Date: 9/25/2003 8:11:00 PM
From Authorid: 6915
Yes..kids are lazy..and so am I. America is more obese than ever, Im doing a report on it and its discusting.  |
Date: 9/25/2003 8:19:00 PM
From Authorid: 36994
Oh, on the contrar I'm totally agreeing with you. I'm a teen, and though I'm not completely lazy lazy, I am lazy I must admit. The video games, I know those things suck in my bro like you wouldn't imagine. When I play against him on a game, he just totally beats me so bad. He spends to much time on it, and tv! Computers (my addiction) we be lazy  |
Date: 9/25/2003 8:27:00 PM
From Authorid: 61977
Yes I see it. I do not have any kids as of yet...I pray and hope to one day. Society is changing at a rapid pace, it is not helping our youth or the futur generations. Most children are spoiled these days and lack responsibilty and independence that starts with the parents and society as a whole. Did not mean to offend any teenagers out there...just my veiws.  |
Date: 9/25/2003 8:29:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 47296
Do any of you believe parents are partially to blame for kids being lazy?  |
Date: 9/25/2003 8:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 61977
I remember taking the RTD or sometimes walking miles when I was a kid....I think about it now...I miss those long walks home in my childhood years.. |
Date: 9/25/2003 8:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 19482
You're right, I'm also a teen and agree. Though I am not lazy, I know most of my peers are always complaing about doing simple things in PE. I got a PE waiver, but only so I could have more electives, I do however stay active.  |
Date: 9/25/2003 9:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 53052
i think it's society as a whole that has become lazier... around here i know it's hecka hard to get on a team sport they fill up superfast(but that may just be canada... or this town) take a look in the last 20-30 years we have gotten remotes.. laptops/computers... groceryshopping/banking/general shopping at home with delievery! we have electric lawn mowers, dryers that make little need to iron... cars in every home sometimes two and dishwashers in most homes....  |
Date: 9/25/2003 9:03:00 PM
From Authorid: 42945
yes Two Spirits, I think parents can and should play a big role in the exercising of their children, and it doesn't matter how old they are either, the kids I mean....get them off their playstations, watching tv, computers (lol) and out into some activities...when its wet, it could be different but on the lovely sunny days they should be outside enjoying it....now as far as the kids being lazy about walking to bus stops, near me is a stop, and the bus picks up about 15 kids, the buses only make several pick ups, so if you are not there...tough, they've missed the bus...good post...  |
Date: 9/25/2003 9:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 38601
I KNOW!!...my boyfriend HAS to drive everywhere!! I like to walk. He lives like a block from a park and one night I wanted to go and he made me get in the car so we could drive! I was about to say "forget you, I'm walking", but then it started hailing, lol, I have to beg him to let me walk home, or let me walk to his house, there's a mall right down the street from where I live, and usually I just walk, but he HAS to drive..it's so annoying!! lol  |
Date: 9/25/2003 9:20:00 PM
From Authorid: 16671
This is one post that I agree with you 100%  |
Date: 9/25/2003 9:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 24732
Definatly kids are getting lazier, and so are parents. I must be an exception though, my parents didn't let me ride a bike on the road because it's way too busy by my house. But they did make me do way more active chores then other kids I'm sure. Misbehaved- "Go outside and clear brush along the fence", if I said I was bored I had to go outside and do work, if I was doing nothing I had to go outside and do work ect... I do live on a farm/ranch so I guess it makes sense though.  |
Date: 9/25/2003 10:38:00 PM
From Authorid: 19092
Well, I know, or at least was told (many times), that my dad hade to walk 5 miles to school, one way. And it was up hill both ways....just look at the average weight of young people today....way not enough activity....  |
Date: 9/25/2003 10:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 48858
Like the laziness factor, we are also getting more fearful. I don't think my niece and nephew would ever be allowed to ride their bikes across town like my siblings and I did just ten years ago. We are a nation of fat, lazy individuals. Even our homeless are fat. I guess that's what we get for being the hardest working nation. Make sense?  |
Date: 9/25/2003 11:33:00 PM
From Authorid: 21867
Short answer: Yes.  |
Date: 9/26/2003 12:17:00 AM
From Authorid: 62146
Ha I am part of this generation I am lazy lol.
