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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Eeeee when i wer nobbut a lad*, during school holidays me and my mates couldnt wait to get out and play in the fields, woods, parks etc
Now they all play in Ikea. Admittedly a few were under control.
*When a penny tray was a 1d tray and the shopkeeper easily distracted lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We used to always be playing out in the fields. Making up games with tennis balls and old tights, bits of elastic, tig, skipping. These days kids can't seem to amuse themselves for more than 5 minutes. 
Boredom is undervalued. |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"We used to always be playing out in the fields. Making up games with tennis balls and old tights, bits of elastic, tig, skipping. These days kids can't seem to amuse themselves for more than 5 minutes.
Boredom is undervalued."
Tennis ball in leg of tights, swing it side to side agin the wall n between your legs n over your head? I'm sure I posted about that once on here n got lots of    You must have been away at the time 
Hopscotch grids chalked with white dog poo cos you didn't have any chalk, hill rolling...and as we got older - magic mushroom picking up the park and making into tea when our parents weren't around...oh and drying orange and banana peel on the radiators (if you had them) or behind the leccy fire as you were supposed to get high off smoking or eating them |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
I spent every summer holiday cycling round my village, making forts out of haystacks, falling into streams etc etc. Funnily enough, that's pretty much what my daughter did when she was small.
We were lucky - we live in a nice part of the world. I can't think how god-awful it must be for kids where there is nothing for them to do. Might as well stay inside really. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We used to always be playing out in the fields. Making up games with tennis balls and old tights, bits of elastic, tig, skipping. These days kids can't seem to amuse themselves for more than 5 minutes.
Boredom is undervalued.
Tennis ball in leg of tights, swing it side to side agin the wall n between your legs n over your head? I'm sure I posted about that once on here n got lots of You must have been away at the time
Hopscotch grids chalked with white dog poo cos you didn't have any chalk, hill rolling...and as we got older - magic mushroom picking up the park and making into tea when our parents weren't around...oh and drying orange and banana peel on the radiators (if you had them) or behind the leccy fire as you were supposed to get high off smoking or eating them "
That thin knicker elastic girls used to jump in and out of.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to make braclets by drying out melon seeds, using food colouring to dye them, a needle and cotton to fasten them together.
Kerbie, hop scotch, chicken ( stand in a circle with your legs apart while someone threw a knife or dart at the floor between your legs) and yes I have some scars! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We used to always be playing out in the fields. Making up games with tennis balls and old tights, bits of elastic, tig, skipping. These days kids can't seem to amuse themselves for more than 5 minutes.
Boredom is undervalued.
Tennis ball in leg of tights, swing it side to side agin the wall n between your legs n over your head? I'm sure I posted about that once on here n got lots of You must have been away at the time
Hopscotch grids chalked with white dog poo cos you didn't have any chalk, hill rolling...and as we got older - magic mushroom picking up the park and making into tea when our parents weren't around...oh and drying orange and banana peel on the radiators (if you had them) or behind the leccy fire as you were supposed to get high off smoking or eating them "
Yes! The tennis ball in tights, whacking it against the wall. Maybe it's a bit of a regional thing.
We never used white dog poo as chalk though. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
If kids run around in the fields and woods now they would be reported and end up with an ASBO! Even worse if they dare to draw on the pavements.
If you see more than 3 children/young people together they get called a gang and not in the Famous Five sort of way.
We've criminalised childhood.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"If kids run around in the fields and woods now they would be reported and end up with an ASBO! Even worse if they dare to draw on the pavements.
If you see more than 3 children/young people together they get called a gang and not in the Famous Five sort of way.
We've criminalised childhood.
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Hardly. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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We never used white dog poo as chalk though.
You've never lived! "
Samoyeds and those cute West Highland Terriers come to mind.
Does it work with Rottweiler poo?
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
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We never used white dog poo as chalk though.
You've never lived!
Samoyeds and those cute West Highland Terriers come to mind.
Does it work with Rottweiler poo?
