Recently on Facebook the social network thing, my amico
Jimmy ‘Pants’ Pantaleno from Brooklyn posted this:
“I saw a poster at the mall featuring
a famous athlete urging kids to "...play outside at least one hour a
day". Are you kidding me? Pleading with kids to go outside and play is a
modern-day phenomenon in an age when they'd rather sit around on their butts
playing video games, texting and watching that 52-inch TV. It's no wonder
obesity: diabetes and even hypertension are very real health problems for the
young. When I was a kid, the poster at the mall might have read "...please
remember to come INSIDE once in a while for meals and sleep". The lack of
physical exercise for kids today is appalling.”
This is NOT a rant but a truth! Look
at your grandchildren, and if you are young enough, your children, are they
falling into this pattern? Are they stuck in an electronic prison, destined to
become slaves to these devices?
How many baseball mitts are worn out
these days by overuse? In my childhood, and even in my son’s we went through a
lot of mitts, not only from Little League, but also from the sand lots and
empty schoolyards, the vacant fields and yes, even the street pavements in our
neighborhoods.
Sneakers and shoes were thrown away
not because they were out of style, but because they wore out from our feet in
them constantly running and jumping.
One Facebook friend of Jim’s wrote: ”It's an entirely different world. Kids today have cable,
cell phones, tablets, etc. We never had that as kids. The TV was never on
during the day and besides, why watch it when you could go outside? Go play and
run and jump and, and, God it was a great time to be a kid!”
Today, unseen correspondents do
social networking behind a screen just as I am communicating with you now! The good
is that the electronics are instantaneous, but the bad is far out-weighting the
good, we can’t hold conversations anymore without looking into an electronic
device, we can’t learn to read one’s expressions in conversation and of course
there is NO body language to help guide us in seeking solutions to problems. My
God, we can’t even walk down a street without seeing kids with earphones and
I-phones being used as they mill about!
I would love to see some of the kids
of today go on a nature walk, or just sit on a beach and take in the ocean and
all the mysteries it offers. I guarantee you they will sit in the sand all
right, but with their noses poking their I-phones and androids. They may or may
not move in and out of a comatose state of electronics and reality. Maybe the
new reality is electronics!
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