YES!!! I remember coming home to the whistle of mom, catching fireflies, etc...
Hell, I remember doing the Big Wheel wipe out (going as fast as you can and then ripping the brake up) and also remember Star Wars, loved it... and on and on
Just realized my kids won’t have that memory. Even if I risked the world and let them.. and something happened to them... Freepers (amongst the rest of the world) would say “WHY WEREN’T YOU WATCHING THEM EVERY SECOND!!!!!!” Heck, I was gone from time got home from school until supper or dark, whichever came first... but if I did that with my kids, the world would put me in jail.
That is just damn sad...
So many of the things we did ‘normally’ are now blacklisted. And yes, many on the right are as bad as leftists.
At 10 I used to travel miles from home on a snowmobile in the Adirondacks. We ALL did. It was NORMAL. At 13 we took motorboats on lakes fishing. At 16 we had been driving for YEARS on dirt roads.
Today? I see patents of mid teenagers refusing to let kids go to a movie alone/with friends.
Pathetic.
My parents used at various times a bell, a large triangle, and...their voice.
I remember playing all those games and “Crack the Whip”
I remember the metal roller skates, and how I would take them apart, hammer them flat and nail them to boards to make skateboards that would never stand up to the first crack in the sidewalk they met, causing either the front or rear wheels to fall of and causing you to crack up.
You never see a group of neighborhood kids playing baseball or tackle football (with no equipment)
It is almost an unwritten rule amongst parents not to let more than three or four kids congregate.
That is what's wrong. In today's world, you can not risk it. Too many crazies out there.
It is not that parents do not desire those experiences for their children, the world has changed.