Today the kids and I skyped with my wife who is currently visiting her parents in California. "Skyped." Isn’t it amazing that we as people will take a product, in this case a program for video conferencing, and turn it into a verb? “Google it.” ”Skype her.” ”I’ll facebook you.” ”I’ll email you.” ”She’ll text him.” Why don’t we just say “I’ll use Google to search for that?” Or “I’m using Skype to video chat with my wife?”
I think it is because as technology increase, so does the laziness of humanity. 30+ years ago, if someone wanted to keep in contact with someone that lived in a different state or country, they would get out some paper, a pen/pencil and physically write a letter or short note.
I remember when I was about 10 years old, we would play games outside. We would play tag, or ride our bicycles in the gullies near our house. One summer when it was really hot, we ran water down the side of a grassy hill and would slide down on our knees, or butt. Great fun. Kids now. They only want to play games on their game consoles, or browse the internet. No longer do they go outside and do stupid things like we used to.
Sad. Very sad.
Very Sad...I often sit and despair about the lack of imagination in children today. I see it at work day in day out and to some extent in my own children.
ReplyDeleteMy girls do go outside quite a bit, youngest especially, but they still don't seem to have the imagination to invent or create things to do like we used to.
I think we need to teach them. Just because we are old goats now doesn't mean that we can not go outside and have fun.
I think they need us to show them how because for what ever reason it is dying out and unless we try and get it back it will be gone forever; our children wont be able to tell theirs about how they went on a ditch exploration or had algae wars with their friends in the fields!!
Haha, I know what you mean. Last weekend, I had the kids go to Christchurch to "take pictures." I gave them an assignment to take 5 photos of something in the church. I didn't care what the photos would be, I just wanted them out of the house. :)
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