How has the world changed since you were a child?  

The world has definitely changed since I have been a child! I remember playing board games with my brothers and sisters as a family. Now kids prefer to sit all day on the computer with less interaction. When I was a child, I would also go outside and play all day with my friends. Now it seems with more technical gadgets and gizmos, kids prefer to play alone with their electronic companions. I also use to bike around the neighborhood, and nwadays it seems kids are less active and obese.

I remember my first computer was a Commodore 128D and it was safe back then to walk the streets without having to worry about child molesters. Now days you have to know where your children are at all times because of the sick people who are in this world. The very bad thing is they are now in the schools, churches, etc etc. I also remember the Beta players and when VHS came out as well as cassette tapes. Wow this discussion has just made me realize my age. lol.

~ HI Java09! The world has changed a lot since I was a child. Then weren't any computers or video games, weren't so much cars and traffic, the people were much more friendly to each other. The present kids don't spend much of their spare time with friends- they prefer to stay at home in front of the TV or the PC and playing some games or chatting with some one, and forget that outside the 4 walls, the world is much more wonderful than at home in the virtual world of the PC. I think the kids from today grow in a world full of dangers every where and they haven't got anything childish in themselves, like the time when me and you were kids ~

the world has changed a lot since my childhood.. there was no mail,no technology and no different kind of medical reatment when i was born.. but now it has changed its own way... but one disadvantage here change alone cahnges and nothing else.. so oly the fittest can survive in this world..

Several changes so far especially the technology advancement. Today, more and more new technology are introduce to people which we also embrace with delight. Aside from that, I also notice that I was no longer young and my age continue to grow.

I used to go to my grandparents' village. There there we used to go to forest surrounding the village the beauty of which i can't forget. Now all of that forest is gone! there are a couple of timber factories which are always polluting the environment.

I remember those things, too. We didn't wear bicycling helmets or kneepads, our playgrounds had gravel and cement and if we misbehaved in public our moms could swat us without fear of being reported as child abusers. There was a child molestor in my neighborhood but I didn't know it--Mom and Dad and my friends' parents told us all to stay away from him. A group of dads went to talk to him and in a week he was gone. When we got new neighbors Mom baked a cake and took it over to them.

People were more involved with each other back then in the 60's and 70's. Adults without jobs were thought of as shiftless and children had chores to keep them busy. Being rude to an adult was unthinkable and a sign that your parents didn't raise you well. Moms were home with the children and dads went to work--Mom always greeted us with a hug and cookies when we came home from school. We all sat down to eat dinner together. Mom cooked breakfast for us and packed our lunches. Family was very important and we all stuck together.

Compared to when I was a child and we would read a book or listen toa play on the radio, things have changed for the worse. We used our imagination and had thoughts of our own. Nowadays we are supposed to sit in fromnt of the television or read an article ina newspaper or online and see the opinions of others and do we stop to even think of a different side to each story?

Respect has gone out of fashion too. Everyone is in a hurry, mostly thinking of themselves. Everything now revolves around money and we are lead to believe that we must have a lot of it to be happy. When I was a child we were happy with other things like a visit froma friend or relation, flowers bursting into bloom or the smell of a home made cake in the oven.

I grew up in the 80's and a lot of things have changed since that time. There were no cell phones or no internet, and when I went to the library I borrowed records and cassette tapes instead of cds. Instead of an ipod I had a walkman, and I loved listening to my cassette tapes. When we went shopping we used cash or checks instead of a creditcard. When we wanted to use a payphone we needed coins, you couldn't buy phonecards for payphones and there were quite a lot of payphones around the country. Most of them are gone by now, because people use there cell phones instead. When I was a child there was no bridge between Denmark and Sweden and we always had to sail to get to Sweden.

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