On the news Today - Our kids will never know....

Yea, those people stood to make a lot of money selling carbon credits. There is so many differing things said now, that I have no idea what is truth and what is not. Its weird that the magnetic poles are shifting and that stuff is not on the news. Something to eave of 40 miles a year. So much so that Tampa international airport had to shut down to change runway names because they are based on magnetic north.

Thats quite amazing. There is a pole cycle too. The year is something like every 200,000 years. Its been pretty consistent. We haven't had one in over 780,000 years. So whatever happens, we are all going to parish anyway. There are so many things going on right now that can destroy us without us doing it to ourselves.

Pretty soon, we may not even have a life to live. Ignorance is bliss. Wish I didn't know what I do.

Pretty soon, we may not even have a life to live. Ignorance is bliss. Wish I didn't know what I do.

yea i am with you on that one!!!

Anymore ideas guys?

This post could go on and on if people were adding to the list of things that today's kids won't know about and not merely saying, "Yea, I agree."

How about: non-motorized things to ride on. Anybody remember the "Big Wheel"?!? Man, there are three kids in my neighborhood with battery powered cars or 4-wheelers.

i loved the big wheel

Kids born this year will never know the feeling of freedom and safety we knew.
When i was 8, i was allowed to go so far away, my father had to whistle or use a air horn to get us in for dinner. We had 10 minutes from the time the call was sent out to get home; which means we could go ten minutes from home on our bikes (a kid can get pretty far away in ten full minutes). So long as we did not cross the highway, we were good to go.
Now, kids have to have someone watching them at every moment. They can't even go a block away without parents panicking that they may be kidnapped or something. And unfortunately, they have reason to worry.

This is so true. I was out on my bike from friends to friends all day and only came home at dusk ready for dinner. The town I grew up in was smallish, so everyone knew everyone else and it was like one big family. It is sooo sad that this day and age we can't let our children out by themselves to become responsible for themselves.......

A person I know wont let her 13yr old boy ride his bike to school even though he only lives up the road and he wouldn't even need to cross the road to get to the school. She insists on driving him and then walks him to his class. He is an only child and is now starting to get bullied (wonder why!). She is a lovely lady but needs to let go of the apron strings just a tad.

Hey, can we still get those games where you have see-through plastic with pictures on it and you rubbed it over a picture of a scene? I remember those from my childhood but don't see them around anymore. Also paper dolls.

I remember trying to tape a song from one tape to another and I had to put two tape recorders facing each other and on the count of 3 I would play on one and record on the other!! Had a few songs with me yelling for mum cos my brothers wouldn't shut up! LOL.

eight track tapes, wood burning stoves, metal roller skates that attach to shoes, webble wobble toys. oh and mr. bill cartoon.
i agree it's sad... oh i forgot one more .. fist fights ... because it is just too easy for them to bring guns to school.

Wow... your post intrigued me, as we do not have guns here. At all. Kids still have to have punch ups (a certain lot carry knives though, so I suppose that reiterates the same point)

The metal roller skates!!! My sister shattered her wrist on those because they were so dangerous haha...


Our kids will never know manners! It never ceases to amaze me the amount of kids I see who are obnoxious, rude or selfish, and usually have enabling parents who don't understand how to discipline them.

Playing outdoors
Leaving the house without a mobile phone
Ringing up friends or going over to their house to say hello - everyone just texts of facebooks

There's many more I could add in but I just woke up and the brain hasn't totally started functioning just yet.

Wow...this thread got serious fast!!!!!!!

Let's see...my kids will never know:

Airplane food.
Having a candy store IN their school.
Riding in the front seat of a car (illegal til 13 here) as a kid.
Typewriters.
That gas was under $1.00 at one point.
Candy cigarettes.
Get a taste of a parent's drink.
They'll never experience having grandparents waiting at the gate to greet you. And by connection, they'll never know that we didn't have to take off shoes, strip, etc at security lines.

As a side note (back to the serious), my daughter has had to worry about something I didn't. She was freaking out last airplane trip because she thought "the security man is going to see me (her) naked...I don't want him to touch me!!" She was also freaking out because she thought they were going to take pictures of her "without my (her) clothes on, which isn't right."

A 9 year old shouldn't be freaking out that a man is going to "touch her" or strangers taking "naked pictures" so she can go see her grandparents. (and yes, I reassured her I wouldn't allow any of these to happen)