Yep, and we could go trick or treating without the parents having to tag along.

Sadly those days are long gone.

Yeah.
Right after someone figured out to use a
pillow case for trick-or-treating:-)

Wow. More replies than I ever expected. I've enjoyed reading them all

Feeding the Manatee's heads of lettuce when Iwas four. I know not much of a story just a cool memory.

Family holidays when we went up north or traveled around Europe. My brother and I still laugh about my dad boasting that he always ordered the longest thing on the menue because he said that that way he got the best meal and they served him frogs legs. Another time he decided to try the snails and sat there trying to crack them open with the tongs that they came with as if he was cracking nuts, as the French customers in the restaurant looked on in disgust.

I remember being able to just go out and play without having my parents wanting to know where I was all the time as well. Remember walking with my cousin and a friend of mine and a friend of his back to the guy's house after a game of Dungeons and Dragons or something and my cousin and I and the guy that we were chumming home had plenty of stories to tell about scrapes that we had got into but the other guy was a stay at home thumb sucking type and didn't have any stories to tell. The world is no more a dangerous place for kids than it ever was. Not in this country anyway. Neither is the world really but we have the government and the media to thank for exagerating dangers that terrify people as distractions when the truth is that you have more chance of being killed in a plane crash or being run over by a bus than you have of being killed by terrorists and it was always people known to the children and sat them on their laps like Jimmy Saville that did most of the child abusing and it still is.

Lighting fireworks and throwing them through the door of the local Police station, would give them a fright and guarantee us a chase for the rest of the night when we were 10 or 11. They'd kick you hard up the arse though if they caught you and take you home to face the music. Too young to charge us with much, we gave them the runaround! Do it nowadays and they'd throw the book at me? Ha ha

spuds burnt to a cinder on bonfire night

Yes! Never use the plastic pumpkins.

Waaaaay too small :-)

Going to the drive-in. Watching Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978), The Manitou, even Song Of The South while sitting in the backseat of the family station wagon wearing pajamas.

Christmas day, everything about it was magical, and still is.
Merry Christmas everybody

.. cold damp darkness.. hideous smells.. unwanted touches.. people coming in and out.. and that was just kindergarten..lol

playing kick the can and tetherball at the nieborhood communitycenter

When my late father used to take me with him to see our new born calf. Then play with little goats and chickens, give bath to the little pink pigs and dry them off with my blankets...bringing cats and dogs to the house from the street because they were hungry

... learning how to drive.. then my first car.. it was.a. Dodge .Dart

Hey doctor is that part of your childhood?

Saturday morning cartoons and Christmas time. Unwrapping gifts while watching Honk Kong Phooey was the ultimate rush.