Kids go outside and get run over by monster trucks
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echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
So one of the kids going to do instead? People like this always demand that children go outside but there’s literally nothing for them to do.
When I was a kid we used to sellotape each other to the swings and other wholesome activities. But we can’t do that anymore because the park activities have been removed apparently due to “vandalism” i.e normal wear and tear that took place over 10 years has occurred, but we cannot afford to fix it because central government hasn’t given us any money since 2014.
spez_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Kids stood around and stared at their feet before swings were invented, I imagine.
Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 4 months ago
I think hoops and sticks were big for a while
wavebeam@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“we’re children! we’re children! we’re children!”
xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 months ago
“Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong… as a joke.”
31337@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I think many worked. On the farm, in mines, in factories. Farmers would intentionally have many children just for extra labor. School hours and breaks are, in part, the way they are to let children work on the farm.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 months ago
We do have new playgrounds, but the problem is that they’re very sanitized and only really suitable for preschoolers. Tweens usually just wander around without any exact place to go.
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Even back when I was 9 and playground near my home was replaced with plastic shit for toddlers I knew it was plastic shit for toddlers. On the other side there was stuff for training though. Still nothing for 10-30.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 4 months ago
but there’s literally nothing for them to do.
You just hang out and do fun and stupid shit, it’s nice to have special place for it but a construction site and under the bridge is good enough. Problem is modern parents are extremely anxious.
bignate31@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was with you until the “construction site and under the bridge” bit. It definitely takes a bit of imagination, but I’m not sure not wanting your kids to play on a site which requires the use of hard hats classifies as being “anxious”
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Alternative would be garages roofs, which can be more dangerous.
Misconduct@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Under the bridge is where the junkies hang out and you’re a shit patent if you want your kids messing around construction sites lmao
ultra@feddit.ro 4 months ago
what fun and stupid shit?
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 4 months ago
Like play games (like war or something), roam around, make fires, have “gangs”, play other pretend stuff (basically role playing but without any real rules ) - ask your parents and grandparents what they were up to when they were kids.
Misconduct@lemmy.world 4 months ago
- This is a privilege a lot of city kids don’t have
- No to fires lmao wtf
- They only did that stuff because there was literally nothing else to do. Not because it was more fun.
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
like war
Let’s don’t.
mellowheat@suppo.fi 4 months ago
That sounds like an American problem. We in many countries in Europe don’t have that problem, but our kids still waste their time on smartphones.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My neighborhood has the same problem. There’s absolutely nothing for the teens to do. But all they do is complain in the forums about how the teens are wandering around causing trouble. They’re on the playground, they’re biking on the sidewalks, they’re playing chicken with the cars. Yeah, they’re f****** bored. The last thing you want in your neighborhood is a bunch of bored teenagers.
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
But what about angry mothers? They are scarier.