Discussion»Questions»Babies and Kids» When you were a youngster, did you complain much about not having stuff? Try denying a ten year old a smart phone.
No I had lots of toys I even had 6 Jonny Sevens they were a toy gun that was 7 guns in one. My 6 year old Granddaughter has a smart phone and I am always surprised how well she uses it and how well she takes care of it. Cheers!
No. I had almost all of what I wanted. Back then, we didn't have a lot of extra money, so the things we wanted were given as birthday or Christmas presents. Today's kids are spoiled. I hear mothers i Target promising their child any toy they want if they would only stop crying. My mother would have just taken us out of the store.
Nope. We may have been poor, but we kids had plenty of "stuff". Wooden thread spools were building blocks. Metal cottage cheese lids were "frisbees". Quaker Oat boxes had many different uses (especially in the sandbox). Grandma and grandpa got us a couple of "modern' toys each christmas, otherwise we used whatever was available and our imagination.
I was 10 in 1970. No cell phones then, smart or not. But I got a lot of things as birthday and Hanukkah gifts, got sent to private school, and since my father grew up with parents who sold men's clothing, I always had good clothes from the boys department at Brooks Brothers.
I deny people of all ages smart phone use, if they are in my house or car. I started that approach when I was doing a favor for a friend, driving her family somewhere ... and instead of talking to each other, they were texting. After an hour of that stupidity, I pulled over and told them they either stopped texting someone who was sitting next to them - or they could walk.
Walt O'Reagun 