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Coach · 08-09-2011, 11:58 AM

I feel like those of us born in the late 80's/early 90's are a little between generations. We weren't brought up inately with the technology like kids of today have been, but it became prominent at an early enough age for us to become a part of it. I also feel like my age group were raised in the infancy of this "pussification" of todays youth. I saw it with some people my age and not so much with others. My brothers and I fought each other with cut off hockey sticks, threw baseball bats at bees nests, rode our bikes everywhere with no shirts/shoes/helmets.

I think part of this is due to my parents upbringings, as they were both small town saskatchewan kids who were brought up fending for themselves, so we were taught to do the same.

Nothing makes me angrier than seeing a parent baby their kids. It gives them no life experience, exposes them to bullying and takes away the joys and discoveries of being a child. Even toys dumb down kids now. I saw a play house thing in walmart one day that was a kitchen set and it included everything. Fake pans, fake phone, fake food, etc. Wheres the imagination? Me and my brothers used to run a garage where our bunk beds were cars and we would work on them with Cool Tools. Or we would be outside with our "swords" fighting each other as knights/jedis/ninjas/whatever we wanted to be that day.It's very disheartening to see the dumbing down of a childs imagination.

PS: Eat some effing dirt kid! Its not going to kill you and develops the immune system. With the precautions some parents take nowadays, its no wonder things like allergies and asthma and general fraility seems so prominant, at least to me. When I was younger there was maybe a few kids that were allergic to peanut butter and 1 or 2 that had asthma, and now it seems like every second kid has some type of ailment. The same thing goes with ADD. ADD seems to me to be the most overdiagnosed disorder there is. A kids a bit hyper, must be ADD. Or maybe the kid just wants to do his own thing and has a vivid imagination, so give him some pills for it, that'll get rid of it.

/rant

08-09-2011, 11:58 AM	#73
Coach Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Vancouver Exp:	I feel like those of us born in the late 80's/early 90's are a little between generations. We weren't brought up inately with the technology like kids of today have been, but it became prominent at an early enough age for us to become a part of it. I also feel like my age group were raised in the infancy of this "pussification" of todays youth. I saw it with some people my age and not so much with others. My brothers and I fought each other with cut off hockey sticks, threw baseball bats at bees nests, rode our bikes everywhere with no shirts/shoes/helmets. I think part of this is due to my parents upbringings, as they were both small town saskatchewan kids who were brought up fending for themselves, so we were taught to do the same. Nothing makes me angrier than seeing a parent baby their kids. It gives them no life experience, exposes them to bullying and takes away the joys and discoveries of being a child. Even toys dumb down kids now. I saw a play house thing in walmart one day that was a kitchen set and it included everything. Fake pans, fake phone, fake food, etc. Wheres the imagination? Me and my brothers used to run a garage where our bunk beds were cars and we would work on them with Cool Tools. Or we would be outside with our "swords" fighting each other as knights/jedis/ninjas/whatever we wanted to be that day.It's very disheartening to see the dumbing down of a childs imagination. PS: Eat some effing dirt kid! Its not going to kill you and develops the immune system. With the precautions some parents take nowadays, its no wonder things like allergies and asthma and general fraility seems so prominant, at least to me. When I was younger there was maybe a few kids that were allergic to peanut butter and 1 or 2 that had asthma, and now it seems like every second kid has some type of ailment. The same thing goes with ADD. ADD seems to me to be the most overdiagnosed disorder there is. A kids a bit hyper, must be ADD. Or maybe the kid just wants to do his own thing and has a vivid imagination, so give him some pills for it, that'll get rid of it. /rant __________________ Last edited by Coach; 08-09-2011 at 12:07 PM.