Them darn kids now'days

[jellysundae]

they're still called mobile phones over here in england 3nodding

just to cause some cross-Atlantic confusion of course.  

[Nobility Glistens]

Does anyone remeber when DSL was the pinacle of connection speed?  

[Lil-Jo]

When I was a kid my grandmother bought the first microwave we had in our family. That thing was huge, it had dials and buttons (not the digital display buttons). I remember her using that and my mother telling us that there was no need for us to buy one for our home...  

[Umberella]

I remember the first day of MTV.
But not at my house, at my cool teenage friend's house. I was under 10 at the time. I think. Can't really remember.
I remember having a huge Raggedy Ann doll. And I wore her clothes for Halloween one year.
But most of all, I remember shopping at a store called Cost Plus (not Cost Plus IMPORTS) in Fresno California that was filled with cool foreign toys and funky notebooks that smelled like grass and weird foreign food.
They also had metal bellydancing outfits on the wall. By the time by female attributes had grown enough to fit into a metal mesh bra, the store had changed to the outlet center version of Pier 1. crying I cry.  

[Harbone]

Malheureux

Hey all you Geezers and Geezette...

I remember when you got your butt smacked for being bad in the grocery store... No one was shooting their classmates back then.


-- SNIP--

What ever happened to Mr. Peabody and his Way-Back Machine? Or Mighty Mouse... Or Tom Slick... What about Underdog?

Nope. I never got my butt smacked in the grocery store and I never shot anyone in my school. Neither did anyone in my rather liberal generation, come to think of it. Why do you guys want us to hit our kids so badly?

I DO remember when political disputation was acceptable in the United States, however. And I remember when the United States were the good guys instead of international bully. Oh yes, and I remember when we didn't have a heriditary ruler.  

[Marty Nozz]

I remeber when there was that one kid in the neighborhood that had Atari and we all wanted to hang at his house because he had the Atari. Now, it's "Get your face out of hat Gameboy, the world's going on without you!"

And don't get me started on some of the haircuts and clothes teenage boys are wearing nowsaday. They look like morons.  

[jellysundae]

Marty Nozz

And don't get me started on some of the haircuts and clothes teenage boys are wearing nowsaday. They look like morons.

rofl there's no telling them that though is there?
you just get this pitying look..
'what would you know, you're old, it's FASHION'

LMFAO

just wait til they're older and their parents dig the photo album out to show their latest girlfriend..then they'll want to curl up and die rofl  

[Marty Nozz]

That's going to be a glorious day indeed. I even told one of those little punks to his face, "You look like half a drag queen."  

[Harbone]

Malheureux

Harbone

Why do you guys want us to hit our kids so badly?

There ain't nothin wrong with a well-placed throng on the buttocks now and again. Letting kids get away with stuff is not the way to go. They loose their respect for authority.

Harrumph. I remember when authority didn't need no respect to keep workin' - when it was actually made up of better people so's you didn't have to be afeared of it in order to do what it asked o'yer.

In fact, I remember when we all WANTED to help, instead of asking what would happen to us if we were stupid enough to try.  

[Lil-Jo]

Teens these days know they can get away doing only what they want. I asked my daughter to go to a store with me because I needed her help. It was the middle of the day on a saturday, she told me no, that she was too tired. I told her that she was coming with me because what I was getting was too heavy for me to carry on my own. She layed down on the couch and turned her head away from me. I told her a few more times she was coming with me and she just said no, I then dragged her off the couch and she layed on the floor doing the same thing.

At that point what is a parent to do??? I told her to go to her room, which was just what she wanted, that way she could spend the day sleeping or doing what she wanted.

Now if I told her... "hey Teen, lets go to the mall..." she would have said, give me 10 minutes to get ready and we would have been out the door.  

[Marty Nozz]

See that right there is why every parent should own a cattle prod.

"I don't want to..."

BZZT!  

[Harbone]

Well, Lil Jo, why'd you order your kid around instead of offering something more attractive? I mean, wouldn't it have been easier for you both to just say, "Hey, let's go to the mall."

And, then, you could say, "oh yeah, and while we're there, I need some help with these groceries."

Why, I remember when parenting wasn't about exerting power, it was about building a relationship that would last for years.

Of course, in them days, individual people actually HAD power.

And you know what else these kids nowadays don't appreciate?
Hunting. When's the last time you met a kid who could tell the difference between buck shot and bird shot? You tell me that!  

[jellysundae]

Marty Nozz

See that right there is why every parent should own a cattle prod.

"I don't want to..."

BZZT!

twisted rofl oh yeah!!

Harbone

"Hey, let's go to the mall."

And, then, you could say, "oh yeah, and while we're there, I need some help with these groceries."

3nodding nice!
psychology is vital with teens i'd say, they think they know it all and that you're easy to fool, but grown-ups know better and can play them totally if they're cunning enough.
Having no kids i have no grounds to comment what so ever, but i think while a lot of teen behaviour is hormone driven, peer pressure has a lot to do with it too, can't look bad infront of your friends by helping out with the groceries!!

i mean, like ,what if someone saw me at the grocery store, OMG!!!

rolleyes