Back in the day….. : ) We went to the park alone. We had 20’ high swings with wooden seat boards that would bash your teeth out, a 20’ metal slide attached on one side of it, wooden, high see saws, and a merrie-go-round that was tilled up on one side, and sloped down on the other side-the kind you ran around and pushed to make it go. Get your leg caught under that puppy, and you wouldn’t walk that mile or two home from the park where you spent the whole day with friends. No food, drink, or “where the heck where you all day?”. We loved it. To be fair….there were teenage girls hired by the town to be at the playground for the summer. Many parents would drop their kiddies off in the morning with a bag lunch, and their kids would stay there all day till picked up by parents after work. The poor teens had to watch over those kids all summer, and were never paid a dime by the parents.
In the old days, we went to the park alone, but not quite at Liz’s age,though. I was around 12 when I was allowed to go alone. These days, any kid at park alone would get called to the police for neglect, abandonment, etc.
Fond memories of swinging on the swings with my daughter.
When she was older, as a teen and later as a grown woman, we’d often go to a park with swings to talk. She always felt she could tell me anything – even, sometimes, things I didn’t really want to hear or know about.
She’s a grown woman with a grown up son and lives a continent away, but she still feels she can confide in me.
I had a back yard swing set; probably about 20 feet tall with wooden board seats. My friends in the neighborhood would come over and we would pump as high as we could and jump out at the top of the upward swing and see who could jump the furthest. Great fun! Nobody got seriously hurt. A few scratches and bruises but we didn’t care. Times have really changed. I think kids were a lot tougher then.
Templo S.U.D. about 7 years ago
lovely father/daughter bonding
Argythree about 7 years ago
John is just a big kid himself…
sbwertz about 7 years ago
Cool daddy!
Tyge about 7 years ago
Many hands make light work.
summerdog86 about 7 years ago
Back in the day….. : ) We went to the park alone. We had 20’ high swings with wooden seat boards that would bash your teeth out, a 20’ metal slide attached on one side of it, wooden, high see saws, and a merrie-go-round that was tilled up on one side, and sloped down on the other side-the kind you ran around and pushed to make it go. Get your leg caught under that puppy, and you wouldn’t walk that mile or two home from the park where you spent the whole day with friends. No food, drink, or “where the heck where you all day?”. We loved it. To be fair….there were teenage girls hired by the town to be at the playground for the summer. Many parents would drop their kiddies off in the morning with a bag lunch, and their kids would stay there all day till picked up by parents after work. The poor teens had to watch over those kids all summer, and were never paid a dime by the parents.
capricorn9th about 7 years ago
In the old days, we went to the park alone, but not quite at Liz’s age,though. I was around 12 when I was allowed to go alone. These days, any kid at park alone would get called to the police for neglect, abandonment, etc.
Linguist about 7 years ago
Ah, been there, done that John.
Fond memories of swinging on the swings with my daughter.
When she was older, as a teen and later as a grown woman, we’d often go to a park with swings to talk. She always felt she could tell me anything – even, sometimes, things I didn’t really want to hear or know about.
She’s a grown woman with a grown up son and lives a continent away, but she still feels she can confide in me.
kodj kodjin about 7 years ago
I had a back yard swing set; probably about 20 feet tall with wooden board seats. My friends in the neighborhood would come over and we would pump as high as we could and jump out at the top of the upward swing and see who could jump the furthest. Great fun! Nobody got seriously hurt. A few scratches and bruises but we didn’t care. Times have really changed. I think kids were a lot tougher then.