Now or never
Throw your child's laptop, tablet, and mobile phone outside the window - and break the kid's video game console using a hammer. Come! let us teach them, once again, how to play and enjoy life like a real person.All image copyrights acknowledged ( top to bottom : hopscotch / potsy, marble, spintop, and blind fly / blind man's buff ).
Comments (34)
oohh I missed that era... 1980s .....
gadgets and internet are messing up childhood - we must act now.
research showed long ago that even the radiation from tv-s are harmful. a growing kid should not watch tv constantly.
I can still remember playing all of those... and a few others. There were nothing else to play but that and a few board games. The real good old days.
My memories of the past games we played are some of the best.
I am so blessed to have known this time.
that was fun....
but I don't like games I cant take loses I always loses.
that was fun....
but I don't like games I cant take loses I always loses.
Obesity is rampant as well as these kids get lifts everywhere, hardly ever walk or play outside, have too much pocket money and are buying Chips and Burgers on the way home from school.. thats about 1,000 Cals. Bad calories too ! This country [Ireland ] certainly Dublin, has become very Americanised, [no disrespect to USA] I am talking about the mad things, MacDonalds, watching US American programmes and they have aquired the lingo and slang used in the USA.
I do hanker for those days when I walked home from school to buy sweets, when I took an old pair of curtains and got the old Sewing machine out and made a lovely dress for my first dance !! I am not a mother, but I can see friends, their kids are on the internet, Iphones constantly... life is lived through cyber. Its sad. They dont notice the beauty of Nature anymore and are going to the Gym because of Obesity and are obsessed with looking like Celebs.
electronic heroine?! interesting term.