70% of young adults cant sew on a button!!

[BrixhamBadger]

Most of today's parents were kids themselves in the 70s and 80s. In that "golden age", household technology was pretty much limited to radio and TV.... for proper entertainment, you really had to break out a sweat. You had to make an effort to fulfill your time with interest. As kids, they were given a very limited choice of options & most of them had to do with outside ...... they had to leave the premises of the home and go out actively seeking for something to do.

This curious twist of fate forced them to socialize with other kids in the neighborhood. It forced them to develop street smarts that were necessary to survive the childhood. They were forced to use their brains to create fun. And oftentimes, since this fun usually bordered on minor delinquency, they also had to develop strong muscles in order to be able to escape the raging neighbor's dog, or his air gun, or the lash of his belt. They spent their time breathing the fine polluted city air, they would play lots of ball sports, make pranks, beat each other.... they built their characters.

We grew up.

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When you think of it, when our parents wanted a quiet moment at home they sent us outside to play with other kids. Today, in order to get the ticks of their backs, parents send them to their room, where a PC provides all the attention and entertainment that one needs.

In our times, even if we wanted to play computer games. we could not, there weren't any. Even if we wanted to deep-fry our balls by carrying a mobile phone in a side pocket of our jeans, we could not, there weren't any. All we had was a football. And the wicked, satanic innovativeness of a child.

Today, forget all that. You don't have to do anything to be entertained. Today, entertainment is being served in heaploads. All you have to do is laze down and watch some kind of monitor for intellectual stimulus.

Ah well.... better go get something done.