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To: Lane3 who wrote (3425)	3/18/2002 7:24:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 21057

I meant "we" to mean anyone who is not a kid now. But I understand how growing up in the 70s can be different then growing up earlier decades. Now kids are overscheduled and pressured. I mentioned that idea, but you fleshed it out a lot better. I didn't realize that there wasn't a lot of homework back then. I agree that the safety concern is a lot greater now. Partially, perhaps mostly because things are more dangerous for unsupervised kids now, but also because parents and others are more aware of dangers even when the actual threat is not so high. Its interesting that you prefer your time as a kid both to the generations before and those who came after you. ("My parents had to work when they were kids. Now kids are overscheduled and pressured. I think my peer group had the "real" childhood.") I think that when I grew up it was in-between your experience and that of kids today. We had homework in elementary school buy probably not as much as they get today (I think with the parents helping the kids through all the homework now it becomes homework for the parents as much as it is for the kids) Things where more relaxed then they are now, but not as much as the picture you paint of your childhood. I did play organized sports, but not when I was really young, and not enough to prevent me from having time to just hand around the neighborhood and play. There was less concern about strangers, and a lot less fear about the neighbors hurting children so we did wander around the neighborhood without supervision. We didn't hitch rides much but this was not only due to fear, but also due to the fact that cars where more common every family had at least one. I never really skated much. There was some fear that if you skated on the pond you would fall through the ice, and I don't think I had the best balance in the world so skating really wasn't my thing. I spent a lot of time reading as a kid. The local library had a contest where you could get points for reading different books or stories. The points could be exchanged for McDonalds gift certificates. I read a lot and I also figured out the way the rules would make it easy to get points with less effort (for example 4 short stories gave you as many points as a Novel so I read a book with 50 short short stories). I earned 17 McDs gift certificates (and my big sister earned 4 or 5), but they library had only bought 5 (and the area it covered had about 20,000 people) because they figured so few kids would read enough to earn any. I think they may have thought I was lying because they didn't give me any. Tim

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