I mean i preferred the woods over streets. What are u gonna do in the street? Boring ass playground.
On your own they are. But together with friends I played loads of games on the street until it got dark
When we were kids, we put a couple of rocks on the floor to act as goal post on play football.
Or someone’s flip-flops.
How to forget that everyone played barefoot on the asphalt. You didn’t become a real kid until you miss the ball and kick the floor, popping up your toenail and coming back home bleeding everywhere.
From memories of my days playing in the road:
Throw a football, baseball (with tennis ball), street hockey, bmx racing around the block, 4 square, skateboarding.
curb corners act as bases for casual softball.
If we curb corners all the roads will be straight
Go back inside dad, we’re busy playing in the street.
Paywall 😔
I’ve literally never had this work for me, sadly
same
Really? I don’t know if it works as i didn’t need it in the first place (maybe it’s ublock origin?)
Link without paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-adults-lost-when-kids-stopped-playing-in-the-street/ar-BB1qPmpm
It’s MSN but 🤷
Just turn off javascript for the domain.
How?
Reading mode in Firefox works for me.
I do it with ublock origin. It prevents the paywall from loading.
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/FYRBF
Use archive.ph or archive.today to get past most paywall. I believe the only recent one it hasn’t worked with is Washington Post unless the article is a bit older.
Any link to this article not paywalled?
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Totally true, nice article thanks
Yeah, it’s the loss of third places.
Like, it’s kind of ridiculous that I live in a house with 15 families and barely know anyone here.
But how should I know anyone? There’s no place to sit down and have a chat in the hallway. There’s no bench outside, because why would anyone want to stare at a street, in particular also because of what the article points out.The only guy I’ve kind of formed the mildest resemblance of a connection to, is a guy who occasionally takes the same bus and so we see each other at the fucking bus station. The guy sleeps less than 10 meters from me, but we have to walk 200 meters to meet each other by pure chance.
Shutting the roads down to let children play is such a Bristol thing to do. I love that city.
Honestly I think more roads, and more cars are a large part of this. Cars go faster now ( legal speed limits increased in many areas several times in last several decades ) and it’s literally more dangerous to play in the road now.
Yeah, and more phones. But really the pandemic also seemed to shift a lot of people into feeling that their time is wasted in cars. Which I think may be contributing to speeding and road rage which anecdotally seems far more common in my area at least.
Good article!
Neat.
It’s what you get when you park people in these human sized rabbit hutches, breeding grounds for mental disorders and drug abuse.
I knew everyone in my village because we all played in the woods growing up, but y’all want.to destroy that.
Reap what you sow.
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You’re getting downvoted because you clearly didn’t read the article and are spouting irrelevant bullshit.
