When I was about 10 I would go in the woods find a good gree stick ,get a piece of string and make a bow. Arrows were the straightest stick I could find. My horse was a stick with another string I ran with it between my legs.
My first race car was a crate I attached a steering wheel to,it never moved but it was fast./ We built cabins in the woods and dug foxholes in a sawdust pile.We went out in the morning and came back at noon for lunch.
Kids today need to use their imaginations and build their own toys.
As a child, I would disappear at dawn and return at dusk. At least most of the times.
My friends and I would play war, cowboys and indians, or play sports. Halfball, football, tag, and hide and seek. There was NO imagination about it, we just did it. My best friend and I went to our school and got mats so we could wrestle like our heroes, Bruno Samartino, Gorilla Monsoon, and George “The Animal” Steel. (You go, you see! For those that remember.)
Our children NEED to be disconnected. They need to be pulled away from the modern conveniences. They need to spend some time in the dark, only illuminated by a campfire.
Darn! My buddies and I used to hunt racoons with a garbarge can! We need to see that again in our children.
I think Homeland Security calls it a weapon of mass destruction these days.