[HairOfTheDog]

I realized how kids had changed when the trails in the woods behind our subdivision, trails made by some generation of kids before my own youth, where we ran and hid and explored and built forts, were all overgrown now.... Guess kids don't play in the woods now either.

[Gringo1]

My kids play in the woods. They have discovered hammers and nails too.....my son brings home wildlife(frogs,etc).....I want my kids to be normal like that.

LOL our parents would let us spend the night in the corn field(we would make forts by pushing the corn over to make trails to them)......bet nobody does that anymore!

I rarely ever see kids riding bikes anymore either other than mine and 1 or 2 others on our street.
Starnge days we live in for sure.

[Prodigal Son]

Guess kids don't play in the woods now either.

Now that is a shame. What do they do? If I couldn't go in the woods when I was a kid (for whatever reason) I would at least climb a tree and pretend I was Tarzan. Many many hours spent happily in the woods. I can't think of any more natural place for a kid to play.

[StormEye]

"Guess kids don't play in the woods now either.

Not with the psychos the Liberals have let loose on the country.

[Squawk 8888]

Guess kids don't play in the woods now either.

How sad. I grew up in a neighbourhood in Toronto where a forest was behind all the backyards on my side of the street, which was the perfect place to be if you knew you were in trouble. I would hide out all day and stuff myself with wild berries, and by the time I got home my parents were so worried they forgot that they were going to punish me for something :-D

[bootless]

Oh, gosh. We had woods behind our house in Conn - at the bottom of a great hill for rolling down. We learned what skunk cabbage was very quickly.

And the wandering through woods and streams and meadows in Vermont ... all unsupervised and returning with a bunch of wild berries. Ahhh...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Guess kids don't play in the woods now either.

Kids don't do anything that hasn't been created, designed, or organized for them by adults. The whole Soccer-schedule-runs-the-family syndrome is a case in point. I used to vanish into the woods after breakfast and emerge bug-bit and sore at dusk.

Several generations of kids "discovered" the same creeks and ponds, and were sure they were the first. How can you be the "first" to discover the food court at the mall?

I'm glad I'm not a kid now.