There's a seemingly endless list of things which were acceptable to do as a child which you just can't now.
Adulthood means we undoubtably play by different rules (most of us anyway!) and childhood meant we were given the benefit of the doubt for behaving in certain ways and doing certain things.
It's always good to reminise and laugh now about what we used to get up to back when we were all small, so we asked Leader readers what particularly stands out to them when asked 'what could you do as a kid that you wouldn't be allowed to do now?
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Amanda Coathupe said: "Go out all day and have no phone... (you got) told off if you came back too early!"
Maggie Hall responded: "Jumping on the back of the milk float to get a lift to school."
Clive Sudlow posted: "Play outside climbing trees without your parents worrying about you."
Jack Jones shared: "Play conkers, play snowballs, play knock doors, make your own bonfires. Those were the days, we were allowed to be kids."
Cheritane Chordety said: "Go to the shop with a note and buy my parents cigarettes."
Hazel Kerr responded: "Go out to play."
Lindy Jones posted: "Buy cigarettes as a kid with a note, and buy a bag of chips for under 50p!"
Beverley Cowell said: "Stay out til' the lights come on, then home."
Marie Davies added: "Paddling in the River Dee, playing in the air raid shelters on the river bank."
Andy O'Neil shared: "Play conkers in school!"
Doreen Parkin posted: "Ride 3 on a bicycle. One peddling, one on the handlebars and one on the seat."
Dean Charman responded: "Slide downstairs on plyboard."
Amanda Morris said: "Make go karts."
In what was a great response from our readers once again, as much as we all probably had a great deal of fun, it's fair to say it wouldn't go down too well if we tried sliding down our stairs on plyboard now, or riding three on a bike!
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