ch00f@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoWhat Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Streetwww.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI mean i preferred the woods over streets. What are u gonna do in the street? Boring ass playground.
minus-squaremajestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoOn your own they are. But together with friends I played loads of games on the street until it got dark
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agocurb corners act as bases for casual softball.
minus-squareHugh_Jeggs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoIf we curb corners all the roads will be straight
minus-squaredriving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoWhen we were kids, we put a couple of rocks on the floor to act as goal post on play football.
minus-squaremasterofn001@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoFrom 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.
minus-squaredriving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoHow 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.
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
curb corners act as bases for casual softball.
If we curb corners all the roads will be straight
When we were kids, we put a couple of rocks on the floor to act as goal post on play football.
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.
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.