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To: Jaknik2 who wrote (212828)	7/21/2007 12:22:36 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794043

I think we are all guilty of trying to make our kids lives easier than ours. I personally believe every generation has done this....BUT most of the generations before us didn't have every material good at the nearest store up the street. Nor did they have the kind of wealth we do today. When my siblings and I were growing up, we were dressed well (homemade dresses mostly), ate well (even if it wasn't fancy), didn't have drapes in one great brick house we lived in (late Federal style I came to find out)...but kids don't notice those things. The house was wonderful, nice and airy, and had wonderful sidewalks for us to roller skate on.... We didn't have play dates.....we played with the neighborhood kids when they were outside to play. We didn't have computers or cell phones, or video games, and who had heard of video movies on TV's?? ....we played cops and robbers, hide and seek, and red robbin, red robbin... If there was extra stew or whatever for dinner, our mom invited our friends in to dinner. All of them loved baked biscuits she made. We did our homework. There wasn't any option. It was just our job. A treat was going to a double feature movie. And we got time to actually think and be creative. Clouds in the sky, while lying on the grass and looking up, became a wonderful "blueboard" of creative thinking.... Kids don't change. We change them. Sometimes, we should think about what we are changing them into....