I'm feeling rather nostalgic today so here are some images from a more innocent age, when childhood was allowed to be fun:
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Eat your heart out, Mr Health & Safety!
Hello little blog ... long time no see! (well, it feels that way even though it's only been a week I guess). We're camping out at my sister's flat for a while during some renovations at our house and my days have been very busy lately ....
I'm feeling rather nostalgic today so here are some images from a more innocent age, when childhood was allowed to be fun:
I'm feeling rather nostalgic today so here are some images from a more innocent age, when childhood was allowed to be fun:
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Yeah. Those were the days. No litigation about swings and see-saws either. Lieing down in the car is what sleepy people did and sitting in a trailer - heaven! Only trouble was we weren't allowed to breast feed our babies in public in those days. Cherrie
I drove home from the library today (pushing 200 m)w Princess C-W in the back of the 4x4. I had the backseats down so she was essentially sitting in the booth. Both the children were in hysterics in case the police caught us.
Oh beautiful. What gorgeous photos! Gorgeous!
I had this idea once of writing a children's book called, "Where Have All the Fun Things Gone?" (Long time passing....) But then thought it might be too sad. LOL It came to me after a visit home and the 'derelict' playground from my childhood had been taken down. So sad!!
Sometimes I do think it's abit like 'the world gone mad'. What used to be 'standard' procedure, I now feel very conscious of letting my children do (hmm, but still do it)- we are farmy type so there is loads of opportunity for the OH and S police to be cross about...I should be about common sense and 'risk management' rather than negate all possible risk but banning everything for fear of litigation. While I am at it, way too much 'stuff' now too- in those days some off meat and abit of string provided hours of fun for us (yabbying)
oh yes - endless summer days in my childhood were filled with free-range activities .... a bit of meat on string was perfect for catching yabbies in the channels of our cousins' remote rural property, cubbies and adventure playgrounds could be built in the bushland surrounding our house, hours and hours were spent at the beach, in local parks or vacant lots, unsupervised of course, and we loved the freedom of zooming around everywhere on two wheels (bicycles) or four (rollerskates!).
Now, although I don't have children, I like reading blogs such as 'Free Range Kids': and hearing stories of people using common sense instead of falling victim to scare campaigns and hypersensitive control standards.
As a landscape sociologist, I relate many of these ideas to considerations of the design of built spaces, landscape management, persuasive/coersive design, and the way in which people learn to interact with, and perceive, the world around them ...
fascinating stuff!
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