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Maggers
Maggers

Another thought following on from favourite films. How about what happy memories do you have of childhood. Could be a place, activity, toy, friend, you decide.  Personally I loved the hours spent rollerskating - for those oldies like me the skates were the old fashioned metal ones that we adjusted with a spanner and had leather straps - those were the days!

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  • g30rg313
    g30rg313 Maggers

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    I think that there were probably the same percentage of "bad people" back then as there are now. It just seems like more now as the population has grown so has the number of "bad people", but percentage wise it has stayed the same. Also it will seem like the problem is worse as media has increased so that you hear more bad news more easily and more quickly. I agree that kids now do not seem to know how to entertain themselves. They seem to get bored so easily and part of that I think is that they have too much choice so they aren't satisfied so easily. When I was a kid my choices were limited to outside and whatever I could find to amuse myself. Nowadays kids expect you to give them their entertainment. They don't know how to look for themselves. I don't think that it is that kids have less imagination so much as it is that kids don't know how to tap into it. We had to use our own resources as kids because there was no one else to do it for us. There was no technology as such to entertain us. I also agree that because we were outside more we became more street wise and more independent. We are more social too. I worry that kids now are going to grow up being unable to communicate verbally with each other. You know, all they seem to do now is text or type to each other. They are losing the firm of speech.
    • Maggers
      Maggers g30rg313

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      Hit the nail firmly on the head there!  I can't believe children are starting school still in nappies, unable to sit at a table to eat and have no idea what a knife and fork are for.  My friend teaches reception age children and she spends most of the time potty training and teaching them how to speak and sit still. She has been teaching for many years and says it is just getting worse.
    • Bee70
      Bee70 g30rg313

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      Totally agree with you. I have two boys ages 17 yrs and 10 yrs, when it comes to entertaining, I have to remind them it's NOT about game consoles everytime they want to play.  So I insist they have time outside in the garden, they play football and have a jump around on the trampoline.  Once they are out they have a fun time.  I will then insist on some old fashioned board games. Once they get on with it they thoroughly enjoy it.  I try to balance it out, but the generation of kids are such couch potatoes and can't think with their own minds.  Instructions have to be given for each task.  I reward my boys if they do something without be asked when doing house chores.  I do tell them take out the materialistic things out of your life once in a while and to appreciate the basics. confused
    • Maggers
      Maggers Bee70

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      I would love to have a go on a trampoline but even if I managed to get on one I would never get off.

      We buy a  new board game every Christmas and have lots of fun Christmas evening trying to understand the rules and the inevitable cheating that goes on amongst the laughter.  It is funny that my children who have now left home buy a new game every year so the tradition continues. Some of the answers given in Junior Trivial Pursuit have gone down in family history as all time howlers!

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