Hopscotch

Oh yeah, Hopscotch!  

Hopscotch is a popular playground game
in which players toss a small object into
numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles
outlined on the ground and then hop or jump
through the spaces to retrieve the object.


 

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured 

beneath things that came later.... " - Neil Gaiman

And I'm no different, finding memories of my own kids layered over memories of my own childhood.  Lately I've been trying to piece together memories, little points of interest, from when I was growing up.  And playing hopscotch is one of them.  If you had a piece of chalk and a chain, a trinket or even a small stone, you could occupy yourself for hours with hopscotch!  Just draw out the squares, 1-9 it was for us, and start hopping.

What brought this to mind?  My training session.  My trainer had me hopping like a schoolgirl on one foot, and frankly, I found it very difficult!  I had no trouble doing this as a child, but found it a challenge yesterday to hop more than twice in a row - no way could I have hopped all the way to 9, turn around and do it in reverse, balancing on one foot while bending over to retrieve my trinket in a square and continuing down to one again!!

Why is it we lose these abilities?  And worse, when we're older, we pay someone to force us to do the things we thought of as "fun" back when we were kids - and it was free!

What were some of the things you did as a kid?
Anything come to mind???