Yeah, kids don't go out and play so much now, do they?
Seen it with mine and everybody's else's kids too.
My (1950s) generation played, and played hard, every minute we could.
We were never in the house because there was nothing to do in the house.
We didn't have TV worth watching (24/7), no computers, no internet, no computer games, so we were left to find our own entertainment and that mostly meant doing something physical.
Here's another thing...that also meant doing things with our imagiations that today's kids do'nt really have to use, either.
Do you guys remember when the leader of your pack was generally not the big guys, but the guys who could come up with the best scenarios for what you were collectively going to be pretending?
Nobody talks about this that I know of, but I think that not oly are our kids in less physcial shape, but I suspect that their creative ability to imagine stuff is ALSO fading.
If you're sitting in front a computer terminal playing a game, you don't NEED to exercise your IMAGINATIVE CREATIVITY.
I suspect in the long run?
This will mean that our kids turned adults will NOT ghave the same amount of creativity as previous geerations.
The above is pure editecian theory, of course.
I have no proof that this is true, but it seems logical that children who are forced to think creatively in play, are more likely to be adults who can think outside the box.
And those most capable of thinking outside the box are typically society's most creative adults.
Seen it with mine and everybody's else's kids too.
My (1950s) generation played, and played hard, every minute we could.
We were never in the house because there was nothing to do in the house.
We didn't have TV worth watching (24/7), no computers, no internet, no computer games, so we were left to find our own entertainment and that mostly meant doing something physical.
Here's another thing...that also meant doing things with our imagiations that today's kids do'nt really have to use, either.
Do you guys remember when the leader of your pack was generally not the big guys, but the guys who could come up with the best scenarios for what you were collectively going to be pretending?
Nobody talks about this that I know of, but I think that not oly are our kids in less physcial shape, but I suspect that their creative ability to imagine stuff is ALSO fading.
If you're sitting in front a computer terminal playing a game, you don't NEED to exercise your IMAGINATIVE CREATIVITY.
I suspect in the long run?
This will mean that our kids turned adults will NOT ghave the same amount of creativity as previous geerations.
The above is pure editecian theory, of course.
I have no proof that this is true, but it seems logical that children who are forced to think creatively in play, are more likely to be adults who can think outside the box.
And those most capable of thinking outside the box are typically society's most creative adults.
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