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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago

Birmingham

What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago

A box at end of your bed

Played outside

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

Conkers ... and marbles

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

Jump off a railway bridge into the Thames.

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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Jumped off the roof into a skip full of builders sand

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Played in the snow at school!

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

I was totally reckless, I went and played outside, pulled wheelies on my bike without a helmet on and swam in ponds.

Goodness knows how I survived my childhood was like the Goonies.

To be honest, I did smash my front teeth out falling off my bike after going over a ramp.

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

Played on/near the railway lines. Very silly.

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east

Went riding my bike without a helmet

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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago

A box at end of your bed

Made swings in trees out of old rope.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Applied to be on Jim'll Fix It

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By *eeleyWoman
over a year ago

Dudley

"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

I didn't go on a spacehopper down a dual carriageway and get pulled over by the police! I'm sure someone I know did that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

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I walked on the roof of a 5 story block of flats, I used to ride my bike over very steep hills in the woods, I climbed a tall tree one of the other kids got some plastic piping and put it through the branch then bent it let go and it hit me in head and knocked me out the tree lol just living in London as a boy was a survival exercise

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By *appyhumper123Man
over a year ago

hull

Gave back chat to my dad, only once, never did again

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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago

Birmingham

I stole my dad's boat because I wanted to go to the fair in Stourport on Severn.

Almost made it all the way too until I was encouraged to find out what happened if I drove down the weir...

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

Explored storm water drain pipes only just big enough to crawl through for hundreds of metres

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By *llaboutthewifeCouple
over a year ago

Cardiff

Rode a horse, no saddle no hat. The bugger threw me a few times too.

Paul was a frequent fire starter, have magnifying glass will burn ants and all sorts.

Jo x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I actually did fall straight under a double decker school bus scrambling to get on. One boy dragged me out as the bus started to drive away. The wheels just missed me. He ended up being my first boyfriend and was with him for 2 years

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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago

Birmingham

"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

I didn't go on a spacehopper down a dual carriageway and get pulled over by the police! I'm sure someone I know did that

The off licence was going to close...

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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Applied to be on Jim'll Fix It"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Applied to be on Jim'll Fix It"

Oh dear

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Walked and skated over the frozen canal.

Swam in the canal and got leeches off with salt.

Climbed up leccy pylons

Talked to strangers

Played out ALL day.

Climbed down drainpipes.

Moved from window to window outside the building.

Played Chicken on the main road.

Hid in fridges

Played on building sites running away from the Cockey

Endless.......

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

There was a very stupid and dangerous piece of driving I did once in my early 20s that makes me shudder to think about.

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By *jangoMan
over a year ago

Plymouth

A few of us as kids would play in a grave yard with gat guns shooting each other.

Glamis road in Dundee,

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Oh yeah ........ I drove in the days of NO seatbelts and transported my babies on the back seat

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By *anky_PankyWoman
over a year ago

Filthy Fuckeryville

"Applied to be on Jim'll Fix It"

Oh I just spat my brew.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh yeah ........ I drove in the days of NO seatbelts and transported my babies on the back seat

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omg do they have whiplash, were they traumatised?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Applied to be on Jim'll Fix It"

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Practicing tying nooses after a rock climbing instructor made the grave mistake of teaching me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ran through railway tunnels, basically playing chicken with the locomotives, trying to find the recesses in the walls for the workers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

Ate cat food from the can.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

British bulldog in the playground

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

My mate broke both his ankles doing that. He jumped from the roof of a house

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Climbing trees right to the top. Kids of today say “can’t do that...health and safety!”

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By *anky_PankyWoman
over a year ago

Filthy Fuckeryville

"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either "

Yup also tried that jumping from a tree outside my house. Landed in the garden amazingly NOT breaking anything and blaming it not working on the fact the umbrella got caught in the tree.....

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Oh yeah ........ I drove in the days of NO seatbelts and transported my babies on the back seat

omg do they have whiplash, were they traumatised? "

No you daft bugger. No one wore seatbelts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There was an electricity leak on a roof of a disused building. If you touch two stagered areas of the tin cover of the roof at the same time low current was running through your body. Used to play with that with other kids as a dare.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Climbing trees, being bonkers on bikes, Car surfing was my most dangerous though I think

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Survived the Orphanages, and the mental scars they left.

