Do children in your country learn traditional games?

Maybe somewhere in my country, but not where I live. They do those kind of games at elementary school but it kind of stops after that. I've taught my own children some of the games we played and some games that I learned about as a child and even the origin of some of those games.

Gone were the days when it is 4 pm in the afternoon, you can here the children tapping on the gates of your neighbors or your gate calling the kids in your home to play with them outside. In our country there are a lot of traditional games played by the kids on the streets. Not those sporty types like football or basketball, but those games such as hide and seek, patintero, langit at lupa, monkey monkey, pepsi/seven up, etc... I sure miss those days. You are right every kid now has their own console and just play by themselves anywhere. No interaction is taking place. Even the kids who are less fortunate in terms of finances, they try to earn something just to have a couple of hours playing their online games in internet cafes. Gone where the days when you can see children occupying the streets, hear them laughing or taunting and on the sidewalks are the vendors who offers some refreshment for the kids who are soaking wet with their sweat....

It's the same here. You see children in computer cafes playing instead of the traditional games I used to enjoy in my childhood years. Of course this games are introduced and taught in school as part of the lesson but I think children of today are less interested on this. It's actually funny when sometimes my friends and I gather to play some traditional games, adults on the street playing child games. What a sight we are. You are probably correct, if football or basketball, since it is the one famous in our country, wasn't so popular it would have been long forgotten.

Yes, I remember playing street games when I was a kid too. Hide and seek is one of the games that kids doesn't play nowadays. Most of the kids now don't even want to go out and play games that involves physical exercise, they only play games that doesn't require a lot of moving. That's one reason why kids are getting obese these days.

Kids here still play that games although not every kid is able to play outside. At the school of my children they teach them the traditional games again. My own kids are very creative, seldom watch tv or play with consoles also not behind the computere. They draw daily, play with lego, read a lot, paint etc etc. I think it also depends on the parents how kids play and where there interests are.

When I was a child I played a lot outside with others, too, whenever the weather was acceptable. We played hide and seek, run and catch, blew and caught soap bubbles, and played many other games that I don't even know by name. Now I almost never see kids playing outside. I know that playing video games is safer, but as I remember we weren't in danger, and in case we hurt ourselves, we learnt how to be careful.

I don't know if the kids today in my country still play our traditional games. One of the reasons why I say so is because there is little space for children to play, especially in the city. In provinces, some children may still play the traditional games that I am familiar with. I no longer know the name of this game, but it is like baseball. Only the bat and stick are bamboo. It's just a short stick, and the ball used is a very short bamboo stick too. You have to hit the shorter stick once to get it in the air, then with precision hit a second time to get it far so that you can run to the bases.

When I was a child, life was quite hard in China. Many parents worked hard to support the families. They did not have enough money to make sure their children can have meat or eggs everyday. So the pocket money to many children were luxury. But children like games. So in most cases, we can create new games using nothing. Now with more and more things in our lives, children do not need to go out of home, they can play games in their own house. Many traditional games needs many children to play together are gone forever. But others, some people write them into PC game programs have been passed down from generation to generation and even spread to other places of the world. I now feel a little sad about that, the children's song we sang when we played games can not be hear in the future. they are really an important part in our life and in our culture.

I agree if parents or school does not teach the children these games it seems they will never learn them outside of the electronic gadgets society is now glued to. Thank you for the reminder of looking into these games that are so simple but we've forgotten as we've grown up.

I'm very sad that these days, here in the UK, it appears to me that children seem to play so very few games. Those who live in my area and go outside, seem to spend their play time just kicking balls against fences, or racing aimlessy around on their bikes...shouting and screeching at one another. Also, I've noticed that in school playgrounds children no longer seem to play structured games, and just run around screaming at one another. At the time of my own childhood, we used to play all sorts of structured games, both in and out of school. I believe that playing these structured games helps children learn how to relate healthily to one another and how to cooperate. During my own childhood, when we were unable to play structured games for any valid reason, we'd make up our own and use our imaginations. That's another thing I don't see modern-day children doing. I find it very sad as there's a huge problem here with youth crime, and I wonder how much not playing cooperative and structured games (amongst other things of course) has to do with this breakdown in society. If children can't learn to work/play with one another and how to socialise in a respectful way, then they can't be expected to do it when they get older. I agree with what you say that if football weren't so popular that too would quite likely have bitten the dust.

I remember when i was a child i would play the traditional games,like skipping ropes, hide-and-seek.Especially the skipping house.We drew some crossed lines on the ground.each rectangle stood for a room of the house.we couldn't make a mistake in jumping each room if we wanted to succeed.It was so interesting that wheneverwe had time , we would play it. I miss my childhood.

I love playing traditional games way back as a kid.Today,there are few kids that I see in our neighborhood that plays traditional games that we used to play too before.But most of the kids today do play internet games and modern games like console games.

I remember my sweet childhood. To run under the sun , To shower in the rain . To squish bugs . DRink the nectar of random flowers . I got bruises too .In the my favorite game would be patentero and the one i cant name anymore where we hit a can with our slippers

When I was young I played a lot of street games, even those who are only played by boys, I could still remember how fun it is to play outdoors together with other kids playing with any thing you can see outside or even inside the house. I played hide and seek, patintero, skipping rope, japanese game and even the garter game. Indoors I normally play with my mother's stuff and imagine that I am a princess or I play with the spices of grandmother in the kitchen. It is fun really FUN! However, today I can barely see children playing outside I believe it is being replaced by the online games, I know it is fun and the likely hood of children getting hurt is lower however it is really not healthy and I still believe playing with other kids can actually develop interpersonal relationship with others, meaning kids can be sociable. I hope that other parents can actually find time to play with their children so that they can bond at each other as well.

In my childhood we played outside all the time. We played a lot of different games and we also created our own games. We had a lot of fun that way, and we didn't have computers and so computers games weren't an option. We had tvs, but only one channel, so we didn't spend all day in front of the tv either. I don't know if the children of today know the games that we used to play, but whether they know them or not they don't spend much time on them, because a lot of children prefer to spend the time infront of the computer instead of playing outside. The children get less exercise, and that is one of the reasons why the number of obese children is much higher today. There has been a lot of talk about this topic in my country, because many people are worried about the development.

i agree that its because of the technology today that children are not actively playing at streets and school. they prefer playing video and computer games than playing street games. they say that the last generations of children playing street games are the 1980's babies. i hope this is not true yet.

I'm perfectly okay with you. I my childhood, I spent "riding" between the 80's and 90's, and see nowI note that the games of children in their infancy, are completely different than I used to do in the past. I must confess that I have always been passionate about the digital world, one time with video games, today with the applications. Even I used to play 8-bit console, but it was a lot for us of those times! Today, however, the definition of some video games for consoles, do not seem to have limits. only in graphics, so it was impossible to imagine just a decade ago. Leaving out the video games I can also say that I played with my friends in the streets to run, hide and seek, and inevitably, even football.

Yes,we are learning traditional games and we do play for it...

My country's national sport is called Oina. It's played with a ball and a bat. It's different from baseball. Although this is the national sport, in my country football(soccer) is the most popular sport. These days though I don't see a lot of children playing outside, more and more prefer computer games.