i want to be a kid again

I hear ya. most of the places we built forts in ("deep" woods - we really traveled far off beaten paths, even for kids) are now people's backyards. suburb people. fuckin' crazy.

 

ya...i used to run around the bush naked for fun...and ride the dirtbikes right out the back yard

now theres a few hundred quarter million dollar houses there and all the trees are gone...replaced with tiny manicured lawns...new suvs and ignorant bastard children running wild while their parents work two jobs

 

Like Edward G in Soylent Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQNjJZFdLU"]YouTube - soylent green - the scene

 

I don't miss the 90's because of tv.. just each saturday morning for a few hours i did watch tv. It the only time of the week i got too.

 

So glad I didn't grow up in the 00's..

 

Only thing i miss is the cartoons this kids today are deprived

 

Are you people talking about being a kid or going back in time?

If it's being a kid, be glad you got to have those luxuries and still went outside instead of playing video games and drinking energy drinks all day like kids today.

If it's going back in time, the best time to live in is the future. We have everything from the past years and we're still advancing. You don't need The Magic School Bus to be on TV for you to watch it even though it's still on TV anyway. Point is, live now and be glad you got to experience those things while you could. I'm sure it doesn't matter what time you grew up in but just the fact that you were a kid.

 

I loved my childhood in the 90s. Prolly too much.

 

Ya this is more along the lines of what i had in mind when i was thinking about it the other night. The tv shows in the 90s did trump those of today, buut i remember tearing around my neighbourhood on bikes/skateboard/whatever and there were always other kids out and about causing mischief. The neighbourhood i grew up in is pretty old (my house was built in 1860) So it wasnmt one of these carbon copy suburbs that all these clones are living in today. Theres a river right near it too where you could always go to catch fish and throw stones or build forts. In the winter we'd go sledding all the timedown this dike (think levee if you dont know) that surrounds the river to prevent flooding. And this is what everyone did but now i take a walk down the street and hardly see anyone outside doing anything like this. I miss those days...they are gone. Things have changed, or have I?


Please excuse any spelling/grammatical errors i am writing this from my motorola droid while i wait for a friend to get off work.

 

ah, the great joys of playing unsupervised. we used to go under the fence to watch the cows that the neighbor had in a pasture behind our house. that was in VA. it breaks my heart that i cant send my son out to play, thats why i have got to get some land and a house, a nice permanent place for him to grow up.

 

It seems like kids don't hang out unsupervised, and roam the streets the way I used too when I was a kid. Now its's all classes and play dates. I also miss my parts of my neighborhood that have pretty much been gentrified out of existance. This is not all bad of course, but I sometimes wish all the yupies and surbanites would stop moving in and raiseing the rents. Sometimes Boston just doesn't feel like Boston any more.

 

Hell ya! There is a neighborhood next to the one I grew up in now, it used to be all trees. We had so many bad-ass bike trails and elaborate forts and tree-houses back there, we were really pissed when they started tearing it down for that new neighborhood. That was easily the best part about being a kid, I miss building forts and tree houses.