At the very thought of being assigned one of those things to do; I would retreat to the outside and keep myself occupied rather than face the alternative.
So; why am I blogging about this? Well; I know that we are really into the Summer and I understand that the kids will be heading back to school in the next 2-3 weeks, depending on where you live. But; during the course of this summer, I have heard the same words that I announced to my mother some 50 +/- years ago; "I'm Board" coming from my grand children, as well as other children that I know.
So I began to think about this issue as to why children of today become board so quickly. When we were young, and mom told us to "Go Play" we would go and play outside with the kids in the neighborhood and start playing the games that we knew, like...
- Kick the Can
- Hide and Go Seek
- Capture the Flag
- Cowboys and Indians
- Build a Fort or Tree House
- King of the Hill
- Chinese Checkers
- Checkers
- Monopoly
- And the list goes on......
Today it is so very different; the kids of today do not have to read about a particular place on planet earth, they can just Google it and read, see or hear about any place that they want.
The games that the kids have today are like something that we thought would have to be light years into the future; games like.......
- Video games to numerous to count
- Play Station 1,2,3, to a Zillion
- X-Box
- iPad, 1,2, and 3 on the way
- iPod 1,2,3rd Generation
- iPod Shuttle (the only Shuttle I played with; looked like a space ship made out of plastic)
- iPhone; 8 Megapixel Camera or Video Recorder; (All I had was a Brownie Camera or Polaroid, THAT YOU HAD TO GET THE FILM DEVELOPED) Sorry for shouting, got carried away
- Cable TV or Sat. TV; (we had 3 channels)
- And this list can go on for ever......
Board or Nothing to Do; Nooooooooo Waaaaaaaaaay:
Just my thoughts:
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