This is old New York. All of NYC used to look like this, for better or worse. I’m glad it still exists somewhere.

@bevs9995

Ай бұрын

gasp. dont be saying that out loud

@BarnaliD

Ай бұрын

All the kids look 40 years old. They also don't know what the f is going on outside that hasidic community when they grow up. Not cute.

@1Melody1963

27 күн бұрын

This is the way many communities’ children grew up when I was a child and teen (minus the large metro of course, as I grew up in North Carolina.)

@ClementinesmWTF

24 күн бұрын

NYers think they’re so special and look so ignorant and in their own bubble for it lmao. This is how all of the US used to look. In many close-knit communities around the US you can still find this, even today. Growing up in the ‘00s in suburban Houston, I had this same experiences as these children. Nowadays, it’s dying out, but I still find that kids are riding around my neighborhood on bikes after school or on weekends and looking for fairs and afterschool/weekend activities outside the house.

I love how during just a short KZread video, more than 2 dozen people walked past, really proves her point. I think every neighbourhood should be like this again!

@nathanwhitmore3980

2 ай бұрын

It is a lovely sense of community. Smart parents don't let their kids have smart phones. The rule for small screen devices is you can have it when you can buy it yourself

@sunway1374

Ай бұрын

What do you think about the idea that cars should be banned from some of these streets?

@freeto9139

20 күн бұрын

Lively, interactive and healthy! Anyone over young twenty year olds grew up more like this.

I grew up in the '50s (not Jewish but Catholic) and a lot of this video reminded me of my own childhood. It's much healthier for kids to be outside and active. Also, there's more opportunity to use their imaginations to entertain themselves. I loved playing with paper dolls.

@PoppyOak

4 ай бұрын

Paper dolls! Wow, that brings back so many wonderful memories!

@terilee7629

4 ай бұрын

Thanks from one paper doll lover to another.

@heatherireland2810

4 ай бұрын

Paper dolls and the button box were indoor activities for me. I’d forgotten about “double Dutch” skipping that and riding my bike! All wonderful memories.

@terilee7629

4 ай бұрын

@@heatherireland2810 I'm glad I grew up without a device, and lived at a time it was safe to roam the neighborhood. Just be home when the streetlights came on.

@maxhr1749

3 ай бұрын

I loved paper dolls!

This is wholesome ❤ I’m not Jewish but I was raised like this! Sent to the street to play with other children and was amazing!

@frzstat

4 ай бұрын

same

@Nira39

4 ай бұрын

Me too.

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

So werid to think some kids never do this now days

@cynthiacrumlish4683

4 ай бұрын

We also played outside as much as possible. We knew it was time to go in when the street lights came on. When living in Turkey as an Army Brat we went home when we could smell the onions cooking in olive oil as the Turkish homes prepared for supper.

@loriloristuff

4 ай бұрын

I was, also!

I grew up staying outside everyday playing games with neighborhood kids until the street lights came on, then I was told to come home, eat dinner, bathe, and go to bed. I loved my childhood. Safe, safe neighborhoods.❤

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

So wholesome and wonderful

If you want your kids to play outside and play outside of organised playdates you have to let them. And you have to allow for boredom, failures, and kids existing outside of your immidiate sphere. This looks a lot like kids growing up in my neck of the woods in Europe. Kids go shopping alone, ride on public transport alone, toodle off to see friends, and play in the woods. The focus is to raise independent kids who know how to handle joy but also frustration. Thank you for the insight.

@Kotifilosofi

Ай бұрын

I think boredom is what children (and adults) these days are so allergic to, thanks to addiction to forever entertaining screens. However, boredom is where creativity borns. If your brain is already busy with all the stimulus from a phone or tablet, it literally won't have energy to create anything new, it gets passive. And people these days fear even a second of boredom if they have to wait somewhere, line up etc, immediately they'll grab a phone. Which is not healthy to us nor our brain. We lose all the contact with our environment, each others and even ourselves. The person who'll address the screen addiction with it's real name and start advocating for it as the actual wide-spred problem in the society it is, is a real hero.