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It would do as its dependant on what the dog eats and the length of time the poo has to dry out, cos dogs don't always eat as much bone as they used to there's less calcium, so feed an asylum seeker to your Rottie, let it crap in the sun, wait for a fortnight and see if the resulting stick of shit will do a half decent hopscotch grid |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We used to always be playing out in the fields. Making up games with tennis balls and old tights, bits of elastic, tig, skipping. These days kids can't seem to amuse themselves for more than 5 minutes.
Boredom is undervalued.
Tennis ball in leg of tights, swing it side to side agin the wall n between your legs n over your head? I'm sure I posted about that once on here n got lots of You must have been away at the time
Hopscotch grids chalked with white dog poo cos you didn't have any chalk, hill rolling...and as we got older - magic mushroom picking up the park and making into tea when our parents weren't around...oh and drying orange and banana peel on the radiators (if you had them) or behind the leccy fire as you were supposed to get high off smoking or eating them "
Were we friends.. I did all the above... Good times  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We used to always be playing out in the fields. Making up games with tennis balls and old tights, bits of elastic, tig, skipping. These days kids can't seem to amuse themselves for more than 5 minutes.
Boredom is undervalued."
We did all these. And more but may take a while to remember |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Kids still run round in fields and woods around here - go out on their bikes - make bows and arrows etc. etc.
It is a little bit 'The Shire' but then that's why we live here.
I think the comment about criminalising childhood is a fair point albeit in more urban areas. Traffic, the media and parents not at home have all contributed to robbing children of some freedom. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If kids run around in the fields and woods now they would be reported and end up with an ASBO! Even worse if they dare to draw on the pavements.
If you see more than 3 children/young people together they get called a gang and not in the Famous Five sort of way.
We've criminalised childhood.
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If they're drawing with chalk on the roads I can't see a problem, but stealing bikes and robbing houses I do!!! That's the hobbies of some kids these days! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't think we have criminalized it, more that we are more aware of the dangers out there these days and maybe over protective because of that.
We used to be out all the time as kids getting filthy when mum told us not to cos we were going out. Brook jumping and more often than not falling in. Experimenting with boys down the playing field. Climbing trees and falling out fracturing our arms. Our primary school had a political and some of the teachers who lived in the village would open it up on certain days in the holidays too. Was ace!!! Someone just had to shout whirlpool and we'd all run Round in the same direction making a vortex lol |
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"We used to always be playing out in the fields. Making up games with tennis balls and old tights, bits of elastic, tig, skipping. These days kids can't seem to amuse themselves for more than 5 minutes.
Boredom is undervalued.
Tennis ball in leg of tights, swing it side to side agin the wall n between your legs n over your head? I'm sure I posted about that once on here n got lots of You must have been away at the time
Hopscotch grids chalked with white dog poo cos you didn't have any chalk, hill rolling...and as we got older - magic mushroom picking up the park and making into tea when our parents weren't around...oh and drying orange and banana peel on the radiators (if you had them) or behind the leccy fire as you were supposed to get high off smoking or eating them
That thin knicker elastic girls used to jump in and out of.
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Twangee!
We used to collect elastic bands to make ours.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I live on the corner and the kids meet in my yard to play cause they can't go past the large rock in my yard .I love kids but the little boy rides his bike down my drive way and it kills me thinking he's going to spill over and mess up the car. The other day he asked to come in I sat outside telling him about stranger danger he didn't get it. Should I walk down and tell his parents? |
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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago
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I moved my kids north of the border and out of London so they could have a childhood like ours. Now the boys are 12 and 9, both have phones 'just in case' and go out to play all day. They take their bikes, golf clubs, go down the woods and by the stream, they come back with wet trousers on a regular basis, covered in mud, bumps and bruises from rough and tumble - and they love it!!!!!!!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I moved my kids north of the border and out of London so they could have a childhood like ours. Now the boys are 12 and 9, both have phones 'just in case' and go out to play all day. They take their bikes, golf clubs, go down the woods and by the stream, they come back with wet trousers on a regular basis, covered in mud, bumps and bruises from rough and tumble - and they love it!!!!!!!! "
that's exactly how it should be for kids.Good for you....... |
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