You are 10 years old....

Playing outside if it's not a school day.. climbing high walls, and trees..we lived in the city but we lived in a very green area with long boulevards... .. climbing was my favourite .. if it was a weekend we'd be at the park where there was boats to be hired, ( altho; we never could afford one we just watched) and fishing to be enjoyed if we had a net...

On the odd occasion we'd gather enough money to be able to spend a Saturday morning at the local indoor unheated swimming pool... or we'd sneak into the saturday morning cinema through the emergency doors..

Sunday morning.. Sunday school at church .. or visiting grandparents



What about you @Jazzy1 ?
 
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Grab some friends and start some hop scotch
Or skipping
Or jumpsies
Play hide and seek
Red Iight, green light
Red rover
Go biking or roller skating
Play with Barbieā€™s
Get colouring books out and colour
Play snakes and ladders
Play checkers or
A barrel of monkies
Play monopoly or scrabble
Make sandwiches to eat along with some cookies and a drink

The skies the limit. There was always lots of things to do when we were kids
 
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You city kids always made me jealous because of all those things Patty listed. Bike riding? Not on cinder and gravel roads. Swimming? No pools. Roller skating, jumping rope or hop scotch? No sidewalks. Anything requiring more than one or two kids? Not enough close neighbors.

But I'm not complaining, I had a wonderful childhood playing house in the old shack in the woods. Reading under a tree. Playing school with my dolls. Coloring. Playing records and dancing "ballet."

Most of my play was in my imagination but wonderful fun.
 
Riding my bicycle, skate boarding, playing marbles, roller skating, playing baseball, throwing the frisbee, playing football, hiking/exploring, catching insects, turtles, lizards, ect., sledding in the winter. Everyday was an outdoor adventure with endless possibilities. TV was only watched later in the evening after dark.
 
Swimming in the pool, playing whiffle ball or basketball with friends, or riding my bike.

Indoors I would be playing a very nerdy and geeky baseball board game called Strat-o-Matic Baseball with a couple of my friends. We spent many summer hours playing that game, replaying the previous baseball season.

At night, I was usually watching TV or reading once the Little League season was over.

My summer chores were brushing the pool every morning, helping my dad with the yard on mowing days, and watering the outdoor plants that the irrigation didn't reach.
 
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outlander said:
Riding my bicycle, skate boarding, playing marbles, roller skating, playing baseball, throwing the frisbee, playing football, hiking/exploring, catching insects, turtles, lizards, ect., sledding in the winter. Everyday was an outdoor adventure with endless possibilities. TV was only watched later in the evening after dark.
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And most of us didn't have a tv in our bedroom.
 
At that age, in the summertime, we practically lived outside. Quite often the neighborhood kids would be organizing a baseball game in a vacant lot down the street. We liked to bicycle all over town with a stop at the A&W for a 5 cent rootbeer. Probably most days we would go the the one city pool. Our parents would buy us a season pass for the pool. We would get so tan in the summer that George Hamilton would approve.

We normally were unsupervised all day and into the evening. The rule was be home when the street lights come home. We never got in trouble because we were taught right from wrong by the parents. Any transgression would result in severe punishment.
 
Tom52 said:
At that age, in the summertime, we practically lived outside. Quite often the neighborhood kids would be organizing a baseball game in a vacant lot down the street. We liked to bicycle all over town with a stop at the A&W for a 5 cent rootbeer. Probably most days we would go the the one city pool. Our parents would buy us a season pass for the pool. We would get so tan in the summer that George Hamilton would approve.

We normally were unsupervised all day and into the evening. The rule was be home when the street lights come home. We never got in trouble because we were taught right from wrong by the parents. Any transgression would result in severe punishment.
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Be home before the streetlights came on.
Tom52 said:
At that age, in the summertime, we practically lived outside. Quite often the neighborhood kids would be organizing a baseball game in a vacant lot down the street. We liked to bicycle all over town with a stop at the A&W for a 5 cent rootbeer. Probably most days we would go the the one city pool. Our parents would buy us a season pass for the pool. We would get so tan in the summer that George Hamilton would approve.

We normally were unsupervised all day and into the evening. The rule was be home when the street lights come home. We never got in trouble because we were taught right from wrong by the parents. Any transgression would result in severe punishment.
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Yes, our parents didn't hover over us constantly. They let us breathe, explore and make mistakes. They also weren't our personal taxi and didn't take us everywhere.
 

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