Your Questions About Nintendo Video Games For Kids
Thomas asks…
If You Were Born Between 1930 and 1979 read this cool message?
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930′s 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate soft cheese, shell fish, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding 2 up on your bike was a way of life.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared a bottle of pop with four friends, all drank from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank fizzy drinks with SUGAR in it, but we weren’t overweight because……
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! NOT IN FRONT OF A TV AND PLAYING VIDEO GAMES!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo‘s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
The boys were given toy guns for their 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out anyones eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
The local team had tryouts and not everyone got in. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to anyone born from 1980 onwards so they will know how brave you are!!!
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
Mac answers:
Wonderfully written…very entertaining. I totally agree w/you. My husband and I discuss this all the time and it saddens us to have to be so protective over our children when outside playing because of the predators. We have 3-4 registered predators around our area. I allow my kids to play in the dirt and to have the fizzy drinks, cupcakes and such but also make sure they are eating a balanced meal as well. I am protective and sometimes overly..I can be a nervous mom..but its from all the warnings and accidents that I have heard of. I have learned to not watch the news all the time since it just makes me that more worried. I hate the fact of my kids playing sports and they have tryouts but everyone gets in. What is this? Or no one wins, or no outs. Play the game the way its suppose to be played. There are disappointments every day and our kids need to learn this and to work for what they want not just handed to them. Anyways, I could go on and on but you have already brought up valid pts and it was well done. Thumbs up and thank you. I’m a survivor!!!!!
William asks…
Can’t decide what to go to College for… HELP?
I’m 18 and I’m a senior in High School (11th grade). And I have not decided what to do for a career. Ok to start with, I’m in Special Ed and I have a IEP and I’ve been told several of times by these special ed teachers that I can’t go to College for something I pick. It was my dream job to be a video game designer and make video games like Shigeru Myamoto from Nintendo but I was told I cant because I was in special ed and I dont have a chance. As far I’m not so great in math or science. I was told I was going to get a High School Diploma because I live in Ohio. But I keep getting hears that I should drop out and get my GED at night.
Is it true what people say? Do Special Ed kids really can’t make it in life? At my old school last year. My mom was told by my teachers and counselors that I think I can become a video game designer and they were labeling me mentally unstable, retarded, etc and they were about to put me in a special ed class for mental unstable kids.
I’m not retarded or anything. Hell I make A’s and B’s and I don’t know why people call me *little kid* or *special*. I’m getting tired of people putting me down and crushing my dreams. People think I can’t do anything. I don’t know what to do for a College career because I’m afraid of being rejected by a College or University because I have a *learning disorder*. What should I do? Drop out of High School all together and become a 40 year old virgin who lives in his mom’s basement? I was already told I shouldn’t get a girlfriend and I shouldn’t date at all. I was told I was going to be jobless all my life and crap. What should I do to make my life feel better? Why are people such assholes? Every time I think of something on what to do for a career job. I always get told NO! They treat me like a mentally unstable child and I want it to stop. My mom’s pissed off at the counselors and teachers for labeling me mentally unstable also. Should I just drop out of High School all together? I already got rejected by a Career School because they told me I was in Special Ed and I wasn’t good enough to go there. All they told me what I was good for was being a file clerk…. -__-
Mac answers:
Don’t listen to anyone. You can be succesful as long as you put your mind to it. Anyone can:)
i’m sure you can design video games that would be fun:) i know a 17 year old guy (even though he is an asS) is in special ed because he is dyslexic but he knows on how to build things. Like fireworks and computers. He can also hack. People laugh because he can’t read or spell but who the hell cares!!! Show people they are wrong! Then see what happens. Believe you can do it then just go for it!
Don’t let people tell you how you will live. It’s your life and you can control what happens. If you give up now, that will only make them right. If you fight and work hard then you can achieve it:) that includes a girlfriend;)
John asks…
If You Were Born Between 1930 and 1979 read this cool message?
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930′s 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate soft cheese, shell fish, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding 2 up on your bike was a way of life.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared a bottle of pop with four friends, all drank from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank fizzy drinks with SUGAR in it, but we weren’t overweight because……
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! NOT IN FRONT OF A TV AND PLAYING VIDEO GAMES!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo‘s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
The boys were given toy guns for their 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out anyones eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
The local team had tryouts and not everyone got in. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to anyone born from 1980 onwards so they will know how brave you are!!!
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
Mac answers:
Best on Yahoo Answers that I’ve read! I enjoyed reading that! It’s so true! I could relate to all of it! I even emailed it to a few people. Thanks for reminding me that the world used to be a different place. We had issues and problems back then but not on the level that exists today! Different problems, different times!
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