I think with smart phones and having the latest gadgets and keeping up with your friends is it harder being a child today then before technology? I hear there is a lot of social media bullying among the young generation today and a lot of pressure about sexting. In my day if you were bullied it was only at school, nowadays it can be pretty much constantly.
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Yeah, I would not want to be a kid today with all the cameras everywhere and always being a target. Hard pass.
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I think kids are growing up to have less experiences 
and will not be as healthy because they’re inside all the time on gadgets.
My sisters are either on the computer or on iPads literally 24/7 unless my parents force them off and only then do they go play. One of my brothers when he was younger it was so bad he didn’t even know how to play outside of videogames. If my parents took them away he’d just sit starting at the wall. At recess he’d sit in tunnels. (Luckily he got older and found other interests and is very well-adjusted now)
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Yes! I used to play football with my neighbours in the street, if I was a parent today I would be super nervous with the pedophiles. It’s different time, they could have friends in other countries and use the internet to learn how to talk english better… There’s advantages too, they are very traveled, flying today is cheaper compared with the 90’s
As a 2000s baby, I agree with you. I’m a bit of a hypocrite in this regard because I’m literally always on my computer, but I feel this way towards this generation of teenagers and the next. It’s really a shame that we’ve ended up this way, especially since I have a younger sister who has a tablet. I’m just really glad me and the others born in the late 90s/early 2000s have had a slice of the ‘good old days’ before all this technology coming out and having such an impact on us.
I wasnt allowed outside a lot cause i was a bad kid. Without my game boy I would have had nothing to do. Of course hiding the gameboy was the real challenge.
But idk I think all generations had things that made things easier or harder. So no.
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I also wouldn’t want to grow up in this age. I grew up in the nineties and everything was much simpler back then. We actually went outside to play. I live in the suburbs and there are literally no kids outside, playing. They stay inside playing video games and on their gadgets. I’m no better I guess, but it’s the age will live in. Bleh…
I think my generation born back in the 50’s was the last of the truly free lifestyle and able to do what you want, I survived with no seat belts, 3 channels on tv, we could run around the neighborhood freely without the worry of being shot or kidnapped, true there was crime back then but not nearly what we have now.
Much more is expected of kids today, both education and social skills, a drop out today does not stand much of a chance, back in the day you could always get a good paying factory job, with a low education, not now
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I grew up in a very small town surrounded by Sheerwood Forest and the English countryside around us. In the mid 90s me and my sister aged 9 and 10 would spend our time riding our bikes and playing with friends all around town and we never got bothered by anybody. It was very safe, at 9 I didn’t know what a peodo was. I loved the 90s, the summers used to last for ages.
I was born in the 60’s we played outside most the time. the tv had 3 channels and no remote, rarely watched it. We got bullied at school but didn’t have computers or phones to worry about.
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