{"id":5834,"date":"2022-09-09T04:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sometimesraw.com\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2022-09-09T04:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:44:53","slug":"kids-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sometimesraw.com\/?p=5834","title":{"rendered":".Kids Today."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had a chat with a friend yesterday. About kids. About our kids who played Nintendo Switch like there is no tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kids today! They\u2019re always toting their Air Up bottles around like they\u2019re going to die of dehydration. Give me a break. All they\u2019re doing is scrolling through their phones, iPads\u2014how does that even work up a thirst? My generation played outside all day in the blazing hot sun, and we didn\u2019t need any fancy water bottles\u2014we either drank from corrosive, lead-contaminated water fountains or slurped our water straight from a hose. Delicious! We drank that stuff and we loved it. And guess what? We survived. Except for those of us who ended up consuming unsafe levels of mould and frog faeces, and eventually succumbed to fungal infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My generation played outside until dark\u2014no checking in on \u201cparental control apps\u201d or whatever nonsense these helicopter parents are using to keep their kids dependent. Nope, it was a different world back then. We rode bikes all day without helmets, and our injuries made us stronger. We weren\u2019t delicate little brainiacs, and we didn\u2019t all get a trophy just for participating in the spelling bee\u2014especially those of us whose bike-accident-related brain damage left us unable to spell our own names. I pity these kids today\u2014we had a magical childhood, at least what we\u2019re able to remember of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were fearless\u2014we didn\u2019t hesitate to hop into pickup trucks driven by strange mustachioed men offering us chewing gum. Not only was it full of sugar and devoid of nutritional value, but it also looked just like chewing tobacco, so we got to sit in the back of the pickup and shove it in our faces like little badasses. And guess what? We turned out just fine unless you count the kids who got into the wrong truck and were never heard from again until their faces showed up on our cartons of full-fat chocolate milk or Kinder Riegel Chocolate<\/em>. Yep, you heard me\u2014we got to look at computer-aged photos of our missing buddies while we drank\u00a0FULL-FAT\u00a0CHOCOLATE MILK\u00a0for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. What kid today gets to have that kind of good old-fashioned fun? And we turned out great! Even our presumed dead friends looked like they turned out fine. Back then, children were seen and not heard, and then occasionally never seen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we misbehaved, we got spanked, and if we got in trouble at school, our parents automatically blamed us and sided with authority figures. Nobody worried about our delicate \u201cfeelings\u201d or our \u201cdesperate pleas to be heard and believed\u201d or any of that crap. If the teacher said you were bad, you were bad\u2014end of story. And we turned out perfectly fine, except for the crippling hellscape of neuroses and inferiority complexes that have haunted us throughout our lives and now compel us to post lengthy screeds on social media about how fine we turned out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, life was tough, but we were tougher. There was nothing we loved better than riding in cars without air conditioning, airbags, or seat belts. Hell, we would have loved riding in cars without brakes if we could. Our parents wouldn\u2019t have dreamed of strapping us into our car seats\u2014straps were for spanking, not safety. And yet, we all managed to stay alive\u2014unless you\u2019re the kind of dork who believes all the fancy-schmancy statistics indicating that several thousand of us did not, in fact, stay alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you are that kind of dork, I don\u2019t know what to tell you. Go drink some Vitamin Water while wearing your helmet, I guess. It\u2019s a dog-eat-dog world (in fact, our dogs loved when we fed them other dogs, none of this \u201cdog bakery\u201d crap). Only the strongest and most able to click \u201cshare\u201d will survive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had a chat with a friend yesterday. About kids. About our kids who played Nintendo Switch like there is no tomorrow. Kids today! They\u2019re always toting their Air Up bottles around like they\u2019re going to die of dehydration. Give me a break. All they\u2019re doing is scrolling through their phones, iPads\u2014how does that even … <\/p>\n

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