[cherry]

We were always outside as kids....

[onona]

We were always outside as kids....

and read cereal boxes cover to cover during breakfast. Comics, if the older kids would share.

The brain needs constant input. Safe input for sure, but I still remember all the sesame street jingles.

[equaviator]

For three summers in a row, my buddies and me built little forts out of scrap plywood, 2 x 4s, etc. and then we’d spend hours just hanging out in them. The last one was in a tree and was the largest with tar paper on the roof and a hatch in the floor. One day, the ladder disappeared, and then a week later somebody took an axe to it.

[House Atreides]

“ We were always outside as kids....”
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Until dark… and then being outside frequently continued but in the back yard with family.

[jmacusa]

Same here. My Schwinn Typhoon bike was a P51 and the rambling old Victorian neighbor's house was haunted and the old man living in ate kids. Least that's what my older brother told me.