Life Styles Of Yesterday

Lifestyles of yesterday's children have significannot

ly changed from the lifestyles of today's. Over the past 10 or so years, technology has begun to form the views and activities of today's children. The childhood I remember and the childhood I see now have very few similarities.

At one time, neighborhood boys would get together to play all sorts of games, anywhere from imaginary tales of captain hook acted out with stick swords and pirate bandanas, to simple everyday sports like kickball and softball. Also all kids of the neighborhood would gather every Saturday to either play capture the flag, kickball or a huge hide and seek game. However, today a boy will invite his best friend over and spend hours sucked into the new hottest videogame. Instead of physical activies children seem to enjoy more sedimentary games mostly all on a Nintendo box. Children today come off lazy, it seems like you cannot

pry a child out of the house. In retrospect, I remember days where my mother would have to whip me before I came back home for the night.

In the past girls got together outside to play games like hop scotch and jump rope. However, girls today don't play as much hop scotch and jump rope as they use to, but they still enjoy their Barbie dolls and dress up games. Girls use to enjoy playing imaginary games with boys and even took pleasure in kickball and hide and seek games. In spite of old tradition, girls today don't interact with boys as much at a young age. They still love to talk about them at their pajama parties, but overall they don't spend as much time playing with them as they do gossiping about who's cuter or the better athlete.

Even though children of today are more of the house dwelling type than kids in their past, their imaginations will never change. The stories children act out, or play on a box, would not have the same affect

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