Heh, thanks. Yeah, when my brothers and sisters and I were kids, we roamed the neighborhood and played with our peers and each other all through the summer, having no adult supervision and only needing to be home by dark. We walked everywhere to do what we wanted, whether it was playing in the park, with our friends, or going swimming, which we also did a lot. In the winter it was the same except with snow and ice. We skated a lot. Of course there were the times we were driven to family functions and dinners and picnics and weekends away, both in summer and winter, with chains on the tires, and chamber pots. Haha I kid you not. Many of our relatives lived in the country and had outhouses, but in the winter, you were not expected to tramp through the hip-high snow in the middle of the night. Now they don't even get that much snow. I say "they" because my childhood was in Ontario, where winters were epic. I moved away forty years ago I climbed trees, too!
That sounds really wonderful
Last year, with college, I had to do some work experience thing and I did it in my old primary school. It was sad, and TOTALLY differnt to when I was that age. My 1st video games thing I got at like 11 or 12 I think, but still played outside mostly. Today it's TOTALLY different. Children who are like 5, 6 years old. They get their treat time by playing educational games on ipads, and you just think... what has the world come to? children should be outside playing, learning stuff and developing the natural way, not looking like they're possessed by technology... like, they're 5 and 6 year old children, and this is how they are today. Madness.
I often think I was born in the wrong age and should have had childhoods more like which you had
also just seems like much more of a peaceful and happier time to live in than now.
That sounds really nice
have you lived in Canada all your life?
I have some relatives who also live in Canada
in Victoria there
although, I have only ever seen them once. They come here to the UK, I haven't been to Canada... yet lol! I have visited New York and Boston in America
and I have visited Italy
and Ireland a couple of times, but that's all until I get to travel more in the future