Yeah, only to learn you have been singing it wrong.

Hmmmm... wood! Yummy!

Honestly I’m starting to understand grouch more!

I’m pretty sure only 0.5% of 8 year olds are asking for the newest iPhone. And even teenagers these days still love those multicolour pens

Those were the days! Can we bring them back please?

I remember the sound of tragedy.

Encyclopedia Britannica

And there were little games on the back, because the manufacturers knew that.

Oh yes. Wood everywhere.

I still don't know how to play minesweeper.

The giant glasses!

OMG I LOVED THIS!!! and rip aaliyah

I am always suprised, that they usually let you scroll down to the year 1920 or even 1900.

My ceiling NOW.

Well...you did not really take a ton of pictures. You took maybe 5 at Easter, 5 at your birthday, and 10 during summer vacation, so that with the 4 you took at Christmas, the film was full and you could get it developed finally. Then, and just then, you would find out what was on the film. Made the pictures just more valuable, IMHO.

Maybe a polemic opinion, but I'm always a bit sad when kids don't dress like kids, because that usually ends up with an adult missing their childhood :( I enjoyed my childhood as hell, played with toys until I was 14, still carry my harry potter's backpack... you should wear whatever you want, that's true, but idk, just slow down on growing up, it won't get a lot better

I really hate this meme, I know so many boomers who share this, I grew up in the first one, and wasn't always so peachy. It's a different time and different generation, and I bet if we had phones in the 90's we would have been the same.

This complaint is the Millennial’s version of the Boomer Participation Trophy. You can’t normalize something for your kids and then be mad when they treat it as normal. Plus plenty of kids play outside still - it’s a stupid myopic complaint.

STEREOTYPICAL! I don't do this. I might still go on my phone, but I go outside and do stuff! I mean, if this was in the 80' s or 90's it would still be the same anyways!

90's kids like me were able to live through this transition, from no phones or internet at ages 5-10 to smart phones and video games in my teens. Honestly we were able to balance both, we still went outside, got dirty, jumped off bridges, rode bikes, everything.

Maybe if we ~let~ kids go outside or had an outside with public spaces kids could go without being hassled, they would.

1. You certainly don't have to be a boomer to remember days like this 2. Yes we probably would have been the same but that's the whole point about being glad we didn't have the technology. We experienced actual things not virtual things

i do both. foraging is the best. (I'm 16)

I was a stay at home mom in the '90s. Our house was full of latchkey kids most of the time. Kids who needed and adult in their lives, kids who were bullied, hungry and so on. It wasn't all sunshine and roses.

i did/do both

Don't even need friends these days. Socialization is important for kids to learn about life

I also grew up in the first one, I agree with Ian. We also had mobbing, and everything we have today, just on another, more face-to-face level. Nevertheless, I could just puke if I see (in this case, which I saw for real, not too long ago) a father, persumably a 90ies father, walking his girl to the kindergarden. He was on the phone, it did not sound like important business, and he had neither ears nor eyes for his girl, the surroundings, or everything else in the real world. So sad. Will this get worse with every generation? Just today in the newspapier I read about more cases of anorexia and bulimia. I just wonder if there just might be a connection.

Sunburn and dehydration and mosquito bites YAAAAAY!

Children don't always sit on the phone, grow up

The left picture is overrated. I grew up on a farm and did plenty of outdoor play - so much that it became boring. Getting muddy was literaly: "I'm so bored that I'll repeatedly kick my foot in this same mud puddle for an hour until it's dinner time".

I grew up with my nose in a book. If smartphones had been a thing, I guarantee my nose would have been in one.

Me, too! So much more fun! I have never walked and looked at my phone and never will. Too risky for a fall or theft!

Definitely a lot more fun.

I grew up in the middle

Yes. I'm going to take my kids to the lake, river, and woods this summer. Life's too short to spend all your time on the phone. I'm only on mine because they are asleep and I'm waiting for them to get up.

Facts!!! But mines have experienced the same both worlds. We gadolinium a lot of outside activities no phones no tablets.

Ahhhh playing in puddles, the great ol'days

My kids were sad grandma didn’t grow up with iTunes, grandma was sad kids didn’t grow up with vinyl. It’s all relative.