I think that little guy has a point...

but ours that's fucked it up for our kids more than we have. Any Luddite communities around?

But, no one told us about sex until we were in our thirties! By then, it was way too late to do anything about it.

Dammit, where's my anti-depressant!

30 is the new 18. We were on our second home and second child by the time this generation gets off their ass and stops playing PS3 long enough to get a job.

I don't know how old you are, but I was a kid in the seventies, and we learned all about sex on TV. Of course, it was the "Love, American Style" and "Three's Company" kind of sex. :D

But seriously, I do miss the days when we could go out and play with our friends, wander for miles without adult supervision, and LEARN, GROW, and ENJOY LIFE! Helicopter parents suck (and blow).

...bad cases of measles, mumps, and German measles; lots of exposure to lead, mercury, and second-hand smoke; friends who lost body parts to firecracker explosions; institutionalized racism and sexism in schooling and employment; cars without seatbelts; and scratchy underwear!

I lived in the 40's/50's, etc.

All the things the miserable little whiner was grumbling about really WERE terrific.

And, we truly DID live like that.

It was called AMERICA.

It was called PERSONAL FREEDOM.

Try to find a group of kids who are allowed to get together, go to a park and 'get up a game" of whatever sports.

You will NOT find them.

If there are now control freak parents/lawyers around to tell the kids when to breathe or not to breathe, they aren't ALLOWED to.

As for the old goat who whines about measles and firecrakers, I'm so glad that you were not in my neighborhood.

Why??

Because those who whine about things like you had no fun, have no fun and cannot stand those who are happy.

I lovedc the world when I was a kid and, I can STILL let my inner "kid" out to play.

I don't believe yours died.

In an angry, ranting monologue called "This Generation Sucks," stand-up comedian Doug Stanhope makes his point that the new, younger generations are going to be a disappointment to his own generation (he's the same age I am, 41) when we grow to be retirement age.

"They say to me, 'Oh, you don't wanna go to that town, they're, like, twenty years behind the times, there...' and I tell 'em, book me there. I had fun twenty years ago."

..about hovering parents. At 51, I didn't care for how much less freedom to wander my kids had, and I'm APPALLED at how little my grandchildren will have!

Nothing tempts fascism like nostalgia.

30 is the new 18, eh? Are you more upset about that, or the fact that 70 is the new 55?