*Cosmic Freak*  |
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Date: 9/26/2003 3:51:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 47296
It would seem everyone is in agreement that we are not only raising a lazy generation, but that the generation that is raising them also has it's share of laziness. A few people have talked of the activities they do in order to get some exercise or stay active. What about others, how do you stay active? For me, I work four 10 hour days doing construction work. I am up and down ladders all day, dragging metal roofing panels and putting them in place, or setting steel. The oher three days, I am busy with my antiques. It takes as much as 5 hours to set up and break down for a show, which includes setting up tables and shelf units, as well as hauling around 25+ boxes loaded with antiques and collectibles. In fact, in the past year, I have lost about 40 pounds, was wearing a 20W a year ago but now wear a size 14-16, and my blood pressure is back within the normal range after a couple of years of being borderline high. |
Date: 9/26/2003 5:21:00 AM
From Authorid: 46486
I am lazy.. when I'm home.. work is a different story. I'm on my feet moving around like I'm a chicken with its head cut off! LOL.. but yes at home I'm lazy. I don't blame my parents though.  |
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Date: 9/26/2003 5:22:00 AM
From Authorid: 46486
I hated PE because of the kids in there they were never nice to me since I was the fat chick.. |
Date: 9/26/2003 6:19:00 AM
From Authorid: 2030
My kids ride the bus and they are required to wait at the end of the driveway. If they walk down the road to the next stop and the driver reports them, they get detention. And I get a nasty phone call. seems the school feels they can't be trusted to walk 2 blocks down the street.  |
Date: 9/26/2003 6:42:00 AM
From Authorid: 54111
I have to agree. My little cousins don't do nearly half the stuff I used to do when I was a kid. I guess back then though we had only 5 channels. I was in the sticks and cable was not a option.  |
Date: 9/26/2003 7:53:00 AM
From Authorid: 56293
I'm lazy. But when I do have to do something, I do it. The whole PE thing is ridiculous. Gym is ssoo easy, I don't understand why people sit out of it?  |
Date: 9/26/2003 7:56:00 AM
From Authorid: 12835
When I was a kid, it was safe to walk down the road to catch the bus....  |
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Date: 9/26/2003 8:07:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 47296
BCAR, I have wonder if the schools feel they know more now about the kids than the parents do. There was a time when the schools turned to the parents for advice and worked with parents in order to make the learning experience better. Having a cousin who was a bus driver on a rural route, she use to talk to the parents of kids on her route, and together they would work out what was the best pickup and drop off points for the kids, so that the highest number of kids could get on and off the bus at any given point, so that their ride was as short as possible to and from school. My daughter has been out of school now for several years, so I am not sure how the school systems do things now, but are parents allowed any input into their children's school day anymore? |
Date: 9/26/2003 8:08:00 AM
From Authorid: 54987
I used to walk 3 miles to school as a kid.. and to church on sunday (which was opposite the school). I enjoyed those walks with my brothers. We had lots of fun outdoors. Now I think people are so frightened about molesters that they daren't walk anywhere.  |
Date: 9/26/2003 8:35:00 AM
From Authorid: 1225
When I was a kid (granted, I'm only 20 now) there were 4 bus stops, I walked about a mile to mine. Then when I was in Jr. and Sr. high scool I rode my bike 3 miles to school. This was only about 2-5 years ago. But perhaps it was because I lived in a rural community where laziness was frowned upon. Now that I live in San Francisco, I see laziness and beslothery all the time.  |
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Date: 9/26/2003 8:39:00 AM
From Authorid: 16671
LOL big daddi, five channels?? Try three and they weren't clear. In the town I lived you had to live way out of town to ride the bus. We either walked to school or rode our bikes to school. There were me and my two sisters that rode bikes but the three little boys that lived a block from us didnt have bikes so we pumped them to school everyday. In the winter time, my bundled us up in snow suits for the walk, or if it was really really bad and she happen to have the truck then we would get a ride. There was nothing to do inside , except board games and we played them in the winter, but mostly we were outside playing baseball, tag, kickball, climbing trees, hide and seek or riding bikes. Lots of saturday mornings we would gather with the cousins and take a little lunch pack with us and go on nature walks. We had a blast. I mean one was only as good as thier imagination at that time. Today I get my exersise walking up and down a hill all day and all over the resort cleaning. OR I did until now were back in nevada and all I've done is eat and drink soda pop, I swear I've got to do something as I'm not use to just sitting doing nothing. I mean you can only clean the house so long, heheheh. |
Date: 9/26/2003 8:56:00 AM
From Authorid: 54111
LOL FB Oh Actually I think it was more I didn't count PBS we could get every once in awhile. Yeah we did all the sports and fishing. I don't do too much outdoor stuff anymore. I have since then became a computer whiz and stay online. I think in some way we all are growing into this lazy state, especially with all the technology that is available. I have start lifting weights . I don't have job that would have me exercising every day. I have to take that iniative unfortunatley. LOL
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Date: 9/26/2003 9:37:00 AM
From Authorid: 15228
We live just under a mile from my daughters school and she doesn't have a bus, but I drive her to school every morning only because there is a very busy highway with NO cross walk she would have to cross, plus no sidewalks, kids are always walking in the road because of this..otherwise I would make her walk. In fact, the only punishment that gets through to her is the threat that she will have to walk to school if she doesn't do as I say (I used it this morning, it's very effective)...yes, kids are lazy.  |
