Where not to picnic GSMP

down home wrote:
Kids are not exposed to life. All they know is school where they teach them to follow not to learn.
Very few mow grass, or sack groceries or wash cars, nor are part time jobs, for them available.
Most are not in Scouts, don't play baseball, football, at school or in neighborhoods. No open spaces. They perceive life and get their values from Tee Vee or Puter. Dad doesn't take them fishing or to ball games.
Never seen a live animal other than dog or cat, wouldn't know which end of a hoe is for the ground.
They are not exposed to life and are soft. They need to hire out to a truck farm for summers and learn about being outside, making their own money, and buying his date her corsage with money he earned.
I didn't have a farm but still got the kids into baseball and softball etc. Daughter got her nose broke by a line drive. She survived and went on.
Son lettered in basketball, football, band, track. He played on state championship team in football and was scouted by Alabama for football, he was too light oth babtized and know right and wrong and pursue the the light. When push comes to shove can make their way anywhere under any circumstances.
Ok I'm bragging but the point I am reinterating again is we and Everyone will make what out children become, even if they are not our kids.
Everyone doesn't get things done because life gets in the way.
We have to make our Nations children part of life.
In church, Sunday School, Boy Scouts, baseball They know how to fish and hunt and swim which is very imporatant.
i came a cross a Captain, I believe, in the Army that took his family camping and fishing and taught responsibility and self confidence to his kids.
They were young but acted responsible and safely in their own kayaks and everything else.
Or the 8 or 9 year old Amish backing the horse into the traces, like a mature man of fifty.
Our kids are being wasted and their lives shortchanged.
Time to do somethign about it.

What does this have to do with the original post?

Furthermore, please show statistics that prove more kids, per capita, were in Scouts, sports, and neighborhoods (huh?) in "your day" than than are now.

I get so tired of this "in my day" mentality, and I'm not even a Millennial.

I would bet that most Millenials can, unlike you, spell "important," or "something," and would never say "reinterating," or "babtized."