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• According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
  in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's or even the early 80's, probably shouldn't
  have survived.
  Our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint. We had
  no
  childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode
  our
  bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)
  As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags!!!
  We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We ate
  cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we
  were
  never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one soft
  drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually DIED from
  this.
  We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down
  the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
  bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
  We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
  back
  when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No
  cell
  phones. Unthinkable! We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no
  video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround
  sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We
  had friends! We went outside and found them.
  We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. We fell
  out
  of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits
  from
  these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember
  accidents?
  We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to
  get over it. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the
  door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
  Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
  had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't as smart as
  others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.
  Horrors!
  Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own.
  Consequences were expected
  The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They
  actually sided with the law. Imagine that! This generation has produced
  some
  of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
  The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas We had
  freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal
  with it all, before lawyers and government regulated our lives.

Now nice

Yea veh, you should be really jealous.

lmao, but hey - Im jealous too

I read an article somewhat like that in an issue of Newsweek a while back.

I feel sorry for you kids today. You guys just don't know how good we had it. Isn't that a twist, heh...

SNGX and I were talking earlier about stuff the way it is now and the way it was when we were kids, and most things can be summed up as no one wanting to take responsibility for their actions. When we were kids, if you got hurt while playing with something, you'd be told not to be stupid and be more careful. Today, if you get hurt doing the same thing, there will be a lawsuit, and probably product recalls, safety warning lables and possibly a redesign of the product.

Kids, go outside and climb a tree or something. There is more to childhood than video games and Internet.

Sounds good to me Normally in the summer Im on my dirt bike or BMX Bike, other than 6 hours on my PC.

FYI: You guys had it good? Im sitting here with 1700Mhz CPU, gotcha there huh.

Eh. On a normal day I exercise 3 hours vs. being on the computer for 4...

But I think I'm a very small minority.

I play basketball very often now and then ...i don't get to use the pc as much i used too...too many schoolwork to cope with lately!

LOL, that was funny...

While not all applied to me, quite a lot did... And boy, those were the times!

And ---agissi---, you might have a 1700mhz cpu, but we had C64 and, 8086, which actually required you to do something yourself, not just point & click!
/me almost goes looking for that old C64 to play with instead of this machine...

even me, i am only 23 and alot of that was my childhood - it was not till i hit 18 or so i got into computers.

I am about the same way....except I didn't get into computers until I was about 20. I wish I got into it sooner, because I have learned so much right now.

A little too much bias I M O!

I am barely 20 and yet that was almost my entire childhood. Just because I spent a lot of time indoors on the computer doesn't mean I didn't have just as much of a good childhood as anyone else. I have the scars to prove it and I am neither obese nor dissapointed. Age has nothing to do with it, attitude has everything. And those that lived through that in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, are now the parents and grandparents, they are the ones producing these laws, regulations, and limitations to begin with. You cannot blame the children.

^^^
yes, but think about if u didn't have a computer at all!!!

i think there is the benefits and down falls - it all depends what u use the computer for.

now if you kid does nothing but play games - then a waste - but - if like me the havea genuine interestin in computers and how they work and like to figure thigns out, then it can be greatly beneficial.

Yeah... but you have also had Windows for your entire life