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i started riding my bike to school in the fifth grade. three kilometers of ~roads~ with ~cars~ on them!!!! i had to cross, like, thirty intersections every day. how i'm still alive is just a miracle, a miracle hell not only that but it was usually with two or three other kids who lived in the neighborhood. we'd ride in a gang and swerve all over the street and do retarded little jumps off speed bumps. i think the worst injury any of us ever sustained was when i rode into a stop sign and knocked myself out because i was riding no-hands and looking at Magic cards. my parents were like "wow that was dumb of you" Ericadia posted:Ah man there used to be a giant dirt lot in my neighborhood when I was growing up that was just like this. We would throw hardened chunks of mud at each other for fun and light fires in this huge hole in the ground left from a tree that fell over we used to play in a literal abandoned limestone quarry that someone had built a park at the bottom of in the 60s. three or four of us would wander along the ravine behind the slummy part of town to find the old washing machines and tvs and stuff that people would dump there, then we'd drag them back to the quarry and roll them off the top and watch them explode at the bottom. it was great. eventually one kid fell off and broke his arm and the city put a fence around it and everyone made fun of him forever for ruining it.
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BONGHITZ posted:that one has a roof so you can get into all sorts of rollover accidents and be ok the roof on that plastic thing looks like a pop-up fabric canopy with about as much structural integrity as an umbrella. whereas with the metal model, if you want a roll cage, you just fuckin build one. teach your kid how to use a hand saw, a cordless drill and a socket wrench and give him a bunch of 2x4s and 5/8 nuts and bolts. learn him that the best things come from your own hard work and creativity, not buying what someone else did
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Sagebrush posted:the roof on that plastic thing looks like a pop-up fabric canopy with about as much structural integrity as an umbrella. gently caress it give the kid a welder a mask and say away you go little (wo)man
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Jonny 290 posted:want your 2 acre yard mowed in record time? "you can't get on the computer until you cut the grass" but can you also get the lines perfect?????? that + speed is the true test of lawn skill
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rotor posted:I built my kids a lil fort in the back yard and didn't get around to putting a ladder on it so they just climb up the side and they like it that way have the kids build the ladder 
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Ericadia posted:have the kids build the ladder I ain't stoppin em
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CISADMIN PRIVILEGE posted:gently caress it give the kid a welder a mask and say away you go little (wo)man that's the next step, once they're maybe 12 or so. welding to thin sheet metal is tricky and burning the paint off is gonna make some fumes, so better to leave that until they're somewhat older
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i just assumed this was a mtf trans tips page was i right?
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duTrieux. posted:did this thread already talk about that adventure park place where kids just get to nail poo poo together and build zip lines and other acceptably dangerous activities Also I was raised in a Berkeley babysitting coop that was weird enough to have a sociologist come study us and write a book about my childhood.
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ShadowHawk posted:I'm not a childhaver but I totally went there as a kid it owned owned owned. thusly cementing a love of documentation of worthless projects
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Ruby got Railed posted:thusly cementing a love of documentation of worthless projects
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I never did any of these things as I never had friends as I did not understand social situations for I post in yospos
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ShadowHawk posted:I'm not a childhaver but I totally went there as a kid it owned owned owned. lol how many times have you been in the news or a study for being in weird situations so awesome 
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ShadowHawk posted:I'm not a childhaver but I totally went there as a kid it owned owned owned. you're going to wind up as the ubermensch or the antichrist or both of them, aren't you?
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Sagebrush posted:the roof on that plastic thing looks like a pop-up fabric canopy with about as much structural integrity as an umbrella. there are solid molded plastic versions, thats the ticket
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ShadowHawk posted:I'm not a childhaver but I totally went there as a kid it owned owned owned. post the book
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prefect posted:you're going to wind up as the ubermensch or the antichrist or both of them, aren't you? And lo on the seventh day the Beast ascended, and there was heard a great wailing of the righteous, and a great brazen horn was blown. And in one hand he held a changelist, for his form was a release coordinator, and men dispared at his coming.
