did you do for entertainment?? Did you hang out with the kids from the neighborhood playing games, softball, kick the can, stickball, other?? Did you have to be home by dark??
2007-10-27 15:06:58 · 10 answers · asked by Ginny 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I remember doing all that stuff! We had to be close enough to hear mom call us for dinner!
I see alot about child hood obesity on the news....
That was not an issue when we were kids. But, you can't let your kids just go out and play like we used to....So sad!
2007-10-27 15:13:07 · answer #1 · answered by wanjoy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We were always out side when the weather was nice. We lived in a neighborhood with lots of kids so there was always something going on. We had to be able to hear mom when she called---and that wasn't on a cell phone either. In the summer we would all go out and play after dinner, and as long as the parents knew where we were we could hang out until after dark.
2007-10-27 19:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Instantkarma♥♫ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No my brother had a remote controlled plane and my granddad a remote controlled boat, but we spent a lot of time with our friends and in the park, Yes we had to be in before it was dark and even in the winter by 8.30 pm (and lay in bed hearing the other kids o/side. But sometimes we got to stay out in the back garden until late. WE WERE HAPPY SO IT DIDN'T REALLY BOTHER US TOO MUCH! (sorry caps lock got stuck on!)
2007-10-27 16:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes I was and let me tell you, there was soooo much more fun then, than there is now. We would be out in the dark hitting bats with tennisball raquets, anything. Me and my friends would hang at each others houses all summer long. We never slept indoors in the summer, but we had to be in whoevers yard when the streetlights came on, or the parents of said kids could beat us, then when we got home our parents would beat us too. Too bad the kids nowadays can't take responsibility
2007-10-27 15:17:29 · answer #4 · answered by Maxwell Smart(ypants) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
basically yes to all the above but I at least was fit and not over weight from sitting on couch watching TV and playing video games all day...You got a lot of exercise getting up off the couch to change the channel on the tv and you really had to do it quiet often when dad got home, since he was tired from working all day--according to him that is why he had kids...so someone would change the channel for him.
2007-10-27 15:14:39 · answer #5 · answered by ♥STREAKER♥©℗† 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before remote controls became so sophisticated...yes i use to play in the neighborhood yes I had to be home before dark ...lol...I guess that makes me old...
2007-10-27 19:00:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, we did have TV -- just no remote, cable or satellite dish. Just a rooftop antenna and only three channels -- the three major networks and it was all black and white. We played sandlot baseball quite a bit, rode horses, stuff like that. I don't remember covered wagons or stagecoaches, however.
2007-10-27 15:14:20 · answer #7 · answered by Frosty 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ooo yes i was that kid .. my biggest entertainment was my army men and my bike.. there was no kids in my neighborhood just little old lady and if i was not doing the army men thing i was helping my neighborehood with the house work things
2007-10-27 17:18:27 · answer #8 · answered by celticdragon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
omg, yes! all of the above. and i have theses days to compare to. i'll take the old days any day! we knew how to make our own fun!
didn't need comp., cell phones, i,pods, all this new tecnology! and we didn't need knives, and guns either! yeah, i'll take the past to now, anyday!
2007-10-27 15:17:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-10-27 15:12:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