12 Pastimes Your Grandkids Won’t Recognize
Check with the younger generation to see if they ve done anything on this list.
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Younger people today know how to do amazing things. They ride hoverboards and electric scooters. Use 3-D printers and smartphones like pros. Attend class and make friends online. Create podcasts, YouTube channels, TikTok videos and more.
But there are plenty of activities that this generation of digital natives will never experience.
I’ve co-written two books about the lost toys, tastes and trends of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?” and “The Totally Sweet ‘90s.” But these days I’ve been thinking not about objects but about the old-school activities that are fading away, as surely as a Smurfs beach towel left out in the sun.