Games children play

Was at the playground with Aaron yesterday and whilst he was scrambling all over made some interesting observations:
1.Children today play with all artificial gadgets.The swings are there ,slides and playing fields are there.
2.There was hardly any kid who was not closely watched either by nannies or parents or grandparents.
3.All of them who had toys which were bought from toy shops.
4.They all had their routines eg whenever AAron gets there he would make a run towards his friends and then pick out one or two of his pet games like chasing after birds(real ones) and then up and down the slides and then run around again.
What a far cry from the time when we were children.We used branches cut from trees as our guns.We made and flew our own kites and kite fighting was practised .Turning the strings used to fly the kites into cutting machines was a skilled job and you need to used bulbs crushed and mixed with what we called "cow hide gum" and then coated on to the string so that it became coated with sharp glass wo you have a kite cutting string.Any kite that was cut would be picked up and whoever gets it becomes the owner.
We made our own tops and the top choice of wood to make your tops were the branches from the Jambu or Lime tree as these were the toughest wood.Wonder how many of today's kids know this?The top game was to knock your opponent's top out of the ring and in the process you can smash it if you know how to whack it from the top!Top spinning is or has become a lost art!
Catapaults or "lastics " as we called them were made from tree branches appropriately shaped.We had to locate the trees and the branches and climbed the trees to get the branches.Cant imagine our modern kids doing this.
Bottom line you cant help but notice the big difference between today's children and that of our generation.We never saw doctors ,never had hot water showers,ate whatever was on the table,got whacked with whatever was in hand when we were naughty ,never knew what an air cond room was like ,never rode in air con cars or even cars.I remember the first time my dad took me out on a bus and he said we were going to "makan angin" and the first thing I did when I got up the bus was to open my mouth >My dad asked me what I was doing and I innocently answered "Makan angin ma!"
That's how naive we were !
Yes indeed times have changed so much!But its my belief that the older generation is much tougher because we were not pampered and we were brought up the tough way.