Unfortunately a few of my peers didn't.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitch hiked with a lorry driver once, jumped off garage onto a pile of cardboard boxes, played out in the woods till dawn, rode my bike with no helmet on the usual stuff really

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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Did anyone else make a peg gun?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either "

I don’t see why not you’re practically perfect in every way

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

My mate broke both his ankles doing that. He jumped from the roof of a house

Bugger all I came away with was a bruised ego

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either

Yup also tried that jumping from a tree outside my house. Landed in the garden amazingly NOT breaking anything and blaming it not working on the fact the umbrella got caught in the tree.....

Clearly the trees fault

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By *rivateparts!Man
over a year ago

Walking down the only road I've ever known!

Played down by the railway lines.

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Went to catholic boarding school. Surprised they are still alive too cunts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jumped off a garage roof trying to see if a plastic bag worked as a parachute

It didn’t

I did that with a brolly trying to be Mary Poppins. That didn’t work either

I don’t see why not you’re practically perfect in every way

Well yes this is true

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

All of the above plus playing on the army shooting range and obstacle course.... got bought home by the MPs a few too many times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As kids we used to hang from a rail way bridge and drop into the river below

As a teenager, toomstoning on lads holidays.

As a young adult fought in a cage.

Now I’m old, my biggest danger is being hit by a stray golf shot

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By *jangoMan
over a year ago

Plymouth

"All of the above plus playing on the army shooting range and obstacle course.... got bought home by the MPs a few too many times "

lol yeah right their with you.

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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"Did anyone else make a peg gun?"

Did no one make a peg gun ?

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By *eeleyWoman
over a year ago

Dudley

"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

I didn't go on a spacehopper down a dual carriageway and get pulled over by the police! I'm sure someone I know did that

The off licence was going to close... "

A noble quest!

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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish

Tbh I had a bit of an Enid Blyton childhood - or a working class version of it anyway (substitute vimto for the lashings of ginger beer!)

My friends and I made dens, climbed trees, made rope swings, made fires and roasted spuds (without washing them of course - they tasted better that way!) explored abandoned farmhouses with dodgy ceilings and waded through filthy rivers with a very pretty film of oil on top! Oh and we played football in the cow fields too!

My mum always made me get undressed at the back door and hosed me down before I was allowed inside!

Needless to say my old hunting grounds are now housing estates! I wish my own kids could have had half the freedom/fun that I had! X

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
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over a year ago

My Own Little World

"Talked to strangers

Played out ALL day.

Climbed down drainpipes.

Moved from window to window outside the building.

Played Chicken on the main road.

Hid in fridges

Played on building sites running away from the Cockey

Not just me that did this then, add jumped from building to building 2 storeys up.

Climb down from my balcony to the 1 below while living in a tower block.

Oh and ate my mum's cooking..... nuff said.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Walked to school a mile away on my own from the age of 7. Rode my bike to school on the main ring road round Liverpool from age 11 without a helmet. Played out all day in the local parks from age 8 or 9 without adult supervision. Went swimmingly no without an adult present from age 10 in local swimming pools and on holiday

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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago

from Home Counties to Middle Earth

Hitch hiked

Played outside in thunderstorms

Cycled with no lights, in the dark

Took my dad's car off-road (when I was 10) and practiced doing handbrake turns

Took my brother's motorbike (when I was 11) and crashed it head-on in to a wall after hitting black ice

As a teen, passed sweets out of the car window to friends in another car, whilst driving down the autobahn at speed

...All manner of silliness!!

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By *onelfMan
over a year ago

Saltash

"Did anyone else make a peg gun?

Did no one make a peg gun ?"

I made a peg gun or several.

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

Climbing tall tress. Walking on train tracks. Walking through rough neighborhoods full of gang bangers

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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Climbing tall tress. Walking on train tracks. Walking through rough neighborhoods full of gang bangers

I read that as a gang of badgers!

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

"Climbing tall tress. Walking on train tracks. Walking through rough neighborhoods full of gang bangers

I read that as a gang of badgers!

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By *il FiskMan
over a year ago

sefton

Swam in the canal locks, played by the ralla and would go scrounging round the factorys by the docks to make rafts for the canal!!!

Wouldnt change a second of it!!!

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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Walked down back alleys

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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"Did anyone else make a peg gun?

Did no one make a peg gun ?

I made a peg gun or several. "

Made one with my nephew last year , i had to take it off him

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

To all those who lament the good old days.....have you let your kids do the same as you?

