Children, and playing in the street

tiamai_d

LilacLouisa wrote: »

If the man on the mobility scooter really is going too fast to be on the pavement, you should tell him he should be on the road. If he is entitled to be on the pavement though, could you show some courtesy to a disabled person by asking your children to move aside while he goes past? He may be in a fair amount of pain, resulting in a grumpy and crotchety mood, and a cheery smile might make his day.

Years ago more kids did play in the street, but there was less cars about then, and if kids were noisy anyone could tell them to be quiet without fear of being effed and jeffed at. If you watch films from the 60`s and 70`s it is amazing how much less traffic there is on the roads.

Why are parks, open spaces and school fields too precious to be sullied by children? I can see that you might worry about them coming to harm in some way unless you were there to keep an eye on them though.

The two children are also disabled, so are you saying older people with disabilities deserve more respect than children with disabilities?

I had an old guy yelling at me for not moving my brat out the way quick enough and didn't I know he was disabled, he had a stroke and his left side wasn't what it used to be. I told him the reason why my son couldn't move out the way quick enough was that he had also had a stroke and his right side wasn't what it ever was but he wasn't nasty and foul mouthed.

At what age do you get given the license to be nasty?

Oldernotwiser

Spendless wrote: »

erm nope. They were MORE kids playing outside years ago, as someone has already pointed out..

There may have been more children playing outside then but mums would have rushed out to stop the children making too much noise and annoying the neighbours. You would also have found that children were called in for bed at time that would now be considered very early.

Oldernotwiser

ellies_angel wrote: »

I have a wee playpark accross the road from my house and I love it when the nights are lighter and you hear the children playing, running around scurling (screaming) with fun and joy at the top of their voices. They are playing, having fun, socialising. Play is essential to the all round development of children. So many children are inside playing on computers, watching tv or texting. They have lost the art of play, playing with others, interacting socially. This is now widely recognised and because of this housing developers (in scotland not sure about the rest of the uk) have to have a green space within any new housing scheme for children to play.
Taken from Play Scotland
What is Play?
Play is the universal language of childhood. It is through play that children understand each other and make sense of the world around them. Children learn so much from play; it teaches them social skills such as sharing, taking turns, self discipline and tolerance of others. Children's lives are enhanced by playing creatively and by playing children learn and develop as individuals; it assists in their emotional and intellectual development and mental health resilience which are core building blocks for their transition years.
Children like to play as there is no "right way" or "wrong way", they can use their imagination to develop games and interact with each other without being in an adult-led environment.
Play is often called the 'work' of children. We therefore need to encourage unstructured free play, loosely supervised, as much as possible as over programming spoils the true benefits of play.
Children's play may or may not involve equipment or have an end product. Children play on their own and with others. Their play may be boisterous and energetic or quiet and contemplative, light-hearted or very serious.
Play is a very emotive word which means different things to different people, and has been defined in many ways. The meaning of play has been debated by philosophers and academics for centuries, and was recognised as far back as Plato who is quoted as saying 'avoid compulsion and let your children play'! In the last century David Lloyd George stated that 'play is a child's first claim on the community' (1926), and play gained wider recognition under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in which Article 31 enshrines the child's right to play.
Play was defined by the emerging playwork profession as behaviour which is 'freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated'. (PlayEd 1982) Students of play often quote that 'Play is the spice of life' - where spice represents children's social, physical, intellectual, cultural and emotional development. In 1998 the embryonic Play Scotland produced A Play Strategy for Scotland which described play as a natural spontaneous and voluntary activity in which all of us, children and adults benefit from engaging in throughout our lives.
All of the above underlines the importance of play, and its influence on the well being and development of children in Scotland today, and for the future of its communities, but miss something of the essence of play.

Playing and screaming are not synonymous.

LilacLouisa

tiamai_d wrote: »

The two children are also disabled, so are you saying older people with disabilities deserve more respect than children with disabilities?

I had an old guy yelling at me for not moving my brat out the way quick enough and didn't I know he was disabled, he had a stroke and his left side wasn't what it used to be. I told him the reason why my son couldn't move out the way quick enough was that he had also had a stroke and his right side wasn't what it ever was but he wasn't nasty and foul mouthed.

At what age do you get given the license to be nasty?

Did you say that both children were disabled? I didn`t notice that, so apologies if you did. When you said they had mobility issues I thought you meant they could only walk slowly, like lots of little ones, which is why I asked if you could get them to stand aside. I would be upset if I had been in your postion and you had explained.

No-one should be foul mouthed, especially when children are present. I don`t know a lot about people who have had strokes, but I do know they can get exasperated and irritable perhaps that could be a factor, or he may always have been a nasty piece of work.

I read somewhere that as they get older women get more forgetful, men get grumpier.

ellies_angel

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Playing and screaming are not synonymous.

you haven't heard children playing then! Chasing and being caught, being squirted with the cold water from a hose pipe, having full on fun....

mikey72

LilacLouisa wrote: »

Did you say that both children were disabled? I didn`t notice that, so apologies if you did. When you said they had mobility issues I thought you meant they could only walk slowly, like lots of little ones, which is why I asked if you could get them to stand aside. I would be upset if I had been in your postion and you had explained.

No-one should be foul mouthed, especially when children are present. I don`t know a lot about people who have had strokes, but I do know they can get exasperated and irritable perhaps that could be a factor, or he may always have been a nasty piece of work.

I read somewhere that as they get older women get more forgetful, men get grumpier.

I think you must have remembered it wrongly, I don't find any great distinction between the sexes.

Fang_3

ellies_angel wrote: »

you haven't heard children playing then! Chasing and being caught, being squirted with the cold water from a hose pipe, having full on fun....

Oh dear. This is the type of post that happens when people don't understand words.

LilacLouisa

mikey72 wrote: »

I think you must have remembered it wrongly, I don't find any great distinction between the sexes.

Oh well, if you think I must have rembered it wrongly.... :rotfl:

LilacLouisa

ellies_angel wrote: »

you haven't heard children playing then! Chasing and being caught, being squirted with the cold water from a hose pipe, having full on fun....

There is a hosepipe ban here, so if you come down in the near future think on!

mikey72

LilacLouisa wrote: »

Oh well, if you think I must have rembered it wrongly.... :rotfl:

You really need to put your quote in as well.