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men trying to get men pregnant in the colon (which contains fecal matter) thread
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http://www.amazon.com/How-Children-Succeed-Curiosity-Character/dp/0544104404 is a good book for child development spoiler: you have to love your children, spend time with them, and let them struggle on their own
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ShadowHawk posted:Also I was raised in a Berkeley babysitting coop that was weird enough to have a sociologist come study us and write a book about my childhood. did you ever read the book? was it any good?
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duTrieux. posted:did you ever read the book? was it any good?
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Sagebrush posted:the roof on that plastic thing looks like a pop-up fabric canopy with about as much structural integrity as an umbrella. lol at the idea the metal radio flyer is any better. flimsy rear end metal that rusts immediately, it must be better because MY CHILDHOOD
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ShadowHawk posted:I lent it to a sociologist friend before reading it myself and forgot its name. I need to go get it back from her. I'm not entirely sure which child I am in the book since the names are changed. clearly the one with aspergers
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Enderzero posted:lol at the idea the metal radio flyer is any better. flimsy rear end metal that rusts immediately, it must be better because MY CHILDHOOD it's like 14 gauge sheet steel idiot, not "flimsy rear end", and it's enameled. yeah it would rust if you left it in th eback yard filled up with rain for the whole winter. don't treat your stuff lovely like that. also look at the wheels, axles and suspension of the metal version vs. the new one the metal one is objectively better
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Sagebrush posted:it's like 14 gauge sheet steel idiot, not "flimsy rear end", and it's enameled. yeah it would rust if you left it in th eback yard filled up with rain for the whole winter. don't treat your stuff lovely like that. 
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Sagebrush posted:it's like 14 gauge sheet steel idiot, not "flimsy rear end", and it's enameled. yeah it would rust if you left it in th eback yard filled up with rain for the whole winter. don't treat your stuff lovely like that. yeah but which one is more expensive because that's actually the best one
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Sagebrush posted:it's like 14 gauge sheet steel idiot, not "flimsy rear end", and it's enameled. yeah it would rust if you left it in th eback yard filled up with rain for the whole winter. don't treat your stuff lovely like that. the cool thing about the plastic one is that you CAN treat it lovely because it's basically indestructible over the span of ~5 years the axle is a valid point tho
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living next to the ocean made me stop thinking of metal as a durable material
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as long as you dont leave it in the sun and now half of it is a light pink+brittle
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Sagebrush posted:it's like 14 gauge sheet steel idiot, not "flimsy rear end", and it's enameled. yeah it would rust if you left it in th eback yard filled up with rain for the whole winter. don't treat your stuff lovely like that. got drunk and laid down in one of the plastic ones and bent the poo poo out of one of the axels. this would never happen with metal. fuckin obama
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rotor posted:reminder that people have literally had their 9 year old children placed in foster care for the crime of allowing them to play at the playground alone this sounds like an internet untruth op
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Cold on a Cob posted:all that said kids def need extracurricular activities nope
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:as long as you dont leave it in the sun and now half of it is a light pink+brittle much like my dick
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Cold on a Cob posted:all that said kids def need extracurricular activities I just had a forest and some dogs and look at me now, a perfectly well adjusted adult forums poster.
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at the date posted:I just had a forest and some dogs and look at me now, a perfectly well adjusted adult forums poster. same at the date posted:I just had a forest and some dogs and look at me now, a
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lol jk, i'm still in my twenties grandpa! LOL *drives away in 5th-owner honda civic*
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same. 40 acres and a couple of sheepdogs in the middle of nowhere manitoba
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theadder posted:this sounds like an internet untruth op http://wgntv.com/2014/07/29/mother-arrested-for-letting-son-walk-to-park-alone/
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teen bear posted:same. 40 acres and a couple of sheepdogs in the middle of nowhere manitoba i started off on a couple acres of hobby farm/forest in comox bc, the moved on to jungle in micronesia, then hawaii, then rain soak muskeg in prince rupert bc the cloudiest city on the continent (measured by least hours of unobscured sunlight per year)
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