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[Still Raining]

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@silkyk wrote:

Nothing has changed...

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Thanks for locating this quote.  

The one bit that is just too funny in the OP is the pasta eating!!!  Who knew that is why we have a obesity issue.

[MrsSB]

Ahhh nostalgia.  I can certainly relate to some of it.  But the pasta bit is too funny. We sure didn't call it "pasta" back then, LOL!

[bikerbabe]

I’m not even sure where to begin on my disagreement of assessments of past and present.

[magicmoodz]

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@781Florist wrote:

A little P.S. to my post....

Bob Dylan wrote the beautiful song "The Times They Are A Changing" when we were young and about to displace our parent's generation.  The words to that song are eternal and can be used for every new generation.  It is hard to hear when the finger is pointed at ourselves.

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@781Florist 

This street art is painted on the side of a building in Minneapolis, paying homage to one of our own. His words ring true!

[Trailrun23]

Our city added a rail system that went out to a very upscale shopping mall. Its route starts in a depressed area 18 months ago. Right after the system started its route, the young criminals began riding out to the mall, harrassing shoppers who were mostly middle-aged and affluent, shoplifting, and generally causing problems; one woman was assaulted in the parking garage and nearly died.  Security at every outside entrance. It never worked and shoppers felt so intimidated and vulnerable they stopped going there. Many stores closed and some low price-point places have moved in. Now it is nothing but blight, in less than two years. Customers not feeling safe going into a place means it will close.

[Trailrun23]

Now that we have 9 grandkids of all ages, I am glad to see some of the things that make life easier for them than when I was growing up. Having a phone with them when they are out so you can track them or they can call you is wonderful, especially now that three of them are driving. There is an app my son put on one car that tracks where she is driving...and if the car stays unmoving for two hours on her boyfriend's street instead the street where Bible study is.....well, it's just a good thing to know! We had no way to do that in the 50's. I am trying to embrace the positive things that this new generation has that cause them less toil on mundane things, and hopefully that means more time to do other constructive things. I recall when my grandmother was alive; she never drove, so my mother had to take groceries to her twice a week, the only delivery back then was the milkman!

[Kachina624]

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@Desertdi wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@Desertdi wrote:

Being born during World War 2 was NOT what I would call "Good Times"...

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@Desertdi    I don't thing we kids suffered because we didn't know any difference.  We didn't have many toys without plastics, rubber or metals but we made some grand creations with a few nails, A hammer and some second hand boards.  We didn't know we were deprived.  Dad even managed to buy me a second hand tricycle which he rehabbed and turned into a beauty.

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@Kachina624     I was pretty "aware" in Chicago....in a triangle bounded by  O'Hare Army-Air, Great Lakes Naval, Fort Sheridan Army, and Navy Pier.    We had blackout shades on the windows, and convoys on the City thorofares, submarines going thru the Chicago River to the Lake being shipped eventually out to the Pacific for combat.   

I admit that I didn't understand the enormity of it...but I did realize something very "bad" was going on.    di

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@Spurt  @Desertdi    My family lived in Oak Ridge, TN during the war, operated by the Atomic Energy Commission, where the uranium used in the A-bomb was processed.  The whole city was surrounded by barbed wire and there was no free access.  Everybody lived in government housing, schools were government operated.  Military police everywhere.  Your grandma needed a security clearance to visit.  As you say, the kids just accepted this as norma

[Spurt]

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@Trailrun23 wrote:

I would just like to see all of my grandkids spend time outdoors rather than being glued to their iPad or every other tech device that is known to man, and they have them all. Even the two year-old can take my phone, open an app, scroll to the version she wants of something, and proceed from there. They are missing out on the joy of backyard baseball, catching fireflies at dusk, hide and seek, and just sitting with a friend under a tree and talking. All passé and they would be incredulous if I were to suggest any of them. 
Didn't you have a favorite thing to do that was not inside in front of a screen when you were a kid? 

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@Trailrun23 

And the lack of outside play is also resulting in a tremendous increase of Juvenile Diabetes due to inactivity......This is from The National Library Of Medicine--Pediatrics: The alarming prevalence of obesity is thought to be driving the increasing rates of type 2 diabetes in youth. One of the factors implicated in this epidemic of both obesity and type 2 diabetes in youth is physical inactivity.

We spent almost all our time outside---We played hop scotch, Four Square, Tether Ball, kick ball, rode our bikes everywhere, played Redlight/Greenlight and Simon Says ....The only time we were inside was if it was raining. And we had to come in for an hour or two during the hottest part of the day during Texas summers (and we normally read a book or colored in our coloring books during this time).....Our only "screen time" was when we occasionally went to the movies.....or in the evenings when it was dark outside and we watched a couple of TV Shows.