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Stuff you did as a kid that you won't let your kids do
BillyCasper
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When I was a kid, and I'm only 27 now, my dad used to send me to the shop to buy some sweets and also pick him some cigarettes up.
Did you do anything as a kid that you won't or can't let your kids do?
Did you do anything as a kid that you won't or can't let your kids do?
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Climb cliffs.
Walk to school.
Yeah, i'd drive them,
I would go about 8am with some water and sandwiches and not get home until tea time.
I wouldn't dream of letting my 12yr old daughter out of our village on a bike let alone out of my sight for 8 or 10 hours at a stretch.
I'm going to turn into one of those psycho moms that only let their kids eat carrot sticks and drink water.
Ouch, that was dangerous. :eek: People have died from having over 100 stings after whacking a bees or wasps nest.
Back in the 80's when I was a child, most children from about 8 years of age were allowed to walk to school on their own or walk to the shops to buy sweets.
Children ate cakes, biscuits, crisps, chocolate and sweets back in the 80's and yet I don't recall seeing many overweight children. I was quite slim until I reached my teenage years. I suspect a lack of exercise - swapping bikes and sport for television and computers - is to blame for obesity just as much as too much sugar and fat.
I'd let mine have one treat a day but I wouldn't let them go on school on Mars Bars, which is what I've seen other kids doing in recent years. :rolleyes:
I can remember being sent to the local shop with a note from my parents asking for cigarettes. Nobody thought it was odd back then. Strange how attitudes change.
I started doing that when i was Junior school age! And sometimes i would happen to meet male adults taking their dogs for a walk in the countryside and walk along with them. I'd be in a woods with a stranger. This was in the seventies.
(Arguably, it is the teachers that won't let kids do that now.)
eat junk food =you die
eat healthy food = you die a few years later.
Moderation is the answer,enjoy life as it is very short.
no food or drink should be banned.
I mind the time every boy in the land carried a penknife.
Erm.... carve things in stone with broken glass.
Have a flick knife.
Have a pen knife. (Take it to school every day).
Ride a bike on the A1 - without brakes.
Ride a bike down very big hills, without brakes.
Jump off 15 foot walls for a laugh.
Climb onto the flat roof of the 3 storey building via a builder's ladder.
Climb back down again.
Throw rocks.
Have catapults.
Borrow your friends' younger siblings, go to the other end of the village then leave them there cos you were playing cowboys and indians, being younger and crapper at arguing a point than you, they were the indians - you older kids got distracted, and wandered off. Only remembered where you left the younger sibling when you go back and their mum is creating.
Walk for miles.
Cycle for miles.
Accept sweets off strangers. Contemplate visiting puppies of strangers.
Wander round wherever you like - including places where the local flasher hangs out. I mean that hangs out quite literally.
And girl. I definitely had one.
As an American who has never laid finger on a gun, that is one smug non-sequitur.
Looking back, it was madness. I don't recall anyone getting hurt though.