Riding bicycles all day without helmets or shinguards or any of that silliness. Skateboarding down the "suicidal" hill in front of our house...again with no protective gear.
Swimming pools with high and low diving boards and deep ends.
Having Mother home waiting when I came home from school...all the way through high school and smelling dinner cooking.
Catching fireflies in jars on summer nights.
Archie, Superman and Batman comics...for about 10 cents apiece.
I also like to horrify my friends' kids today by telling them we had to get up to switch channels on the TV...and we only had five channels.
Ah, speaking of Mom...decorating Christmas cookies with Mom and Grandma...and Mom's homemade bread. Licking the beaters. Making homemade Play Doh. Pillow fights. Popcorn made in a pot, with oil. One of us occasionally whipping the lid off in a fit of enthusiasm and havong pop corn fly all over the place. Mom waxing the floor and telling us we were all allowed to 'skate' around on it as much as we wanted in order to buff it (any other time we weren't allowed)
I carried the traditions forward and did all these things with my kids later.