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I was totally reckless, I went and played outside, pulled wheelies on my bike without a helmet on and swam in ponds.
Goodness knows how I survived my childhood was like the Goonies.
To be honest, I did smash my front teeth out falling off my bike after going over a ramp.  |
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By *eeleyWoman
over a year ago
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"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
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I didn't go on a spacehopper down a dual carriageway and get pulled over by the police! I'm sure someone I know did that  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
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I walked on the roof of a 5 story block of flats, I used to ride my bike over very steep hills in the woods, I climbed a tall tree one of the other kids got some plastic piping and put it through the branch then bent it let go and it hit me in head and knocked me out the tree lol just living in London as a boy was a survival exercise  |
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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago
Birmingham |
I stole my dad's boat because I wanted to go to the fair in Stourport on Severn.
Almost made it all the way too until I was encouraged to find out what happened if I drove down the weir... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I actually did fall straight under a double decker school bus scrambling to get on. One boy dragged me out as the bus started to drive away. The wheels just missed me. He ended up being my first boyfriend and was with him for 2 years  |
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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago
Birmingham |
"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
I didn't go on a spacehopper down a dual carriageway and get pulled over by the police! I'm sure someone I know did that "
The off licence was going to close... |
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Walked and skated over the frozen canal.
Swam in the canal and got leeches off with salt.
Climbed up leccy pylons
Talked to strangers
Played out ALL day.
Climbed down drainpipes.
Moved from window to window outside the building.
Played Chicken on the main road.
Hid in fridges
Played on building sites running away from the Cockey
Endless....... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute
It didn’t  "
I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either |
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By *anky_PankyWoman
over a year ago
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"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute
It didn’t
I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either "
Yup also tried that jumping from a tree outside my house. Landed in the garden amazingly NOT breaking anything and blaming it not working on the fact the umbrella got caught in the tree.....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There was an electricity leak on a roof of a disused building. If you touch two stagered areas of the tin cover of the roof at the same time low current was running through your body. Used to play with that with other kids as a dare. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hitch hiked with a lorry driver once, jumped off garage onto a pile of cardboard boxes, played out in the woods till dawn, rode my bike with no helmet on the usual stuff really |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute
It didn’t
I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either "
I don’t see why not you’re practically perfect in every way  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute
It didn’t
My mate broke both his ankles doing that. He jumped from the roof of a house  "
Bugger all I came away with was a bruised ego |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute
It didn’t
I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either
Yup also tried that jumping from a tree outside my house. Landed in the garden amazingly NOT breaking anything and blaming it not working on the fact the umbrella got caught in the tree..... "
Clearly the trees fault |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute
It didn’t
I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either
I don’t see why not you’re practically perfect in every way "
Well yes this is true  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As kids we used to hang from a rail way bridge and drop into the river below
As a teenager, toomstoning on lads holidays.
As a young adult fought in a cage.
Now I’m old, my biggest danger is being hit by a stray golf shot |
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By *eeleyWoman
over a year ago
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"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
I didn't go on a spacehopper down a dual carriageway and get pulled over by the police! I'm sure someone I know did that
The off licence was going to close... "
A noble quest! |
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Tbh I had a bit of an Enid Blyton childhood - or a working class version of it anyway (substitute vimto for the lashings of ginger beer!)
My friends and I made dens, climbed trees, made rope swings, made fires and roasted spuds (without washing them of course - they tasted better that way!) explored abandoned farmhouses with dodgy ceilings and waded through filthy rivers with a very pretty film of oil on top! Oh and we played football in the cow fields too!
My mum always made me get undressed at the back door and hosed me down before I was allowed inside!
Needless to say my old hunting grounds are now housing estates! I wish my own kids could have had half the freedom/fun that I had! X |
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"Talked to strangers
Played out ALL day.
Climbed down drainpipes.
Moved from window to window outside the building.
Played Chicken on the main road.
Hid in fridges
Played on building sites running away from the Cockey
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Not just me that did this then, add jumped from building to building 2 storeys up.
Climb down from my balcony to the 1 below while living in a tower block.
