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Ride my bike all over my neighborhood, without my parents knowing where I was or what I was up to. I would probably be reported to CPS for that now.

My parents used to remove the third row seat in our van and make a bed back there for me to hang out during long road trips. I loved it, but for obvious reasons it will be something LO will never experience.

@Bao: Bahahahaha! We had one too, with built in VCR. Roadtrips went by so fast!

In addition to riding unrestrained in the car (either in the way back or on the floor in the back) on long car trips, I used to like to sit in the closed car on hot summer days before we went to the pool. So weird, and someone would call CPS if I tried it now!

They used to be a bookstore in the same shopping center as the grocery store and in 3rd grade or so my mom would let me read books while she shopped. I can't imagine doing that now, but hopefully bookstores are still around that dd will have memories at them. I'm paranoid ereaders will destroy them all.

Stay in the car for what seems like pretty long periods of time while my mom did shopping, ride unrestrained in cars, go read at grocery stores/malls while mom mom shopped, go anywhere on my bike as long as I was home before dark

Playing outside until after dark without supervision... Babysitting other children when I was as young as ten... Walking home from school/to the corner store/to friends houses at a young age without supervision...

All things I'd likely be arrested for these days. So freaking unfortunate.

I grew up in a pretty rural area and my life revolved around horses. I had several horses throughout my childhood, and I showed them through 4-H. I went to sleep away horse camps, rode my horse every morning, took trips to the ocean with my horse, went trail riding in the mountains and jumped over logs and bushes. It was so magical! I highly doubt that we will ever have horses. I wouldn't mind if my daughters rode them, but they won't likely ever have their own.

Also, I was homeschooled, so I had a lot of freedom in my schedule as a kid. I woke up and took care of my horse, then played outside with my siblings, and THEN we did a couple hours of school. Not until I was a teenager did I understand the rush of being woken up early to mount up and head to daycare or school. My mornings were always so slow and laid back. I loved it.

Arcades! I seriously don't even know where one is where I live (except a couple adult style ones inside bars).

And I second playing alone and unsupervised for hours at a time. i remember being 6-7 and leaving my mom a note saying I went to the park. I can't even imagine that scenario now.

Climb trees, I am talking being 25-50feet off the ground at age 6