The Front Porch Swing

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TAG, you're it!!!

How about 'Red Rover, Red Rover, I Dare You Right Over', 'Mother, May I', Jacks, football, etc. Anyone ever hear of Mumbley Peg ? It is played with a knife or ice pick.

Lisa

yep, I remember all those !!! My brother and I even used our sister to play circus, She would stand by the wall and we would throw darts to see how close we could come without hitting her.

 

[TexasLisa]

yep, I remember all those !!! My brother and I even used our sister to play circus, She would stand by the wall and we would throw darts to see how close we could come without hitting her.

We didn't do that, but we did take the rubber darts you shoot out of guns and shoot at each other. We did turn around so they would shoot the back. Here is one thing my brothers and I loved to do. My granddad had a BIG barn with hayloft. The boys would have me hold on to the rope that was strung from one end of the hayloft to the other. They would haul me up to the ceiling and then let me go. I would fly thru the air until I hit the opposite side of the barn. WHEEEEEEEE!! O to be back in that time period!!

Lisa

 

[Beekissed]

TAG, you're it!!!

How about 'Red Rover, Red Rover, I Dare You Right Over', 'Mother, May I', Jacks, football, etc. Anyone ever hear of Mumbley Peg ? It is played with a knife or ice pick.

Lisa

Oh, yes! I have chewed a lot of dirt playing Mumbley Peg.

All those great games my children probably never even knew about. I tried to teach them several of them but no kids wanted to play outdoors when they were growing up and you can only play so many games with three boys. So sad that a whole generation of people lost the ability to play physical, simple games of agility, strength and toughness...too busy sitting on the couch shooting people in war games or stealing cars on Grand Theft Auto(WHO, mind you, thought it would be a good idea to teach children the fun of stealing cars?????)

I miss the 70s.....

 

[Searsmom]

I noticed Leslie posted this on the FF thread: But I don't want to jump the shark ...

It took me a minute, but then I remembered an NPR story about Henry Winkler. LOL Fonzie - how the show finally went downhill after the episode where they had him jump a shark on skis. Too funny.

Throw the baby out with the bath water....I used to wonder when I was little, how could you not see the baby.

I've never played Mumbley Peg - what is it? I grew up as the last of 5 and the neighborhood had all their kids at the same time as my older ones, by the time I was there, it was find your own play because all the neighbors had empty nests. I had this awesome dog - an Alaskan Spitz and when I found out it was a sled-type dog, I hooked up it's chain to my lil wagon and had her pull me up and down the driveway. Faithful old dog. I must have been about 4-5.

 

[Beekissed]

Mumbley Peg involves a whittled down peg pounded down into the ground to where the barest edge still remains above the level of the ground..and I mean the barest, tiniest edge. Then everyone gets out their pocket knives and the first one launches his knife from some point on his body and the point stabs into the ground. Everyone else has to do the same trick and the knife has to stab into the ground....if it does not, that person has to pull the peg out with their teeth. And they are OUT. Then it keeps going around, with more and more difficult tricks(off the elbow, off the shoulder, off the nose, etc.) until the victor stands alone, the knife throwing Mumbley Peg champion.

If the participants are really cruel and hard core, that peg is pounded down level with the ground and you have to move a few bites of soil to get to the peg.

 

[luvblues7]

How about Leap Frog? I use to love that game.

One of my biggest thrills was to catch locus, tie a string around them and take them for a "fly". Fun times indeed. What happen to the simple times.

We have several electric toys (4 wheeler, gator, and tractor) for our grandchildren and they truly love riding them all over the 60 acres. One time they were a little too rowdy and started running over each other, so mean ol' Nana took the riding toys away. I gave them an old pull wagon, some bowls, and spoons and told them to go have fun. Fun with WHAT they said. But before long they were out gathering sticks in the wagon and digging in the dirt having the best time. A lot of kids now don't know how to use their imagination and just have fun outdoors.

 

[TexasLisa]

I must have been around 5 when I learned to play Mumbley Peg. We had gone to visit a couple of elderly aunts and we (at that time there was 6 of us) were bored. Dad took us outside and taught us how to play.

How many of you built a fort? We called ours 'Fort Worthless'. We even had an initiation. We had to jump from the fort onto the ground, standing up! My goofy brother had to be the one to jump on a nail! Off to the ER he went for a tetanus shot. Seems like one of us was always getting hurt.

Lisa

 

[Beekissed]

I must have been around 5 when I learned to play Mumbley Peg. We had gone to visit a couple of elderly aunts and we (at that time there was 6 of us) were bored. Dad took us outside and taught us how to play.

How many of you built a fort? We called ours 'Fort Worthless'. We even had an initiation. We had to jump from the fort onto the ground, standing up! My goofy brother had to be the one to jump on a nail! Off to the ER he went for a tetanus shot. Seems like one of us was always getting hurt.

Lisa

Now...did you catch that? DAD went out and showed a 5 yr old and sibs how to play with knives. And you all survived!!!! Imagine that!!! I took to carrying a pocket knife when I was 7-8 yrs old and was never without it after that...even at school. Especially at school. We were allowed to have them, swap them, show them, use them even, at school. And no one got threatened or hurt.

We got hurt but it was never serious...scrape or cut a knee, step on a nail, cut open a head, get knocked out by a line drive, fall out of a tree...that merthiolate they painted on us all the time? Full of mercury.

And all the babies slept on their tummies and didn't die from it...imagine that one! If you do that now they say you are using poor parenting and it can be grounds for taking away the kid in some places.

 

[Searsmom]

Now...did you catch that? DAD went out and showed a 5 yr old and sibs how to play with knives. And you all survived!!!! Imagine that!!! I took to carrying a pocket knife when I was 7-8 yrs old and was never without it after that...even at school. Especially at school. We were allowed to have them, swap them, show them, use them even, at school. And no one got threatened or hurt.

We got hurt but it was never serious...scrape or cut a knee, step on a nail, cut open a head, get knocked out by a line drive, fall out of a tree...that merthiolate they painted on us all the time? Full of mercury.

And all the babies slept on their tummies and didn't die from it...imagine that one! If you do that now they say you are using poor parenting and it can be grounds for taking away the kid in some places.

That's funny, they had me tummy sleep my first one - it was so if they spit up at night, they didn't choke. With my second, I couldn't do it cause she might suffocate. It's really because somebody invented "tummy blocks", you put one on each side of your sleeping child and they can sleep like a "normal" adult, on their side. Which everyone knows is the "right" way to sleep.

...if kids had to sleep normally, they might not make any money.

 

[Lacy Blues]

That's funny, they had me tummy sleep my first one - it was so if they spit up at night, they didn't choke. With my second, I couldn't do it cause she might suffocate. It's really because somebody invented "tummy blocks", you put one on each side of your sleeping child and they can sleep like a "normal" adult, on their side. Which everyone knows is the "right" way to sleep.

...if kids had to sleep normally, they might not make any money.

Ain't that the truth!

to them!