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Originally Posted by chris chunt
This is the generation who weren't allowed out to play outside for fear there might be a kiddy fiddler lurking nearby who have now become young adults .
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They actually have "play dates" now, where parents set up a time for their kid to play with another "approved" kid.
Very sad.
Just running around at random with the neighborhood gang of kids seems to have become a thing of the past. I'd feel deprived if I was as sheltered and cosseted as some of the younger generation has been.
We used to run wild and get up to all sorts of shit. Rock fights, BB gun fights, fishing expeditions on bikes miles away from home, daytime campouts with hotdogs filched from the kitchen and cooked over illicit trashwood campfires, scavenging the local dump, exploring crumbling houses and barns on abandoned farmsteads, etc. What fun.
Of course, there were downsides, like getting dogbit and being made to eat gravel by the 16 year old bully who lived up the road.
Overall, though, I would never trade any of that for a sheltered indoor childhood.