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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Feb 3, 2011 22:05:14 GMT -5
I remember as a kid, when we would get this much snow and out had no school, we would be out side for HOURS playing. As I patrolled the south end of the county yesterday and the north end today I only seen 3 kids out enjoying the snow. Am I missing something?
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Post by Decatur on Feb 3, 2011 22:10:51 GMT -5
Kids these days think it's punishment to go outside and leave their electronics behind. It's sad really.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 3, 2011 22:23:49 GMT -5
Sometimes an EMP sounds like a fantastic idea....
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Post by LongHunter on Feb 3, 2011 23:09:17 GMT -5
I would imagine they were Texting and Surfing and Gaming and Watching movies and Talking on the Cellies and Facebooking and PS3ing and 360ing and Ipodding and Tweeting well u get the picture times have changed and that is the natural order of things you change and adapt or you become extinct !
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Post by parrothead on Feb 4, 2011 6:36:06 GMT -5
Longhunter you hit it on the head. I teach 5th grade and every morning before school we go around and tell what we did. It is all video games and T.V and computers.
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Post by drs on Feb 4, 2011 6:45:46 GMT -5
Kids these days think it's punishment to go outside and leave their electronics behind. It's sad really. I agree! It is sad that kind nowdays kids don't enjoy the snowfall as we did when we were their age. |
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Feb 4, 2011 7:41:04 GMT -5
Longhunter you hit it on the head. I teach 5th grade and every morning before school we go around and tell what we did. It is all video games and T.V and computers. Yup! It's not the food causing youth obesity.  :-*It's the lack of the daily physical exercise......  |
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Post by turkeyscout on Feb 4, 2011 8:38:39 GMT -5
Longhunter you hit it on the head. I teach 5th grade and every morning before school we go around and tell what we did. It is all video games and T.V and computers. Yup! It's not the food causing youth obesity. :-*It's the lack of the daily physical exercise...... yup i agree ,its also tha parents that buy the video games ,cell phones and computers........nothing like seeing kids playing in the snow, its all fun!.....   ............turkey scout |
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Post by indyqdog on Feb 4, 2011 8:38:50 GMT -5
I am 16 and i completely agree. I can honestly say that i never play video games. I do text only when im in private as my parents have raised me to know that when you're around guests that it is disrespectful not to give them my full attention which is completely agreeable. As far as an iPod, I listen to that thing ssooooooooo much. BUT its usually when im outside or working out in my basement. by the way, I've been havin tons of fun on this ice. i took two hammers and used the end to remove nails as "ice picks" and pulled my self up a large hill while laying on my stomach. Its fun acting like I'm not growing up sometimes!
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Post by Decatur on Feb 4, 2011 8:48:50 GMT -5
;d
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Post by tenring on Feb 4, 2011 9:45:41 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with growing up, just never grow old!
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Post by fowlhunter on Feb 4, 2011 10:13:18 GMT -5
I loved snow days when I was kid. A snow day meant money in my pocket. My mom would take me to town and drop me off and I would walk around town all day with a shovel and knock on doors shoveling sidewalks and driveways. I could usually make around $200 a day.
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Post by batchief909 on Feb 4, 2011 10:24:01 GMT -5
I still have, and use my first Coleman lantern I purchased by doing the same thing so I had one when Dad and I went ice fishing. That was 42 years ago, at age 12. Still works with the same parts,,,although several mantles and globes have been replaced. |
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Post by kevin1 on Feb 4, 2011 12:28:39 GMT -5
I remember as a kid, when we would get this much snow and out had no school, we would be out side for HOURS playing. As I patrolled the south end of the county yesterday and the north end today I only seen 3 kids out enjoying the snow. Am I missing something? Snow days were heaven to me, my brothers and I would meet our friends at the pasture across the street for sledding, which we would do until we couldn't feel our fingers and toes anymore. The pasture had a gulch that ran down the middle of it, which gave us two primo slopes for our sleds, though you had to be careful not to plunge into the icy creek at the bottom. We didn't have video games or Ipods, tv had only 3 channels until 1970, and if you wanted to read a book you most likely found yourself in a library unless your parents had the extensive book collection that mine did. |
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Post by LongHunter on Feb 4, 2011 17:00:15 GMT -5
Longhunter you hit it on the head. I teach 5th grade and every morning before school we go around and tell what we did. It is all video games and T.V and computers. Yes sir i come from a family of Teachers and i used to sub. back in the day si i know all about the E- tention deficit disorder amongst kids. |
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Post by worley on Feb 6, 2011 23:48:28 GMT -5
Strange this topic just came up in the deep south around Christmas...We had snow everwhere, and my family was the ONLY one outside. No kids outside nowhere , hard to figure especially down here where it is very rare so see snow. |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Feb 7, 2011 18:48:23 GMT -5
I totally don't get it! You would think that the parents of these kids would remember the good times they had out there and would want their kids to have the same memories. I don't have kids of my own so I always feel weird or unjustified in voicing an opinion in the matter. I do however have dogs and by golly I had them out busting through the snow drifts! ;D
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Post by LongHunter on Feb 7, 2011 23:55:47 GMT -5
I totally don't get it! You would think that the parents of these kids would remember the good times they had out there and would want their kids to have the same memories. I don't have kids of my own so I always feel weird or unjustified in voicing an opinion in the matter. I do however have dogs and by golly I had them out busting through the snow drifts! ;D Today the majority of Parents unfortunately do not care where or what occupies their child's time as long as the parents do not have to be preoccupied or have anything else on their own plate most parents are more than happy to have there kids hypnotized by the hum of the Xbox or Computer or Cellies, whatever electronic device is their addiction. I think now days that parents are as selfish and act just like kids also. |
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Post by Boilermaker on Feb 8, 2011 11:17:48 GMT -5
Video-games? Thats two words that fit into my vocab about like HSUS and PETA. I couldn't wait for a snow day when I was younger...me and the two brothers spent every minute of daylight we could trying to throw each other off the saucer-sled behind the old Timberwolf (best 4-wheeler ever made).
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Feb 8, 2011 13:36:38 GMT -5
Back in the day when the snow hit, we were off sleding, playing hockey, or neighborhood fort building for monster snowball battles.
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............turkey scout
