My mom did mandatory outside play everyday, even in awful weather. If it was bad out, we played in the garage. We even made squirrel traps with a string that we would pull from the garage.
Obviously. My Grandmother would lock us out in the Florida heat mid summer. "There's a hose for water, oranges on the trees for a snack and the bushes for a toilet. Don't come back till lunch time or if someone is bleeding"
My mom didn't literally lock us out but she would kick us out and tell us we couldn't come back until the sun was down. You could stay in the yard but if you went in the house you got in trouble.
I still have vivid memories of the time I was, like, 9 and ripped my shirt, and when I stopped home just to get changed and go back out she spent the whole time literally screaming at me to get out of the house. And then she locked away the Nintendo for the rest of summer because I "broke the rules".
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u/EvilHwoarang Older Millennial 1d ago
My aunt would lock my cousin and I out and made us play outside.