When you were a kid did the weather ever stop you from going outside to play?
When I was a kid the only weather that stopped us from going outside were thunderstorms. It was never too cold, or too hot, or too wet or too anything to keep us from going outside.
I remember playing outside playing in the snow, and finally coming in because it was SO COLD, and I’d run my hands under cold water to thaw them out (because you can’t make decent snow balls with gloves on! You need bare hands to melt them a little so they’d pack!) Oh, the pain!
And I’d break through the ice on the creek, up to my knees in water. By the time I made it back to the house my jeans were frozen solid from the knees down.
There was only one time that I would have told my kids it was too cold to go out, and that was the day it was -50 with the wind chill. But I didn’t have to say anything. They stuck one foot out the door and snatched it back. They ain’t dumb!
Anymore, though, I hear over and over that it’s “too cold” for the kids to play outside when it’s only 20* or so. Nothing that can’t be held off for a long, long time with movement, gloves and hats. And then the parents complain because the kids are underfoot all day.
Have you noticed that with this generation? None of the kids even seem to even OWN gloves or hats.
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Of course.
Summer: too hot outside
Spring, Autumn, Winter: Too cold/wet outside.
Any excuse was good enough to not go outside.
^^ Strange child, @ragingloli. What did you DO in the house all day?
Brought up in Los Angeles we had “Smog Alert” (sky was brown / purple), Heat Alert 108* F was the hottest I remember; no recess or running (learned how to play Poker sitting outside the classroom in the shade).
We had a creek to play in when it hit 108 and above. Also, all summer long we were at the pool.
Yes, I lived the first 10 years of my life in Las Vegas, so the weather that would sometimes keep me inside were temperatures in the triple digits. Temperatures so hot the heat literally felt oppressive. It was dangerous to be out in that heat. I don’t miss that. :P
One year when we were in Utah, we had massive snowfall. The snow was very fine, and the drifts were too deep to let the children play outside in it. It was in the news everywhere that winter. We had to let it set up for about a week before it was safe, and even then I had to make sure they didn’t get close to a tree trunk. If you get too close to a tree trunk in that kind of snow you will slide right down to ground level and they’ll find you in the spring.
Of course. Blizzards, tornado warnings, thunderstorms.
Never. But my parents/grandparents did. I live on a tropical island so the only weather that usually prevent people from going outside is rain, or heavy downpour. I always love rain as a kid (and still do), being under millions of cold, refreshing drips of water, dim sky that you can look on to without blinding your eyes, and not to mention that the air is in its purest form when it’s raining are all of the maginificence of rain that many people tend to overlook these days.
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