Ya know, that never occurred to me until you mentioned it...what DO European kids do? (I know here in US, kids USED to do this thing called "go outside", where they would play things like "sports"...at the "playground"....now they sit in front of Xbox/PC, and eat cheetos 
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Dhyrans kids are the exception.
It may not be as extreme as in the US yet (we always lag a few years behind in adopting your cultural advances), but it's generally the same trend. All those available electronic games and readily available TV changed everything. When I was a kid some 30 years ago, we could receive only 2 channels, which started to broadcast around 4pm (!) each day. Only 1-2 hours kids program on any day at most. You had to go outside to prevent getting bored to death
When I visited my parents last week, i took the time to walk around all those places of my youth, on a sunny sunday afternoon.
No kids. The playgrounds were deserted, the woods silent, only adults at the riverside. There was a construction site with about two dozen houses in varying degrees of completion. In my time, it would have been overrun by kids looking for adventure...
Egad, have you ever seen how kids text each other? That sort of communication is gonna supplant proper English eventually, I'm afraid (lol, and probably French as well...just wait, our idiocracy culture will infect your country too! 
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Don't feel sad, it's the same way here.
