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Childhood pastimes, where have they all gone?
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We used to play skips, hide and seek, kick the can, has the computer and the Wi demonised childhood?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's just that things change with each generation. I didn't play the same things my mum did - like hopscotch, whip and peerie, kick the can etc. I played with dolls and bikes and games that came in a box. My mum bemoaned that then, childhood wasn't the same anymore etc, and tried to teach me the games from her day but I wasn't interested. My daughter never really played the same sort of things I did, and for the most part when she did go out to play, she had no one to play with cos all the parents kept their kids in for fear of something happening to them. It's not so much that kids don't go out cos they're on computers, it's that parents don't let kids out and give them computers to play on while they're cooped up indoors. There's a thread on family just now about letting a 6 year old out to play and you'd think it had just been suggested she be sent to France alone or something, the sheer irresponsibility of letting a child outside the house!!!! Nonsense!
i had 'bunty' delivered and my big sister had 'school friend'.
me and my friends in the road played a made-up game called 'red claw', invented one evening when the sky went red and we imagined it was a big red claw trying to grab us and take us off somewhere.....frightened the younger kids to death. had a very irate mother knock on our door to tell us to stop playing it because her son refused to go to bed in case the red claw got him. we played it for hours on end, up and down the pavement until it got dark, couldn't imagine any kids playing it these days as they wouldn't be allowed out that late.
me and my friends in the road played a made-up game called 'red claw', invented one evening when the sky went red and we imagined it was a big red claw trying to grab us and take us off somewhere.....frightened the younger kids to death. had a very irate mother knock on our door to tell us to stop playing it because her son refused to go to bed in case the red claw got him. we played it for hours on end, up and down the pavement until it got dark, couldn't imagine any kids playing it these days as they wouldn't be allowed out that late.
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