Youngsters today :eek

[Chevvyf1]

Re: Youngsters today :eek

Chevvyf1, it's how life is - men seem to do some quirky things in a stereotypical way but women do too. The key to getting along is to accept that we are different and think of the positives. If there are times when the negatives outweigh the positives then it's time to take that bike for a ride...

Ride that BIKE - we DO RIDE THEM ALL THE TIME - even had to buy some new tyres this year for the Duc 748 SPS and the Duc 916 Senna wore out the inside wall, made it all navy blue ...


Yes, I for one certainly bang the drum that we are NOT and NEVER shall be EQUAL ... BUT we can make a GREAT TEAM ... at some things when paired with a member of the opposite gender I am a HUGE Fan of Barbara & Allen Pease - Books "Body Language" and "Why Men don't Listen and Women can't read maps"

... ... ... AFTER ALL how would a man standing at the fridge, holding the door open, shouting "I can't find the BUTTER!" ... make a sandwich - without the woman saying "it is RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE, dear"

[ringneck]

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We babysat for friends having their 7 year old. He arrived with rucksack and iPad and left with same. He talked little and was swishing his fingers about the screen. Nick realised that he did not know how the game works and that he had to ricochet a cannonball to "open the gates" ... so Nick instructed him ... later he was "playing" another game ... swishing his fingers about the screen ...

I DESPAIR ! We were going to "Fire up" the Wii but I decided I could not bare it ...

This morning I said "good morning " and then "what would you like for Breakfast?" no reply to either as he was... you got it ... swishing fingers over the iPad screen ...

I did not sleep well, as I kept waking to hear "various noises" from the iPad ... which he appeared to play with, between "night naps".

Is it JUST ME (and Nick) who find this lack of conversation or integration down right rude ? or it "the Culture" or lack thereof, now ?

We have lots of Little children up to 6 years in a week, and we enjoy playing Scrabble; Wordspin; Crosswords; Suduko; as well as Pop Up Pirates; Mouse Trap; Monkeys on the Tree and Elefun with them all as well as talking about our day, week, what we have done, can do and would like to do ...

I must be getting really old and GRUMPY !

Seems this started as a generational thing and has gone on be a his and her thing.........so back to the original topic to say.....

We NEVER played any of the games of the time as a family(in the 50's/60's) and in fact as far as I can remember never really did anything as one.....
Dad was either at work or down the pub....Mom's time completely taken up with running the house/looking after the kids....and interaction never reared it's head.
The only time things were done "together" was having to do things (chores I suppose)...fetching the shopping for Mom and digging etc in the garden for Dad.In school hols we had things to do before we could do anything for ourselves.
BUT......as there were not any "gadgets" our free time was always spent outdoors playing "interacting" with all the local kids.
A lot of the other kids could afford bikes /skates or just little things like footballs at anytime of the year but I can only remember getting anything at Christmas - I had a 2nd hand bike once - it was one of the other kids and he had a new one.
Quite a lot of time was spent in the fields around the area where we got up to all our mischief....no vandalism - mind you the farmers thought it was.We would drag the straw bales (square/oblong ones) together and build a den to act out all sorts of dramas like cowboys/indians or pirates.
We DID do naughty things - but we didn't think they were - such as have fires.But only campfires and miraculously food would appear and we would cook it.
Bad things we got up to was the odd bit of "borrowing and forgetting to return" little things from the shops and just annoying the neighbours with noisy games in the street.

As I said little interaction at home - remember we could not talk while the T.V. was on,especially the news - that must be why we have it on now I never stop yapping and still get told off ...LOL
And all this goes to make up what I am today.
When bringing up our children we did attempt to do things differently but really did not know how but as things were changing with the advent of things to amuse them themselves we got away with it.
Now my time - apart from work- is either on the computer or out and about on my own around those self same fields I used to play in all those years ago.
Oh another memory is that of going off on my own even when I was a kid looking for birds nests...I was the worse ever.....but it taught me so much about wildlife and the countryside.I even found some places near the school and roamed them at lunchtime instead of doing what most did like smoking etc.

All in all I really am the most boring old grumpy there could be.

[sapper]

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Just seen this post, bin offline for a while. I do know what you mean ChevvF1. My grandson (5 1/2) will not be parted from his ipad. My step grand daughter (16 month) swishes her finger across her dad's iphone, mum tells dad off, good for her.
I visit my inlaws & the telly is on all the time, then I get accused of not joining in the conversation, cos I cannot hear them above the TV.
When they visit us, the TV stays off!
We have my two sons, inlaws and grandchildren over today for a BBQ, so glad the sun is shining, won't be able to watch TV cos it is raining! When the kids are together, they do play rather than use ipads Etc.
I do get accused by my lady wife of being married to the internet, she forgets that she is on her mobile just as much. Different of course.