[Mears]

I’m 81. When we grew up we were surrounded with dangerous things in our thickly settled Boston neighborhood.. We survived.

The payoff for me these days was the removal of the high diving board at the city pool because it was deemed too dangerous. High diving was a rite of passage for my kids——and no one was hurt. My grandchildren have been deprived if that experience.

The kids these days are so pampered it’s beyond belief.

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[AlexW]

“When we grew up we were surrounded with dangerous things”
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Of course we were, and I do not know of any serious injury from it.
Each of my brothers, twins, now 74 years old, each had the largest chemistry sets made by Gilbert, 3 fold out metal units, containing probably 75 to 100 chemicals.
Today, they would probably be limited to salt, sugar, and flower.
Everyone had cap guns. Can you even buy one today?
Oh yea, we also played with balls of Mercury. Now, as I have read, a simple broken CFL requires the full emergency dispatch of a hazmat team.
The dumbing down of America is at full speed.
The Commies are winning.

[ansel12]

You aren't old enough for this swing set from the 1920s, but check it out closely, the slide isn't a slide at all but is some kind of diabolical death trap, the set is incredibly high and the ladders go all the way to the top inviting a boy to just keep going, this thing was challenging and was meant to be climbed all over and created extremely difficult positions and situations.

It is like a survival of the fittest test from a Road Warrior world.

I bet the Rube Goldberg monkey bar contraptions of my boyhood are gone today also, or at least moved off the concrete.

Boys need to be challenged.