What did you do when you were a kid that is considered dangerous now?

[Karlwho]

Just out of interest.
When I was little (7-10), I'd play outside around the neighbourhood with no adults and not a mobile between my friends and I. We'd go home when we were hungry.

This type of thing ! On Raleigh Grifters or roller boots

Built ganghuts right by the railway line behind my friends house, made rope swings and jumped into rivers from them, all sorts really. Tbh my DS has had a similar childhood (no railway lines or rivers mind) but he's been playing out with friends unsupervised since 7, now 10/11 and they go off on their bikes for hours or round to the football pitches. I purposely chose our house so he could play out (lots of green spaces and children) and barely a day goes by where he doesn't come home rosy cheeked and muddy. I'm just here to make the food and do the washing it would appear .

Yes, exactly that!

That was to creamofcarnation. I got to travel in an ambulance. It was quite the sensation!

No bike helmet, ever.

Played rugby.

Walked 2 miles home from school age 11 onwards.

Then let myself in and amused myself for 3 hours.

Didn't have a phone.

Caught buses into nearest city and went shopping on my own, age 12.

Drinking alcohol, age 12.

Unprotected sex, a bit older.

My parents weren't actually negligent, honest.

Sitting in the car with no seatbelts. Sometimes in the boot of an estate. My dad was a smoker when we were kids, so he'd be smoking in the car (as well as indoors.)
Cycling with no protective gear.
Going to and from school alone from about 8 years old.
Playing outside and in and out of neighbours houses.

Playing out on a (cleared) bombsite aged 3, looked after by a five year old!
Going off with other children for hours, coming back for tea.
Looking after ourselves in the summer holidays while my mother went to work for the afternoon. I don't know how old I was, but still at Junior school. My sister was four years younger.
Roller skating in the middle of the road.
Riding my bike round the block no-handed.
Looking after my sister for a whole weekend when I was about 14 and she was 10 because our parents had booked a weekend away and couldn't find anyone to look after us.

When going to the grasstrack racing Dad would sometimes stop the car about a mile away from the entrance and then my sister and I would be out in the boot of the car (saloon not hatchback or estate) be covered with a blanket and told to be quiet for the checkpoint. We'd then be driven, with visions of Colditz and The Great Escape going though my head, to the track so that parents didn't need to pay for our entry.

Walked through the woods on my own from about the age of 8. Made bike ramps. Played war with the neighbours and threw bricks at each other (parents did put a stop to that one). Went out all day.

Kids still play out from a young age where I live so dont find that as odd as some do.

My dad held onto the back of my top on and pushed me on my bike while he was on his motorbike. When we hit 30 he let me go and I free wheeled down the road. Looking back it was crazy as I wasnt even wearing a helmet just shorts, tshirt and flipflops

Walked my dog ( a German shepherd) on my roller blades. A good thing she was well trained but looking back, it could have gone very wrong

Roaming around on my own aged 6, my brother also aged 4.
One time there was a massive thunderstorm and my dad had to go out and look for him. My brother was found, quite happily wandering in the pouring rain and lightning flashes with the little girl (also 4) from next door.

Karlwho my kids do the shiny sleeping bag thing now, sometimes with two of them in it at a a time laughing hysterically. We joke that its ok as long as no-one opens the front door and they carry on straight out of the front door and into the street.

Playing on building sites is the one i remember most, used to love going exploring in half built houses.

Having several people sitting in the back seat of a car.

Sitting on someone’s lap on the passenger side in the front seat.

Going to a play area with no health and safety. It was a building with ramps, poles to slide down, tyres etc, people would add and amend to it. I probably haven’t described it well.

I remember travelling to Alton Towers sitting in the boot of a Volvo estate with my friend. The trip was organised by our youth club.

Played chicken with the bird scarer in the farmers fields, climbed around on rolled straw bales, wandered around sewage works with a broken fence, swam in a ‘dark cold water’ lake. No one ever knew where I was, no mobiles, I’d come home when the sun started going down or hungry, if anything had happened to me I’d not have been kissed for hours!!

Another one who played on building sites. They were known as adventure playgrounds in the 1960s, an adult would be supervising the playing with enormous bonfires, making bridges etc. I think my Mum paid a nominal amount for us to have the pleasure of being part of it all. I trod on a rusty nail in flip flops at one which went through into my foot. I spent the rest of the summer with a poisoned leg and abscess which had to be lanced. I still have a scar!

MISSED!!!

Wandering in the woods, I might come across a rope tied to a branch. I'd happily swing on it, usually over a large drop, with no care for whether it was safe. I assume most children did the same.

Swimming in the sea by ourselves starting from the age of 13

Would I be right in thinking that a lot of the posters grew up in the 90s? These are reminiscent of my childhood.
I remember sitting on my mates-dads-friends lap in the back of a car on the way back from a pub. that was when I was 11, and there was abo ut 7/8 of us in a five seater.
DH used to play in building sites, run across the roofs of parked cars, climb onto the garage, all before the age of six

My sister and I used to play in the half-built houses on our housing estate. I remember climbing up ladders to the first floor and stepping across the rafters, because there were no stairs or floorboards yet installed. We used to climb onto stacks of bricks as well. There was never any fencing around building sites back then.

I also walked to and from school on my own from the age of 7. It was about a mile each way and involved crossing a main
road, as well as several minor, housing estate roads.

I used to go out walking in the woods and on footpaths through farm land, often on my own and sometimes with a friend or with one of my sisters. Again, this was from the age of 7.

When children reached junior school age, ie year 3 (age 7) they were deemed old enough and sensible enough to be out on their own. A few of my friends had mums who worked, so they went home to an empty house after school. Such children used to be termed "latchkey children" in those days.

80's kid here

Boot of the car (estate), wandering around town with friends at 10, central London at 11 or 12. I babysat from 12 overnight for people

@justgivemewine when my kids got the new beds last uear, dh and I put their old mattresses on the stairs and we went down them. 10/10 would recommend