"We have Nintendo DS's, sometimes we play on those... We have a Wii, but my brother usually plays that, I usually watch TV," says Katy Pozorski, an 11 year old from Plover.

Her cousin, 10 year old Nicholas Walder, also of Plover adds, "Mostly the computer, I go onto AddictingGames.com."

And that's just a small sampling of the things that kids today have at their disposal. But for people growing up 70 years ago, childhood was a little different.

"There wasn't television, obviously, radio was there, but you're not appreciative of radio at 8, 9, 10 years old," says Mark Zelich, an 80 year old living in Wausau. He continues, "Certainly not computers, we had the old typewriters, but I wasn't into that."

Outside of his own childhood experience, there was also a lot of change going on in the world, but Zelich says he was vaguely aware of it at the time. "I was really a product of the Depression, it was just coming out of that barely... The world was changing, Adolf Hitler was on the rise in Germany, things were happening but we were unaware of it or didn't care."

But Zelich wasn't the only child to be absorbed in his own world, as it seems kids today are remarkably similar in that regard.

Walder says, "There's a lot of politics talk today, there's a lot of financial stuff and all that weird stuff, I'm just going to put that away."

Pozorski adds, "I know that the war's going on and everything, but I normally don't pay attention to it, because I have my whole family and everything, and I worry about them."

But despite the vast differences between generations, that's not the only similarity. For example, kids in the 30's and kids today have a deep interest in their friends.

Zelich says, "What you were, was into the kids in your neighborhood and kids that you had in grade school, and for me that meant I played a lot of basketball."

Walder says of his friends, "We normally build forts in our basement, and sometimes my brothers come down and we play, like, war."

And while they have a lot more options indoors than kids of the 30's did, Nicholas and Katy say they still prefer playing outside.

"We have a tetherball on our basketball hoop, so we play with that a lot, we play fetch with our dog, because she's always wanting to go outside, we have a swingset, we go on that, we play basketball, that's usually what we do," says Pozorski.

And both she and Nick say they would have no problem living without all of today's advanced toys.

"Yeah, actually I could," Nick says. Katy adds, "Yeah, I probably could because I wouldn't be so bored, because I wouldn't have known that we would have TV and computer and everything, so I probably would've been okay, because I would have had the stuff back then to do." Nick adds, "I think I'd be okay because I'd still have friends to play with outside, there'd still be trees to climb, there'd be a bunch of stuff to do."

And even though the toys and experiences are different, everyone we spoke with agrees, kids are still the same.

Zelich says, "I think so, sure they are, kids are kids, you know, as you're young, you like to play."

Pozorski adds, "They still play outside, read books, play with everyone else, I would say they're still the game."

"I honestly don't think much has changed besides computers, and TV, and technology, not much has really changed," says Walder.

And Zelich adds, "Now they have all the benefits of modern education and technology, and they have to have that, in order to make all the progress that they need in this country and in this world."

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