Posted on 11/03/2020 3:14:07 PM PST by WhattheDickens?
Safety mandates taking the fun out of childhood
We spent summers crawling inside a 50 gallon drum and rolling down the hill in it. Had some spectacular crashes. Great fun.
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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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!
We called them click-clacks. They were an interesting novelty but really not much fun once you got the hang of them
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.
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.
We used to use cardboard on grass slopes. That was fun.
Let’s not forget tops with pointy steel ends.
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.
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!!!
It was great for me too. And the teeter-totter was the best way to determine what friends you could trust.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck.
Go look up Jordan Peterson and his 12 Rules for Life, one of which is basically don’t interrupt a kid who’s skateboarding.
LOL...That’s for sure...
We used to ‘em “see-saws”...
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