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Kids Growing Up Today, Is It Better Or Worse? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's Monday, everybody, and there's Dee in the background.
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  She's up getting going. The news said that we are going
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  to set a new track record on Christmas.
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  They say it's going to be 74°, but here's what's crazy about
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  it. They're saying like today 54°
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  tomorrow, you know, 4850 something degrees on Christmas
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  Day, boom, 74° and then the day after Christmas, bam, right back
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  down to like 50 something. So ain't isn't that crazy, The
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  timing and circumstances. Now Santa Claus going to be
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  laying some sparks with his sled because it's going to be 74°
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  Christmas Eve, going to be Christmas Day.
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  Crazy man, crazy. All right, Big piece of news is
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  the US government, I think it was November 12th, November
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  12th, something like that, maybe a month ago.
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  Respond right here. They quit making the very last
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  penny. You know, like you have 1/4
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  dime, nickel, penny. the US government in the middle of
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  November, they actually had a ceremony and they no longer make
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  the penny. So the penny, if you have a
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  penny, save them. They're historical now.
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  They don't make them anymore. Isn't that something?
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  OK, yesterday. Well for the last two days I
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  have been spending some time with my Arkansas friends and
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  they have a 10, have a 10 year old girl named Avery and a 14
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  year old girl named Rylan. And I have 6 grandbabies, the
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  oldest one is 9. Her name is Charlotte, we call
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  her Lottie. Then we have Jed, Jade, Mila,
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  Lila, and Lenny's just a little baby still.
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  But anyway, here's where I'm going with this.
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  I've been spending some time with the babies lately and
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  especially this, you know my 9/10/14 year old and I can't
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  help but the look at them and think how heavily influenced
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  they are off of TikTok and YouTube.
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  These young kids. Nowaday, when I say young kids,
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  I'm talking, I mean my God, the four years old, four starting
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  and four, they watch that YouTube, they watch Adalie, they
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  watch that, you know, Adalie or the kids play with toys.
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  They'll get a billion views watching a kid play with toys on
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  YouTube. Now we went yesterday, we went
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  shopping and Rylan, wonderful lady, 14 years old.
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  How old do you got to be before they call you lady?
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  I guess she's a girl. Respond right here.
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  You would think I have three daughters, Brooke, Brandy and
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  Brittany, you know? And you would think I would know
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  when you become a lady, but I don't know.
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  So respond right here. Dee just looked at me like I
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  should know. But anyway, hey, girl, get over
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  here. Hey, lady, get over here.
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  See what I mean? When do you start calling them
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  ladies? But anyway, I can't help over
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  the last couple days looking at how they are influenced by
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  TikTok. So we go shopping and Ryan
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  starts talking about I want to go to front neck.
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  And I looked at her and I said Plaza front neck.
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  And so that's, we don't go there, but that's the most
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  expensive mall we have. Well, we went and it was
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  wonderful. I mean, no riff raff.
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  And it was a beautiful, beautiful mall for wealthy
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  people. And I'm glad we went because I,
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  I think I've been in there one time.
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  Well, then after that, she said I wanted to go to the gallery,
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  Another from Arkansas. And I asked her dad, Dustin.
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  I said, Dustin, you guys are in Arkansas.
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  How does she know all about this?
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  And when she went to these malls, she knew where she wanted
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  to go. He said.
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  I think she is influenced by TikTok.
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  I was like, well, I'll be darned because I she knew where she was
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  going as if she had a diagram. Now you talk about funny.
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  We go to Plaza Frontenac, we go to the Galleria.
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  We pull out of there and we're getting ready to head on down to
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  maybe the City Museum. We don't get, we don't get on
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  the highway 1 Mile. She goes, where's, where's
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  Chesterfield? I started laughing.
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  I said, well, it's behind us. I said I can turn around the
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  next exit and head back. I said, that's one of the most
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  wealthy areas in Saint Louis, too.
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  We got Clayton, we got Chesterfield.
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  She goes, well, there's an Ugg store out there.
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  I said, well, I'll turn this baby around right now.
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  We turn around, we went out there.
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  Wonderful time, wonderful time. Then we headed back down to the
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  city. But the moral story is this.
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  Are your kids heavily influenced by that phone right now?
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  I mean, I'm doing this coffee with Kenny video.
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  We're having a good time and we all are influenced, I guess,
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  huh? I guess if you're a grown up,
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  you find out what's going on on your cell phone.
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  But what what formed me and made me was growing up as a kid
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  riding my bicycle, running the Creek, building tree houses.
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  I think it's just a big change in society.
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  Is it OK? I mean, 6767 all off, all off
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  Utah, YouTube and TikTok. That's harmless, that's fun.
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  Is it OK for our kids to grow up on TikTok and YouTube?
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  I mean, it's probably OK, but is it a step backwards?
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  Is it a step backwards for our kids?
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  Would you rather than grow up outside like I did?
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  I think I would, I think I would rather my kids grow up riding
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  bicycles in the neighborhood, playing ball.
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  And, you know, for the most part, my grandbabies do play a
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  lot of sports. And now that I think about my
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  kids, I, I think they're well balanced now.
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  Mila, Mila, she, my daughter Brookie says Mila really gets
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  involved in her iPad. Just can't get out of it.
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  Got the ear earphones on but if I was a parent nowaday, which
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  which obviously I wouldn't be. But here I am 62 years old and
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  I'm thinking I think my days were better respond right here.
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  Were my days better growing up on my my motorcycle, my bicycle,
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  running the creeks, playing outdoor football.
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  I, I don't see kids playing outdoors that much anymore.
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  However, go over to Brandy's house and there they are at her
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  house. But I think for the most part, a
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  lot less kids play outside that I did and I don't think that's
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  healthy. Respond right here.
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