Have never used tiktok (the CCCP connections don’t impress me) but have found myself scrolling through youtube ‘shorts’ on a couple of occasions like a zombie. If its like this on a fairly fixed adult brain, its a huge worry that developing kids/teens are getting unfettered access to it. Another reason to avoid letting kids have a mobile phone for as long as possible.
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Perhaps a question for the older among us, but how did one cope prior to the development of portable screens?
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I used to be pretty addicted to teletext. I’d check the news and sport pages as soon as I got in the house and flick it on during the adverts in case I was missing out on anything.
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I had a black and white portable TV on my desk in pieces as I couldn’t fix it. Well, that’s the story I told 
How else could I watch BlackAdder? Dad probably knew but mum fell for it.
Talking about dealing with children on longer trips. I remember books. Lots of books.
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I used to sit on a wall,sometimes on my own.
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Some things don’t change
Some things do…
Wall, not fence
Could never read in the back of a car, used to make me really sick. We played endless games of eye spy instead and my word did it get specific. Did the same with Jnr. Every day’s a school day 
Planes are different, have an iPad and sit quietly. Shit parent I know 
My god, kids playing in the street. They should all be wrapped in bubble wrap playing Minecraft or If over 9 Grand Theft Auto 32.
One of the few arguments I had with my FIL was when he went outside OUR house to shout at the kids playing kerby near his car. Move your car dude, let the kids play.
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Daydreaming.
The imagination necessary for that was surely behind phenomena such as Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Eurythmics …
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The kids play yellow reg now and they really go for it
? Sorry, no idea on that one?
I thought kids these days spent their time in their bedrooms trawling through state secrets…I used to play subbuteo.
That’s how I got all my tactical knowledge…
We used to play gas vans, similar rules.
Slow day at work
There’s a good maths one too. Tell the kids they can choose any 3 vehicle colours and it’s first to 100 but only if you can choose first. White Notice I said vehicle not car.
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You be in bits if you played it in england.
Reg plates,front and back, on irish cars are white,if you see a yellow reg(from the north) you punch the person next to you in the arm.
So normal! 
Did anyone have ‘I-spy books’ for long journeys…Annual hols used to be in North Wales…so needed some entertainment…this was before the M62 even appeared…thru’…places like…Tintwistle, Ruthin, Mold, Sarn…sounds like another world…
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We used to always visit Rhyl at some point during the summer holidays when we were nippers… It was only when I got a lot older, it occurred to me that the guy at the harbour who chartered out his fishing boat every day, to gleeful, but obviously naive dads must have been a real con-man…
‘Catch Your Sharks Here’, his sign read.
When in fact, the waters he took his boat out to fish in had never seen a shark in its entire existence, for after all, these waters were little more than the tail end of the River Mersey before it joined the Irish sea :0)
Mind you, the number of dads clamouring on board every morning, with crates of Double Diamond on their shoulders, and newspaper wrapped cheese and pickle sandwich’s, probably couldn’t care less whether they caught a shark, swordfish, tuna, salmon or any other type of fish or lobster this Captain of his ship pleaded swam about in the murky, muddy depths of the tidal River Mersey… They couldn’t care less, as long as it meant a day free from the energy sapping summer long days, chasing their kids around the sand dunes as the alternative :0)
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M56……
Yes, they were good fun too.
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