It's the same with children nowadays,
Garth. We used to play far more games than they do. It seems to me that kids today only get played at by some technical device. They are playing passively, just reacting, as opposed to us oldtimers who acted and played actively. I have the impression that this 'being played at' nips their creativity in the bud whereas we often had to invent and build our own toys and games (you'd be surprised at what you can build from clothes-pegs =) - and what little understanding parents have for elaborately constructed rockets, castles, cranes etc. on laundry day...
).
Back then (I'm a baby-boomer, too), all this portable digital stuff wasn't invented. No cell phones, no digital watches, no pocket calculators, no colour TV (only 3 channels and no ad breaks! YAY!
), no PCs, tablets, e-books, walkmen, i-pods etc. What distinguished us from modern children and teenagers is that we had time galore. And we used that for social interaction. It seems to me that the generations currently growing up are an accumulation of isolated individuals rather than a socially connected community.
Those who post here excluded, of course
