Kids just don't get outdoors much anymore

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What's a Royal?

[ozark trout fisher]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

None of us gets outdoors enough either, so we spend our time hijacking threads.

How about those Royals, sweeping the Chisox this weekend!

Are you talking about that one game that's a spin-off of cricket?

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, ozark trout fisher said:

Are you talking about that one game that's a spin-off of cricket?

There's a cricket In my garage - noisy little sucker. 

[Mitch f]

3 hours ago, Quillback said:

None of us gets outdoors enough either, so we spend our time hijacking threads.

How about those Royals, sweeping the Chisox this weekend!

The Royals are like Eddie Murphys brother, got to hang around all the big wigs at the party but never accomplished  much! 😂😂😂😂

[ness]

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

The Royals are like Eddie Murphys brother, got to hang around all the big wigs at the party but never accomplished  much! 😂😂😂😂

They have accomplished a .500 season so far...

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, ness said:

They have accomplished a .500 season so far...

Flat line is the new up?

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, ness said:

They have accomplished a .500 season so far...

If the Cardinals were at .500 they would be 2.5 or 3 games out of first place in the Central division.

[Mitch f]

5 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

If the Cardinals were at .500 they would be 2.5 or 3 games out of first place in the Central division.

The cards kind of suck this year...they're at .480

[joeD]

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[JestersHK]

Whew... Had a few minutes to catch up on this thread.  I was raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, but grew up down in southern MO with my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.  True woodspeople who lived off the land and taught me much of what I pass along today.  I loved the outdoors as a child and still do to this day.  I've tried to pass this along to my children and have been mostly successful.  I try to raise them "right".  

I despise, love, hate, tolerate, and work in mobile technology and see how it impacts not only our kids but society as a whole... Some good, mostly bad, most days I want to go back to pre-internet, heck go back to before cell phones for that matter.  In my experience though its the parenting not the technology that is creating kids who will never know the joys of fishing or being outdoors...

The lack of respect I have witnessed, and the whole kids parenting their parents also blows my mind.  I see it at all ages to from young kids scolding their parents for not giving them what they want to early 20 somethings who think I owe them respect and the world on a platter.  It saddens me that I can usually see these things on a daily basis if I'm out and about, but I do what I can only do and try to raise my kids the "right" way.  This "right" way may be right, wrong, or foreign to others, but mine will grow up respecting their elders, respecting others property, and never taking our recreational past times for granted.

I for one am lucky in that my kids will trudge along with me on my outdoor excursions.  Sure they have phones, tablets, and video game systems... but so far they will happily ditch all that stuff to spend the weekend sloshing around in a creek with me, or camping in the heat without too much bellyaching.

Not on my high horse to say this is right or wrong, and that others should instill these foundations into their kids, but its safe to assume the way of life I knew growing up is rapidly fading away, and it saddens me...