@Madamoizillion

Ай бұрын

We need human-centric design before we are able to get kids back out there. If you live in a boring suburban subdivision hellscape and your only option is driving to get anywhere or you live on a busy and dangerous "stroad", of course kids will be choosing screens over that. Kids need places to play away from traffic, they need to be close enough to other kids that they can safely get there via bike or on foot, and older kids and teenagers need options that don't require them to get in a car. I firmly believe that in America, screens are not the sole culprit behind the theft of childhood, they're a coping mechanism to deal with poor city design and a built environment that's hostile to anyone outside of a car. If we start to fix that, then we can work on the other stuff. I just know from years of being an environmental educator and teaching all demographics of kids, that once you get them out in nature, most of them WANT to be outside. They are excited to learn and see things and play. Humans aren't meant to spend so much time inside but so many of us have been forced into our own little containers by systems that aren't thinking on the human scale.

@sisuguillam5109

Ай бұрын

@@Madamoizillion Well said.

@autumnm5244

Ай бұрын

It’s just too dangerous nowadays with so much trafficking

@manifestmyfuture

Ай бұрын

@@Madamoizillion I agree with you 100%!!

So refreshing to see that somewhere in the world, there are some innocent children who grow up with sanity, healthy habits, imagination and joy. I am so sad to see the generations of mini brainwashed TikTokers… It was my childhood too riding my red bike, playing all the girly fun games with my long skirts and school uniform, playing with my sisters and pushing my light blue doll stroller… nostalgia

@isabellachavez-mw8by

2 ай бұрын

amen@@ytc257

@ducklingscap897

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how healthy and good for your sanity it is to grow up in a very restrictive religious group... but regarding the internet and media they do have healthier habits than most.

@a.r.k7863

2 ай бұрын

You forget lead poisoning

@elizrebezilmadommdo1662

2 ай бұрын

Kids grow up too fast these days, being exposed to the internet so early on. It's really sad. Kids need to be kids.

@ronanbakker

2 ай бұрын

We don't threaten to kill you if you leave this "restrictive" religious group. That's lies.@@ducklingscap897

The difference seems very obvious to me: the kids shown here are able to entertain themselves. Many other kids have to be entertained by their parents or tv. Actually, I am not Jewish, but Catholic, but I also grew up without tv, playing in the woods, on the streets, enjoying the whole afternoon outside. I would recommend this to every child.

I remember when every mother sat on the stoop and felt entitled to discipline all of the neighborhood children.

@uwsgrrrl9981

4 ай бұрын

That’s how I grew up in Jamaica, Queens in the 1950’s.

@mrsTraveller64

2 ай бұрын

same here, and none of the kids would talk back and if they did my mom went to talk to their parents!!!! Nowadays parents demand no respect from their kids. Any child can say anything and it is brushed off with "we were thesame as children(except we were NOT, not even close) and children are so cute when they use bad words, let's put it on youtube"!

@julietannOsfan1972

2 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t like this. It’s not up to other Mums & Dads to discipline other people’s children, it should be up to the children’s’ own Mum & Dad. My family was very private & never did this.

@Jade-iw3ll

2 ай бұрын

@@julietannOsfan1972 I think its not serious discipline, the kind of discipline where you see kids fighting or saying mean things and you correct them.

@Daydreamerr13

2 ай бұрын

@@julietannOsfan1972lol that’s why Gen X got tougher skin than the, gen z & gen alpha 😂 not saying it’s right but hey

And note how safe they feel in their neighberhood.

@mr.jamster8414

Ай бұрын

why?

@mr.jamster8414

Ай бұрын

where I am is not fucking safe.

@CivilizedWasteland

24 күн бұрын

@@mr.jamster8414 ethnic and culture homogeneity

@DogDogGodFog

Күн бұрын

Because of homogeneity. They are all the same ethnicity, all follow the same religion, and have been living in this neighborhood for several generations.

