JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for February 09, 2014

This seems like one of those things where there’s two sides to this point.. all the fun and imagination that we used and developed, and that the world has even benefitted from (at times) from ideas thought up from going outside… compared to how some of our kids don’t always exercise that “creative spark”, or so it seems, these days… -Then, the other side is, there were (ahem!) some games that we played, that I now know better about not doing…

And caller ID ruined calling a store and asking if they “had Prince Albert in a can” and then hanging up.

see, this is why childhood obesity is a problem. kids don’t ever go outside for anything, except in the car with Mom and/or Dad.all over the country, outdoor playgrounds are collecting cobwebs while fat little kids waddle from GameBoy to PlayStation to Wii to Xbox and back again.

And watching old cartoons with a PC warning

’Tis a myth – see: http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/september.htm

I KNOW I wouldn’t have gone outside to play so much if I’d had access to computers back in the day . . .

it was bad back thengood he has a wife to teach the children it is still bad

A Common ’tater: Glasses make some sense, but gloves? My understanding of conkers was that they are on strings and the hand is above and not too close. That should get the warning signal going.