The 3 childhood games I liked playing and why children today don't play like playing should be done

[Exorcist_Rampage]

I am going to discuss why children today are so much into technology and games that they don't spend quality time playing with friends for better health. I will cover 3 different school grade zones: 1st to 4th, 5th to 8th and 9th to 12th

Monkey Bars

When I was around the 1st to 4th grade, I like climbing the monkey bars. It meant a lot to me to be able to beat my friends and go through them faster. These challenges are not what children seem to be up for today and it's quite sad. I think the monkey bars tested our quickness, our strength and it challenged us to be stronger. There was also a happiness to it as sometime seeing people fall was funny, provided they didn't injure themselves, of course.

Bicycling Racing

During the 5th to 8th grades, my activities matured up some but still liked to see who could ride faster. Today, people don't like racing and will just give up once they have lost the lead more than 2 bicycle lengths. I think children today need to start racing on their bicycles against their friends and stop playing video game challenges where they are not moving that much.

Hacky Sack

During 9th to 12th grade (high school years), we played green light hacky sack. The person who messed up would get beamed from behind in the back and if you missed you lose and if you hit them, they get taken out of contention to continue the game but if you missed them, they get back in the game. The person would stand about 30 feet away so it's not always an easy accurate shot to hit them. Foot skills was required to keep this game going. We usually played in a group of 6 or 7 people.

Conclusion:

This is some games I loved. What are some you loved? I loved playing wall ball and other games too but not as much into them. Please share!

[KaitieSearching]

Monkey bars always drew crowds in elementary school... until we were banned from them. The pull up bars were great fun. We did all sorts of flips. Banned too.
You can’t race because you cannot go past the orange cone your mom put out ten feet down the road on either side. It’s not far enough to run or ride. We had hacky sacks, but only the cool kids. Red rover was banned. Cowboys and Indians, banned for racism. Banned banned banned banned banned. And then science and doctors blame us. We’re addicted to our electronics, we’re lazy, we’d rather watch TV. No, we wouldn’t. But parents and teachers would. Society prefers docile children.

[October808]

Climbing trees, playing Vietnam in the bushes, off-roading on a Schwinn bike (not designed for off-roading).

[drummerdude25]

Anybody play “hot lava” on the playground? lol

[October808]

Is that like Hot Potato? When we didn't have a ball we used a rock instead.

[drummerdude25]

@October808 it was more like you got together with your friends and tried to jump, run, and climb your way across the playground without touching the wood chips (aka the lava) lol

[October808]

Oh yeah! Yeah we played that a lot. Back when jungle gyms were build on concrete slabs or in the sand at the beach. We used to also bean each other with small rocks. I have a dangerous childhood.