Do kids in your "hood" play outside?

[azsnowman]

With summer vacation ONLY 3 WEEKS away do the kids in your "hood" play outside? Not in mine...the kids SIT inside for the entire SUMMER playing video games, watching tv

Growing up, I was FORCED to stay outside, besides, I LOVED it...I would play until dark and out west here, total darkness doesn't hit until 2130 hours in the summer!

[JonathanBelles]

Yes they do. I have a park down the street that everyone goes to. Not everyone plays video games here, its too hot inside.

[feederband]

Oh yeah they play hard out side...Even though they are supposed to be back before 7:00pm we usally have to hunt them down...

[Janice]

Not around our neighborhood. We live three blocks from the ocean so the only time you see kids is when they are walking down there. Not any real small kid around.

[HollynLA]

My two boys spend most of the time outside doing things like riding bikes, baseball, football, building forts, fishing in the pond, etc.

A lady a few houses down doesn't LET her kids play outside (ages 6, 13, 14). She thinks it's too dangerous, and we live in a very rural area with only a few houses, not in any city.

[Opal storm]

I live right next to a huge recreation center with a tennis court,baseball field,skate ramps etc. So yes there's kids outside all the time in my neighborhood.

[nholley]

They are always outside during summer. We have a number of kids on our street and a very kid friendly development. We seem to have a revolving door during the summer with the grill always fired up out the back.

[Meso]

Ahh the good days.. I remember like 6 years ago there were always groups of us riding around,either skateboarding,bmxing or rollerblading at the vert ramp down the road...A good 10 to 15 of us...Sadly everyone sort of grew up and got jobs (except me:) And now there appears to be far less people doing those things.. I BLAME PS2

[Aslkahuna]

Some do, some don't. The next door kids are out every day even in the Winter. The Park up Busby Drive to the West has kids playing Basketball quite frequently (boy and girls) but in other areas of town there's not a kid to be seen outside.

Steve

[coriolis]

We have 4 boys, now 16, 15, 13, and 11.

Three years ago we moved out of subburb hell where you have to drive to everything and moved right in the center of a little town of about 1500 with only two stoplights. The schools, the parks, the library, the public pool, convenience stores, a bowling alley, most of their friends, the bus stop (for me) and many other places are only a short walk or bike ride away. A skating rink are about 3 minutes away by car. They go out a good amount. They still get their video games in though. This town has a few problems, but it's about as safe as it gets. We live right across the street from the borough police. There's always a lot of people out - kids and adults.

[Cookiely]

The children play outside supervised. We have quite a few pedophiles listed in our zip code. One of them on our block. I warn all the new people with children to be careful.

[Kim_in_MN]

The kids in my neighborhood are frequently outside in the summer; my 7 yr old DD has a friend that lives a block away (thank goodness!) and there are smaller children across the street that are outside a lot. We have a huge backyard and my son and his friend practice their golf swings out there. I am glad to live in a small town where the kids can be out; DD and friends are either in our yard or theirs and they are finally old enough to know the rules so I can watch out the front window or work on cleaning out the garden and check on them (usually not necessary because I can hear them LOL).

Kim

[alicia-w]

YIPPEEE!!! There ARE no kids in our
neighborhood", unless you count the pack of coyotes.

[TexasStooge]

Yes, summer and beyond.

[Category 5]

Where I lived when I was little, we were better off inside.

[Meso]

I actually did a photography project on this concept (of kids not playing outside) the other day

[Shelby6977]

We finally got some kids in the neighborhood that are my little ones age so they play outside quite a bit. Of course, one of us is always out there watching them though. Even though we live on a dead end street my paranoia isnt any less.

[JenBayles]

YIPPEEE!!! There ARE no kids in our
neighborhood", unless you count the pack of coyotes.

Oh, shuddupayou!! Kwitchyer braggin' already. I'm green enough.

[azsnowman]

YIPPEEE!!! There ARE no kids in our
neighborhood", unless you count the pack of coyotes.

Us TOO And WE have coyotes TOO....although they're BALD Seriously, we called the Az Game and Fish, they came, stunned one to get a closer look, they have NO HAIR!! It's not mange the ranger said, they aren't eating enough and they have a vitiman defency....wonder if Flintstone Chewables would work?

[Pburgh]

The young kids do play outside in my neighborhood. I love to hear their giggles.