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By *onestjohn1962Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Me and my mates aged about 11 would go hunting for pidgeons and rabbits with a 410 shotgun

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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago

Birmingham

"To all those who lament the good old days.....have you let your kids do the same as you?"

My children played out sometimes from dawn until dusk. I'm a firm believer that play (or lack of free play) can be linked with the autistic spectrum. I wasn't always happy with what they got up to and had a clear set boundaries and consequences too.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards .......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reading all of this reminds me what childhood was about, a shame my lad can’t experience half of this because of damn H&S rules or the fact I’d probably have been arrested if I let him out to roam on his own like I used to be at the age of 5 onwards ....... "
exactly we were never in, I certainly wasnt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

Swam across a lake that many have drowned in

Walked on thin ice

Played with matches, well not me but the person I was near did so by proxy...

So many dangerous things I did. Probably why I now have fearless children, you know, to teach me a lesson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tbh I had a bit of an Enid Blyton childhood - or a working class version of it anyway (substitute vimto for the lashings of ginger beer!)

My mum always made me get undressed at the back door and hosed me down before I was allowed inside!

Needless to say my old hunting grounds are now housing estates! I wish my own kids could have had half the freedom/fun that I had! X"
My mates dad was a green grocer we used to boil the beets in the back yard and do foil wrapped baked potatoes on the bonfire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once sat on a motorbike with 4 others and did roughly a 2 mile journey in pitch dark ... crazy when I think about it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Climbed cliffs and jumped off the pier into the sea... Wouldn't do it now but couldn't care back then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I went on Jim'll fix it and took a pet to Animal hospital! Life in the danger zone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I climbed fully clothed all over break waters about 30m in to the sea!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breathed ... amiright???

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By *educed OP Woman
over a year ago

Birmingham

This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters

There is an initiative in Brum (which is free) that allows you to close a road so that your children can play.

Anyway, do you think our attitudes to play have changed?

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr

River swimming, tree climbing, playing in a scrapyard, etc

One thing just occurred to me, though - you never heard of anyone dying from allergies back then.

No doubt, they did; but how many before we were made as aware of it as we are today?

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters

There is an initiative in Brum (which is free) that allows you to close a road so that your children can play.

Anyway, do you think our attitudes to play have changed?

My attitudes to play haven’t changed but unfortunately those around me have. I actively encourage the lad to climb trees, be outside generally as much as we can. He however needs a bit of persuading if he classes it as dangerous, although it’s not

If a rainy day then we are indoors drawing, reading, playing board games, building lego, playing Star Wars, generally anything that isn’t a computer game.

Our favourite though is indoor nerf gun wars, build your defence and shoot the h*ll out of each other

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ignored the “now wash your hands” signs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is why parenthood costs so much.. keeping them entertained and off the 'puters

There is an initiative in Brum (which is free) that allows you to close a road so that your children can play.

Anyway, do you think our attitudes to play have changed?

If a rainy day then we are indoors drawing, reading, playing board games, building lego, playing Star Wars, generally anything that isn’t a computer game.

Our favourite though is indoor nerf gun wars, build your defence and shoot the h*ll out of each other

Love a nerf gun war!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Went on a Tarzan swing out over a pond which had an old mineshaft under the water....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did anyone else make a peg gun?"

I did

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Met Jimmy Saville and got his autograph

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!

My kids have grown up doing much the same things I did and we had mega "hobbies" as kids! The only difference being we had no phones and no adult supervision whereas I did it all again with my kids!! (With added helmets etc)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to be out all day. My parents had no idea where I was..

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By *owdyboy 890Man
over a year ago

Country West

Drank cooking oil x

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

"H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!

That is what I meant by H&S, the lad has picked up the do’s and don’ts from school (and well his dad) that I have to undo them so he can just play or climb.

Although his face is a picture when I describe some of the things I used to do as a kid...... like trying to get the swing to go all the way over the bar haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to climb to the top of the pine trees in reception and nursery apparently.

Swam in in a river just before a waterfall. River was full of snakes, that's why we left.

Nearly drown under a capsized canoe then had to drag said canoe back to shore.

Be dragged underneath a capsized kayak in Rapids.

Cliff jumping.

Decided it would be fun to lie on mesh covering a hole at the top of a 100m tower.

Climbed out of an 8th story window in central London because it was too hot inside(last month).

Planned to explore the tunnels under Manchester. Sadly the entrance was sealed before we could do so.

