Toys of the 1950’s were
kid powered.
If you didn’t apply
muscle and/or ingenuity,
nothing happened.
Hauling dirt with trucks…
Having a tea party with dolls…
Strapping on the cap guns
to play cowboys and Indians…
Or cruising the streets on our bikes.
Especially in the summer,
everyone was out and about
from dawn to dusk
until the call:
“Time to come in for dinner”
rang throughout the neighborhood.
Being tired and
dirty from head to toe
after a hard day of play
was pretty much the status quo.
There’s something special about
spontaneous play,
powered only by
kids’ imaginations.
Ragtag Daily Prompt – Toy
Out of My Write Mind 
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.” Charles E. Shaefer
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True. We need to make time to play throughout our lives.
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After all, if Father could create a platypus, HE must really know how to play‼️😁
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Yes. Very different times. Good memories
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That they are.
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I sometimes think if you plunked today’s kids down into our childhoods, they’d be totally lost. Is this really progress??
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I often wonder, myself.
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Play was just play then. Good times.
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Definitely.
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This is so true. And it’s a big difference between how the kids of yesteryears used to play as compared to today’s children.
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Change is the way of the world, but I wish kids would spend more time outdoors.
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Yes, they are almost addicted to the screen 🥲
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I’m afraid you are right about that.
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🥲🧐
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A most memorable era. Same in the 60ties and 70ties. We always played outside. Climbed trees, did naughty stuff and played footy ⚽️
Today, kids’ best friends are mobiles. They sit indoors, addicted to virtual emptyness, hoping to be liked or followed…
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It’s a sad state of affairs, in my book.
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It is. It’s also up to parents to stimulate their children to not use their mobiles 24/7. I feel most parents can’t be arsed.
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Our kids don’t know what they are missing out!
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I agree.
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I remember staying out until the street lights came on, that was always time to come home unless we heard mom holler before that to come home. I really miss those days sometimes.
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I do too.
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