What did you do all summer?

Question

I was talking to my son last night about playing outside more(not in front of ps2)He said there was nothing to do outside! which got me thinking about myself growing up and what we played.My Grans garden backed on to a old railway line,and i spent most of my childhood down there.We built gang huts out of old doors (we even had an old filthy sofa in it and no boys allowed!!) we had a tarzan until the branch broke,we caught bee,s in jars, slid down the embankment in black bags dared each other to run through the jaggy nettles,learnt to walk a wall,then we set the whole railway up in flames sharing a cigarette and throwing it in long grass(the Fire Brigade came it was fantastic) why cant kids play like this now?(well not setting things alight lol) what did you play to fill ur days?

Answer 1

i had to answer this, why.... coz i get the chance to walk down memory lane. which of course i love to do at any chance i get. i remember playing skipping with my friends and all the moms would come and join in, playing hopscotch, hide and seek and knock door run (moms were not involved in that one). i never forget a Sunday afternoon watching my favourite programme Skippy the kangaroo then going out into the street and re-in acting the show. oh what fun and how we were children.

those days have certainly gone i think if you mentioned any of the above to children today you would be met with some funny looks

Answer 2

Ah, sweet memories. I worry for the youth of today, that not only are they not getting enough exercise and that incredibly complex video games are robbng them of their imagintions, but that the only childhood memories they will have are sitting in front of a game console all alone. I played with my friend in a neighbouring street, was an only child so had to make play for myself. We would put notes in each others letterboxes on the boring days. Another friend lived on the back of a huge gully and we would get our best clothes dirty while we looked for eels in the water and pretended there were fairies in the woods. I swam a lot with friends, endless hours in the swimming pool, talking laughing and making up games. I can't believe how many weeks I killed on holidays. I think that it is true about youth being wasted on the young =)

Answer 3

My sister and I had fantastic imaginations as kids - our parents lived in an old manse with a huge garden with lots of trees etc etc - plenty of places to explore and play! We would make up stories and play them out around the garden - real fantasy and adventure. Think it helped that I used to write stories as a kid. Our neighbour had a wee sandpit in the garden, so we used to shimmy over the wall and play there. I used to love it! When I moved house and changed friends, there was a mixed group of about 6 of us who would go out on our bikes onto the local estate for hours. We'd also take our dogs out for long walks to local waterfalls and up the hill - run nervously past the boy's school. Those were the good old days! Kids grow up soo fast these days and spend all their time playing computers etc etc - little scope for imagination. I find it rather sad...and I'm only 23! lol

Answer 4

Hi there,

Unfortunatly, I spent mine in the hospital as a visitor.. My daughter's father had 4 heart attacks and in Nov., 06., My beautiful Mom passed away. She was 61 years old.. I hope that I do not have to go through this much drama for a very long time.

Answer 5

Well, I was a child in the '60's and we didn't have all the electronic things kids have now, we had to be creative to entertain ourselves. Not only did we jump rope, play marbles, go for long hikes, play board games, climb trees, we used to read and work on puzzles at night. We didn't have 150 channels on television and we could only find one radio station to listen to. Those were the days. To this day I am never bored. I always find something to do, but my own kids are bored 24/7 and they have cell phones, computers, DVD players.....I would love it if they could live how we used to when we were kids...wonder if they would die??

Answer 6

Suppose i did the same sort of things when i was young,my son is pretty much the same as yours he would rather play on his ps2 (he's 7).Sometimes he will go on the front for a bit but not for to long.And nowadays you have to keep an eye on them when they are out it's not the same anymore.The stories kids hear i think some are a bit afraid of going out.

Answer 7

here in the united kingdom we communicate with it as summer time trip journeys many times. If we've been to circulate out of the country throughout our summer time trip journeys, then i'd say i will 'x' u . s . for a summer time trip.

Answer 8

I ran around catching butterflies. and lighting bugs. Climbed in this apple tree that never had any apples on it but it was perfect for siting in and watching the creek run-listening to the sound. when i was small i played in a much larger creek with the craw dabs and sat right down in the water. Made a ball out of socks and used a board for a bat. Planted my own little garden. I was mostly a loner but I liked to seesaw and i was a tomboy. played with my dolls and made mud pies. Ran up and down the Mountains. Had a pet chicken that followed me home from my grandma's because i sneaked it corn bread. Little tiny thing. It eat out of my hand and i kept it in the corn crib until it grew big enough to be with the other hens. Had a pet duck that was eaten and i cryed. After i grew up i had a pet Goose for a while that had gotten hurt so i spoiled it rotten . Once i sat a duck free(a a park) that kept following me back to the car and bit me because it wanted to go back home with me. I watch it until it joined the other ducks finally. Had a pet turtle and i put flowers on its grave all summer long. Just this and that picked wild strawberrys and blackberrys. Ate black walnuts off my grandpas porch that he kept in a sack. Lay under the grape vines and ate all i wanted. Went to my grandpa's cherry trees and ate all i wanted. I loved my gradma's spring house. I never had a gang but i did smoke some green tobacco with my nephew and got real sick. I couldn't seem to stay out of the posion oak. Helped plant Tobacco and was a good green bean picker so they said for a child. Enjoyed eating mountain apples all winter and i loved my mothers stack cake(with applebutter with cinnamon ) (Enjoyed helping to stir the apple butter made outside.) and sour kraut and her picked beans and corn. Her pickles too. Just stuff like that. I tryed to wear red lipstick when i was too young and it looked terrible. Loved to build snow huts and snowmen. I liked Burl Ives-Roy Rogers-Matt-Dillion on gun smoke. I listened to stories on the radio.I ate cornbread and milk and onions. Loved those tomato biscuits or biscuits with apple butter. When my mother made jelly i liked eating the scum off the top. Little things like that-that i treasure now. Found a litlle bible and started reading it. Said my prayers every night. Simple things.

Answer 9

slept all day, woke up and smoked a blunt, went back to bed