Oh and ate my mum's cooking..... nuff said. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Walked to school a mile away on my own from the age of 7. Rode my bike to school on the main ring road round Liverpool from age 11 without a helmet. Played out all day in the local parks from age 8 or 9 without adult supervision. Went swimmingly no without an adult present from age 10 in local swimming pools and on holiday |
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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago
from Home Counties to Middle Earth |
Hitch hiked
Played outside in thunderstorms
Cycled with no lights, in the dark
Took my dad's car off-road (when I was 10) and practiced doing handbrake turns
Took my brother's motorbike (when I was 11) and crashed it head-on in to a wall after hitting black ice
As a teen, passed sweets out of the car window to friends in another car, whilst driving down the autobahn at speed
...All manner of silliness!! |
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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago
Birmingham |
"To all those who lament the good old days.....have you let your kids do the same as you?"
My children played out sometimes from dawn until dusk. I'm a firm believer that play (or lack of free play) can be linked with the autistic spectrum. I wasn't always happy with what they got up to and had a clear set boundaries and consequences too. |
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Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards ....... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards ....... "
exactly we were never in, I certainly wasnt |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
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Swam across a lake that many have drowned in
Walked on thin ice 
Played with matches, well not me but the person I was near did so by proxy...
So many dangerous things I did. Probably why I now have fearless children, you know, to teach me a lesson |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards ....... "
This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tbh I had a bit of an Enid Blyton childhood - or a working class version of it anyway (substitute vimto for the lashings of ginger beer!)
My friends and I made dens, climbed trees, made rope swings, made fires and roasted spuds (without washing them of course - they tasted better that way!) explored abandoned farmhouses with dodgy ceilings and waded through filthy rivers with a very pretty film of oil on top! Oh and we played football in the cow fields too!
My mum always made me get undressed at the back door and hosed me down before I was allowed inside!
Needless to say my old hunting grounds are now housing estates! I wish my own kids could have had half the freedom/fun that I had! X"
My mates dad was a green grocer we used to boil the beets in the back yard and do foil wrapped baked potatoes on the bonfire |
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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago
Birmingham |
"Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards .......
This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters "
There is an initiative in Brum (which is free) that allows you to close a road so that your children can play.
Anyway, do you think our attitudes to play have changed?
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River swimming, tree climbing, playing in a scrapyard, etc
One thing just occurred to me, though - you never heard of anyone dying from allergies back then.
No doubt, they did; but how many before we were made as aware of it as we are today? |
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"Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards .......
This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters
There is an initiative in Brum (which is free) that allows you to close a road so that your children can play.
Anyway, do you think our attitudes to play have changed?
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My attitudes to play haven’t changed but unfortunately those around me have. I actively encourage the lad to climb trees, be outside generally as much as we can. He however needs a bit of persuading if he classes it as dangerous, although it’s not
If a rainy day then we are indoors drawing, reading, playing board games, building lego, playing Star Wars, generally anything that isn’t a computer game.
Our favourite though is indoor nerf gun wars, build your defence and shoot the h*ll out of each other |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards .......
This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters
There is an initiative in Brum (which is free) that allows you to close a road so that your children can play.
Anyway, do you think our attitudes to play have changed?
My attitudes to play haven’t changed but unfortunately those around me have. I actively encourage the lad to climb trees, be outside generally as much as we can. He however needs a bit of persuading if he classes it as dangerous, although it’s not
If a rainy day then we are indoors drawing, reading, playing board games, building lego, playing Star Wars, generally anything that isn’t a computer game.
Our favourite though is indoor nerf gun wars, build your defence and shoot the h*ll out of each other "
Love a nerf gun war! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!
My kids have grown up doing much the same things I did and we had mega "hobbies" as kids! The only difference being we had no phones and no adult supervision whereas I did it all again with my kids!! (With added helmets etc) |
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"H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!
My kids have grown up doing much the same things I did and we had mega "hobbies" as kids! The only difference being we had no phones and no adult supervision whereas I did it all again with my kids!! (With added helmets etc) "
That is what I meant by H&S, the lad has picked up the do’s and don’ts from school (and well his dad) that I have to undo them so he can just play or climb.
