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Originally Posted by morningbell  hmmmm. When I was 10 my friend, her little brother and I packed a lunch and were gone for about 8 hours at at time in the woods, looking for snakes, frogs, minnows, crayfish, jewel weed, swimming, climbing trees, skippin rocks, chasing cows, goats or horses, laying out on the rocks, jumping mud puddles, stick wars.... you name it. We came home muddy, itchy, bitten and bloody and we called it fun. |
Yes...at 10 and younger we were told to go outside in the morning, come home for lunch and back out we went...just had to be home before dark. We played at the pond, in the woods, built our own forts, played in the tobacco fields....rode our bikes everywhere. I also let my kids go as long as they were in groups of two or more. They are 17 and the twins are 14.