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Dr Linda's avatar

Remember King of the Mountain? In our most frequented playground it was a large concrete hill. That was a rough and tumble game.

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Sarah’s Life Lessons's avatar

King of the mountain was played on the piles of snow in winter where I grew up. Now they don’t let the kids play on them.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

It's so sad. They've stripped the playgrounds of...wait for it...tetherballs.

What a weak society. I say this often; but I hope this last 2 generations doesn't have to defend us older folks.

Pretty sure at this point I'd rather do the fighting than have all these pudgy kids I see these days.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

I can still feel the sting of a tetherball to the face!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Oh God or a kickball...and worse a basketball.

And for all the baseball I played I don't remember anyone ever suffering Commotio Cordis.

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Sanwish's avatar

Or the dodge ball slammed at our bare legs. Boys loved it (us girls wore dresses and skirts in elementary school).

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Dr Linda's avatar

Tetherball is gone? That is awful.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Gone 5-10 years ago

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baker charlie's avatar

We spent days hollowing them out into Snow Forts. Wet mittens still scraping freezing hands and the hot bath after stung. Good times.

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

They don’t even let kids play Dodgeball!!!

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ann k's avatar

We played Smear the Queer (we didn’t know what a queer was haha) which was everyone dog pile on one person. Idk who won or how it ended. In tears probably. 😂

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

best game ever. I still have a 2 inch "strawberry" on my left elbow.

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