Got lost in heavy fog and rain in local moors.

And live in a crime ridden area. A few experiences I'd rather keep private from here.

Yep. I'm a crazy motherfucker.

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By *m3232Man
over a year ago

maidenhead

"There was a very stupid and dangerous piece of driving I did once in my early 20s that makes me shudder to think about."

Used to do that every day??amazing how stupid we used to be.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!

That is what I meant by H&S, the lad has picked up the do’s and don’ts from school (and well his dad) that I have to undo them so he can just play or climb.

Although his face is a picture when I describe some of the things I used to do as a kid...... like trying to get the swing to go all the way over the bar haha "

I think it's really really sad!

just do it all with him! And it's great fun!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

User to scrape the asbestos off my dad's shed roof. Still alive.....

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

Swung on two legs of a chair, despite every teacher knowing of someone who died doing that

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Injury wise - Jumped off the shed roof over a fence into school fields

Weirdo wise - Hitched a lift to a quarry for a swim

Parent wise - Painted everything blue outside and hung my mums best curtains on a nails on the shed windows

Got any better with age erm nope lol

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

"H&S ruining all this is actually a myth ... it is how individuals/schools interpret it that has been the problem!

That is what I meant by H&S, the lad has picked up the do’s and don’ts from school (and well his dad) that I have to undo them so he can just play or climb.

Although his face is a picture when I describe some of the things I used to do as a kid...... like trying to get the swing to go all the way over the bar haha

I think it's really really sad!

just do it all with him! And it's great fun!! "

Oh I am haha

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By *oved Up 2Couple
over a year ago

nottingham

Dived off roof into swimming pool, played in the dirt, climbed trees, conkers (they bloody hurt), camped in the middle of game reserves in Africa. Wouldn't do any of it now lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *iss.RedWoman
over a year ago

somewhere

Jumped off cliffs into the sea, accepted lifts off strangers and climbed over balconies. All very silly

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By *orraine999Woman
over a year ago

Somewhere

When I was 11, my horse was spooked and he decided to jump a fence. I was riding bare back.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Played outside "

This is true

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just about everything and more, considering where I was born and raised. I just scared people when I entered secondary school here with what I considered safe enough.

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Clackers and platform shoes. Lethal combo.

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Remember how the Gas and Electric companies used to have all their gear in a trailer, covered in a tarpaulin and roped down?

There was always one in my neighbourhood; it was our Spaceship, submarine, Tank, whatever means it has to be to fit into our adventures!

Other kids from rival streets would try to take it over, so we'd running battles to prevent them winning!

Playgrounds. We'd competitions to see who could get the roundabouts going the fastest and who could stay on the longest; many a time I limped home with bleeding scars!

Riding bikes without a care for traffic.

Climbing trees with no thought as to how to get down!!!

Playing in parks all day, especially in waist high grass, creating "dens", getting bitten by insects - it was almost a badge of honour to have the most bite marks!

Investigating streams, especially when in flood after heavy rain without any thought for what might happen?

Going to the seaside and wading out till the water was up to my shoulders BUT...

I did not swim nor was ever aware of undercurrents.

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

Standing up on a swing and going high I was nearly horizontal and then jumping off

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By *ockNRollArtistMan
over a year ago

Derby

Got up to a lot of shenanigans on my bike. Lot of tricks and stunts and crazy thinks with hills and slopes

Good fun!

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Shot each other with air guns. Played 'knifey', which was basically throwing knives into the ground at each others feet as close as we dared.

Climbed into storm drains, canal overflows and anything else that we really shouldnt have done.

Sneaked into the back of the brickworks and would throw ourselves off piles of slag into more of it and sink neck deep.

Start up the JCBs that were there as well. Build rope swings over the river. 6 people in a 4 man dinghy going down the croal and irwell and not stopping because of weirs etc. Made razor sharp throwing stars, dutch arrows with darts on the ends. Homemade crossbows. Hurtling down streets in bogied made of timber and old pram wheels.

Going out at 9 in the morning with a bottle of water, some jam butties and a couple of fags pinched from any packet lying around the house,then not coming home till teatime. Covered in mud, blood, sweat and tears.

They were proper school holidays.

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By *oftandGentle2Couple
over a year ago

leeds

Went out at 9am and came home when the street lamps told me to!!!

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

We also knew just exactly which gardens had plums, strawberries, cherries, apples, pears, peas etc. We would strip the bare in minutes.

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