Please Come Outside and Play with Me

Children of this day and age do not even know how to go outside, play, and use their imagination to have fun and live life to the fullest. Throughout the years, the way children have grown up has drastically changed. When my grandparents, parents, and even I grew up we were constantly outside. We played in the dirt, ate dirt and were outside from sun up to sun down coming up with new creative ways to entertain ourselves. The children of this generation have no clue on what they are missing out on. All they do is sit around, play videogames, watch TV, and pretty much fry their brain cells. Never once do I hear a child say, “Will you come outside and play with me?”, or make the effort to get up and do something with themselves. It simply does not happen anymore. To start off, when I was growing up, I did not have all this technology that kids of today are influenced by. My cousins and I grew up together our whole lives and we were all best friends. We laughed; we cried; we ate dirt; and we played until it was so dark we could not see. When we were outside, we were constantly coming up with new ways to occupy ourselves, each other, and sometimes even our family. We did not have videogames, computers, cell phones, social media, and a multitude of television shows to distract us from the wonderful vast beauty of the great outdoors. All we were blessed with was the outdoors all day, every day. On the contrary, the youngsters of today play videogames. The kids now are highly technological and extremely technologically advanced, unlike some people of the older generations. When one asks a kid of this generation to go outside and play, the kid acts as if they have been asked to construct a nuclear bomb and drop it on the White House. But instead they have only been asked to go outside and play. Children of now are on a down—hill slope with all the technology they have to keep them content. Hardly ever does one here a child ask the question, “Can I go outside and play?”