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Reply to "Vintage Department Store Toy Train Memories"

Originally Posted by rrman:
Originally Posted by B+M FAN:

when kids had imagination you can see it in their eyes.

Boy ain't that the truth. Operative word above is "had".   Now a day kids only imagine whats on their Ipad/phone/tablet etc, it seems to me.

I would be careful about that, kids are growing up today different than when I did, when some of the older members did, but kids and creativity have always gone together, as does imagination (quite frankly, it is us old farts who lack imagination, probably because we had adults as kids beating it out of us, telling us it was impossible).  There are kids looking at that window who see the trains and imagine having a layout, there are kids looking at that window and want the BB gun to go and shoot at birds with. I am sure the kids of that generation were told by elders they had no imagination, that in their day they made their own toys out of sticks and such, or read books rather than spend their time listening to Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie on the Radio *lol*.

 

Seriously, don't put the kids of today down, they are different than we were, there is no doubt, but there are a lot of them who have just as  much imagination as we did, and in some cases because of those devices can do more with it than we could. I also will add that the kids of today face a lot more pressure than we did from an early age, the pressure with school and the future is hitting kids younger and younger, we had the luxury of a childhood for the most part that let us be kids, we didn't have the pressure of GPA in the lower schools (stupid, I know, but  it is there) or parents, worried about the future, that make it seem like imagination play and such are luxuries the kids can't afford, even when young, and that is sad. I see those kids, I see what many of them do, and want my opinion? The type of kid I am talking about, and they aren't rare, put most of us to shame in what they have to deal with. 

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