Yep brings back memories of the simple joys of childhood in yesteryear.
I remember summer days going to friends houses, just dropping in, not having to make a play date the way so many parents insist on nowadays.
I remember going for bike rides and packing a lunch and being gone all day with friends.
I remember playing baseball, not in a league, but just for fun, at the baseball diamond in the park.
I remember playing with friends at the park, without adult supervision.
I guess times are just different now. Nowadays, there aren’t too many things that kids can do without adult supervision, whether it’s sports or just going to friends houses. No way that kids today go for long bike rides and are gone all day.
Heck I don’t see too many kids nowadays just outside and playing. I know there’s lot of kids who live in this neighborhood, but you just don’t see them outside the way you did in the old days.
I remember playing baseball, not in a league, but just for fun, at the baseball diamond in the park.
I think we can still tell where home, first, and second were worn into my parents’ front yard. Third was a tree which has since been removed.
Military base housing tends to resemble the “good old days.” They don’t play around with fireworks or BB guns, but there are always kids out and about. Six of them are ours, so even if nobody else is out the neighborhood is still busy.
I hear a lot of whining from both my kids and their friends about a lot of things we took in stride 40 years ago. I have the same answer to all of them
“You never ate mud pies when you were a kid, did you”?