WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY , no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside to play with them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
Bilbo you are a legend!
Dont know where that came from & dont care coz your spot on!
I was born in 1981 but all this rings true as we never had a pot to piss in. I've got 2 boys now aged 12 & 6 & they cant have the freedom I had when I was there age. It's a different world! Mores the pity.
My main concern is makin sure they haven't experimented with every recreational drug known to man by the time their 14 like their dad did!
There in lies the problem in my opinion(drug's), my mum was a bit of a hippy but she never robbed kid's to feed her habit she just "loved".