Ah, the way life use to be.
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The reasons GenX and prior are made of tougher stuff
My kids are GenX. I see them as the last of the Free Range Children. They played in the street, fell off bikes and swing sets. No padding anywhere. Bumps and bruises all summer long. We even had a Slip and Slide. Grass burns ensued. Healthy, happy kids.
We also had real lawn darts with the points. Not those stupid kid-save things with the ball on the end. Croquet as well. Imagine giving kids heavy ceramic balls and mallets these days.
LOL! We also had real lawn darts when my kids were growing up, and I played Croquet all through childhood. Good times!
Lawn darts! Tally the points, remove the injured, carry on until you had a winner
Millennial here, grew up the same. We didn’t even have a computer until I was in 6th grade.
Rich. I'm also a millenial but we couldn't afford a computer back then, lol. Got a hand-me-down computer with no internet and windows 95 when i was 17. Bought a laptop at 19 though with my own money, but still didn't have internet at my place.
But yeah, my friends and i were constantly outside running around the neighborhood riding bikes and living the right-side of OP's graphic. I feel like that all stopped in the late 90's. Or maybe 9/11. Different generation of kids after that.