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Global Warming Play · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamas. Do dear mamas, do you think
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  kids don't play outside anymore because of global warming? Well, let's ask our
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  American mama's mama and joining us now. Our American mama is Terry Needeville and
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  Kimberly Burlison. We all have memories of playing outside, uh in the summertime,
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  and you you could not come back home until the lights went off,
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  but our lights went on on the streets, but then you had to come
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  back home at that point, y'all remember that, Yes, yes, those
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  were the day. Yes, Louisiana. We we'd walk outside in the morning
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  and we couldn't come back. We could not come back in all night.
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  Yeah, got to eat and come in and take a you know, get
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  a brit But my parents bought an extra refrigerator. We were like fancy fancy
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  how we had two refrigerators. One was in the garage and it was filled
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  with these the water that you could pour right paper cups. So you just
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  go the garage. I'd go to the garage. We could hang out in
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  the garage, but I couldn't hang out in the house. And we couldn't
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  play football in the game. You know what. It's so sad because we
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  played and the neighborhood friends. Remember we'd played four square. Karen Kelly would
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  always get mad at us and take her ball in the house. You know,
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  we'd all play baseball out in the front yard. I mean, we
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  were a close group, and I had the swimming pool. With the swimming
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  pool, and I feel like today there's our neighbors across the street have four
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  children. Little girl is seventh grade and then three little boys, all in
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  elementary. I have never once seen them play out in the front yard,
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  not one time. And I believe that parents are afraid these days. I
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  think that they are. Social media has scared them to death. My husband
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  believes that the COVID lockdowns kind of like freaked everybody out, and they're all
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  in front of their laptop or there are TV playing video games. Getting fat
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  with hunchbacks, and you know, I just feel like it's interesting. Playing
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  outside is gone. I don't see it anymore. That may be the name
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  of my next album, getting fat with hunchbacks. It's what a great phrase,
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  but look, it's not. It's not that it's any warmer in the
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  United States than it was when we were kids. I remember the summer of
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  nineteen eighty living in lot in Oklahoma, and we got up to one hundred
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  and twenty degrees on multiple occasions and we were outside. Yeah, and probably
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  barefoot. You're probably barefoot. No, no, no, I'm not one
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  of those. Oh we were. Oh we love shoes. Yeah, there's
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  pricker birds out in the field. I couldn't step on the anything got too
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  much that hot. Your your mom and dad bought a sprinkler. Remember the
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  springkler? Hop over it. That was the guy. We did that.
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  We like, you could have the slipping slide. If it was that hot,
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  you just put on your bathing suit. Yeah, read your bath And
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  actually my parents didn't even turned the sprinkler on. They had the sprinkler to
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  water the yard with. We just used that and didn't even tell them.
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  We just didn't. We didn't ask eight, can we set up the sprinkler?
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  We just we just were they going to do? I don't remember it
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  even bothered me that it was so hot, And now I do remember.
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  Even here in Shreeport in in nineteen eighty, we had to leave school early
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  because you know, back then you went to school after labor day, huh.
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  And it was so hot fifth grade, Miss Kyser's class that we would
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  we were dismissed for about a month or so at one o'clock. I remember
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  that because it was like incredibly hot. Yeah, it's too hot. But
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  you know, it's so funny because the parent I will say this that,
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  you know, Kimberly just made the point that her husband said that parents don't
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  feel as safe. That is true. We felt safer back then. We
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  felt like that everybody's parents in the neighborhood kind of had their eyes on us.
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  We're living in a world today, and especially you in Texas where people
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  are worried about you know, migrants, you know illegal aliens that are coming
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  in and you know you're worried about cause you see things all the time,
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  them grabbing kids and driving at all. I mean it's social media. Because
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  of what we're seeing, we think it's a normal thing when it's not.
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  It's a very rare thing. It was a fourteen year old who was just
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  murdered by illegal immigrants in Houston last week. Yes, but Houston's a city
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  of you know, eight million people. You got one, so that we
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  focus on the one. But the statistics are you know, probably not worse
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  than the early eighties. Maybe about where we were in the early eighties.
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  Certainly not as bad as it was in the late eighties or or early nineties
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  statistically speaking across the country. But your point, social media, Yeah,
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  that's what we see. It's it's affected everything. I watched Bill Maher yesterday.
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  He had this expert on that was talking about adolescents, and one thing
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  I thought was pretty interesting. He said, he feels like that there is
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  a parenting reckoning happening. He said, just like the me too, just
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  like movements. He feels like this is happening because he said, we're raising
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  a lot of messed up kids. Forty nine point five percent of adolescents have
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  been diagnosed with a mental health issue. And this woman was saying that forty
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  nine almost fifty percent. And this woman was saying, these kids are being
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  overdiagnosed. This isn't real. She said. What kids need today need to
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  be told I love you, you'll live now, get out of my house
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  and go have an adventure. That's what we're not saying as parents. We're
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  coddling, We're keeping them inside because we're so afraid, but we're harming them.
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  You know, our kids will actually they We've talked about this. We
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  were outdoor. Our children were outdoor kids in the summer especially, but I
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  was out there with them. You know. Kevin would plant the garden,
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  we had the pool. We made sure we had fun things because we wanted
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  them to be around, you know, and instead of wanting to go to
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  other friends' houses. And so they grew up not being in front of video
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  games, not being in front of you know, they didn't have their phone.
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  Okay, that's true, but that when we were little kids. Yeah,
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  the video games were nearest good. If you like that, I do
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  remember Pong. If you like that. Scar American Mom was a question.
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  Go to our website in America around radio dot com slash momas like click got
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  to ask the Mama's Button. Terry Nativillekimberly bur listen. Thank you so much. Thanks