In the Olden Days
By Val
@valmnz (17097)
New Zealand
June 22, 2016 2:52am CST
At school this week I taught a class a spelling game they'd not been introduced to before. It's a game I've always found popular, no matter what the age group, as it can be adapted. These kids enjoyed it so much I decided when writing time came they could write about the game, explaining how it was played and commenting on their own reaction to it.
One student's efforts made me smile. He started his piece of writing, In the olden days there was a game. Okay, I get the hint. These kids have a young teacher and, to them, I must definitely seem a relic from the olden days.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
22 Jun 16
I was called old last month by an 18 year old so don't feel bad!1 person likes this
@silvermist (19702)
• India
23 Jun 16
@valmnz Kids generally have this tendency to classify people above a certain age as ''old''. May be as you said they are making a
comparison in their minds.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
22 Jun 16
in the olden days, lol!!! well it wasn't electronic, so to them, may very well appear that old!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
22 Jun 16
gigglin'! outta the mouths, er, uhm, pen'f babes! here i thought'cha were gonna share this game with's all.
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@tammyr (5946)
• Etowah, Tennessee
30 Jun 16
I just started a new job and everyone else on my shift is in their 20's. I, at 49, feel like a very old person!! At least none of them hammer the thoughts home though!!
Funny to think that when we were teens we called people our age "old people". lol
@JESSY3236 (19949)
• United States
22 Jun 16
Old games is always good. Old can be new again.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
25 Jun 16
@valmnz I love kids concept of age. I am going to be 66 this November and when I retired in May one of my students said to me "Why are you retiring, you're not old enough?" It turned out that he thought I was ancient but not older than 50 - his idea of being really old.
@Meramar (2695)
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22 Jun 16
Nowadays, kids are definitly another generation. One school reform follows the other one, government wants to change it every two years as no one seems to be good enough. So teachers also have to change and, at the end, nobody seems to know how it really works. That's one of many problems in Spain. There is the point where I am asking, what was so bad at the oldern sistem? Students studied, even many failed. But, I don´t think that it was a problem of the school system, maybe it was more a problem of the education kids received at home.
I am really missing the school sistem I grew up with.
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@ModernDayWriter (3318)
• New Delhi, India
22 Jun 16
Word building? I love playing word building 
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