Do you think that kids today with video games and cell phone and computers have as much fun as those who grew up in a time where the imagination was a much needed process for play?

no kids are letting someone else tells them how to play and have fun no imagination.
some of the games are too violent.

*sigh* my little cousins just sit around and play on their xbox/gameboys all day. They have a lot of fun... but I just can't see it. I only play xbox if there's truly nothing else left to do. It just seems kinda bland and unexciting.

Their different kind of fun is making them fat.

They don't have to think for themselves. They are lazy, they sit around all day playing video games (which someone thought of) or on the computer. They can get all of their info off the computer for school, they don't have to crack a book like we did. I am really glad my children grew up w/o all of this stuff.

You think kids don't exercise their imagination even with computers and video games? I'm eighteen but it's not that far off from when there were no computers - I drew on paint, I wrote stories on word, I pretended to be the characters I saw in movies and video games. A child's mind is always active, the only difference is where they're putting all that energy. It used to be wooden dolls, then it used to be bikes, now it's fake plastic cell phones. But kids still have imagination.

Kids these days WANT everything up to date in today's technology. I still have a brick phone from years ago, and I see these kids almost 10years younger than me, with iPhones etc.

Kids today don't go outside, cuss, think they're grown, sneak out, and unfortionately know how to kill bc of video games that parents by for them when i was a kid Devil May Cry was scary to me, now they playing stuff like dead space where ur body gets ripped in half and not flinching. They don't need cell phone at 5, i know several who do (SMH) and the sure as hell shouldn't need a computer until there teen years at least. They know unnecessary stuff like sex, but don't know the basics of everything else. Things have changed and unfortionatly we all have to watch it.

I grew up with video games, and i have been told enough times that i have a colorful imagination

video games aren't all the same, it is proven that some of them are actually good for developing cognitive functions since you have to solve riddles and make up strategies to win

When I was a kid I had dirt, and I was happy!

Me too, and lots of it.

OF CORSE NOT ,,, THEY ARE A FRAIN D TO GO OUT INTO THE SUN GET DIRTY ,,, ...

When I was growing up, I would play my video games and have fun like that, but while I played, I would come up with my own little stories and scenarios and made them sort of my own thing. I still do it today, in fact, I am about to right now.

No imagination, no respect, laziness on an indescribable scale, stupidity (for most of them) and did I mention no respect?

but it is surely not the video games to blame...

more the lack of supervision from their parents....today it's like kids are telling their parents what to do and not the other way around

True, but most of the games out today sure ain't helpin' nothing.

video games are like movies and books. There are good ones and there bad ones... there are the ones that move you and some you just don't care about... also there some that may have bad influence on you and the others make you think.

so noone can just say that [all] video games are bad and are contributing to kids growing up to be inconsiderate douchebags

Not all, no, but most. I think kids shouldn't be allowed to play M rated games, but maybe that's just me..........

well some games are inappropriate for kids, so parents should take more interests in what their kids do, and at least not buy their underaged kids "killing-spree" games

some parents buy their 7 year old kids games like left for dead [fyi I'm a fan but its not appropriate for underaged], and then say "well we can't make her not play, after all it's her game" [true story]

this is what makes me mad, parents trying to be friends to their kids and not taking responsibility. So it's not the games fault if it's meant to be played by mature audiences ...

Very true for some but not all kids.

Having electronics does not = no imagination.

..Or do you not know the definition of imagination?

Kids now a Days R 89% Nerdy, not Like our kidhood!!!!

My favourite toys as a kid were cardboard boxes and wallpaper roll ends!

Hell no. I grew up without games, and then they surfaced when I became a teenager. I know I'm far less imaginative now then I ever used to be as a kid.

No, but I don't blame the technology. I blame the parents.

We actually got together and played sports as well so there were not a lot of obese kids running around.

My daughter has grown up with access to video games, internet, and etc...she also spent many hours exploring her own backyard as a junior entomologist. Just as much fun...more options.

I think videogames are a big part of the imagination, I mean, you have fantasy games where they can actually /see/ things that they normally think of. I think videogames only create a better fantasy and kids DO love video games. The world also became more dangerous, so playing games is safer than playing outside.

I find kids annoying with all the gadgets they have, when I was their age I had a game boy. One without color and I was happy playing pokemon, now it seems like every kid has an iphone or android.

I think that always the generation before each generation is going to have something to say about children, and their activities, but each had their own specific type of play, and it shouldn't be any question unless it's gonna affect us negatively as adults. Just think about it this way, people who grew up in the 90's had a lot more technology then children of the 60's and children in the newest generation have a lot more technology then children growing up in the 80's and 90's. And every time they're gonna have something negative to say about the one after them. But amazingly they use the exact same thing's to occupy themselves as the children, and they're getting lazier and lazier like the children. They're the one's who are suppose to be setting examples.

Except they have jobs......

*standing ovation*

As much fun plus more stress to keep apar of their peers, and more obese due to less physical play.

and thats where kinect enters the stage to kick obesity in its F.A.T. a$$

"kinect"? I had to look that one up.
No video game whether Kinect or Wii can compare to one game of tennis or field hockey.
Tell the kids to go out and play but leave their technology at home for at least an hour and a half every day, and half the day on Saturday.
Get involved as a Little League or hockey coach. They're your kids, be a soccer mom for them.

if i had kids i would definitely make them play soccer or some other team sport game. Just saying, that with kinect you may get a few kids to stand up and wave their hands around and walk a bit in the room instead of just sitting there

That's true.

All the imagination is done for them

Who cares?

Not only do kids today have far less imagination, they are more thoroughly indoctrinated by the systems they play with. Even their cognitive functions are not compatible with real living. Texting is Exhibit A of how their minds are being wrecked!

I remember how bad it's been over the past 50 years for education and court-ordered social engineering in that regard. But, video games, cell phones, and other high-tech gimmicks have taken an already diseased body-politic and thrust it into insanity.

Finally, the wizardry and incredible levels of technology contained in these devices is not learnable by the user. For a short time, the tech was still within reach of inventors during the 1990's but now, only a handful of people with the aid of supercomputers can produce these things. In the end, kids will only become users and consumers with NO IDEA of how to experiment and learn from it. Back in the day, a kid could learn how to fix his bike, put a plastic model together, make a balsa wood airplane and see if attaching bottle rockets would make it better. Girls had ample opportunity to learn housekeeping from their mothers and learn how to use the Singer sewing machine.

All that's gone. Even today's Boy Scouts can't do a fraction of what Scouts used to do 50 years ago!

Agreed, it is a sad day and age we live in.