I work with children. Most of them are average children from different areas of suburbia. The classrooms I teach in are on the third floor, and I don't think I have once taken a group of children up the stairs without at least one child commenting on the amount of stairs or the "difficulty" of climbing them.
Many changes have taken place over the past few decades. One of them is laziness, which I believe is rooted in technology. Today you can get singing cards, play video games online with your friends through a headset, make a phone call through your car just by saying their name, and carry around a small computer in your back pocket. People are stealing cell phones to steal not just the phone but the internet, your bank account, and your music player all in one. But is this actually a GOOD thing? There is one commercial in particular in which Verizon Fios is telling you television is no longer for the television! "You can even watch tv on your iPod Touch." I seen children who are out to dinner with their parents watching shows on their iPad, iPod Touch, & iPhones. It's becoming a common occurrence, actually.
Having grown up in the 90s, I spent a great deal of my childhood outdoors. My brother and I played outside with the neighbors nearly every day when we got home from school until the sun went down. It's hard to believe that just 10 to 15 years later, so many more children spend the majority of their time inside, watching one of many "devices" instead of actively living out their "childhood." Somehow I don't think that word has the same meaning as it did a decade ago. Things are rapidly changing. Call it "advance" if you wish, but I wonder when we will realize that "advancing" in the direction of technological "simplicity" is actually synonymous to advancing toward laziness.
