Had to share:
Who else can relate?
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While I can relate to some of that, I honestly hate those “kids nowadays are too spoiled” rants on FB.
Besides, all of that stuff can be taught even if kids today aren’t around it all the time. For example, my kids know how to use a rotary phone, because I still have one. It’s sitting next to our wireless phone, both of which I wish I could get rid of because I never use them (land line came bundled with our internet), but they’re there.
Hell, when I was growing up I don’t know how many old black & white TV shows I used to watch because I was sitting around waiting for afternoon cartoons to come on. But I didn’t see them when they were new & first broadcast.
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I must say I do kind of miss going to Blockbuster to rent movies for me here now 
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Kids today have no idea how good they have it, just like how we had no idea how good we had it when compared to our own parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods. Such is the circle of life, whether you’re a baby boomer, gen X, Y, Z, or a millenial. Life has gotten better, easier, faster - and complaint or no, that’s only a good thing.
Now get back to work, you lazy bums! 
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I can’t say I miss going to a Blockbuster. There wasn’t any around where I lived, not to say we didn’t have video rental stores, though we probably rented more NES games than we ever did VHS movies.
That was kind of the point of what I posted earlier…they understand if they’re shown what it was like. My kids understand a lot of what things were like when I was a kid, because I have a lot of that stuff still. They’ve played records, blown on NES cartridges, played light gun games on a CRT TV, rewound VHS tapes. @Thunderb3e has a reissue of the original Optimus Prime (and so do I for that matter). And that’s not taking into consideration the fact that we have media that shows what life was like before our/their time.
So yeah, the current generation has it good, but you can’t say they don’t or couldn’t understand. That’s the entire point of historical documentation.
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Understanding it is different from living it.
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As I’ve demonstrated in my previous post, “living it” is not that hard to do.
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By living it, I mean without having knowledge of the future. They have all of these great things now, but living back then with absolutely no knowledge then of what we have now (e.g., the Internet, for example) changes everything.
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First of all, I think these things are supposed to be kind of funny. So I wouldn’t take it all that seriously.
Second, none of us deserve any credit for being born at a certain time. My interpretation of what @WrathOfFulgore is saying (and with which I agree) is that somehow being around when TV’s had to warm up and setting your VCR to record a show was a pain in the ■■■doesn’t somehow earn us points. It’s not like we invented this stuff. Whether we lived through WWII, or think Destiny’s Child is “old school,” is beyond our control. I think @GalacticGeek is right in the sense that just knowing something, intellectually, is different than truly understanding it. I can no more understand what the 60’s were like than my kids can understand the 90’s.
I hate the “kids today” mantra. It’s ■■■■■■■■now, it was ■■■■■■■■when I was a kid and it will be ■■■■■■■■when my grandkids are teenagers.
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it all depends in the area i guess. we used to wander the woods and open ground all the time. there were snakes, hawks, coyotes, tarantulas, all kinds of cool things to see and possibly get killed by lmao. we’d also game it up indoors too, or whatever. just depends what you were allowed and not allowed to do is all i think. if i went home injured i caught hell for it, no coddling whatsoever lol.
do kids have it easier today? it depends on how their parents raise em up. i do feel sorry for the kids though that have those tryhard sports nuts parents angrily cussing and shouting at them at T-ball games. kid’s not even in ■■■■■■■4th grade and hes getting cussed at, called a little ■■■■■by his own father/mother and in some cases by somebody else’s parents. i think its hilarious, but i also acknowledge that its just ■■■■■■up 
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