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I just saw a post on Reddit two days ago that said "During the 80s, did kids really just go outside and run wild for hours or is that just in the movies/TV?" and the same feeling hit haha
We still did it here in the early 2000s and 2010s, and I know it's still done nowadays where I live. It's easy to do in non-car-centric palces
Yeah, but the major difference is that kids in the 90s and earlier didn't have cellphones, we just peaced out and our parents hoped that we came home alive/unharmed.
Bold of you to assume it's not the same now. I didn't have a cellphone until Inwas 12 or something and I distinctly remember playing "lay on the ground while a guy on a bike runs you over"
I didn't have one until I was like 14, but that was the late 90s. I guess it can still be the same out in the more rural parts of the country, but the suburban parts of the country have definitely changed.
I mean I lived in a rural part of Italy (read: small town) but I live in a city now and I do see kids playing in the square. Usually they're playing real life Among us or something judging by the "HE IS THE AMOGUS RUN!" screams.
American suburbia and places that imitate it are car-centric hellholes that are unsafe for kids and the American (or respective) government would do well to carpet bomb it and then build something decend in its place.
Yes. Yes, we did, and it was awesome.
No one finds porn in the woods, anymore. It's all on smartphones.
The joy of discovery is lost.
Heh.
You said "wood."
Growing up as isolated as I was in the 90s, kids playing outside was just something I saw on tv.
As a computer geek, I was always inside too, my parents had to force me to go outside and play.