Date: 9/26/2003 10:01:00 AM
From Authorid: 11240
Are we raising "lazy" kids? I think that depends on how you want to view "lazy". Does that mean "inactive" to you or does that mean "not willing or wanting to work hard"? My kids are far from inactive, and none of us have a weight problem. But that doesn't mean that they want to work hard. As a kid, when I saw something that needed to be done (e.g., dusting), I did it without having to be told. My kids have to be told to do any kind of housework, but they are the ones to tell me that they have to get to sports practice or scouts or whatever else activity they are involved in. When they're told that they won't get to go until such and such is done, then they'll get moving, but the whole give and take aspect of them keeping active keeps me active, so I guess I shouldn't complain. My question, though, is are we raising kids with no initiative, i.e., kids that will just get up and do something on their own without having to have it scheduled for them? God Bless.  |
Date: 9/26/2003 11:41:00 AM
From Authorid: 62060
I am a teen, and yes, I agree with you that people in 'developed' countries are getting lazier. But that is often viewed as simply a natural *cough* part of evolution. We didnt want to walk, hence the car. We didnt want to cook, hence fast food. History is full of inventions that were created purely to make things easier. Result? Overweight, lazy people. Mostly...  |
Date: 9/26/2003 1:55:00 PM
From Authorid: 58030
i agree with ya'll, but out here walking isn't an option, i live in a rural area, my high school is like 17 miles away, my middle school was like nearly 30 miles away, my elementary school was 8 miles away maybe, and if i were to walk to a bus stop it'd be dangerous, there are no sidewalks and cars FLY down the roads i'm talkin 70 mph, i mean i think that there are about 3 of us that actually should have ONE bus stop but i'm not complainin that i have to just walk up my driveway, half the kids out here have long driveways which is one of the reasons they have they're own stops, then the kids we pick up are on route 15 which has one of the highest accident rate in the state at LEAST it ranks high in the country too, but any ways we are raising lazy kids (myself included) but that's what you get when it's too easy to do everything,  |
Date: 9/26/2003 7:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 36967
In a way, yes, but then again no. The School System is really to be blamed. Kids are really being assigned too much homework. I agree that they need some, but there is really too much, so that they cannot go to activities.
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Date: 9/26/2003 9:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 22080
i dont notice this because i live in a place with either farm kids or army kids and 1. farm kids aint lazy and 2. only officer kids are lazy, not to mention my bus driver will make you run for the bus if you expect him to wait for you, its quite funny, 1 more thing, i would so ride my bike right now if i could afford a crank and had the tools to fix it, i miss working on my bike  |
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Date: 9/26/2003 9:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 22080
i agree with derek, the schools expects all 9 of my teachers to assign 30 minutes of homework every night, that works out to about 3 hours and 10 minutes, i get home at 3, i shouldnt get done till around 6:10, well my mom expects us to eat dinner at 5 with the family, that takes an hour to eat and clean the kitchen then get back to homework, schools expect to much out of us these days when they can do it all in school, another thing id like to add is where i live i find gym fun but in alaska i hated it, maybe it was just the teachers, i still kinda hate gym cause its just plain humiliating, i dont consider myself lazy i mean if i was lazy i wouldnt get up on stage and drench myself in sweat from moving so much and playing guitar |
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Date: 9/27/2003 2:19:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 47296
Derek and Jestr, I'm not sure how the schools are in other areas, but here, many of the schools have cut back on the homework. One reason is they have changed from the old traditional school day, to a 4 class a day schedule. Many of the school systtems have also gone to an extended or year round system, set up similiar to the way colleges set up their school year. |
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Date: 9/27/2003 8:48:00 AM
From Authorid: 22080
the 4 class a day system is very handy, thats what i had in alaska, all homework was done in class with the exception of projects not to mention it was great having 15 min passing periods, as for the all year thing i dont really like that, i mean kids shouldnt be in school all year round, wheres time for them to have a childhood? and then there is the fact that people use summer vacation for summer camp or a job to help them by stuff for school |
Date: 9/27/2003 10:24:00 AM
From Authorid: 47162
I think the version of "When I was a boy/girl" has changed. It no longer starts with,,,"I used to walk up hill to school in snow both ways." NOw it begins with "I used to have to walk a quarter mile to the bus stop." Things are just changing.  |
Date: 9/27/2003 11:53:00 AM
From Authorid: 33925
I know that here, kids are not allowed to walk to school no matter how close they live. The bus will pick them up at their door and drop them off. Its a matter of covering the school's butts in case something were to happen to the child.  |
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Date: 9/27/2003 6:52:00 PM
From Authorid: 22080
lady luck is right, at my school in order to walk home you have to have consent from both parents(if you live with both) and consent from the school to walk home |
Date: 9/27/2003 7:24:00 PM
From Authorid: 36967
Two Spirit,I definity feel that Pennsylvania should do the same thing.
