Do kids play outside in your neighborhood?

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Your nephews are adorable Sandy

[jimsmegos]

I hate what society has become. Parents are too scared, kids don't know any better. I really wish we could take it all back and really give something to our children other than paranoia and isolationism. Damn.

[ctc]

>because the kids don't want to or because the parents won't let them.?

I think the parents have a lot to do with it. Folks are scared, even though crime stats in the vast majority of places are lower than they've been in thrity years. And I don't think it's all video games keeping the kids indoors: WE were the video game generation, back in the 80's. (Notice you haven't seen a video game addict episode of any sitcom since the mid 80s.)

>Aren't we constantly on here basically doing the same thing?

HAW! Good point. I always laugh at any "them kids with their texting...." geezerisms 'cos for the last forty years you could just cross out "text" and sub "telephone." (Kinda like how you can scratch "video game" and sub "television" and you've got the parental fear of OUR youth.)

My neighborhood is CRAWLING with kids.... all the time.

Don C.

[lepage]

yeah there are kids in my hood but most of them have ciggies hanging out of their mouths.

[huedell]

HAW! Good point. I always laugh at any "them kids with their texting...." geezerisms 'cos for the last forty years you could just cross out "text" and sub "telephone." (Kinda like how you can scratch "video game" and sub "television" and you've got the parental fear of OUR youth.

I can hear the Mike Teavee version of the Oompa Loompa song as we speak!

[Mod Style]

I wish video games had never been invented.I live in the mountains of eastern Kentucky.By the time I was 10 years old, I was exploring the forest alone.Just me, and a dog.None of my three kids would ever have considered doing such a thing.To them it was pointless.They couldn't see the beauty, and the wonder of nature that I saw.

[Bizarro Amy]

^^I can't say I agree with that. I play video games and love nature as well. You have to find a sense of balance.

[Mod Style]

^^I can't say I agree with that. I play video games and love nature as well. You have to find a sense of balance.

It seems to me that a lot of kids these days are not finding that balance.

[huedell]

^^I can't say I agree with that. I play video games and love nature as well. You have to find a sense of balance.

I can't enjoy nature unless I'm drunk and I don't think it had much to
do with games I played with when I was younger.
I'm just like Clark Griswold looking at The Grand Canyon minus the felony.
It all depends on the person.

[JDeRouen]

My eight-year-old son plays plenty of video games, but he also reads, plays with his toys, and yes, plays outside. He loves riding his scooter on the sidewalk (and occasionally the road, though I tell him not to!) in the front of our house, or playing soccer or Frisbee in the back.

[Bizarro Amy]

It seems to me that a lot of kids these days are not finding that balance.

No, they're not. They haven't been brought up to do so. Electronics are very prevalent in our culture. It's up to parents to set limits on how long the computer, Playstation, or whatever is on and plan other family activities.

[Goblin19]

My kids would play video games all day if we let them. My boys enjoy all sorts of activities, but they rarely think outside of what's right in front of them. Sometimes, you just have to make them do something else. And, yes, kids do play outside around here.

[TrueDave]

crimre rates are down but news coverage is up by several hundred percent.

I quit TV cold in 2002.
I don't even eat at resturants with big tvs.