Tag Archives: kids
Before the Internet
If you’re a baby boomer, than you will appreciate this blog post. I was born in 1962 and raised in Queens, NY. We had to be creative when we were kids in order to have fun. We didn’t have gadgets, internet or computers. So how did we have fun? We played Stick Ball in alleys [...]
Full StoryCongratulations to all the kids born in the 1940′s, 50′s, and 60′s!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors [...]
Full StoryIt Could Kill Your Children: Tech Obesity
Obesity? Who me? No just the kid on the PC who plays games twenty-four seven. You know, when I was a kid, we played outside – and I don’t mean in a digital world. Do you remember playing war, whiffle ball, etc.? I sure do – and I also remember when kids were fit. Now [...]
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