Why do kids want to stay in the house on such a nice day?

• berry

  It's the first of the month. Groceries are everywhere.
• sonofsam

  

  If I wasn't at work i would be outside.
• ohiotiger33

  

  Firad wrote: I feel like my age group, I am 20 years old, was the last group of kids to actually play outside. We had tv and video games but we still played outside. Anyone around 5-10 years younger all seem to stay inside. I never see kids playing outside in my neighbor hood or playing in the open grassy fields we used to play in when I'm home.

  I agree with this completely. We did a ton of stuff outside when it was warm. We would play video games and stuff a bunch in the winter, and only play them at night in the summer, or if we had been outside all day and were tired.
• Mulva

  

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• ts1227

  

  THE4RINGZ wrote: Kids today seem to have some sense of entitlement. If you do ask them to do some yard work or something like that, they want to know how much they are going to get paid to do it.
  
  How about I just pay your cell phone bill, or pay the Internet bill this month? That doesn't seem to cut it with them.

  Blame that on the parents.
• killer_ewok

  

  1. Internet
  2. Madden
  2. NCAA Football
• dwccrew

  

  Funny that some of you are complaining yet you are inside on an internet chat forum. :rolleyes:
  Lead by example
  
  If parents didn't pamper their kids these days and give them the video games, perhaps we wouldn't be having this conversation. But SOME parents, not all, don't take enough interest to be active with their children and would rather the tv and video games occupy the kids time while the parents are off doing whatever.
• Sykotyk

  

  I'm 27. Even though I had Nintendo (the original, not the wii) and other toys. I always played outside as a kid. ALL the time. We used our imaginations. We didn't need a video game to give us an adventure. We made our own.
  
  Sykotyk
• darbypitcher22

  

  I was outside today.
  
  Beautiful day for a ballgame.
  
  Too bad we ended up in the loss column
• Little Danny

  

  ohiotiger33 wrote:

  Firad wrote: I feel like my age group, I am 20 years old, was the last group of kids to actually play outside. We had tv and video games but we still played outside. Anyone around 5-10 years younger all seem to stay inside. I never see kids playing outside in my neighbor hood or playing in the open grassy fields we used to play in when I'm home.

  I agree with this completely. We did a ton of stuff outside when it was warm. We would play video games and stuff a bunch in the winter, and only play them at night in the summer, or if we had been outside all day and were tired.

  
  I'm 37 years old. When I was a kid there was a lot of motivation to go outside-- All the other kids in the neighborhood were out too. You were missing out if you stayed inside. Today, if a child goes out they would be the only one outside. I know it sounds kind of silly, but I think kids would be more motivated to play outside if other kids were out playing too.
  
  Somehow people in this country needs to encourage their kids go out and play. Maybe it would make sense to start in the communities by having neighborhood parties/play day.
• sleeper

  

  Why does this matter?
• BR1986FB

  Nothing a good corncob fight wouldn't fix. Until you've been pelted in the jaw at 60 mph with a hard cob of corn with all of the kernels on it, you haven't lived!