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How much did you play outside as a kid?

Asked by Berserker (33548points) October 4th, 2015

You see this often all over the internet, posters and declarations about how kids today are just on their phones all day and don’t play outside, and then usually concluded by “when I was a kid, I drank from the garden hose” and so forth. Never mind the fact that people post this with their phones, tablets and computers haha.

Sometimes I wonder just how much stuff changes though. When I was a kid there was cable TV, video games and kids talking on landline phones for hours. Oh I played outside a lot, but there was a lot of technology around. Played outside as default for being dirt poor haha.

So what did you have as a kid? Were you outside a lot? What kind of games did you play? Did you explore woods, climb all over garage roofs? Or were you always inside? What kind of technology was around in your day? Also, what years were you a kid in?
No need to absolutely answer all that, but how much were you outside, and what did you do?

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