[SpyRemo]

We ran wild outside from about the 2cnd grade on, we explored the countryside and probably spent more of our youth outside than we did inside. We were free. I'm saddened/infuriated by the deterioration of what once was our birthright and can only think that it's the incrementation of control being placed on these kids today. Even in my teens we rode around with cases of cold beer in coolers and if you weren't causing any problems the worst that happened is you gave them your beer or poured it out. I couldn't raise a family under the microscope and conditions of today, at least not in populated America.

[nemoforone]

When I was a kid on a small farm getting outside was so important and I remember on Saturday mornings absolutely looking forward to the adventure and sunshine that we basically ran outside very fast ,especially if there where dishes to do.if we had to do the dishes first then it was a matter of looking longingly outside while we plowed thru them.

[eropiereetuekm]

When I was a kid on a small farm getting outside was so important and I remember on Saturday mornings absolutely looking forward to the adventure and sunshine that we basically ran outside very fast ,especially if there where dishes to do.if we had to do the dishes first then it was a matter of looking longingly outside while we plowed thru them.

Yeah... but that was back when this world made some kind of sense, and everyone wasn't such a fearful cowering pussy!

[ARKLqAZ6]

Yes, very few things nowadays appear rational, in this case kids should only be allowed to kill themselves slowly in the safe environment at home in front of the computer, eating "safe" pasteurized food, lazed with chemical flavours enhancers, drinking fluoridated fluids, injected with symptom suppressing chemicals whenever they show a perfectly normal symptom of the environment they are living in, where they are injected with neurotoxins from the time they are born, and subjected to a sterilized environment.

All while subjected to the one eyed jew who brainwashes these kids to hate themselves and to destroy what is left of the family and the former glorious western civilization..

[gusunsuth]

when we were kids we were practially always outside, riding our bikes and "exploring", we built forts of all sorts and indeed spent most of our time outside, of course the electronic diversions of today weren't around then

[boanuatiguali]

Freerange here too, out of the house by 9 am back for lunch, out til dinner, back when the streetlights came on, (lol I grew up in the city)

But, not long ago her little cousin came down and the two of them went exploring, walked out across the field to look at some goats and just see what they could see, I just hollered watch out for rattlesnakes and follow the fence-line, off they went.
( granted I was worried they would get bit by a snake or something but you gotta let em run free.)

[BronUVT]

Kids need to learn at sometime how to dodge speeding vehicles with people texting in them.

5 sounds about correct with elder siblings present.

[cyslespitocop]

The reason it's not safe to let the kids out to play is that there are no parents out there. Hardly anyone is out there. When I was growing up there was always people in the neighborhood. Gardening, watering, sitting on the porch and watching the world go by. I think I had a childhood that in part was a bit like a Huckleberry Fin or Tom Sawyer adventure. Camping out, going up river in the canoe. I could fish from my back yard. Just wander down to the rivers edge and chuck a line in. We had tree houses and vacant lots we played in. We had our bikes and rode far and wide for adventure and there was plenty to be had I can tell you. Geez, perhaps I was just luckier than most kids.

[Seeseeskeva]

It seems that so many adults (including myself) look back fondly at our "free range" childhood, so recently some friends of mine (mostly younger than me) and I were trying to pinpoint when it ended. We figured probably some time around 1990, give or take a couple of years. Is there anybody here would feels they didn't grow up with a lot of freedom to roam as a kid? When would that have been?

Same story here, I grew up in the city but we would be gone playing and riding bikes for hours, just had to be home by dark.

I was at a dr. office yesterday and next to me was a young girl with her mom (maybe 16ish), she asked her mom if caucasian was the right one to mark for her ethnicity, her mom said yes. A few minutes later she made the comment that she had never had 'such and such feeling' until now that she is pregnant. Wow! A girl that has no idea what ethnicity she is, is about to bring life into this world.

I think the point that so many dumb kids started having kids was the point that childhood changed. Just mho.

[WXQMQFIr]

[Forexampleee]

Kids can't play in peace anymore ! What a sad world we live in today !

I think I'm going into the stix.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqyDj7RX6Y

[somamasoso]

of course the electronic diversions of today weren't around then

Saw this the other day and it kinda pissed me off:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QawblHx6ahw

[WXQMQFIr]

coming soon...

[sitescools]

the state of lockdown is here . mom and dad had to make us come in . i guess being a kid is a no no now