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Originally Posted by MattyC
I feel like this is a very recent trend and has obviously trended proportional to the ease of access to technology. I'm 23 so I'm not far removed from "childhood". We didn't have a family computer until I was 12-13 and our allowed tuime on it was quite limited.
Video games, tv, movies, and even the toys these days have taken the imagination out of play time. I remember seeing a kids kitchen play-set that had literally everything a kitchen had. We used to play "mechanics" and pretended bunk beds were cars. I probably had more free reign from my parents to do what I wanted at ages 6-12 than I did in my teens. I'm so glad I barely missed being raised in this paranoid time.
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I remember that my old man was just a freaking pack rat. One day he came home with a car full of wooden dowlings because they might come in handy one day.
So one summer day using the old table saw, and some hammers and nails we made an arsenal of swords out of these things then proceeded to have a medieval battle in a near by park where fingers were broken, people were stabbed in the sack (Only rule was that we weren't allowed to sharpen the end). One enterprising kid made a set of throwing knives which didn't stick in you but would pretty well knock you senseless.
When the old man got home every single dowling was gone, every kid in the neighbourhood was battered and bruised and limping, but he couldn't get mad when I described it as the best day ever.
He was kinda pissed that a bunch of pre teen kids were using his table saw without adult supervision though.