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I When I Was A Kid We Actually Went Outside And Played

An old refrigerator box was a huge score...it could easily become a fort,spaceship or army tank rolling down the hill.

We built treeforts and plenty of other hideouts.

Sometimes in summer we would zoom our bikes down the hill-off the dock-and into the river! Dive down with a rope,haul 'em up,and repeat the maneuver.In winter,we would occasionally race our bikes on the ice-and break bones and split lips doing every other winter sport as well.

I built a lot of intricate model ships...packed them with fireworks...and BLAM! have fun collecting the pieces.

...and so on.
amberdextrous
What a great story-post, dubkebab! It evokes many memories of my own similar childhood -though, in the warm Western Australian climate, we did miss out on the ice.

In many ways, I believe, your generation and mine were born into an historical "sweet-spot", in which technology was sufficiently advanced to keep us relatively safe, but the simple joys of outside play were still available. I read of a recent study into Australian children's leisure time activities and was horrified to learn that, on average, kids here spend around 60 hours each week in front of various screens. One wonders what they are missing out on...

Thank You for an entertaining and thought-provoking read.
ArrowPewPew
Oh man.. good times

 
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