The Front Porch Scenarios

It is the summer 2003 and I’m pedaling fast down the street, on my bike, to get to my friend’s house. When I finally reached her house I dumped my bike off with the rest of the bikes, in the front yard, and ran inside to find everyone. I heard people upstairs and hurried up to find them. They were all sitting around talking and playing a board game. Now, think about how much interaction kids had in 2003 rather than 2015. They actually talked and played board games or played outside no matter what the weather was or whose house they were at. Kids back then found ways to have fun without the advanced technology that kids have today. When growing up in a small town of only 1,020 people the community is close, everybody knows everybody, which is …show more content…
They always walked or rode their bikes if they wanted to go somewhere. The past is way different than the present in so many ways. Kids are getting rides everywhere, parents aren’t trusting the small town communities anymore, and kids are always inside playing videogames. It also seems that family meant more in the past than it does now. Some kids would rather keep their reputation with their friends than hang out with their own family. Scenarios, like the ones I’ve mentioned, tied me to the essay “The Front Porch.” Our family used to meet on the front porch while we, children, played in the yard the adults, grandma, grandpa, aunts, and uncles, were talking about the old times and new. Now, in 2015, we don’t meet on the front porch anymore, most families don’t. The front porch is just for show now, along with the gazebo and back porch. Which leads me back to how much technology has changed the way we have family time. Technology seems to have changed the way things were when I was a kid, which makes me realize that family is more important than friends, and times on the front porch meant more back then than they do …show more content…
Having the new iPhone 6 seems to be the cool and new style which means everyone is going to want the new and cool thing. Phones are a great way to keep in touch with friends and family rather than having to write a letter to find out how their day was. It seemed that if kids wanted to be “cool” when they were younger, they had to have all of the brand new things. For example, in 2003 living as a middle class family, I didn’t get the opportunity to have a brand new PlayStation or Xbox, I just had a small television and the great outdoors. Other kids in my town had some of the brand new types of technology, we wouldn’t play them for very long, and before we knew it we were outside playing. It was fun being a kid in 2003. I know I wouldn’t want to be a kid now, since all of the new technology came out. Kids seem to want to be with their technology rather than what is right outside their door. As a kid growing up with little technology I was always outside playing in the snow, or with my dog. We always begged our parents to take us outside to play and got mad when they wouldn’t. Kids in 2015 don’t want to go outside to play but to simply stay inside to watch television or play video games. Technology steers people away from reality and what matters most,