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Whenever we goof around by the street, after a while more kids + parents come out.
Sometimes the neighborhood parents need a little encouragement - and I don't see anything wrong with starting a snowfight with them. Boy did we have fun, and the kids went nuts!!
We do have older kids running around all day, playing games, biking, ringing my doorbell "by mistake" - I'm happy here.
Last edited by ResearchMom; 03-01-2010 at 08:42 AM..
I send my kids outside all the time. I was raised in a place that you didnt stay inside for one minute if the weather was good. So my kids are out playing ball, on the trampoline, walking the dogs etc.
But they are probably the only kids in this are that do this.
We definitely need to teach our children "zombie awareness". It is a very important issue these days. In fact, some of the residents have suggested to the school district to start some sort of program to teach the kids zombie safety. This is potentially a very serious safety issue.
You can never be too safe these days.
I wonder how the ice cream mans wallet is doing these days.
We definitely need to teach our children "zombie awareness". It is a very important issue these days. In fact, some of the residents have suggested to the school district to start some sort of program to teach the kids zombie safety. This is potentially a very serious safety issue.
You can never be too safe these days.
I wonder how the ice cream mans wallet is doing these days.
Well, if it's the guy with the truck where the music stops and you hear some troglodyte woman yell at you "HELLO?", I hope his wallet is empty!!
This has been going on for about 25 years here on LI. I think it initially started after the poison halloween candy scares in the early 80's..you went from kids filling the streets on Halloween to having a few stragglers. You literally couldn't drive down the street in my old neighborhood around Halloween from 1975-1981 or so..then all of a sudden it just stopped.
Then you had much more public child abduction stories, more reality TV shows ie "America's most Wanted" etc, more fear, etc, and then the rise of PC's and video games which actually started around 1978 with Atari, but became more and more popular and consumed more and more of kids time to the point where that's all kids do now. It's just a very different culture.
I spent most of my childhood playing wiffle ball and running around in the woods.
Yes, it's been going on a lot longer than 5 years. It really stinks. My kids get outside a lot because we are able to make the time to take them out but kids whose parents are busy with work and other commitments probably can't do it. Regardless of how much we get them out, though, it's just not like it was in the 60s and 70s - I'm pretty sure my mom had no idea what I was doing all day when I was a kid. I got up in the morning and went out looking for someone to play with and I came back home when she called me.
Kids outside.... football, basketball, snow ball fights .... etc... its nice, there is no thru' traffic and I guess that helps.
I got a few friends living in the south who have the same kind of atmosphere, not sure why you guys are not seeing the kids out.
I think every neighborhood goes through its cycles... young kids become teenagers and go to college, family moves out and new families with young kids come in.... and the cycle continues.... so if you are caught in the wrong time zone, you may not see them I guess, just take a rough count of the vehicles you see in your neighborhood, if most houses have 3-4 cars, then most probably you are living with teenagers and they probably stay indoors.... If you see mini-Vans.... you got lucky if you got kids !!
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