Oh please, if you were born after 1920 you had way, way, way more technology than any previous generation had. We were condemned for playing Nintendo and Sega Genesis and watching 80s/90s kids shows. How quickly everyone forgets and suddenly acts like they grew up in the 1880s.

Yeah yeah yeah... because seven/eight year olds and 14/15 year olds have a lot in common, right? I grew up doing both of those things pictured, just at different times.

I'm sorry, how is my generation supposed to move on and NOT be addicted to tech, if EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG KEEPS ACTING LIKE WE ARE? I'm sorry, am I not allowed to use my phone to talk with friends? Sorry. I'm just a little tired of this stereotype.

I think it's a bit boring that we now in this era still can't get over comparing to kids in the past and present. Human behaviour evolve , things change :) That simple

Kids still do the former, and they do the latter. Kids will always be kids.

Kids today do both.

THIS IS SO UNTRUE i am part of the young generation and I LOVE GOING TO THE CREEK and barely ever go on my iPad etc and when i do it is to use them for research and yes maybe a bit of entertainment but still COME ON!

It's weird because I'm a millennial but phones were not in until I was in about 6th grade so I grew up playing and being crazy with my 5 other siblings, building forts, digging holes during the summer then filling them with water and calling them pools! We were crazy and we were never on the internet plus even now in 2018 none of us are allowed to have social media and none of us have phones, I have an iPad and it's because I'm a straight A student and I'm not on it 24/7. I don't even have social media. Therefore, we are always playing sports like boxing, cheerleading, football, track, and soccer, and actually talking to each other lol.

I shudder to think how dirty all those creeks are now. I don't think kids can play in random water anymore, which is even sadder.

Absolutely an up-vote from me! I love the memories of playing with the kids from my neighborhood, no matter what age, gender, social status. In the streets of our neighborhoods, we were all best friends. Until the whistles, from the parents, calling everyone home began at dark. And then we’d start all over the next evening 💗💗

YEA

I was born in the 2002. I've always wanted to grow up in the 90s. Much more fun and more people to relate to. I'd rather play in the mud whole day than having anything to d with technology. I don't even own a smartphone, I rejected my father's offer to buy me one.

i was born 1998 ending whether am i a 90s kid? i really dnt knwww

My kids (10 and 12) grew up and still are growing up like this.

When my son was around 10, we bought a house, and we were very excited to be moving from where we were. All my son wanted to do was play outside. Most of the other boys, when outside, would do only prescribed play, like playing basketball, no just riding around on the bike, or playing down by the pond, etc. Very scary was the fact I almost NEVER saw the girl in the neighborhood play outside. As a girl, I was outside all summer long, kickball, softball, TV tag, playing in the woods, swinging, running races, etc. My son was just pissed from age 10 - 19. He couldn't stand sitting around inside in the summer. Only ever found one friend to play with outside in that neighborhood, but only for a short time before the friend succumbed to video games. (It's impossible to spell "neighborhood" without spellcheck.)

you can do both, you judgmental dillweeds.

I'm sick of this stereotype. Just because kids use their phones sometimes doesn't mean nobody plays anymore.

I had horses and my friends had horses. Always outside. And on Friday nights we had picin' and grinnin' music in the barn. Good times.

True very true - though they are probably talking to one another. Can't complain about them being too loud

Glad I grew up before helicoptor parenting became a thing

I haven't been growing up doing either. Not allowed to go outside and no phone.

damn right

Children take interest in everything. Yeah, they will play with their cell phone, but also read books or play in the garden if you give them the chance. I played outside, with Lego, with action figures, but I also watched a lot of Cartoon and Anime, played old games on my slow computer and listened to music from audiocassettes. People always blame new things, but it's not that new. You just think it is.

Ugh. Gimmie a break. the kids on the left are like ...8. The girls on the right are like 14. I stopped playing in the mud when I was a teen, too.

Glad to have grown up like that,yes indeed. But now I am an adult..I look like those kids on the right ...Ooooooooooops

66% of boys between 5-18 years old play organised sports so f**k off with this stereotype Also source "https://www.statisticbrain.com/youth-sports-statistics/"

Me too!

So glad to see and talk to your friends face to face and just hang out

No, instead that's what we do now. And act all hypocritical about it.

You would have been if they had existed then. As it was, 80s and 90s teens were always glued to the kitchen phone.

I played nintendo...

So what?No you post it on the internet and younger generations are doing the same.Stop whining about how your childhood was awesome and nowadays it is not

Possible today as well.

Ok, this isn't just for "90s kids," this is like every generation before the internet.

Each generation has merit- the same kids splashing in mud, had their counterparts on books and on tv- it is all a matter of perspective. It is easy to romanticize and make nostalgia- especially when it is to criticize. I call bs. I grew up in the "mud" generation- thank god I didn't have to experience that nonsense and instead was able to stay inside and read or watch tv as I wished. To me that would not have been a blessing but a curse. Yuck- mud, bugs, skeeter bites- dirt!! Not thank you!

Me too!

Oh, I LOVED playing with kids of the neighborhood outside ;) Looked forward to the w-end all the time.

(Don’t give your kids electronics then, just saying)

...I miss playing outdoors too!

So sorry my daughter did not get the same opportunities !

I want to up-vote this more than once