When I was growing up...

[Speedy]

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Also remember winning a Pete Rose rookie card from my cousin who thought he was good at Bases Loaded. Beat him down with Jersey and kept his card.

Wow.

[kweiss]

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you could just not answer the phone. LOL

And growing up, we didn't have our own personal cell phone.

Yeah... that would go over well...

Like I said, you guys have no idea..

I actually agree with most everything in this thread. Kids today grow up weak. But you guys who sit back complaining about how it used to be, just keep in mind that it wasn't the current generation that started this messed up society, they just inherited it.

I'll give an example. The original post complained about kids not playing outside enough. I play men's slowpitch softball, and my friends (all around 20 years old) and I love to get games together or take batting practice. Problem is, EVERY SINGLE field in the entire city is locked year round. Including church fields. If we even get near them we get threatened with trespassing tickets.

Who put that policy into place? Thanks to policies your generation passed, everything ends up getting you sued or in trouble with the law in this society. Then that same generation wonders why the world is the way it is.

[Pink Mist]

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hahaha... every generation is the same way...

Exactly this sums it up.

I'm sure when I'm 30 I will be complaining about how kids in 2020 have it easy. The point is every generation will have their technology advance, it just happens that with this generation there was a huge leap. I'm sure with the people who are 30 now your parents were complaining and telling you how you guys had it easy with your Atari 2600s and Pong.

And as for the whole Corporal punishment, it was the Hippy generation that "pussified" North America. You can't blame it one todays kids and teens. For the most part everything which is wrong with kids today is the parents fault. It's all how they are raised.

[countryboy]

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Yeah... that would go over well...

Like I said, you guys have no idea..

its no different than missing curfew. And when we left house, much like I would think you do, we told our parents where we were going. Parents knew other parents phone numbers, and they had this network and plan in place in case we didn't show up when we were supposed to, or if you were somewhere you didn't let your parents know you were going to be.

And no idea? Most of us older folks have cell phones that, as absurd as this may sound, have phone numbers that are parents know. They call on us, as do friends, work, and people we don't even want to know.

Cell phones haven't made your life any more difficult, I'm sorry. Your cell phone gives you a freedom that we didn't have.

I'll give an example. The original post complained about kids not playing outside enough. I play men's slowpitch softball, and my friends (all around 20 years old) and I love to get games together or take batting practice. Problem is, EVERY SINGLE field in the entire city is locked year round. Including church fields. If we even get near them we get threatened with trespassing tickets.

Who put that policy into place? Thanks to policies your generation passed, everything ends up getting you sued or in trouble with the law in this society. Then that same generation wonders why the world is the way it is.

Go play at a park. Why do you need to play on an actual field? Make you're own bases, own dimensions and playball. You don't need the actual field to play.

Hell we played football in streets, basketball in our backyards or driveways inside a 20 ft box. We played baseball at the local park, made our own bases, homerun lines, and rules to accomondate the "field" we played on.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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We played everything in the street when I was growing up. I can't tell you how many times we knocked the power out on my street from hitting power lines with the football. It would creates this huge spark and boom and all the neighbors would yell at us but we still played. We had no place else to play really and it was so fun. Same thing with baseball. I remember home and 2nd base were manholes lol.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Kickball was the most popular kid game where I grew up. That and "kill-a-man".

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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Kickball was the most popular kid game where I grew up. That and "kill-a-man".

Yeah the most popular games we played were

Football
Basketball
Baseball
Kickball
Tag
Pickle

I had a great childhood. On my street there were like 30-40 kids around my age range and we all grew up together so almost everyday except for the winter we were outside playing a game. In the summer it was nonstop, I loved it.

[trobinson97]

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Hell we played football in streets, basketball in our backyards or driveways inside a 20 ft box. We played baseball at the local park, made our own bases, homerun lines, and rules to accomondate the "field" we played on.

Kickball/baseball - We used smushed up drink cans, piles of rocks or pieces of tin for bases. Seriously, anything could be a base. Some of my favorite memories are when kids from all over our little neighborhood would come to our house to pick teams and play kickball. Everybody wanted the big kid who could kick the ball into the woods. Home run baby. We'd let the little kids kick for F-U-N (you know, cuz the babies couldn't spell).

Football was played in the street, two hand touch. Kill the man with the ball was the most fun though and anywhere we could find an open grassy spot it was on. "This tree is out of bounds and the dirt patch is the endzone."

We played Freeze Tag, Peas and Cornbread (Hide the Switch), Mother May I? O-U-T Out (dodgeball but you get a letter for everytime you got hit till you spelled "Out"), Red Light Yellow Light, Hide and Seek of course and all kinds of games we would just make up. Those were the days.

[Scottdau]

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When I was in elementary school Kick Ball was the game. If you hit the edge of the grass it was a HR that we called greener! I don't remember kicking too many of those, but I was beast on catching! Nothing got by me. Man that was a blast!

[z Revis]

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I loved kickball. I was so good at it too.

[countryboy]

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kickball led to my first kiss. No joke.

Playing kickball in elementary school, I kicked the ball and it hit a girl in the face. I walked up and apologized and made sure she was ok and such. After school she walked up to me and said thanks for being nice and gave me a kiss.

[Scottdau]

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Sweet! I still play every now in then with my student, and lets just say the old 38 year can still play and wowed a lot of my little thugs. I remember one time my friend hit the teacher in the face real hard on a line drive down 3rd base. She took it like a champ too. Now that is a teacher and I took one to the face too in my game against my students. It daze me a little bit and it did hurt, but I took it too. So I can relate with Mrs. Neihouse.

[Bullit]

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This thread is a wonderful trip down memory lane. When I was a kid we didn't even have a color TV. We had a little 19" black and white in the living room and a stereo that had an 8 track player in it.

There were no video games when I was a kid. The only game we had was if you walked 4 blocks into town and the local pub had a pinball machine.

And what's up with pants today. In my day if your wore your pants half way down you butt one of three things would happen.
1. You would get your pants pulled down.
2. You would be wearing your under wear over your head (Atomic Wedgie!!!)
3. Your pants would just be pulled of and run up a flag pole.

I was in a store the other day and I heard a teen ager tell his father that he didn't give a #$@#$#@ what he wanted he was going out. I was stunned if I had talked to my father like that I would have been picking my teeth up off the floor.

We were up at 5:30 every morning, school or not. You had chores to do before and after school that were done period. Then you did homework and then unless the weather was bad you were outside. You only game home if you were thirsty, you were bleeding or it was dark. I remember once I was in a hurry to get to the field to play ball and didn't do my chores. Got home and Dad asked why I didn't do my chores and I said I forgot sorry I will do them after dinner. Dinner came everybody sat down and started to eat, but I didn't have a plate? Why dads exact words " Sorry I forgot maybe I will feed you tomorrow" I promptly asked to be excused and went and did my chores. Mom snuck me a sandwich and a glass of milk later, years later she told me dad had told her to make me something but not to tell me. But I never forgot my chores again.