05-28-2010, 11:32 PM
My thoughts:
1) Parents are more indulgent (and overprotective, and unable to cut the cord) nowadays than they were in your day. Remember, 6-8 year olds now have their own cell phones.
2) Kids are more spoiled nowadays than they were in your day. Sorry, but it's true. We've become far less likely to hold children (and adults for that matter) responsible for their own behavior.
3) We've become a society where it is looked down upon not to be riding in a car.
4) We've become a society where somehow it seems "faster" to be driving than to be walking, when the converse is actually true.
5) The Nintendo generation would rather be inside playing their PS3 or Wii fit, then to get outside and play ball with the neighborhood kids.
1) Parents are more indulgent (and overprotective, and unable to cut the cord) nowadays than they were in your day. Remember, 6-8 year olds now have their own cell phones.
2) Kids are more spoiled nowadays than they were in your day. Sorry, but it's true. We've become far less likely to hold children (and adults for that matter) responsible for their own behavior.
3) We've become a society where it is looked down upon not to be riding in a car.
4) We've become a society where somehow it seems "faster" to be driving than to be walking, when the converse is actually true.
5) The Nintendo generation would rather be inside playing their PS3 or Wii fit, then to get outside and play ball with the neighborhood kids.