25 Feb 2013, 9:15 pm
- Most British children prefer playing traditional games like "Cowboys and Indians" to sitting in front of a computer, according to a new survey.
But other classic childhood games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek have been overtaken by screen-based entertainment, with "playing on the computer" now the second most popular pursuit.
The survey also found that children today spend less time playing than their parents – according to the memories of adults, who remember doing so for at least 20 hours a week during their childhood.
Right, who's for killing some Indians?
25 Feb 2013, 10:46 pm
25 Feb 2013, 11:22 pm
When I was a kid we played soldiers around actual Nazi fortifications. 
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26 Feb 2013, 2:30 am
I'm happy to learn there are kids who enjoy imaginative play like I had as a kid.
Back when I was in grade school, it wasn't so much Cowboys and Indians that my friends and I would play during recess, but rather soldiers, Star Trek, or space creatures (where we'd just let our imaginations go, and pretend we were the most bizarre space aliens with outlandish super powers!). Those were the days! 
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27 Feb 2013, 12:10 am
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Kids like to use their imagination. I'd rather be using my imagination than sitting in front of a screen if I was a child. That's a great article. 
27 Feb 2013, 6:09 pm
27 Feb 2013, 6:24 pm
27 Feb 2013, 6:40 pm
- Most British children prefer playing traditional games like "Cowboys and Indians" to sitting in front of a computer, according to a new survey.
But other classic childhood games such as hopscotch and hide-and-seek have been overtaken by screen-based entertainment, with "playing on the computer" now the second most popular pursuit.
The survey also found that children today spend less time playing than their parents – according to the memories of adults, who remember doing so for at least 20 hours a week during their childhood.
Right, who's for killing some Indians?
They should be playing "Britishers and Tasmanians" it is more realistic
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27 Feb 2013, 6:44 pm
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27 Feb 2013, 7:10 pm
Hollywood has been making westerns about as long as they've been making movies.
Years ago, when I had had a job washing pots and pans at the commons in the local Gonzaga University, I had become friendly with one of the cooks who had immigrated from Germany. She had told me that when Bonanza had first played on German TV, the streets were literally empty. It seems the world is in love with America's mythologized historical western expansion.
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Some fans wrote a rousing song praising one of the Bononza characters. The Hoss Wesel song.
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But you know, in the very first episode of the (thankfully) rarely seen season one of Bonanza, the Cartrights were galloping all abreast, and singing the theme song at the top of their lungs(!). So yes, there is a theme song that goes with the Bonanza music. But (again, thankfully) it's rarely played, if ever. The late Michael Landon even had described both the first season, and the theme song as just terrible.
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27 Feb 2013, 7:14 pm
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27 Feb 2013, 7:33 pm
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