rick and Tom anyday!!

Kids also have it harder today, though....because with all this technology, they are becoming more isolated. They don't have social skills.
At least not appropriate ones.

[concernedwnyer]

Kids also have it harder today, though....because with all this technology, they are becoming more isolated. They don't have social skills.
At least not appropriate ones.

Yes...... manners by far.... No common sense either. Grasping technology is a personal thing. Some people pick up on it quickly while others are brain dead it seams.... I am talking basic operating of device not even thinking about trouble shooting....

[HipKat]

Kids also have it harder today, though....because with all this technology, they are becoming more isolated. They don't have social skills.
At least not appropriate ones.

After it was too late to edit, I wanted to add something along those lines, too.

Virtual friends = no more pond hockey!! lol

[keyboard150]

After it was too late to edit, I wanted to add something along those lines, too.

Virtual friends = no more pond hockey!! lol

No more tonsil hockey either.

[PaulJonson]

No more tonsil hockey either.

Most of the kids that spend all their time indoors on the computer have no chance of tonsil hockey anyway, so they turn in MySpace and Facebook stalkers.

[kma516]

Tonsil hockey ... LOL ... I haven't heard that one in years!

[FIRELADY]

Speaking of our childhood ... does anybody remember the old Rocketship 7 show????

Oh I do!!! With Commander Tom??!! I remember watching it while my Grandpa brought me toast for breakfast......oh the fond memories

[Shasta13]

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video
games with high-resolution
3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
like 'Space Invaders' and
'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You
actually had to use your
imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen
forever!


And you could never win. The game just kept getting
harder and harder and
faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

Yup!

I remember Rocket Ship 7 too.

[keyboard150]

Tonsil hockey ... LOL ... I haven't heard that one in years!

:-D :-D :-D