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Might seem like such a silly post but i just had to share what a friend asked me .
Long ago our generation didn't have Laptops, ipads , techy game consoles etc. We lived in the time where we made friends, played outside, run, fall down , get up back and fall down again. We knew so many hand games and the play park was always full.
Indoors was seen as punishment because we didn't get to go outside and play. Most of our generation was burnt from the sun and had bruises we could of named by incident. This lead us to be tough and strong, well from my experience. I have learnt alot from my childhood that i needed when i grew into an adult.
However, children today is the opposite. You hardly ever see children playing outside. They are kept mostly indoors due to crime, home work, techy games on ipads, laptops, pc, gameboys, gaming consoles etc. or just hate the sun. Some of them have never played hopscotch or know what it is like to play in the rain. They are so sensitive now that if some of them go out in the sun, their hands come up defensively to block the sun or every little fall they make its a big deal. Some of them worry about body image and making gfs/bfs when they go to preschool.
This lead my friend to ask me , " How come most of the kids you see today , don't have bruises or aren't darken from the sun . They are so sensitive too eh" . I agree! Maybe its not a bad thing to be raised in today's society like that. But i don't think it prepares them for the reality of the tough society
Long ago our generation didn't have Laptops, ipads , techy game consoles etc. We lived in the time where we made friends, played outside, run, fall down , get up back and fall down again. We knew so many hand games and the play park was always full.
Indoors was seen as punishment because we didn't get to go outside and play. Most of our generation was burnt from the sun and had bruises we could of named by incident. This lead us to be tough and strong, well from my experience. I have learnt alot from my childhood that i needed when i grew into an adult.
However, children today is the opposite. You hardly ever see children playing outside. They are kept mostly indoors due to crime, home work, techy games on ipads, laptops, pc, gameboys, gaming consoles etc. or just hate the sun. Some of them have never played hopscotch or know what it is like to play in the rain. They are so sensitive now that if some of them go out in the sun, their hands come up defensively to block the sun or every little fall they make its a big deal. Some of them worry about body image and making gfs/bfs when they go to preschool.
This lead my friend to ask me , " How come most of the kids you see today , don't have bruises or aren't darken from the sun . They are so sensitive too eh" . I agree! Maybe its not a bad thing to be raised in today's society like that. But i don't think it prepares them for the reality of the tough society