Three generations asked "What did you do as a kid for fun?"

[Sparkey]

They asked three (3) generations,
"What do you," or, "what did you (as a kid) like to do for fun?"

In just three (3) minutes we have their answers:

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[th1b.taylor]

These kids have no imagination, they are wipped!

 

[Edward]

That's a sad video. When I was a kid, the social network site was the park or the schoolyard. I did spend a lot of time at home though. I began reading at a young age and prolly spent more time than I should have reading instead of being outside.

Nevertheless, I did spend a lot of time outside. We lived on the skirts of town by a river so we did our share of fishing and exploring the woods & river. and shooting guns. That was a lot of fun and nothing bad ever happened because my dad was strict about safety and taught us well.

...and then Pong destroyed America.

 

[Sparkey]

That's a sad video.

It's a very sad vid. And I remember when my kids (the second generation) were being drawn to award winning shows like Sesame Street. And I thought (to myself and out loud) no wonder kids are being diagnosed with attention problems. Count with me. One (zoom), Two (zoom, swoosh), Three (Zoom, swoosh, wammy...)

But that was only second gen television/babysitter programming. From my good ol' Saturday morning cartoons, like The Flintstones (which often went over my head and spoke to adults about things they understood and sometimes bypassed a child's mind all together) to Sesame Street, which did teach Conjunction Junction and it's Function (and may be had something to do with increased attention deficit (? has that been proven or studied yet?) to something more along these lines, the daily televised food of my grand-children and great-grands (when they come) :

"Do you like Broccoli Ice Cream?" Okay, do you like spaghetti yogurt? Ready for the next major dilemma fitted for a child's mind? Do you like tomatoes? Do you like pancakes? Do you like tomato pancakes? No I DON'T! (What good parent ever felt the need to teach kids to say the "N" word, "NO!" or stomp in defiance, or teach to throw a tantrum, because even though the songs are sweet, that's not the interpretation the kids give to what they learn, not one bit). I heard about a parent accused of defying their child the other day. What's wrong with that picture. Is it possibly to defy a child? While they are to remain under their parental authority? ORLY? You think it is? Okay. Who am I to argue?

Kids are being sing-song taught to say NO! That's Yucky! :shock based on nothing but what they happen to like at the moment and what they happen to not like. *NOW* tell me they are not being trained to have the world meet their expectations and tell me how they are not the next generation nurtured toward entitlement. I was picky as a kid and nobody needed to tell me or teach me how to be a finicky eater.

Just keep listening to the Super-Easy kid songs. You'll hear more than you can tolerate (this is only my hope, who knows?)

♫ Get a scoop of this, get a scoop of that. What? What? Ice Cream!
♫ Vanillia, chocolate, and straw-berry!
One, two, three, four, five, scoops ♫ ♪​

Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, scoops. (and we can almost hear their demand for 10 scoops now)

After every "children's song" is over just ask yourself, did they just teach your kids or grandkids something that you would teach? Or no? Did they sing, "I'm a soccer rocker and I rock at soccer!" -- did they teach to avoid negative self image (while still in sin) by focusing on physical attributes (put confidence in flesh)?

It's okay to feel good about yourself, but it's not okay to neglect the truth of the Word while instructing children. And the difference between Godly instruction and the instructions of the world, or rather the gap between the two, is widening by leaps and bounds each year that passes.

Come soon, Jesus. We need you!

Where have I heard something along the lines of, "Except that God shorten those days none (not even the elect themselves if such a thing were possible) shall be saved." It's paraphrase -AND- rhetorical. No reply expected.

 

[Corn Pop]

Yea, its a bit messed up.

 

[Edward]

It's a very sad vid. And I remember when my kids (the second generation) were being drawn to award winning shows like Sesame Street. And I thought (to myself and out loud) no wonder kids are being diagnosed with attention problems. Count with me. One (zoom), Two (zoom, swoosh), Three (Zoom, swoosh, wammy...)

But that was only second gen television/babysitter programming. From my good ol' Saturday morning cartoons, like The Flintstones (which often went over my head and spoke to adults about things they understood and sometimes bypassed a child's mind all together) to Sesame Street, which did teach Conjunction Junction and it's Function (and may be had something to do with increased attention deficit (? has that been proven or studied yet?) to something more along these lines, the daily televised food of my grand-children and great-grands (when they come) :

"Do you like Broccoli Ice Cream?" Okay, do you like spaghetti yogurt? Ready for the next major dilemma fitted for a child's mind? Do you like tomatoes? Do you like pancakes? Do you like tomato pancakes? No I DON'T! (What good parent ever felt the need to teach kids to say the "N" word, "NO!" or stomp in defiance, or teach to throw a tantrum, because even though the songs are sweet, that's not the interpretation the kids give to what they learn, not one bit). I heard about a parent accused of defying their child the other day. What's wrong with that picture. Is it possibly to defy a child? While they are to remain under their parental authority? ORLY? You think it is? Okay. Who am I to argue?

Kids are being sing-song taught to say NO! That's Yucky! :shock based on nothing but what they happen to like at the moment and what they happen to not like. *NOW* tell me they are not being trained to have the world meet their expectations and tell me how they are not the next generation nurtured toward entitlement. I was picky as a kid and nobody needed to tell me or teach me how to be a finicky eater.

Just keep listening to the Super-Easy kid songs. You'll hear more than you can tolerate (this is only my hope, who knows?)

♫ Get a scoop of this, get a scoop of that. What? What? Ice Cream!
♫ Vanillia, chocolate, and straw-berry!
One, two, three, four, five, scoops ♫ ♪​

Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, scoops. (and we can almost hear their demand for 10 scoops now)

After every "children's song" is over just ask yourself, did they just teach your kids or grandkids something that you would teach? Or no? Did they sing, "I'm a soccer rocker and I rock at soccer!" -- did they teach to avoid negative self image (while still in sin) by focusing on physical attributes (put confidence in flesh)?

It's okay to feel good about yourself, but it's not okay to neglect the truth of the Word while instructing children. And the difference between Godly instruction and the instructions of the world, or rather the gap between the two, is widening by leaps and bounds each year that passes.

Come soon, Jesus. We need you!

Where have I heard something along the lines of, "Except that God shorten those days none (not even the elect themselves if such a thing were possible) shall be saved." It's paraphrase -AND- rhetorical. No reply expected.

Exactly Brother. They're teaching the kids to be argumentative and all sorts of weirdness. I've heard of some kids suing their parents nowadays and yucky stuff like that. Whoa.

When I was a kid, telling my mom no or being otherwise disrespectful would earn me some of daddy's knuckles up side my head. Of course I didn't like it then, but it did set clear limits for me and after I grew up I realized that dad nudging me back onto the respect trail with the back of his hand was a good thing. I'm a better person for it.

 

[Sparkey]

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