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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have one girl and one boy (teens) and they’re both awesome.

What’s so bad with boys now? My guess would be video game addiction is a big problem, but also we have taken away a lot of opportunities for them to problem solve. There’s not as much free range sand lot games where the entire neighborhood showed up and they handled conflicts and scraped knees. Now it’s travel baseball teams and a ton of parent oversight. Less risk-taking. Fewer opportunities to fail because we are all so scared to let them make their own mistakes because college is so much harder to get into these days.

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Fathers of middle schoolers played a lot of video games growing up so that’s no excuse and video games are not the cause of anything.

Travel teams instead of the local kids playing games on their own or at least sticking with their home town is the result of pushy parents.  They thought they could pay to make their kid a D1 sports star but reality is very few end up there.  [/quote]

The video games of the 80s and early 90s were VERY DIFFERENT from the video games of today, PP. you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. [/quote]

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