Although his face is a picture when I describe some of the things I used to do as a kid...... like trying to get the swing to go all the way over the bar haha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Used to climb to the top of the pine trees in reception and nursery apparently.
Swam in in a river just before a waterfall. River was full of snakes, that's why we left.
Nearly drown under a capsized canoe then had to drag said canoe back to shore.
Be dragged underneath a capsized kayak in Rapids.
Cliff jumping.
Decided it would be fun to lie on mesh covering a hole at the top of a 100m tower.
Climbed out of an 8th story window in central London because it was too hot inside(last month).
Planned to explore the tunnels under Manchester. Sadly the entrance was sealed before we could do so.
Got lost in heavy fog and rain in local moors.
And live in a crime ridden area. A few experiences I'd rather keep private from here.
Yep. I'm a crazy motherfucker.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!
My kids have grown up doing much the same things I did and we had mega "hobbies" as kids! The only difference being we had no phones and no adult supervision whereas I did it all again with my kids!! (With added helmets etc)
That is what I meant by H&S, the lad has picked up the do’s and don’ts from school (and well his dad) that I have to undo them so he can just play or climb.
Although his face is a picture when I describe some of the things I used to do as a kid...... like trying to get the swing to go all the way over the bar haha "
I think it's really really sad! just do it all with him! And it's great fun!! |
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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago
Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria |
Injury wise - Jumped off the shed roof over a fence into school fields
Weirdo wise - Hitched a lift to a quarry for a swim
Parent wise - Painted everything blue outside and hung my mums best curtains on a nails on the shed windows
Got any better with age erm nope lol
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"H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!
My kids have grown up doing much the same things I did and we had mega "hobbies" as kids! The only difference being we had no phones and no adult supervision whereas I did it all again with my kids!! (With added helmets etc)
That is what I meant by H&S, the lad has picked up the do’s and don’ts from school (and well his dad) that I have to undo them so he can just play or climb.
Although his face is a picture when I describe some of the things I used to do as a kid...... like trying to get the swing to go all the way over the bar haha
I think it's really really sad! just do it all with him! And it's great fun!! "
Oh I am haha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just about everything and more, considering where I was born and raised. I just scared people when I entered secondary school here with what I considered safe enough. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
Remember how the Gas and Electric companies used to have all their gear in a trailer, covered in a tarpaulin and roped down?
There was always one in my neighbourhood; it was our Spaceship, submarine, Tank, whatever means it has to be to fit into our adventures!
Other kids from rival streets would try to take it over, so we'd running battles to prevent them winning!
Playgrounds. We'd competitions to see who could get the roundabouts going the fastest and who could stay on the longest; many a time I limped home with bleeding scars!
Riding bikes without a care for traffic.
Climbing trees with no thought as to how to get down!!!
Playing in parks all day, especially in waist high grass, creating "dens", getting bitten by insects - it was almost a badge of honour to have the most bite marks!
Investigating streams, especially when in flood after heavy rain without any thought for what might happen?
Going to the seaside and wading out till the water was up to my shoulders BUT...
I did not swim nor was ever aware of undercurrents. |
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Shot each other with air guns. Played 'knifey', which was basically throwing knives into the ground at each others feet as close as we dared.
Climbed into storm drains, canal overflows and anything else that we really shouldnt have done.
Sneaked into the back of the brickworks and would throw ourselves off piles of slag into more of it and sink neck deep.
Start up the JCBs that were there as well. Build rope swings over the river. 6 people in a 4 man dinghy going down the croal and irwell and not stopping because of weirs etc. Made razor sharp throwing stars, dutch arrows with darts on the ends. Homemade crossbows. Hurtling down streets in bogied made of timber and old pram wheels.
Going out at 9 in the morning with a bottle of water, some jam butties and a couple of fags pinched from any packet lying around the house,then not coming home till teatime. Covered in mud, blood, sweat and tears.
They were proper school holidays. |
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