Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by brightball on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:37PM (#17221743)

Walkie talkies are under utilized IMO

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by remarkEon on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:27AM (#17224905)

For my birthday one year (in the spring) I got a set of walkie talkies. The neighborhood kids across the street had got the same set for Christmas that year (our parents probably coordinated it). The next two summers (age 11-12) were probably the most fun I’d have as a kid. Climbing up trees to “spy” on the neighborhood and calling in “intelligence reports” to “home base”. Just being a young boy in a neighborhood with lots of kids. Incredible fun.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by mythrwy on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:33AM (#17224934)

I got a set of walkie talkies at about age 10 but one broke.

So one night I was trying to fix it (testing it with the good one) when I heard a foreign voice crackling through.

After getting over the initial surprise I talked to the person and found out it was the neighbor kid playing with his. I didn't even know he had walkie talkies. We were both quite excited. Such a rare and magical event at that age.

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