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Post by Bats on Aug 28, 2019 4:28:39 GMT -8
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Post by Buzzetta on Aug 30, 2019 18:23:26 GMT -8
I would venture to say that certain things for kids are rougher today. I never had to deal with some of the things that they did.
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Post by Siggy's Tar Dust® on Aug 30, 2019 18:39:25 GMT -8
I would venture to say that certain things for kids are rougher today. I never had to deal with some of the things that they did. No question there. Things have been made difficult for them where it wasn't quite so for "us", but it's the things that were made easy that I feel causes more damage to character.
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Aug 30, 2019 19:28:08 GMT -8
I blame music television
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Post by Buzzetta on Aug 30, 2019 19:45:02 GMT -8
I would venture to say that certain things for kids are rougher today. I never had to deal with some of the things that they did. No question there. Things have been made difficult for them where it wasn't quite so for "us", but it's the things that were made easy that I feel causes more damage to character. I went to what would be considered even today one of the more elite private schools on Long Island. My parents took a big gamble and paid the tuition once my brother and I were accepted in the hopes that it would translate into college money... which it did. I bring that up because academically, the math that I was responsible for in my freshman and sophomore year of HS has now been incorporated into the 8th grade. Books that I read in freshman year are now read in 7th and 8th. When I bring that up to one of my friends who taught at the very high school that we went to for ten years, he echoed that statement saying that college level material has been incorporated into curriculum. I have seen that kids today do not know how to do a lot of things that technology has rendered useless. Who cares? I never learned how to use an abacus because it was obsolete by the time I was in kindergarten. I never learned how to drive a stick as a result of my father never learning either and he was born in Brooklyn in 1945. That telephone... who cares... they will never have to use that. However, my father cannot use a smart phone. He has not learned how to adapt to the technology. Therefore he is unable to stay in contact with his children or my mother when he is out. We lost him on Father's Day in a crowd when we took him out to his favorite Brewery... (Blue Point Brewery in Patchogue) It was a nightmare trying to find him in what was a crowded warehouse. Today's kids have to worry about bullying... and I don't mean being made fun of. I've seen it. It is brutal. When I was a kid you got into a fight and it ended at the scene of the fight. Now these kids get into a fight and ADULTS pull over to film it and upload it... and kids are talking about it and tagging other kids to continue to mock the kid online... When I was a kid your home was your safe spot. That is not so anymore. Suicide... Remember that I went to an elite high school where pressure was high. Jamie couldn't make it and he left and six years later he killed himself as he felt like a failure. Russell killed himself when he did not get to where he felt he needed to be. Pete couldn't cut it and fell into drugs and died of an overdose three blocks from where I am now in the back of a deli. Today... it is much worse... School shootings... it's gotten to another level... Drugs... this I blame the police and the schools on. It was PERSONALLY explained to me by a middle school principal and a police officer in 2001 that they do not report nor suspend kids when they found drugs or involve the police in any way shape or form if they have to. The reasoning was because if the police are involved they are forced to make an arrest. If that happens it makes the news. If that happens people won't want to live there because of a drug problem. Housing values go down as a result. Tax revenue suffers and the schools cannot collect on that school abatement tax and Nassau County police is underfunded as a result as well. You learn a lot when you date a police Captain's daughter... (Side note - NEVER DATE A POLICE OFFICER'S DAUGHTER - I did that twice in my "career" - I've got stories). Long Island got what it planned for as far as I am concerned. I could go on... but... I think you all get the idea.
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Aug 30, 2019 20:43:21 GMT -8
(Side note - NEVER DATE A POLICE OFFICER'S DAUGHTER - I did that twice in my "career" - I've got stories) Oh man...I made that mistake once.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 0:21:11 GMT -8
I get a lot of flack for having a flip phone. And not having the latest gadget does put me behind the 8 ball at times.
But I watch people around me, including my parents, siblings, and their children, glued to their tech 24-7.
Tech giants DO NOT allow their own children much access to devices...because they designed them to be addictive.
The best thing you could do is turn off your devices at a certain time, and don't allow your kids to have them.
I was at a friend's house last week...and was surrounded by his 3 daughters (11, 8, and 6) and their 2 friends. We managed to play a rousing game of 3 flies up for maybe an hour or so. It was great. No one was buried in their tech, they got exercise, and had a lot of giggly fun.
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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 7:24:18 GMT -8
(Side note - NEVER DATE A POLICE OFFICER'S DAUGHTER - I did that twice in my "career" - I've got stories) Oh man...I made that mistake once. It's fun being the kid of a State Trooper
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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 7:37:03 GMT -8
Oh man...I made that mistake once. It's fun being the kid of a State Trooper Never heard of Three Flies Up. Looks like it's a West Coast game, seems fun
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Post by Bats on Aug 31, 2019 7:39:18 GMT -8
Oh man...I made that mistake once. It's fun being the kid of a State Trooper Apple...falling...tree...
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Post by Buzzetta on Aug 31, 2019 8:07:29 GMT -8
I will also add the following warning.
Never get hit as a pedestrian by the child of a police officer.
Apparently if you are hit by the child of a police officer, it never happened.
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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 8:28:33 GMT -8
It's fun being the kid of a State Trooper Apple...falling...tree... Cops' kids are a bunch of troublemakers
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Aug 31, 2019 8:42:30 GMT -8
It's fun being the kid of a State Trooper Never heard of Three Flies Up. Looks like it's a West Coast game, seems fun Really? I thought that was pretty universal. We played 'Pickle' when there were just a few kids. We played 'Three Flies Up' (also called 'Pop-Up') when there were a few more - this could also be played with a football or a frisbee. Pop-Up frisbee got pretty violent. More kids led to teams and softball in the street (I can't believe the neighbors didn't yell at us more). Even more kids led to a hardball game at the school one block away. We also had boxing matches, and I don't think a parent ever complained about it, even when there were minor injuries.
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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 8:58:59 GMT -8
Never heard of Three Flies Up. Looks like it's a West Coast game, seems fun Really? I thought that was pretty universal. Never heard of it until today, so I watched a video on it. I can say that in 50 years I have never seen anybody play that game in the Tri State area. (CT, MA, RI, not NY). I think we would've gotten into a lot of trouble with that game . If we had 4 people we'd play wiffleball or tennis baseball (a baseball game inside a double wide tennis court; hit it out of the court' you're out)
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Aug 31, 2019 9:11:38 GMT -8
Really? I thought that was pretty universal. Never heard of it until today, so I watched a video on it. I can say that in 50 years I have never seen anybody play that game in the Tri State area. (CT, MA, RI, not NY). I think we would've gotten into a lot of trouble with that game . If we had 4 people we'd play wiffleball or tennis baseball (a baseball game inside a double wide tennis court; hit it out of the court' you're out) We played a lot of handball too, usually against a wall at the nearby school.
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