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To: TimF who wrote (3420)	3/18/2002 6:52:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21057

I don't know if we really had it better then kids do now. Whatcha mean, "we?" You're practically a kid yourself. I don't know what it was like when you were growing up and whether your experience was more like mine or more like kids now. What I had in mind was that we amused ourselves back then. I was vaguely aware that some kids took ballet or tap lessons, but mostly we just made up. We played in the park or on the sidewalk or in the woods. We skated on the pond in winter. I was probably ten or twelve before there was Little League. I was nearly that before we had TV. The only safety issues were getting hit by a car if we darted into the street or catching polio. I grew up with all adults acting in loco parentis. We were taught to be afraid of strangers, but strangers was defined as people who didn't live there or weirdos, not the guy on the next block or on the other side of town. There were no play dates. We just played. My father didn't have a car until I was a teenager. We walked, took busses, hitched rides. No one in their right mind would hitch a ride now. I got B's all through school. We didn't have homework until I got to high school and then not much. There was no need to study much. I got a full scholarship to a good college. I probably would have gotten one to a premier college if I had had the audacity to apply. Being a kid then was lazy and leisurely. My parents had to work when they were kids. Now kids are overscheduled and pressured. I think my peer group had the "real" childhood. Karen