If you are over 30 years old, I think you will agree with me on this issue. As children we lived slower life styles, had simple toys, and loved the outdoors. Mom was home, dad went to work and we actually got to be children and enjoy ourselves. Society has changed that for children today. Now it is somewhat different and children are more complicated. Children live rushed life styles, want high-tech toys, and going outside is only an option if you parents put you out. It seems as though the children of new are more angry, more agitated, and never seem to just smile at the simple things. How I would love to go back to simple times. Come home to dinner and a family, play a board game and go outside and ride my bike until the streetlights came on.
I do not remember eating dinner later than 5:00pm and the entire family was at the table. My mom was home, my dad went to work and when it was dinnertime we all sat at the table and discussed how our days went. After dinner we would go to softball practice, do homework or play. Today is more complicated. Children may not see a parent when they get home, because now both parents have to work all hours of the day to make ends meet. There are no regular hot meals on the table at 5:00pm and you may never sit down with your family in its entirety to enjoy dinner. Children still may have softball practice, but now it is a mad dash to get them there. Then the parent runs to another place and handle something else and breezes passed the softball field to pick the child up. Lastly the parent is on another mad dash to get home and get the child into bed at some kind of reasonable time. This pace is the average life style of a family today.
Toys of my day were very simple. There were board games, jump ropes, bikes, jacks, marbles and at most we had one or two electronic games we could play with another friend. My generation made games out of nothing but an empty box.