Kids making roads in the dirt, farm sets-is this still relevent?

While driving the tractor around tonight discing weeds, the smell of that fresh earth reminded me of being a kid making roads in the dirt (many years ago). I never had a farm set but was always envious of other kids that had them-pushing those tractors around, hooking up the farm implements, running the farm truck. These kid stuff past times started my interest in this car hobby. Do kids still do this or is it all electronic fantasy today. I hear many old timers say the problem with todays kids is they never play outside anymore.

 

well, i live in somerset cal, with 10 acres, im 17 and grew up playing with my monster trucks and truck hot wheels out in the mud and dirt. Then at about 8 started making little jumps with little tractors for my toy dirt bikes, and now today, im fixing up my 53 and making real jumps with real tractors for my real dirt bike. So it just kinda depends on where the kids are i guess. City kids sure dont, but me and all my country bumkin friends all grew up playin in the dirt and still are today!

 

That's funny.
We buy Firewood from a Guy on Sand Ridge Rd!

 

My grand kids don't want any thing to do with dirt. But I did catch them seeing how long they could hang on to the electric fence.

 

hahaha iv played that game before too...lol

 

i grew up with hotwheels and tonka trucks.

Then dirt bikes and quads,

Now old cars and race bikes.

 

I haven't stopped playin in the dirt

 

Is tonka still around? had a loader and a roadgrader
but a bastard in a Mercedes run over the road grader

 

I finally quit last year after i sold my jeep.

 

man, i blew all my hotwheels and GI joes , and little green army men up..

 

I never quit, got my grandson one of those giant Tonka dump trucks and he loves it, they were plastic for a while, now they are steel again.I'm waiting for warm weather, I promised him when we get some rain and it's warm, we will take the tonka stuff out in the mud.

 

Growing up outside of the city was the best. The different smells of the fields at different times of the year, barns to explore, animals and tractors I now consider myself lucky to have been there. As a juvenile I always envied the city kids......How foolish of me.

 

Yes, I loved making those roads in the dirt, my kids did the same thing but not the grand kids, my daughter thinks they will get some kind of disease or something. ha. ha.

 

Shoot I built trails for my go kart and built forts. Now I play a little paintball with my friends, but I prefer just making the trenches.

 

As a kid I remember the knees of my pants wearing out long before the rest of 'em (no smartass jokes, please) from "playing cars" in the dirt. My Mom, bless her soul, never complained.

 

The best was when dad would get a load of dirt. My brother and I would spend all day making roads and tunnels all over the huge pile. He would let us play with it for days before he used the dirt. Now my little girl plays in the mud with the same old hot wheels.

 

+2 what Von Wegener said

 

I remember doing that. I once told my cousin I'd pay him $5 to pee on the fence. Never did pay him that $5...

 

Yeah my brother and I sure did.We lived out in the country and there wasn't much else to do.I graduated to bicycles and trail riding,then dirt bikes,then Jeeps and dune buggies.I still keep an old Jeep around so that the wife and I can get away from the rat race and go mud riding.I think it's something that gets in your blood and you never lose it.I still love the smell of a freshly plowed field or the dust being settled by a summer rain.

 

There are still dirt bikes and quads running up and down the roads here..for teh most part kids are still kids. Though it seems adults have the notion that ,country kids getting dirt,,riding around,,hunting ,fishing etc,,is not positive " do you want to grow up and be like them" . The fact that an 8 year old is proficient with a computer somehow seems to denote better intelligence.

I myself have also noticed,,these computer age kids,,have absolutely no social skills in teh "real world ". Things change to fast anymore,,not time to adapt to change,,be on top of it or get left nehind it seems.

My mind says,,whats the hurry

 

LilT is 3 we had to drag him in from the sand pile screaming last night. He had found a cat turd. He was digging with his tractors and playing with His Hot Wheels. with 13 acres we have room for a vert ramp and/or pumptrack when he gets the desire.

 

That's funny. My dad used to grab on to the electric fence and then grab my arm when I wasn't expecting it. I hated that!

 

It can get exciting if they try to climb over it with wet flipflops. The one time when I was growing up that I was glad my stepbrother gave me a shove. Off the third wire up on the fence no less.

I think too many of these people now are too bent on having everything perfect in their yards to allow the kids to have a corner of the yard to dig in and play in the dirt.

 

Mr brother and I used to stay with our maternal grandmother whille our mom worked as a Ma Bell operator. One day, grandma dropped a bag of old wooden sewing spools, soda straws, construction paper, pipe cleaners and elmer's glue in front of us. It wasn't long before we were playin' in the dirt with whole fleets of "flintstone" big rigs of our own design.

 

yea so many people are freaked out by germs today they are afraid to let their kids get dirty. If you want proof there's some commercial every five minutes about something antibacterial. They don't realize it's not healthy to stay inside. Kids need to develop an immune system, to be able to do that, they need to be exposed to dirt, and germs and things like that. Thats why so many kids today have allergies and asthma, they are never exposed to normal outdoor stuff, so their immune system and bodies don't know what to do. If you want a kid to have a healthy immune system, let them play in the dirt and mud growing up, much better for their souls too, that computer game would be a good thing to blow up with army men on it lol.

 

thats the one thing you really have to watch out for, those dam cats shitting in the sand, they carry a parasite in their shit that can really do some damage to kids, if they put their fingers in their nose after touching it, it can get into the brain, kids have died from it. nothing wrong with getting dirty but watch out for the kitty turds.

 

Yes! We live on 6 acres and we have trails all over it that me and the kids have made with the tractor and the dirt bikes. Kids still do play in the dirt.

 

im 22yo and i still play outside, always have, what i play with just changed...... kinda

 

This thread makes me want to go play in the dirt...are you ever too old to play in the dirt? I hope not.

 

Yes, our covered sandbox project got moved up in priority last night