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Em in Ohio said:
...And I blamed my lack of prowess at hopscotch on being too small!
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oooh we played hopscoth ( peevers as it was called in Scotland (...all the time... we loved it... we'd use an old flat round boot polish tin if we were lucky to get one, as the peever..but for lack of anything else we used a stone... ..and believe me I was little , and had no probs playing .. :LOL:
 

Outdoors, I can remember games of kickball and hide and go seek. We also rode bikes a lot, sometimes several miles away. We played cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, and army guys. As boys, we often had spirited peer discussions on our favorite movie monsters, and whether ghosts were real... đź‘»
 

We played the balloon game, but we would also make hockey nets downstairs, and have teams and try to score with the balloon, we also played Jacks, marbles, flip the hockey or baseball cards to the wall, whatever season we were in... Outside we played baseball, street hockey, and lacrosse... Cowboys and Indians... Hide and seek... Kick the can... Never boring as a kid... Today kids have XBOX... We just had the box to make forts out of...
 
Oh my gosh, @Fyrefox and @mike4lorie, I just had a couple of moments of sheer joy remembering all the hours I played hide & seek, flipped baseball cards, played pickup baseball or over-the-line, and rode bikes around the neighborhood with the boys.

One more thing. Adults taught us the basics of games, but for everyday play they encouraged us to customize the rules to suit the number of players, ages, skill levels, equipment available, etc. If the teams were lopsided, you swapped players to even them out. The idea was to play, not to cream the other side.

It didn't matter if you had poor skills when playing something, you were welcome to join the game. That is, unless you were a crybaby, bully, bad sport or a tattletale. Those kids were sent home packing. You'd get a few chances to redeem yourself, but if you hadn't figured out your social skills by about 10 years old, you were doomed.

I'm so very grateful that we didn't have "helicopter parents" in those days. Woe to the few kids who did - they hated it. I never, ever would have gone home and complained about some other kid being unfair.... my mother would have handed me a dust cloth and told me to make myself useful. So not only no sympathy, but a day of chores. :eek::eek::eek:

Didn't need to learn that lesson too many times.
 
This brought back soo many memories to me. Hopeskotch,Jumping rope,Spin the Bottle,Hide and seek. My favorite thing though was riding with a boy on his bike going to a place called Suicide hill,where the boys would ride down the hill and the girls would wait at the bottom. If the boy you rode there with came down first you had to kiss him. I really liked that game.:love:
 
I remember being alone a lot as a child. No sidewalk for hopscotch. but Ihad a wild river to hunt agates and hike through the hills.
 

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