Do kids climb trees anymore?

[rightwinger]

When I was a kid, we would climb any climbable tree, even some that weren’t

I live on a street with lots of trees but never see kids climbing them

 

[Lumpy 1]

When I was a kid, we would climb any climbable tree, even some that weren’t

I live on a street with lots of trees but never see kids climbing them

I blame Democrats .. they're pusifying America and it's likely illegal.

Welcome to the no balls Democrat generations..

 

[Dekster]

I blame Democrats .. they're pusifying America and it's likely illegal.

Welcome to the no balls Democrat generations..

I blame John Deere. Lazy adults prune the trees up so as not to be slowed down when riding around on their mowers. This leaves no hand old for the kids to get into trees.

 

[Lumpy 1]

I blame John Deere. Lazy adults prune the trees up so as not to be slowed down when riding around on their mowers. This leaves no hand old for the kids to get into trees.

Shinny.. shimmy .. up a tree was the preferred method back in my tree climbing days..

 

[petro]

I don't know.
I still see playgrounds full of kids playing, and the playgrounds are far more interesting than what we had in the past.
Some have a zipline, climbing wall, bridges and such. Much more interesting than the trees.
All we had was a rusty swing set and crappy seesaws.
Not all of today's kids are lazy phone addicts.

 

[Dekster]

Shinny.. shimmy .. up a tree was the preferred method back in my tree climbing days..

Done a fair share of that myself but swinging yourself up onto the trunk of the tree with a low-hanging limp as your handhold was the more common method. I have a couple trees I have never pruned so that one day some future kid will be able to climb if they so desire. We had a good climb mulberry our kids used to play on when they were whippersnappers but it got taken out in a storm.

Anyway, I have a neighbor who obsesses about many things on my property and those trees I've never limbed up are something he likes to ***** about because I also don't mow under them either so critters have a shady spot in the fine southern heat. They are particularly popular lounges for neighborhood cats. If you aren't mindful though, one of them growing on a slope will take off the top of your skull if you are riding around on the mower as one of the limbs is at that exactly right height to not really be in your field of vision but still catch the top of your head if you come at it close from a certain direction.

 

[Dekster]

I don't know.
I still see playgrounds full of kids playing, and the playgrounds are far more interesting than what we had in the past.
Some have a zipline, climbing wall, bridges and such. Much more interesting than the trees.
All we had was a rusty swing set and crappy seesaws.
Not all of today's kids are lazy phone addicts.

Splashpads are more popular. Those stay packed around here. The playgrounds without the flinging water still don't seem to get used much.

Anyway, the mean-assed girl who threw me out of an apple tree is now my wife so I tend to be a bit sentimental about them.

 

[rightwinger]

I don't know.
I still see playgrounds full of kids playing, and the playgrounds are far more interesting than what we had in the past.
Some have a zipline, climbing wall, bridges and such. Much more interesting than the trees.
All we had was a rusty swing set and crappy seesaws.
Not all of today's kids are lazy phone addicts.

I prefer the playgrounds of my youth
Slides over 10 ft high, swings you felt like you were flying, Monkey bars over 8 feet that you could really climb and hang upside down and the good ole Merry go round you could get going fast enough to puke.

Todays plastic playgrounds look exciting to a five year old

 

[braalian]

I blame Democrats .. they're pusifying America and it's likely illegal.

Welcome to the no balls Democrat generations..

You can’t blame democrats. Or schools.

The only people to blame for how kids are raised are their parents. Period.

What is with parents today trying to shift blame off themselves?

 

[Lumpy 1]

Done a fair share of that myself but swinging yourself up onto the trunk of the tree with a low-hanging limp as your handhold was the more common method. I have a couple trees I have never pruned so that one day some future kid will be able to climb if they so desire. We had a good climb mulberry our kids used to play on when they were whippersnappers but it got taken out in a storm.

Anyway, I have a neighbor who obsesses about many things on my property and those trees I've never limbed up are something he likes to ***** about because I also don't mow under them either so critters have a shady spot in the fine southern heat. They are particularly popular lounges for neighborhood cats. If you aren't mindful though, one of them growing on a slope will take off the top of your skull if you are riding around on the mower as one of the limbs is at that exactly right height to not really be in your field of vision but still catch the top of your head if you come at it close from a certain direction.

Somewhere back in the 60's people got sue happy looking for a free ride to wealth. That
mind set screwed the thrill of tree climbing.
I got caught up many a local apple and plum tree by neighbors who laughed as I ran away after a warning and a threat and likely a call by the neighbors who partied with my parents, all in good fun. Basically.. if you fell and broke something it was your fault..
I used to love climbing up trees to the very top and waving in the breeze and of course I fell, such is life and it was all my fault and responsibility.

 

[initforme]

Only idiot kids climb trees.

 

[braalian]

Only idiot kids climb trees.

Why, were you a nerd?

 

[Unkotare]

Boys climb trees. It's just one of those things boys do.

 

[Dekster]

Somewhere back in the 60's people got sue happy looking for a free ride to wealth. That
mind set screwed the thrill of tree climbing.
I got caught up many a local apple and plum tree by neighbors who laughed as I ran away after a warning and a threat and likely a call by the neighbors who partied with my parents, all in good fun. Basically.. if you fell and broke something it was your fault..
I used to love climbing up trees to the very top and waving in the breeze and of course I fell, such is life and it was all my fault and responsibility.

Oh I wasn't even a dream in the 60's. I grew up in a working class hood with a ton of boys though. We were all over everybody's everything growing up LOL. It wasn't unusual to have two people tossing a football to turn into an impromptu 20-40 person football game. Sometimes we would divide up into two games---touch for the girls and younger half and tackle for the older half. Video games were rainy day/after dark things because moms didn't want a bunch of kids in their house otherwise. A lot of our parents played church league sports while the kids played on youth teams, or the parents played together in factory versions of intramurals. It was an unusually cohesive neighborhood for a period of time where it was more like everybody was your cousin or something. Blessing and a curse too because everybody knew everybody's business. Impossible to keep a secret a secret for more than a day or two.

 

[Grumblenuts]

When I was a kid, we would climb any climbable tree, even some that weren’t

I live on a street with lots of trees but never see kids climbing them

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Same. All five of us climbed our sweet gum tree with chunks of watermelon, found a good seat, and proceeded with spitting the seeds at each other. Did the same in the many yellow cherry trees in our orchard. We had black cherry trees, sour cherries, and several of these "rainier cherry" trees (I forget what we called them) along the road where we'd sit for hours spitting the seeds at passing cars then jump out and run like hell when we heard one slow down:

Most delicious. Then there were the hickory nuts, chestnuts, walnuts, grapes, apples, pears,.. all great ammunition when bored.