What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street
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I mean i preferred the woods over streets. What are u gonna do in the street? Boring ass playground.
On your own they are. But together with friends I played loads of games on the street until it got dark
When we were kids, we put a couple of rocks on the floor to act as goal post on play football.
Or someone's flip-flops.
How to forget that everyone played barefoot on the asphalt. You didn't become a real kid until you miss the ball and kick the floor, popping up your toenail and coming back home bleeding everywhere.
From memories of my days playing in the road:
Throw a football, baseball (with tennis ball), street hockey, bmx racing around the block, 4 square, skateboarding.
curb corners act as bases for casual softball.
If we curb corners all the roads will be straight
Go back inside dad, we’re busy playing in the street.
Paywall 😔
https://12ft.io/
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I've literally never had this work for me, sadly
same
Really? I don't know if it works as i didn't need it in the first place (maybe it's ublock origin?)
Link without paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-adults-lost-when-kids-stopped-playing-in-the-street/ar-BB1qPmpm
It’s MSN but 🤷
Just turn off javascript for the domain.
How?
Reading mode in Firefox works for me.
I do it with ublock origin. It prevents the paywall from loading.
Yeah, it's the loss of third places.
Like, it's kind of ridiculous that I live in a house with 15 families and barely know anyone here.
But how should I know anyone? There's no place to sit down and have a chat in the hallway. There's no bench outside, because why would anyone want to stare at a street, in particular also because of what the article points out.
The only guy I've kind of formed the mildest resemblance of a connection to, is a guy who occasionally takes the same bus and so we see each other at the fucking bus station. The guy sleeps less than 10 meters from me, but we have to walk 200 meters to meet each other by pure chance.
Totally true, nice article thanks
Any link to this article not paywalled?
Edit:
https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/07/play-streets-children-adults/679258/
Shutting the roads down to let children play is such a Bristol thing to do. I love that city.
How the Dutch got their cycle paths - YouTube
Article: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycling-infrastructure/
Neat.
Good article!
It's what you get when you park people in these human sized rabbit hutches, breeding grounds for mental disorders and drug abuse.
I knew everyone in my village because we all played in the woods growing up, but y'all want.to destroy that.
Reap what you sow.
You're getting downvoted because you clearly didn't read the article and are spouting irrelevant bullshit.