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And can you really blame the kids for being lazy. This isn't the good old days where you woke up and played sports with friends until dinner. Now if you want to even leave your neighborhood it's an interrogation of where are you going, who are you with, etc. Some of the blame also goes on the parents

I think kids are exactly the same today as when we were kids. Sure they are more diverse, but you have all types of kids today with many different interests who do all types of different activities

I've read posts on here about how crazy different sports are today for kids and how much time is spent traveling kids around to baseball hockey and soccer being 12 months a year. How football has winter workouts passing leagues and camps. Personally, my daughters dance about 4 hours a day including saturday, early in the morning and sometimes till ten at night. And they ain't the best at their competitions so some kids are doing more. Travel and indoor soccer? Any parent want to share their stories? Because I have some 5:30 am stories as many of you do. Then there's the school work. No way was it as tough on us.

Kids aren't lazy today. They're more diverse. They just aren't doing the same things we did

As usual, America's problems revolve around lawyers.

And I agree it seems each generation is "softer" than the one before it, but not without reason. As technology improves and new markets created, life in general becomes easier.

"They took our job"

I know a guy with a landscape architecture degree from MSU. He worked as a Department Head in the Garden Department of a local Home Depot. He referred to himself as the "Garden Manager". He used to brag about how much money he made and how he was on track to retire at 45. He drove a jacked up S-10 with an enormous sound system and he lived with his grandmother. Whenever MSU athletics came into the conversation, he would remind us that he went to MSU, but he hated their athletic teams and he always sat in the visitors section at Spartan Stadium. Great memories. Too bad you got fired, Joe. You were very entertaining. I'm sure you're retired and lounging on a beach somewhere now.

I think we're blinded by the kids who are just not doing the same things we did. We think they're "lazy" because they aren't cutting the grass, or doing other things we did. But I know for a fact I didn't work on "extra-curriculars" 4 hours a day. Many of these kids do. We allow it as parents for a plythora of reasons too. They're hanging out with good kids, it's teaches them organization and preparation, we want them to be better at something they like, whatever the reason they're plenty. Thing is, maybe kids aren't cutting the grass, so what? they're learning those values we did in other ways. Same values, just a different way of going about it. If anyone doesn't think we had lazy kids when we were that age, let my introduce you to about 15 of my friends who would go to each others house everyday, smoke a joint and listen to Mott the Hoople till the record wore out. The parents of those kids were just glad they got out of the house.

It's still the same people. Relax.

Less than a dozen people here have ever heard of Mott the Hoople. That's sad.

You've obviously never been to the Southwest

Solid! My daughters will be bringing their STEREO SYSTEMS/RECORD PLAYERS and LP's to MSU in the next few years. They have a good collection of stuff that they'll be spinning.

And the nickel was wooden.

Wasn't much of Mott the Hoople fan, but I can tell that this album got the everloving **** played out of it back in the day.

i used to mow lawns...easy money.

Raking leaves however, SUCKED.

I had a fuckin' monopoly on my street. There was a time when I had a lawn or two on each side of my house, so I would mow the 4 lots like a superyard. 4 hours and a lot of refueling.

I would spend my money on baseball cards and sluts. I'm only 24. Seems like the last 5-10 years kids have stopped mowing lawns.