Dangerous Things Kids Used To Do

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1. Thanks!

2. Pocket knife at ten? Oh heck no! Six!

3. Your channel brings much joy of the care free world we lived in back then. But also kind of a sadness too that those happy days are long gone. Keep up the great work and I'll keep watching.

4. I didn't sit on my dad's lap to drive the car, but since he was in outdoor construction and drove bulldozers/backhoes/etc he would take me to a job site on a weekend if he needed to do something and he would operate the controls, but I would stand between his legs and steer the bulldozer.

   As a boomer, dad's back in the day let kids to a lot of things but only under one rule which was, 'don't tell your mother'.

5. I got to steer the car on the interstate when I was around 10. But farm kids always drive early

6. Anyone else take the plastic sheet from their twister game and a garden hose to make a slip n slide. Laughing our heads off as we plunged into the hard ground. We also played circus. The dogs were our wild animals and the top of the swing set was our tight rope.

7. I remember I got a 410 shotgun when I was 10 I can't remember when I didn't have a pocket knife when I was a kid the world is turned into a bunch of sissies

8. Evil was awsome

9. The good old days.

10. The good ole days when you, as a kid, could spit out the window in the front seat and have it hit your sister, riding in the back, right in the face. 🤣🤣

11. I like the video clips.
    Keep it up .
    Do both photo and video

12. Myself as a child was pedaling my tricycle in the back yard, yes ,with a stick in my hand that I had been told not to do numerous times , well ,I fell over and the stick punctured thu my lower eye lid ,I kept it there running into the kitchen with blood dripping down my cheek and chin ,hand wrapped around the stick, Mom screamed , I don’t remember exactly what happened next but I was back playing in a day or two with no significant eye damage,I have ,to this day ,dreams about my eyes being poked out with a stick. But I’m alive!

13. I have a second cousin who had his young daughter driving on this lap on a rural back gravel road they went around a corner and hit a tree, she had to have one arm amputated, she’s a beautiful young lady last time a saw her, tho she still has nightmares and panic attacks to this day, I’m 66 she I believe is in her 50s. This happened in the late 60s.

14. We used to go fishing and swimming at a huge pond just down the street from us. Fishing was really really good there. Turned out that it that it was called the Hunts Disposal Site and it was on the EPA's Superfund list. We didn't grow any extra limbs or start glowing but it was sure a lot of fun until the cops would show up and kick you out of there.

15. #bettertimes

16. I lived most of this if I am not mistaken I believe around that time they came up with “ no drinking while driving “

17. I remember i would go running through the woods just looking for adventure…one time i got lost…but i kept my kool… eventually found my way home…lol..never told my mom..

18. The thing I often see missing from these sorts of "back in my day.." accounts is the why you don't see parents allowing many of these things anymore. The West, and the U.S. in particular, has become an extremely litigious country where folks are getting sued left-and-right for much less. The parents who remember all these fun activities don't allow their children to do them because they live in the real world, which also takes into consideration that most average families are a single medical bill from going into forever-debt, given how far along we are in late-stage capitalism.

19. I’m guess it’s nightmare these days, cause every child that’s hurt playing is automatically assumed abuse & then you get a knock on the door, HELLO WE ARE WITH CPS. we are taking your child

20. Had my first pocket knife at age 5. Widdling was fun and you used your imagination

21. Thank you for sharing this and saying that about needing to be able to experience the bumps and scrapes of life as 70's or 80's kid. I did and I think I'm better for it, I can't believe how whiny kids are about such things and please don't get me started with some of the parents. Please don't get me wrong everyone is different with their parenting skills and it's all good

22. A lot of this stuff still happens in the South. Kids also used to ride around the in the bed of pickup trucks. Still do, but most cops will stop you for doing it these days…

23. I wasn't a daredevil, as my "parents" drilled it into my head that I better not do anything even remotely risky as they wouldn't pay for the hospital bill. The most "dangerous" thing I got to do was rollerskate at the rink in my hometown. Still super afraid of taking risks because of all the fear they instilled in me. ☹️

24. I was a girl who did all of these things as I did not like dolls. My Father gave me a neat knife with a lot of attachments when I was five.

