Random memory #4,111. Did you play with "kids on the block" as a child?

No, my mother was afraid I’d put my eye out if I left the back yard.

When I was growing up, we lived way out in the countryside. There were two boys and a girl who lived within four miles of us. Once in a while we'd all go bike riding together or rode horses together but none of us cared for team sports even if we had enough people for that. (The closest city to us was 7 miles away.) I can remember when there were more families with kids living close to us and they often came to our house and played baseball with my older brothers but I was considered "too little" to play with them.

Of course I played with the kids on the block when I was a child. My daughters are old enough to have had the same experience. That is not done any longer.

Yes I did and I miss those days.

Yes, when I was growing up we played outside, in the woods and pastures and creeks. Anywhere our feet could take us. Those were the days. Kids know nothing about that kind of play these days.

Yes we did every day. There was around 7 of us and we every day together.

Till 10 years of age, I grew up in a small town sort of Traditional, highly interactive setting. We used to had even 25 to 28 people playing cricket, across all ages! Then I did play a few of the games with other kids of my age. When ny place changed, it was mainly me and my brother who used to play. Others were mich lesser. Now we have playgrounds and some small fields in our Apartment complex but somehow the old charms thing is missing! Yet kids do still play together; albeit in smaller groups.

My parents were afraid to let me out of the house. But, I didn't really see kids out often. I don't really see it much now come to think of it.

Mom invited two kids who lived in the apartment next to us and we went sometimes to their apartment to play. We never played in the streets.

Only one place I lived had kids around the block. We played games like Red Rover, Mother May I? and many more including dodgeball. It was fun but we moved and there were no more kids around the block after that.

I lived on a farm but occasionally the neighbour's son would walk the mile to our place and we'd play games or whatever or I'd walk to his place. It's unusual to see groups of kids playing here. You see groups at parks and playgrounds but almost always with adults nearby.

We were rural and didn't really have neighbors, or at least the closest neighbor was a mile away. We mostly played with ourselves and didn't have a lot of other kids to play with.

Oh, absolutely. We played every night during the summer until the street lights came on. I never see kids out playing these days. They are inside on their computers or Game Boys.

My childhood started in the Chicago area; I was born there. We played with neighbor children and there was no fear there of doing that. We did have a small woods behind our house, we were even allowed to go there at times as well. Now, if a child has a friend to play with a few blocks away, a parent does not feel safe letting the child just walk there, or ride a bike there...heck, I wouldn't either! It's a whole different world than we grew up in. My son said one day, Mom, it's sad. He said he felt like his generation was probably the last one that had that freedom, to go to a friends on a bike, to go to the ice cream shop or to just feel free to go to a friends' house. It's just not very safe anymore, and it's sad.

Nope, not really.

We did but was kind of different, apartment kids on the block. When I visited Chicago. There was a park or some nature reserve type place right across from my sisters dads condo. I took the Legend of the Tristan and now old Brooker's but was puppy Brookers then. I was dumb, very few city people use this neatness. If I see a person just will make them and I jump in the bushes. Its about 1 PM. Dammit Elementary class getting all edumacated.Quick meanies, turn around! Dammit people do use this place. Jump to the left and teacher goes, Do you have them? Meaning giant legend of Tristan and so hyper but nearly fully grown Brooklyn. I have them. They stroll past us. The jerks let them get half of the kids through. Then both, go crazy, rahhhh rahhhh, rahhh. I held on so tight, but that class received a quick tour of nature that day. Tristan said, you moving to slow, speed it up, I need to see nature too.

We used to play hide and seek outside when I was a kid.

There was a few of us out here. Thankfully my boys got to do that too

My mom and dad never let me play out on the street. They took me to a park where I could also ride my tricycle. We lived in a large apartment house with a courtyard and on warm days when no one had time to take me to the park mom let me ride my tricycle around the courtyard and she could look down from our fifth floor apartment and see me,

I grew up playing on the block and in the woods with the kids who lived on my block. Unfortunately, I don't see that here in Florida, but do see it less frequently in CT. My grandkids have friends over to their house and vice versa when they have time. They have room to play in their yard - trampoline, pool, woods, and large driveway area. No one wants them playing in the road these days. Me included. Boy, times have changed.