What is something kids do/have today that was never a thing for you as a child?

Participation ribbons or trophies.

Every minute of their free time planned and filled with activities.

To be begged or paid to do chores around the house.

To go on summer holidays to a camp.

All the technology.

It is wild to me, all of it. Our parents had little to do with us, really. They weren’t worried about our feelings or our mental health. They didn’t volunteer at our school or make our friends for us or tell us everything we did was great. There was no ADHD, suicide, self-harming, or food allergies. Nobody young suffered from migraines or chronic pain and it was a good thing because our parents never gave us over the counter meds. There weren’t seatbelts and helmets and safety pads and childseats, and I think those have been good improvements, but all the chemicals and screens have done more harm than imagined. While more quality interaction with ones children is good, I do think too much interference robs them of the chance to figure things out.

Just about everything. My first years were on a cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere during WWII; the toys weren't even metal (for the war effort) and it was before plastic. And then I was bedridden for 4 years.

I never had a play date. I did have sleep overs.

Drag shows

or the opposite, so many things kids did, for generations, that they dfo not do or cant do now
I rode my bike to school, we would go early so we could run around and play.
there were even marbles,, and yo-yo's
I am a dinosaur

ChuckECheese type birthday parties. Birthday parties were always held at homes with homemade cakes

cell phone- purchase and paid the bill on my own when I started working at 16.
gaming consoles

Water bottles! I mean kids have always drank water and it’s a great thing but kids seem to drink water so much now and always have a water bottle with them. Just never remember that being a thing when I was a kid.

The need to talk back to or challenge teachers. In my day, the teacher’s authority was final.

School breakfasts. I would have welcomed breakfast.

Makeup parties (not face painting) where they get face and nails done.

Online gaming like PUBG. I was like dang their phone must be be good able to play phones with no lag.

I still think twice before installing game.
And other gadgets too Nitendo, PS 5 and hooverboard.


But kids these days like girls they rarely wanna go out playing under the hot sun. They all afraid of sun.

Forest day. My kid have this forest day every Friday wherein they go to the forest , have some activities there etc.
Never had that when I was young.

Devices. Kids will hang out and not be interacting, all on their phones.
They aren’t learning to socialize in person, just through a screen.
But maybe that’s how the future will be anyways, which saddens me

The naughty step.

10 year olds want fashionable clothes and hair cuts we just wanted to play out

Smart phones obviously, but also salon visits. My mom cut my hair (unfortunately) until I was 13. 🙃

Instant communication. It was all about fighting for access to the phone when i was a kid.

social media....
...I'm glad I did not have that when I was a kid

Cellphones and other electronic devices

who cares, they're all wokeist snowflakes now.

What I am doing now. Face in a phone screen.

I am at a Dunkin' eating breakfast. When I was a kid we almost never went out to eat, it was called Dunkin' Donuts, and I don't even think it served breakfast!

have smartphones lol

My kid never had a play date thank the gods. I'm not sure my introversion could have taken that.


It's frightening to me how young her peers were before getting their first smart phones. I ended up caving earlier than I had intended on getting her one.

Smart phones.

I don't even know what kids have today. Well, apart from the obvious things like tablets, smartphones, graphic tablets and thousands of apps they can choose from to be creative with.

I'm 62, and my mother would sometimes call my friends' mothers to invite the kid over for what is now called a play date.

I think it’s more called a play date when the two or more children are brought together by the parents to a location.

I hear children have baby showers. Very commercial idea to coerce friends into buying presents

Online schooling, i might of finished high-school if i had this opportunity

The internet. Obviously it existed, but as a kid I could hardly even grasp what the internet was.

I may be young, but at least I was never handed a smart phone and told to watch "shows" all day to keep me quiet.

Play dates. Bottled water. School-cooked meals (remember your lunch box?).

I was born in 1964. Just about everything they have now I did not have.

when i was 10 the boys camped out in the back yards and girls had sleep overs

Hard seltzers and flavored liquors. We had beer and whiskey.

Droid and hologram toys. They’re neat

Phones, computers, cable TV

Cell phones, tablets.

Cell phones.

Video games

Microwave popcorn...Please don't let your kids eat that.