Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for July 16, 2019

Sometimes I do wonder about the phrase “in LOCO parentis”.

The kids should all be wearing helmets, elbow and knee pads, heck just wrap ’em in bubble wrap.

Damn, we used to bike to the park. If you let your kids do that now you land in jail. I think they have to be 21 before it is legal for them to go on their own, isn’t it?

Don’t get me started on my adventures climbing actual trees.

Those were the days. We’d hit the street after breakfast with 600 other kids and stay out until the street lights came on. Well, we did get lunch and dinner.

Mum had gone over to a friend’s home to can tomatoes. They packed us a lunch, told us to go to the park – and stay there! Try that today, I dare you.

those were the days when a little dirt won’t hurt him/her was a familiar mantra.

I think he means his grandparents.

Now there’s climb-it control.

That’s because now we are controlled by the Nanny state and the SJW, it’s worse then 1984.

Hard to even find traditional monkey bars in playgrounds anymore..

That’s when parents weren’t acting like nervous hens.

I suppose it’s astonishing that any of us senior citizens survived! Some of us even played Kick the Can in the alley!

Those were the days, kid.

A young man (18-19) working at a day care center walked on the top of the monkey bars, fell, and broke teeth. Mid 1970s

They are missing out on the steel slides headed to 850 degrees by the sun and the merry go-rounds pushed by high schoolers in an attempt to demonstrate centripetal force on little brothers!

@Madzdad. . .’ If one remembers only the unhappy moments of childhood then one loses the good hours. I, too, have moments I would rather not recall, but the rest of my youth was generally open and light. Not always happy but not grindingly sad.

Our little town on Lake Michigan in the 70’s and early 80’s had lifeguards on the beach and the parks had big slides, teetertodders and monkey-bars the ridiculous lawsuits resulted in the removal of the playground equipment and the lifeguards. We need to change our laws to make people more responsible for themselves. PS people are still drowning, just lost one last weekend, but hey the stinking lawyers have a harder time suing without the lifeguards there.

At first I thought they were cages. Now I Know the kids on the border are kept on playgrounds.

….. and lived to tell about it too. Imagine that! ;-)

I had a large play room when I was growing up, it was called Outside.