I think I'm the last generation that remembers life before the smartphone. I'm going to be one of them old geezers going, 'You know, when I was a kid, we used to play with sticks.'
I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.
The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.
I used to be a nanny and the kids used to laugh at me when I'd say 'Shall we paint something?' They just wanted to go on their iPads.
In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
I used play Gonggi Nori, which is played with 5 small stones. It is so fun to play!
