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Aunt Bea said:
Kind of sad, kids and trees need room to grow.

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They do .. And my youngest GD still loves climbing trees. .. is forever playing pranks by hiding in trees and scaring people walking by. ... scared the new neighbor boy last week pretty good.

In their neighborhood you see kids outside having fun building make believe forts with palm leaves and whatever their imagination comes up with. Their parents won't let them sit inside all day, especially on beautiful sunny days.
 

One day while playing outside, my youngest granddaughter flagged down a police car going down the street .... he stopped. She wanted to inform him that she is going to be a policeman when she grows up. He gave her a high five! ..;)
 
I think largely why i dont see kids playing outside anymore is because of the fear of letting them outside to play freely. There have been far to many horrid things that have already happened. These were not concernes when we were younger. We could roam like like chickens and not worry about such things. What do you think?
 

Garydavid said:
I think largely why i dont see kids playing outside anymore is because of the fear of letting them outside to play freely. There have been far to many horrid things that have already happened. These were not concernes when we were younger. We could roam like like chickens and not worry about such things. What do you think?
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You are soo right. We could have played outside even at night.Now we even have to worry about children being safe even in school,movies etc. We had a great youth,sadly the kids of today don't.
 
What a terrible teaching for the kids. They are taught to trust no one and fear everyplace that they go. Thats going to have some extremely bad consequences for the future. We are already building cages for us to live in to protect us from each other. Who would have ever thought that.
 
Garydavid said:
Strange! How could things change that fast and drastic. What the heck happened?
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The combination of the news stations selling fear, people buying in to that fear and social media would be my guess. I don't believe things are any worse than when we were kids, if anything they are probably better because of heightened awareness and the acceptance of some subjects to be discussed openly. Back in our day certain things like child molestation and sex crimes in general were covered up, not talked about as freely as they are today. We also didn't have the news stations looking to boost their ratings by instilling fear in the masses. Combine that with the ability to spread the word instantly via the internet and a generation or two of helicopter parents who were raised with this fear and you have the "scary" world we live in today. By most accounts and according to the Bureau Of Justice website crime numbers are down from what they were 20 to 30 years ago and violent crimes are at their lowest in about 40 years.

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After going through ALL 13 pages of this thread, they bring back many memories. I feel old. Like I was on the welcoming committee for Adam and Eve. I guess "new & improved" doesn't last very long. It's amazing how little time things remained as the best of our technology.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I've been watching old episodes of Lassie from the 50s and it amazes me that the chubby sidekick's name was Porky.

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You're absolutely right. We were just talking about this the other day. I said there was only one '' fat'' girl in my school , and by today's standards she wouldn't be considered overweight by very much, if at all...
 
Indeed it's Conkers... every kid played conkers in school when we were kids...:D..it was almost a national sport..in fact it did become a local sport in some places...
 
I think most people in the states knew them as Klik Klaks or Klackers. I don't think chestnuts were used in the states for the most part, what we had were more like 2 large marbles attached to a rope. I caught my fingers in those quite a few times as a kid, not pleasant, lol.

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