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Date: 9/27/2003 8:54:00 PM
From Authorid: 43948
I am so an advocate for the laziness that plagues the North American Youth.  |
Date: 9/27/2003 10:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 12341
I have to agree with Zema, parents are not as involved. At least not in my area. We are grandparents and have a very active role in the lives of our grandchildren. We are the ones who taught them to ride bikes, roller blade, ice skate, and my husband is the only male involved in Cub Scouts. My grandkids are six and four, we would never allow them to walk alone to school. As for being lazy, none of us could be accused of that. We both work 40 plus hours and still manage to stay active with the little ones.  |
Date: 9/28/2003 7:06:00 AM
From Authorid: 19345
The way I see it is that we are now in a society of quick fixes, we want everything now, fast food, fast banking, faxes etc. The kids today are a generation raised on electronics and computers and games have sadly replaced the simple things that I use to do as a kid. I think kids are the way us parents let them be and the way we raise them. we have no choice but to leave them alone as it takes two incomes just to pay some of the bills, they get home, eat micro wave food, and have access to fun stuff that doesn't involve moving much. Come to think of it I'm 44 and I don't remember the last time i even took a walk LoL!  |
Date: 9/28/2003 7:21:00 AM
From Authorid: 53054
kids are lazy...im a teen (and im lazy) and i know it...even though i do make myself go out and swim or play squash a lot of the time, none of my friends will do these things...they are too good for it! lolz its the self image of them in a bathing suit lolz (bikini) these days! i think that skools and parents are all too blame, and the increased prices for there child activities...years ago i remember we could go to the pool for little as 2.50 but now its nearly 4.00...today parents are busy working and many dont have time to take there children to sport on sundays....oh and pe class....we jsut do what we want the teachers dont even make us do anything...even though they will say oh get up! we dont listen i think todays society is also against disobeying instructions...*hugz*  |
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Date: 9/28/2003 8:36:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 47296
Lil' Peppy, I can remember going to one of two swimming pools as a teen, and the cost was only 50 cents. Now, I don't even have to pay if I want swim. There is a whole large lake less than a mile form the house. |
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Date: 9/28/2003 5:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 22080
to prove how lazy of my generation is getting, im gonna probably have too work 2 jobs to pay for rent and groceries when i get back to alaska unless i find a decent job, then i have to save up for my tattoo apprenticeship |
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Date: 9/28/2003 5:38:00 PM
From Authorid: 22080
hit submit too soon, but anyway, working those 2 jobs is scaring the heck outta me cause i wanna be able to have a social life, i dont know if that'd be considered lazy tho |
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Date: 9/28/2003 7:52:00 PM
From Authorid: 58030
jestr, no that would not be considered lazy, it's mainly the people that have everything given to them that i'd consider lazy, lol i'm probly gonna have to pay for most of my car, and gas and insurance |
Date: 10/3/2003 12:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 39763
I agree very much. I'm a teen & I admit I am a bit lazy, and I know a lot of other lazy kids/teens. Like my brother's friend is always complaining about doing something really easy. And some of my friends complain about having to do P.E. It really gets on my nerves!! As for the parents, well I think it may be a little of their fault, but it's mostly our society! It's crazy!  |
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Date: 10/3/2003 12:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 39763
I agree very much. I'm a teen & I admit I am a bit lazy, and I know a lot of other lazy kids/teens. Like my brother's friend is always complaining about doing something really easy. And some of my friends complain about having to do P.E. It really gets on my nerves!! As for the parents, well I think it may be a little of their fault, but it's mostly our society! It's crazy! |
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Date: 10/3/2003 12:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 39763
sorry didn't mean to post that twice |
Date: 10/11/2003 9:09:00 PM
From Authorid: 58809
As a teenager, I do feel that my generation is pretty lazy. We ARE pretty darn lazy. About the bus stops...I didn't know the buses do that now. I thought they made only 2 or 3 stops and took the kids off to school. I have never attended a public school in my life, so I don't know how the bus thing works; but I thought I had an idea of how it works. Hmm...guess I was wrong. Thanks to television, computers, video games (which my parents never, EVER let me have ), kids are getting lazy, and obese. I used to run out and play like crazy about oh 10 years ago or so. Baseball, basketball, tag, you name it. Once I got more into the computer thing, it was all over! Alas, I have fallen pray to the computer age. -DevilsRoad-  |
