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Modern "safety rules" that have taken the fun out of childhood

Posted on 11/03/2020 3:14:07 PM PST by WhattheDickens?

Safety mandates taking the fun out of childhood


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: children; killjoys; playing; safety
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To: kaehurowing

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41 posted on 11/03/2020 3:35:48 PM PST by Herosmith ("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
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To: WhattheDickens?

We spent summers crawling inside a 50 gallon drum and rolling down the hill in it. Had some spectacular crashes. Great fun.


42 posted on 11/03/2020 3:35:54 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (With age comes wisdom or well practiced ignorance)
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To: WhattheDickens?

We had a high diving board at the local town pool......my kids loved it in the 70s....it is now gone,too dangerous.

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43 posted on 11/03/2020 3:35:55 PM PST by Mears (...)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I saw a meme on the net that said it all regarding that. It goes something like...

“My generation grew up looking for frogs and shit.

Your generation grew up looking for a wifi connection - We are not the same!


44 posted on 11/03/2020 3:36:39 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Retrofitted

We called them click-clacks. They were an interesting novelty but really not much fun once you got the hang of them


45 posted on 11/03/2020 3:36:53 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: EvilCapitalist

We used to slide down steep muddy hills on pieces of cardboard. At some point someone would get their leg opened up by a rock uncovered by sliding in the mud, and end up having to go to emergency.


46 posted on 11/03/2020 3:37:29 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: WhattheDickens?
There were a lot of changes to the equipment at parks.

Everything metal like slides, merry-go-rounds, etc. was made smaller, shorter, and made of plastic.

Even the shorter slides were turned into tunnels so that no one could fall off.

Swings were also shortened so you couldn't go as high and were made so that the most acrobatic kids couldn't go over the top.

Jungle gyms went completely away until rock climbing became a fad and now they have lame rock-climbing equivalents of the jungle gyms.

47 posted on 11/03/2020 3:37:35 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: kaehurowing

We used to use cardboard on grass slopes. That was fun.


48 posted on 11/03/2020 3:38:10 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: WhattheDickens?

Let’s not forget tops with pointy steel ends.


49 posted on 11/03/2020 3:38:16 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Bonemaker
Last time I used them...last year...the plastic on mine was okay. Probably depends on brand.

Ours were the Jarts brand, I didn't know there were knock-offs.
50 posted on 11/03/2020 3:39:30 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

All of the school and public playground equipment here disappeared as a result of a big liability verdict for some kid who got injured. All the playground equipment got dug up within a year.


51 posted on 11/03/2020 3:39:57 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: WhattheDickens?

We used to sled ride down a backwoods road on a ‘53 Chevy car hood...We could get about 5-7 kids on it and rode it wherever it took us...In the ditch, off the road into the woods...It was great!!!


52 posted on 11/03/2020 3:42:04 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

It was great for me too. And the teeter-totter was the best way to determine what friends you could trust.


53 posted on 11/03/2020 3:42:14 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: WhattheDickens?

Riding in the back of a pickup truck.


54 posted on 11/03/2020 3:42:19 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: WhattheDickens?

Go look up Jordan Peterson and his 12 Rules for Life, one of which is basically don’t interrupt a kid who’s skateboarding.


55 posted on 11/03/2020 3:42:59 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: WhattheDickens?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3193234/posts


56 posted on 11/03/2020 3:43:08 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: caseinpoint

LOL...That’s for sure...


57 posted on 11/03/2020 3:44:29 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: caseinpoint

We used to ‘em “see-saws”...


58 posted on 11/03/2020 3:45:03 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: WhattheDickens?

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59 posted on 11/03/2020 3:45:25 PM PST by simpson96
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To: caseinpoint

....call....


60 posted on 11/03/2020 3:45:36 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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