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>> I feel so bad for kids today. They will never know the true meaning of childhood, what it's like to be free to explore, and never know how to get out of a jam.
Everything kids do today are structured activity. Constant stimulation and no time to be themselves.
Just being shaped and molded into what their parents want them to be.
They have play dates rather than venturing out to make friends.
Kids need to get dirty. Ya don't see dirty kids today.
@beadweaver:
Come over to my house. I'll show you dirty kids!
@yankeejessica:
Can I play too. Like my mom.
Before paintball she would water down finger paints and either give every kid in the neighborhood a bucket and water pistol or she would fill balloons for a water fight. We would play tag with a painted hand too. Can't say no tag with a mark. She played tackle football, softball (all the parents cleared the field behind our hill and made us a baseball field.) In winter they spent most the night dumping water on that same hill so we could sled and ski down the hill, through the alley and if you were still on the sled around another corner. Every Saturday morning we would grab a bowl of cereal, make a pb&j or two and fishing poles, pellet guns , and berry buckets. We'd take off on foot or our bikes. Only rule was be home when the street lights came on. If she needed us sooner she either hollered at the edge of the woods or sent another kid to get us. We climbed trees, caught snakes, and once found the boys stash of playboy magazines. Lol
As we got older we would jump on our bikes for 20 mile rides, played miniature golf and went to the pizza and ice cream parlors. No adult supervision needed.
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