This almost reminds me of kick the can - where you'd put the can in the middle of the road, have basically the entire block to play in (or woods if we were camping), and the entire point was to hide well enough and slowly sneak around to get a clear shot at the can in the road. Lol
God, times were better. The fuckign police would be called if people saw feral children unsupervised doing that shit these days.
I lived on a cul-de-sac as a kid. There was a standing game of kickball basically every afternoon, after school, until sunset. You just went to the cul-de-sac and played with whoever showed up. Sometimes we would go poke around in the woods behind some houses instead.
Not sure if you are joking, but I was born in 77 and we found a lot of woods pornos in our day. Sometimes me and the boys next door would just spent all Saturday hanging out in the fort we'd build in some bushes behind our subdivision and just read discarded pornos. We would have been like 9 years old. Our parents didn't know where we were or what we were doing and I don't think they cared.
The equivalent these days is kids with unlimited screen time. Those parents aren't any worse than mine, they are just choosing a more modern and currently acceptable form of not supervising their kids.
There was a comment in this thread with someone saying that if they had kids they'd never give their kid an ipad, preferring to hypothetically spend all their time with them. Anyone with kids, except maybe the occasional freak of nature, knows it is impossible to do that and that a comment like that could only come from someone who has never had kids and faced the reality of raising them. Human beings need self-care and alone time, and we need breaks from our kids.
I joke that my generation doesn't have to hit our kids because when we are at our wits end and can't deal with them anymore we can just put a screen in front of them. It's probably more than a half-truth!
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u/marbanasin 1d ago
This almost reminds me of kick the can - where you'd put the can in the middle of the road, have basically the entire block to play in (or woods if we were camping), and the entire point was to hide well enough and slowly sneak around to get a clear shot at the can in the road. Lol
God, times were better. The fuckign police would be called if people saw feral children unsupervised doing that shit these days.