Originally Posted by
Sair
I think a lots of kids want things just because everyone else has got one, rather than the fact that they actually want one. There's a lot of peer pressure around I think.
I used to get teased at school when we had "Games Day" on the last day of term and everyone brought in their Simon, or whatever other electronic games they had (showing my age now!!) and I just had my little magnetic car on a race track or a pack of cards... but it didn't harm me.
A few years later I nearly died of excitement when my parents said I could have a space invaders game... I just couldn't believe it, and I remember that feeling to this day.
It was my most favourite thing in the world at the time, but it was all the better because I hadn't expected to be allowed one.
Kids these days... (I'm definately getting old!)... (a lot of them anyway) do seem to be spoilt, which is worrying really because they will probably go through life expecting to get what they want, when they want it...