What you used to do, when you were a child, that children can't/don't do, these days :) ?

Question

Thank you for your answer! :) Have a wonderful night/day! :)

Answer 1

Wow! I loved reading everyone's answers so far ~
I remember, when I was a kid, my parents saying "When *I* was a kid, we never (fill in the blank: sat around wasting the day, watched tv, complained it was too hot, etc.)" Now, I find myself saying similar things to my own kids. At this rate, in a few more generations, kids will just be blobs of nothing! lol
When I was a kid we didn't have a tv, and we lived in the country most of the time. My brother and I were *forced* to use our imaginations! I'd ride our pig like a horse; play in the 'pool' (horse tank full of water) without much supervision; play alone or with my brother; roam all over the property without a care in the world; sometimes I even (*gasp!*) played alone in my bedroom!!!
Thanks for the memories~

Answer 2

Play under the hose. Put soap all over the trampoline, make huge bubbles.

We are in drought - so we can't play under the hose - throw water bombs, fill up buckets and throw them at eachother (throw the water, not buckets heh) Chase each other with the hose.

I'm old now, but you never get too old to frollic in the backyard with the hose! That all has nothing to do with how the safety of the world has changed, i'm only 20 so it's sort of always been the same unsafe place since I was growing up.

Answer 3

1.)Walk to the store (about 2 miles from the house) w/out worrying about getting kidnapped or ran over!
2.)Play hopscotch, rollerskate, ride my bike in the road
3.)When we did get to walk to the store, we'd sit down in the middle of the road and eat a candybar & drink a coke. We live down a deadend road and only family came back there. They all watched out for us kids! But now more families have moved in and ppl fly up and down the road!
4.)Mom & Dad use to take us to local creeks & play all day. They didn't even have to know the owner of the creek, they'd just ask them & they'd let us play. I tried to do that w/ my kids & NOBODY would let them play in their creek! How pathetic! Those were the best memories of my life and we did alot of fun things growing up!
5.)Stand up in the front seat of a car and hop all over the car while my mom was driving. (That didn't go over so well when Dad was driving...lol)
6.)Ride in a back of a truck, hanging over the edge!
Makes me wonder now, how in the hell did we survive our childhood!?!? lol!=) Great question! I loved answering this and reminising about the good old days growing up in the 80's!!!

Answer 4

ride bikes play in the middle of the road hopscotch tennis soccer, we were safe, we played with friends at their houses in the street we left out bikes lying everywhere they were safe too. we caught frogs in the creek \, we rode horses in the paddocks near our homes, we sat in the street for hours on end shared lollies with other kids till the sunset. played monopoly on the lawns, climbed the trees,played in parks we were safe then. no days it is a whole new ball game with computers PlayStation's and the crime rate things are different, times really have changed as my children & granchildren do not have the personal freedom that we had as kids sad but true

Answer 5

Play handball by the rules!

They have made up rules that make it WAY too easy and their is no more challenge.
I was stunned when I saw them playing on the playground at my daughters school.

Also, they can't bring a bible to school. With out an uprising.

Answer 6

Two or three of us walked up town on Sat. night and went to the movies. It only cost with a dollar each we could get in and have popcorn & a soda.

Play outside on our bikes from sunup till sundown.

Ride our ponys right in the street.

Go swimming in the river.

Go to a skating rink on Sat. in the summer that had open sides. It was beautiful.

get up early on Sat. and watch Sat mornig cartoons.

Kids today miss out on so much. It makes me sad.

Answer 7

Go down to the candy store and buy 25 cents worth of gum. Today kids cant even walk down to the candy store without bein kidnapped.

Answer 8

When I was a kid, someone could pretty much be taken home from school by any adult that the kid could identify. Now, they have to have a form in the office that proves the child has permission to go home with said person.

Answer 9

When I was a kid I was always outside doing something, swimming in the creek, rollerskating, bike riding, playing nighttime games like ghost in the graveyard and kick the can and it seems today that all kids are interested in is computers and video games, its really a shame and one of the causes of childhood obesity.

Answer 10

Sit in the boot of a car or in the back of a utility while it's driving along the road