25. GREAT VIDEO, We all got injured on the playground. It was part of being a kid. I got 14 stitches through my eyebrow and forehead, still have a cool scar to remember it. I have broken several bones and had four concussions before age five. Kids can't grow up in a bubble. My best friend fell off the roof two stories up. We'd gone up there to get a better view of the fireworks. He broke a couple ribs but survived. I've broken ribs too, very painful. But these are the best stories of growing up, the ones we still laugh about when we run into each other all these decades later. No one died. It was great growing up in the sixties and seventies. You could just be a kid. I fell out the window one time when my father was watching us, from the second floor. I landed in the bushes. I feel bad for kids now. Parents are overprotective now. Skin your knees, break a toe or two. It's all part of growing up.

26. I grew up mostly in the 90’s. I remember doing most of these. Never went to a construction site per se, but I do remember neighbors outside working would give me things to do or show me what they were doing.

27. Gen X is the last of the greats! We will live forever!

28. Did all of these and I'm SO glad I grew up when I did ❤ Sucj a fun childhood.

29. Prior to seatbelt laws, you were allowed to win a Darwin award. Make them mandatory for being installed by manufacturers, but allow people to make dumb decisions on their own (mandatory for minors, of course. You cant allow adults to make dumb decisions for their kids).

30. Might be a big part of reason why kids in general are the way they are today. The kid never got to be a kid. The lesson of crashing on your bike while racing your friends to the bottom of a hill. Remember when the kids in the neighborhood would play baseball or ding dong ditch ‘em? Occasionally you had a physical fight with neighborhood kid but things were OK between both of you the next day. There were no school shootings type stuff that we have today.

31. Born in 1973 and did all this 👍🏾

32. “ if your not in by the time it’s dark we’re locking you out ‘

33. and starting in the 90s parents wouldnt even let their kids leave the yard.and they wonder why their kids arent adults even after marraige now days.

34. Growing up in the 60's and 70's my childhood was a blast nothing was too dangerous to try.

35. In the name of safety our society has made everyone less safe and more ignorant.

36. Here's your iPod? Somebody's out of date. iPods are obsolete too.

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    Taught myself to drive on a light-blue '67 Chevy pickup, no seatbelts, metal dashboard, no adults around.

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    Hiked four days on the Appalachian Trail at age 12 with my brother, age 14, including going over Mt. Washington, including Washington's winds and storms, and most of the time we weren't even on the trail but were bushwhacking. But we got to the pickup point on time, a point arranged by looking at a map, and our mother showed up with a car.

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    I was skinny and I organized all the skinny kids to fight the stronger but slower bullies. We developed techniques like slipping out of our jackets if the bullies caught us. The principal was always calling my mother to say I was the ringleader. I was like the Napoleon of skinny boys.

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    I noticed one of your commenters talking about swinging on saplings. Like Robert Frost, another New Englander, we bent tons of saplings by climbing to the top and swinging down. We had a huge forest so were always on the lookout for more saplings.

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    BB guns, .22s. We used to have full-on BB gun battles at camp when the counselors weren't around. Oh wait, I just remembered: we WERE the counselors.

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    Throwing snowballs at cars was an important learning experience for drivers. Also useful for us kids: as soon as we saw tail-lights, we were high-tailin it.

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    Estes rockets: we'd do them in the graveyard. Sometimes they'd tip over and we'd duck behind the grave stones.

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    Mike Sibley blew a hold in my shirt with a firecracker. Minor damage to the skin but major damage to the shirt.

45. Remember doing most all of these things. But I also remember when cars didn’t even have seat belts.

46. When our family drove from East Tenn to Nebraska every year to visit my Grandparents and the the place we kids always took turns to get was to lie up on the shelf behind the backseat in the back window. We used to ride around on the tailgate of the pickup or the station wagon (only at slow speeds around the farm. They passed seatbelt laws in Tenn in the early 70’s. Fun stuff to remember. I feel sorry for kids today who don’t play outside all day until it was time to come home for Dinner.

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