what would they do?

[metsrock69]

what do you think our kids would do if they grew up in the 70's and 80's  this is what i grew up with.

a black and white tv until i was 8
no computer until i was 27
no cell phone until i was 30
no video game until i was 14
had a paper route when i was 11
had my brother in the same room until i was 9
no cable until i was 10 with only 2 channels to watch and one of them was snowy.

these kids are lucky with all the stuff they have these days and after all that, they still say they're bored

[kqa]

My 2 boys grew up in the 70s and 80s. They were 7 years apart, born in 1974 and 1981. I did buy a color TV for them because I was a single parent working full-time and going back to college full-time.  This was long before the days of what seem to be necessities these days. When I went to school in the 60s, we didn't even have AC in the school, and I live in Florida!

[tbosworth1]

Thinking back to the 60s and 70s when I was growing up life was so "un-plugged".  We played games, rode bikes and used our imagination.  When my daughter was growing up in the 80s and 90s she had a video game and a color tv in her room but no cell phone until she was 15.  Now days kids have cell phones before they are 10, video games (several in some cases), tablets, ipods and the list goes on and on.  They are so plugged into technology that I wonder how much time they spend using their imagination.  I know that in some ways technology has made our lives easier but I believe in moderation with it especially with kids.  Metsrock69 you are so right in that they still say they're bored.  How can they be bored with so much "stuff"?

[am28slone]

Well  for the most part I think they would have gotten by the same way as you and I did. Ii might have not been all that fun in comparison to the things we have today but I don't regret not having these things as a child. Technology can be a unique thing but there is a point when it becomes too much and can be deadly when not used in moderation.

[kwyetstorm]

I am a 70's baby and some of the things we grew up with are coming back like video games and some clothes. My kids don't know what its like to have a black and white tv or no video games all we had were board games and we spent a lot of time outside making up games to play. Kids today have so many electronics and not enough books to read. They wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they came up in my day and time. But they would have been just fine as I turned out to be fine.

[camellia0]

I can only imagine what our kids kids will have when they are teens

[potluck6]

yes i had a black and white tv in the seventies with 4 channels.I think kids played outside much more.my husband and i were talking about facebook and wi-fi and netflix dvds i said to him if someone from the 60's or 70's listened in they'd think we were from a different planet.How things have changed .

[vickysue]

well i grew up in the 40's and 50's never saw a tv until i was 12. played out side, rode bikes worked in the garden helped my grandmothers can. Was watching and takeing care of my brother and sister when i was 10 including cooking for them. My kids grew up without much tv as they were raised on a farm and had all their chores to do. They were both working in the fields right along with me. until they were old enough to drive the equipment themselves. Didn't hurt them a bit, Both boys grew up to fine young men with big caring hearts.   

[ancmetro]

       Times have really changed. Look at all the gadgets we have today!

[rusgiftsaolcom]

What will the children have ten or fifteen years from now? Depending on how wisely these things will be used is a good or bad thing.

[dauna]

What do you think people will do if the grid every goes down in a big way?  Where would some people be without their techie gadgets?

[BAHEL87]

LUCKY??!!

[mehavenomemory]

Lucky.. I don't think kids are lucky at all.. They are stuck in their room with a computer, PS3, or xbox.. or whatever, they are not outside getting fresh air as we were, they do not know how to talk or communicate unless it's my cell phone, or texting.. I think our kids are very unlucky.. the world is passing them by.. and they don't even know it..

[dcrotteau]

What's lacking today, seems to be Imagination.  That's what we, as kids in the 60's and 70's relied on.  We made things up to do.  We played outside from morning til evening.  We got a heck of a lot more exercise then, that the kids today do not get and as a result aren't as healthy.

[ssliva67]

They would have coped with the situations presented to them and survived...like they do today.