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I wouldn't have dared tell my parents I was bored :-(

I can hear the speech.......

BORED! I'll give you BORED! ........

then having to do something around the house that wasn't on the usual list of "chores"

When my brothers got bored......... I'd hear the speech....... brothers ran off........ and I ended up doing what they were supposed to do!

Couldn't agree more Dizzi.....
Just had this email from one of my friends today...possibly seen this ,or similar before,but...just shows that my generation,...and younger ...feel this way ,and it's true about imagination!!




My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and
spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife
and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax
paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't
remember getting e.Coli

Almost all of us would have rather gone
swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk
about boring), no beach closures then.

We all took PE ..... And risked permanent
injury with a pair of Dunlop daps instead of having
cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in
light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall any
injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

We got the cane for doing something wrong at
school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept
the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.

We had 50 kids in our class and we all
learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words
needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!

We all said prayers in school irrespective of
our religion, sang the national anthem and no one got upset.

Staying in detention after school caught all
sorts of negative attention we wish we hadn't got.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish
something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were
without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV
cable stations. We weren't!!

Oh yeah ... And where was the antibiotics
and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played "King of the Hill" on piles of
gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled
out the 2/6p (12p) bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of
antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for
leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they
were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We never needed to get into group therapy
and/or anger management classes.

How did we ever survive?


WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!

IMAGINATION,
THATS THE MISSING WORD,

Dizzi the problem with children these days is everything is there at the touch of a switch. They do not play like we used to with imagination. We used things around us and they became a ship, a plane, a house. Mum's clothes horse and an old sheet became a tent for us to have a picnic in and pretend we were miles away. It's imagination they lack, we lacked material things but our imagination allowed us to have everything and be anywhere we wanted. No one had a lot so we all played together and had fun, I know whose childhood I prefer. :-)

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE HEARD "I'M BORED" SAID,HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SAID IT I KNOW BAD ISN'T IT BUT I M NOW COMPARING ADULTS V CHILDREN,,GRANDDAUGHTER AGE ELEVEN ,AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES X 3 A WEEK,DANCING CLASS ONCE A WEEK ,SCOUTS ONCE A WEEK AND SLEEP OVERS,,WHEN DOSE SHE HAVE TIME TO BE BORED,,,,WHEN,,,IN HER ROOM SHE HAS TV DVD PLAYER TABLET,LOADS OF GAMES ON IT,SHE LOVES READING SHE HAS DOZENS OF BOOKS,BUT SHES BORED HER HAMSTER GETS A GLIMPS ON OCCATIONS ,LOVELY GARDEN ,BIKE TO RIDE ,OH I'M BORED,

NOW ME "I'M BORED " WHEN ELEVEN, WE HAD NO TV,NO PC (WHAT IS A PC IN THE DARK AGES) BOOKS WERE FROM THE LIBRARY EVERY THREE WEEKS,NOT A SHELF FULL,,OH WE HAD A RADIO ,AND ONE TEEN BIRTHDAY MY UNCLE MADE ME A RECORD PLAYER,EVEN USING A BACCI TIN WITH MOTOR IN,USED IT FOR MANY YEARS,,,,,,,I WONDER HOW THE KIDS WOULD OF MANAGED IN THE DARK AGES,OR COME TO THAT WOULD WE OF SURVIVED ,,,