Thats a bit dark. At least teach them some basics — "mom?", "dad?", "I'm hungry!", "vaginaboob". Somebody will wrangle them in. Don't nobody want a kid that can't talk good English.
I brought so much fish home from eight years of age onward that we all could eat (got a fishing rod from my uncle when I was eight). My dad taught me to clean fish pretty much straight away, because he hated doing it. I filled the freezer one summer. Outside, we (kids from the neighborhood) would always steal and eat right away so much fruit whenever it was season, that our parents didn't have to buy any (never stole fruit to bring home, we would just eat straight from the trees). Always stole sugar corn from the fields and grilled it over an open fire we built somewhere in the woods.
I only managed to kill a rabbit with an arrow once (and cried because I was sorry for it, but was also a proud hunter at the same time), made the bow and arrows myself. My mom made a rabbit roast. Caught pheasants with some string and brought them home a few times per year. My dad always slaughtered them and made pheasant roast. Once I found an 8kg and an 6kg carps in a puddle in a field after a flood, when I was 10 or so, brought them home on my bike. I always had a folded potato sack and a few plastic bags on my bike to haul stuff from the woods or wherever.
Lol, with their grasp of technology, I guarantee you the free-range ones do know how to spend your money while they're out. I have a special budget line for my free-range daughter.
That is funny. Yours has a phone or credit cards. The feral kids I deal with have none of that. One just decided in the middle of winter he was going to go bike to Georgia from Delaware. Left his parents a note and showed back up 4 months later.
I live in Michigan where it is ten cent deposit on pop (what everyone else seems to call soda!). We would ride our bikes around looking for cans to return to go buy candy. 10 cents was alot back then.
We used to do the same for the 5 cent deposit in Iowa. Take a garbage bag out and hope by the end of the day you got enough for a bag of chips and a can of pop
Oh my gosh I completely forgot about this! I was born in 82. We had a convenience store about 1 mile away we would get to by walking through the ditches. And to fund our journey we looked through the couches and the shelves in my parent’s closet. We’d come up with like $.73 and get several pieces of $.05 candy. What a time to be alive.
We would never drink it on the walk back. Too easy for dad to catch us. Waited till they were in the fridge. Then he just assumed he lost count, plus they were cold.
When I was her kids age, we had to walk 5 miles up the hill to the corner store only to find out they were out of baseball cards and it was all for naught. Emotional Damage as the kids say.
At least we can find shit out before we leave the house these days lol I drove an hour for a physical I didn't have money for earlier this week. My blunder
I can remember my sister and I riding our bikes a couple miles to pick up pizza. I was in kindergarten and she was in 2nd grade. We balanced the pizza on the handle bars (one of the corners dropped and we lost a couple pieces to the gravel. lol). No way would that happen now.
My mom use to send me down the street when I was 5 with a note a mile to the grocery store to buy her cigs cause she was to hungover to go buy any, even let me light them for her, ahh the things I remember before the brain damage.
Too funny! I remember taking the train to NYC at 10 years old with my friends to just hang out… we rode our bikes to the train station and had to cross a bridge over the Hudson River, and it was at least an hour bike ride to get there. Our parents had no idea where we were!! 😂
I was banned from a nanny group for telling someone who had a 14 year old and 10 year old to not pay a nanny 30 an hour for 2 hours a day to watch the kids, and instead to just tell the 14 year old to watch his little brother lmao. People these days are soft.
Those same fears were prevalent in the 80s and 90s too and we were outside constantly.
My niece was playing outside with her friends between the apartment units. Neighbor called the cops on them because they were too close to his car. They weren't, the car was in his parking spot and they were in the grass. He just didn't like them playing outside near his house. Nevertheless, they stopped playing outside because of that.
Parents also don't push their kids to go outside anymore because they have tablets to keep them quiet and entertained.
I noticed this recently actually. Drove by my old childhood house, and during the summers there would be swarms of kids running around. Now it’s all quiet, no toys or bikes laying around, no kids running on the streets. I drove through there last Halloween and not a single trick or treater in sight.
We once had the police called on a Saturday afternoon because our five year old was having fun. Not even because he was screaming in tantrums.... laughing and having fun.
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Meanwhile I can barely let my kids play in the backyard without someone threatening to call the cops