[RANT] It seems like everyone is plugged in to the web these days. The internet is an enigma, at the same time it is expanded our horizons and shrinking the world it is limiting our reach.
This video illustrates my point…
When I was little during the summer we drove around to all the battle fields and national parks and we visited just about every state this side of the Mississippi. I remember playing games with my brother to see how many state license plates we could find, or reading the Burma-Shave signs, or looking for Mail Pouch Tobacco signs on the side of barns, or just looking at the variety of countryside as it went by.
Today when kids are traveling in a car they just stare at their phones texting or playing games. Cars are now coming equipped with hot spot Wi-Fi so you can be connect because they fear of being left out.
In the summer we used play outdoors in the woods around our houses and then go traveling around the country for two weeks. I learned so much in those vacations, walking through the battlefields at Gettysburg and looking down from Little Round Top, imagining what it was like for a Union solider. Or driving along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Visiting Mammoth Caves and driving through the Great Smokey's so many wonders that we saw.
Now it seems like everything is organized from sports to summer actives, the kids don’t use their imagination and build forts in the woods. Kids don’t do sledding through backyards anymore it is all fenced in like stockade.
They are all sitting next to one another texting away and not interacting with their friends except by text. One time someone asked me for a ride up to UConn main campus in Storrs to a meeting we were going to, he didn’t say one word all the way up. Instead he just texted and when we got there he opened the car door with one hand keep texting in the other. Luckily he got a ride back with someone else.
There is a cartoon going around on Facebook that embodies today’s generation perfectly…
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This video illustrates my point…
When I was little during the summer we drove around to all the battle fields and national parks and we visited just about every state this side of the Mississippi. I remember playing games with my brother to see how many state license plates we could find, or reading the Burma-Shave signs, or looking for Mail Pouch Tobacco signs on the side of barns, or just looking at the variety of countryside as it went by.
Today when kids are traveling in a car they just stare at their phones texting or playing games. Cars are now coming equipped with hot spot Wi-Fi so you can be connect because they fear of being left out.
In the summer we used play outdoors in the woods around our houses and then go traveling around the country for two weeks. I learned so much in those vacations, walking through the battlefields at Gettysburg and looking down from Little Round Top, imagining what it was like for a Union solider. Or driving along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Visiting Mammoth Caves and driving through the Great Smokey's so many wonders that we saw.
Now it seems like everything is organized from sports to summer actives, the kids don’t use their imagination and build forts in the woods. Kids don’t do sledding through backyards anymore it is all fenced in like stockade.
They are all sitting next to one another texting away and not interacting with their friends except by text. One time someone asked me for a ride up to UConn main campus in Storrs to a meeting we were going to, he didn’t say one word all the way up. Instead he just texted and when we got there he opened the car door with one hand keep texting in the other. Luckily he got a ride back with someone else.
There is a cartoon going around on Facebook that embodies today’s generation perfectly…
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When I was a kid and there was a snow day, I was outside all day long playing in the snow with my sister and our friends. Today, when there is a snow day, the neighborhood is silent. I assume all the kids who are home from school are attached to some kind of keyboard or game console. It is sad.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very good rant!
ReplyDeleteWe, the passengers not the drivers, used the cell phones to keep together in heavy traffic a couple of years ago. For that, they were very handy!