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for kids to get back to the basics. Plain wooden blocks were a fun toy when I was a kid. Riding my bike. A large cardboard appliance box could provide days of fun for us. We didn't have hundreds of colorful plastic and metal toys when I was a kid. My dad made homemade stilts out of an old metal bed frame. We had a pogo stick. We played games with a ball...kickball, baseball, basketball, football, volleyball, tetherball, a couple of ratty tennis rackets and a tennis ball...badminton, hide and seek, kick the can, catch, the list goes on and on. We weren't fat, we were lean, tanned little banshees. Now I know someone will start in on the "there are child predators out there" and they refuse to let their kids play outside. I remember plenty of pervs trying to get us to come to their car or help them find their puppy or whatever. We knew better. When an adult tried to lure us we just took off and ran or pedaled like hell. You didn't even bother to mention it to your parents, it was just another day in the life of a kid. I really don't think there are more pervs out there now, I think there is just more reporting of it in the media. There was plenty of stuff going on in my neighborhood. The boy two doors up was molesting the younger boys. The pill popping drunk woman up the street was having sex with the neighborhood boys...everyone knew, you just steered clear of them. The world has ALWAYS been a treacherous place, it's nothing new.
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