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"Do you still play outside?"

Odd title, but I want to know.
Work is boring today, my boss is now off on holiday until next year so I have little to do.
So I'm sitting there asking what I can do for anyone, and the other 2 PAs shrug. So I offer a suggestion, "Let's go outside and have adventures!" (we have about 5 acres of grounds where I work with forest and lake and stuff).

Well, apart from accepting that going out and having adventures would be excellent, someone said that they don't let their kid outside much to play, in case he gets snatched.

Now when I were a lad, me and my mates used to play out as often as possible as long as we were back before dark.
We used to play war in the forest or play in the stream and along the riverbank etc.
Does this still happen? Or do kids just stay in and play video-games now?
Why do I see small groups of them standing around outside local shops/garages at night?
Do they not have homes they can go to? Someone's house they can congregate in and plan break-ins?

Has the younger generation of today lost interest in "playing outside"? I remember there used to be up to 20-30 kids with guns and knives playing in the woods, but I just don't see that anymore.

Is it me?

There are these people near us, and a friend of theirs dumped their old car in the car park out the back of our houses. What was really bad though, is that their kids vandalised it. They must only be about 10, yet they did a pro job of it, smashed windows, spray paints, leaving the hazards on, there wasnt much left be the time the missus got it towed...

Someone has just given me the best quote I've heard this month:

"We do not stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing"

old women, i think (not old woman).

There sadly is just one shop in my village so the only people that grunt outside are old woman.

However, you can always find one of the "stand outside shops and grunt" teens that can also use a computer.

Eh Crippen?

Down here in Surrey, I joined a local youth drama group thing - mainly to get to know people when I mfirst moved here, and there is hope.

The age range of the group is 15-25, and there are a load of people who are of the GCSE's/A-Levels age, and they are all spot on.

None of this attitude that seems to be prevailent in some people of their age range. Yet there's nothing different about these kids.

Some of them are from rich families, some from poorer. Some are brighter, some are less intelligent. But they all enjoy what they are doing and have a healthy outlook on life.

Yeah, and then you'll be seeing what the inside of a prison looks like!

When i've got my gun I'll be the only kid outside! hahahahahahahahah (mad profsser laugh)

Slaveunit wrote:
but because we only see the kids
> on mopeds on the streets we generalise their age group into dossers.

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Very true which is why I asked if anyone else could shed some light on it.
It can't just be all chimps with nothing to do can it?
I just don't see them outside playing, be it on bikes or anything like that.
I don't for one second believe that ALL parents neglect their kids and ALL kids run rampant, but it does seem to be a far greater number of them than I remember.

Thats harsh, there not all to....oh, dossers. he he...