Lazy, Hazy days of summer...

Lazy, Hazy days of summer...Where have they gone? I read an article today about kids and summer.
I remember how much fun our summers were. We would get up, me I got up very early ~ I can't seem to waste a minute sleeping, eat some breakfast, brush my teeth, get dressed and out the door. Couldn't wait until I could jump in the pool to swim, play some baseball with the neighborhood kids, or ride bicycles to the where ever our hearts would lead us.
When I was a kid everything was closed on Sundays except a few restaurants and some gas stations. We would go to church, pick up our grandparents, How we all fit in one car is beyond me, and go out into the country side and look for wild flowers for our grandmothers to have bouquets.
I watch my granddaughters today, they have such busy schedules; softball games 2 or 3 nights a week, practices, tournaments on the weekends in who knows where, roller skating races in who knows where, nations in skating and softball... very little time to relax and just be kids.
My one granddaughter will be over to the house and her cell phone will get a text. "Grandma my friend Becca wants to play? Can you take me home? We hardly ever get to play any more." Twenty minutes later she is home to play with her friend.
It saddens me to think that activities have begun to take up so much time in my grandchildren world.
Two of my grandchildren that live an 8 hours drive away, love to swim, fish, ride jet skies, but they also spend way to much time on their xbox playing games with people they don't even know.
Two of my grandsons, love being outside. I must say that this daughter loves taking them out and teaching them about nature. Teaches them about taking care of and the habitat that the animals and insects live in. It is always fun to listen to them "spill" their knowledge when they see something they know about. However they both have Ipods with many games. Sometimes they too spend to much time with the technology.
I am not against technology in any way; however I do think kids need to spend more time being kids.
Kids do not have any imagination today. They aren't happy with a broom for a horse and a finger gun. Maybe all the bad stuff that is happening in America right now is a way of telling us to enjoy the little pleasures of life. Learn you don't need so much television, computers, etc. Maybe paper books will make a come back. My grandchildren all love the library... My youngest grandson got so excited last summer when we went to the school I taught at (retired now) when he saw the library... He wanted to go see the library. How many 4 years old get so excited about the library? Not many I bet.
Lets turn America around, I don't want to be like third world countries with children starving, but I want us to take more time to look at things, quit thinking money is the only important thing. I often say, "I don't know why people have to have so much money. They can't take it with them when they die and many of their children loose their fortune for them to drugs, alcohol and a fast paced life."
How many of you remember the song...
Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer lyrics

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer
Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies
Then lock the house up, now you're set
And on the beach you'll see the girls in their bikinis
As cute as ever but they never get 'em wet
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
You'll wish that summer could always be here
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer
Don't hafta tell a girl and fella about a drive-in
Or some romantic moon it seems
Right from the moment that those lovers start arrivin'
You'll see more kissin' in the cars than on the screen
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
You'll wish that summer could always be here
You'll wish that summer could always be here
You'll wish that summer could always be here