Wood shop teachers in my middle and high school were PROUD of the paddles that they built for what was called " Corporal Punishment " ....they even had names for them, like " The Stopper " and " Ole Cracker ". I used to pack a small lunch, get on my bicycle at 8 AM and go to the local swimming pool and stay all day, knowing that I had to be home by 4 for dinner...then go out again till the streetlights came on, then go home to sleep then do it again the next day. I was never bored, always had something to do, no matter what the weather was and never complained about it. Even when I explain this to my kid, he just doesn't get it. 3 channels on the TV...that was enough. If some one then were to tell me that I would be playing games that I could shoot people from all over the world and talk to them at the same time on a machine in my house...I would not have believed them. Yall think we made progress or did we screw everything up?