Kids Today

I come from a country which has NO snow. So I would go and experience it for a short while.

But doesn't it immediately melt and get all your clothes wet? And then you have to come in and change your clothes?

Is the snow still fluffy and fun or is it melting and dirty? Or a dirty sheet of ice? I do see your point, OP. In the previous century kids would be itching to get out and play.

When it snowed when I was a kid we couldn't wait to go sledding. And the best was when it was a snow day!

I hated the cold even when I was a kid.

We played outside all of the time and made our own games. My parents’ generation did this even more, Kids’ brains rot now because all they do is use technology. I see this every day. Children don’t okay outside anymore.

When snow has freshly fallen and stuck, you play outside all day. Have any of you ever skitched (that's what we called it in Chicago)? A slow moving car drives by, and you grab the bumper and slide with the car. The driver notices you and tries to shake you off, but no go. There was a massive snowmaggedon in the late 70's, and we used to jump off of garage roofs into the snowbanks.

I’m watching last night’s Bill Maher show and he brings this up - technology is fucking up kids’ brains and nobody seems to care or want to do anything about it.

Guest Jonathan Haidt says it’s the complete rewiring of childhood. Kids used to be out having experiences, but now this (social media/technology) is what their brains are absorbing. He talks about the rise in poor mental heath with children, teens and young adults.

Exactly where are kids supposed to go? What are they supposed to do?

Car-based urban and suburban design has made sure that walking or cycling is a life-threatening hobby. How are children supposed to go play? Hop onto their bikes and cycle across an interstate to get to little Johnny's house?

Have mom drive them over to one of their approved play-pals since all the Moms in their town have been driven mad by crime porn on TV and won't let their children out of their sight?

Please. Suggest away. Thrall me with your acumen.

I don’t have answers for that, R8. I don’t live in that environment. Those problems run deeper.

So maybe it isn't kids today. Maybe it's adults today.

Well R8, the answer for OP’s question would be the fucking playground! They were AT school, contrarian asshole!

I suppose this is a good example of a teenager exercising outdoors.

This teenager at the Seattle Academy High School qualified for the state championship.

They previously came 72nd on the boys’ track team but they decided to claim to be a girl and they TOOK first place!

OP, please take more classes.

" My office is in the same room as the library which is where the program operates out of.:

Why are you teaching our children? You sound special needs.

I was born in the 80s and it was annoying as fuck to have to go play outside during recess.

Jesus fucking christ. Op, I hope you are joking about being a teacher, because you are 100% what's wrong with today's children.

Children don’t okay outside anymore.

Oh for god sake R15 he/she just made a typo. get a grip.

Engage them with a song: "Risslety-rosslety now now nowww".

R16

[quote] he/she just made a typo.

R12

[quote] he/she just castrated himself.

Bill Maher and his guests were 100% correct last night. Tech has completely fucked up their brains. These kids didn't want to go outside and play in the fresh fallen snow, but I'm sure they would've delighted in putting on their goggles and playing in snow in the 'metaverse' instead.

[quote]Tech has completely fucked up their brains. These kids didn't want to go outside and play in the fresh fallen snow

Tech has fucked up *my* feeble ancient brain. I don't want to go out and play either.

I'm in my late 50s and still get giddy at the sight of the first snowfall.

I imagine the OP at his teacher's desk singing this song at the top of his lungs.

You wanted them to play outside before school started so they could sit around in wet clothes all day?

I worked for a nursery school, and my kids, when they were in grade school went to after care. So, from a teacher perspective, I don’t ever remember the kids groaning about going out, but I taught 3-6 year-olds. They would be mad if we DIDN’T go out, i.e., if the ground was too wet, or if it is was below 32.

From my kids perspective, (aged 7-12,) they would groan about going out sometimes, if they were comfortable inside reading, or playing a board game, or doing a group thing with friends and it was working out really well, and just didn’t want the disruption. But once they got outside they were totally fine and had fun.

Maybe you don’t get to see that part since you are inside!

I don't work in a nursery school, but I flash one a couple times a week.

Yes, no one knows more about kids than BILL MAHER.

Future Data Lounge posters.

R1 Only if you decide to take a nap in it.

Gdamn millennials.

Quit bullshitting, OP. We all know you're a janitor.

And the teacher's lounge is for teachers. Stay outta there!

They said the same thing about TV and Atari.

And we turned out fine.

Maybe if r12 would fuck all the way off the world would be a better place?

That was perhaps a typo but what to do about such gems as these?

[quote] operates out of...One of the women who run...My parents’ generation...and in [R7] parallel construction would have made that paragraph understandable.

Enough "oh dears" to pull a sleigh!

Sorry OP but that sounds illogical & kind of a pain. They probably have a recess anyway, right? So these kids came in through the snow, removed all of their outerwear and accessories, jammed them all into their lockers, slushy moon boots lining the halls below their lockers..... and you think they should do all of that in reverse, checking if anyone need to use the bathroom first of course. Then play, have to come in, remove snow covered garments and boots again, get their shoes on, books ready for class..... in an hour? AM coordinator could do better.

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"Kids Today" have to deal with things like mass shooter drills. You didn't

[quote]I’m a teacher in an elementary school.

God, I hope not.

It depends on the type of snow-- the wet snow sucks when you have those $1 stretchy fabric gloves. Stuff was better made when we were younger, too. Or people had enough sense to pay $7 more for a functional pair of gloves.

If cell phones had been around when you were a kid, you would have been on your phone all day, too

This is all situational, as has already been suggested. The school near me doesn't even let kids outside if the temperature is below say, 58 degrees. The kids fucking hate it.

Why are so many people interpreting this as OP blaming little kids for this? It's obviously their parents/the society they're growing up in. Small humans in the western world didn't just suddenly start being born without a 'play' instinct, ffs. It IS kind of worrying how little independent playing and time outdoors kids get these days, tbh. And yes, my generation had Atari etc. but we still played outside most of the time and without adult supervision.

I still remember by the time I graduated Grade 12 in 1995 the really little kids who used the same school bus stop as us older kids were already being driven to and from said bus stop, and it was noticeable how few of them were spending time outside on weekends etc. And this was small town Canada, not a place where the parents had anythign to really worry about in terms of their safety.

The same crime paranoia that grips the DL every two years grips the parents of children all the time.

Americans have been convinced they live in The Purge and act accordingly.

If we got rid of some of the fucking guns, maybe things would be different.

But it's not Kids Today and it's not Technology Rotting Their Brains.

Elderfag here. Back in the early 60s we could not enter the school building until the morning bell sounded. But there were two teachers in the playground before school monitoring the kids.

So, OP, if you want the kids to go outside before or after school, you need to scrape up a couple of teachers to go out and be with them. Otherwise, this isn’t going to happen.

There are supervisors out there with them. Children aren’t allowed to be out alone without an adult.

It wasn’t that cold the day this happened. I just thought it was odd. Snow is new to young children.