As a Mennonite driver in Ontario, I often see similarities in the culture. Larger families, no TV, but kids playing outside enjoying their childhood. Brings my heart JOY!!

@0d1n253

2 ай бұрын

Many Mennonite girls are illiterate. There's a downside -- same cultural conservatism that pushes girls away from school.

@bivvystridents3752

2 ай бұрын

Difference is Mennonites aren't primarily sustained by Welfare, food stamps and a myriad of other taxpayer-funded social services.

@priscillajimenez27

Ай бұрын

Ontario, NY or Ontario Canada? I'm from Rochester, NY and an hour or so from there are some Mennonite or Amish 😊

@chelseagirl278

Ай бұрын

Ontario, Canada - in the Elmira area (outside Waterloo)

What a joy and rarity to see kids playing outside. Seeing the old brownstone buildings with the stoops, reminds me of childhood days in Brooklyn too. I enjoyed growing up there in the 80's.❤

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@nathanwhitmore3980

2 ай бұрын

The community they have built is lovely. Smart parents don't let their kids have smart phones. The rule for small screen devices is you can have it when you can buy it yourself.

@julias.4980

2 ай бұрын

No obese children there. All look so healthy. 🍓🥑🍎🥕

This is the side that is never seen or considered when the Hasidic community discussed. It's mundane, but it also shows that there are definitely benefits to having a society that doesn't insist or surrender to every whim of modernity.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

exactly. it’s not a perfect world but it has its charms and it’s not without things to give us food for thought.

I live in Western PA, we have several Amish communities all around us. On my 30 minute commute everyday coming home from work, I see them playing outside a lot more than everyone else. Those kids always look happy. They wave to cars sometimes gets people to blow their horns.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Interesting to hear. Thanks.

Back when I lived in Xiamen, China in the 2000s, my mom would take my brother and I to play in the parks, browse around the malls, read books at the bookstores or swim at the local pool. That was most of the time during weekends and summer holidays. I did watch TV and play games on the computer occasionally, but not a lot of hours.

@bhartityagi8183

15 күн бұрын

How with 1 child policy in china at that time u hv a sibling?

@annien.1727

15 күн бұрын

@@bhartityagi8183 Since my dad is American, Mom was allowed to have two children.

I was a Catholic girl growing up in Greenwich Village during the 40s and 50s. I recognized all these pastimes. ☃️

@thatsminger9433

2 ай бұрын

I’m 21 and we did all these things too in Arizona!

@mfar3016

2 ай бұрын

I’m a 70s kid & we did all the same things!

@CaptainCobbler

Ай бұрын

Wait? Over 80 years old?

This sounds so peaceful....I wish there were Black neighborhoods like this as well. They were dressed modestly, they were having fun, she didn't talk about kidnapping crimes, etc. it seems like peace, happiness and joy to me. No children watching TV, walking with their phones, no one had cigarettes or alcohol. How beautiful!

@alizahalon

29 күн бұрын

I think if you go up to Harlem and the Bronx you will find girls outside playing double Dutch jump rope. They are supposed to be the world champions if I'm not mistaken.

@ginamcknight8115

28 күн бұрын

I agree

@JeanAmorMinecraftBibleReading

24 күн бұрын

It's easy to respond to your request... Put God back in society and you'll see things like this even in your neighborhood... Put Jesus Christ in your hearts and you'll see this.

I grew up watching loads of tv programs but i always felt like i spent an equal amount of time in nature, dancing, reading, doing arts and crafts or making up imaginary stories with my toys for example. In my personal experience, it has not been tv nor video games but rather as i grew up and got social media on my phone, then I started to become more glued to my screen.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Interesting.

@evelynaaspidov123

Ай бұрын

Your childhood sounds like mine! We had a forest in our backyard and we loved exploring! We would play outside and ride our bikes until the street lights came on. But PBS programs were apart of my childhood too and I have fond memories of it! I feel like parents should be more aware about interactive screen time like tablets or video games. Overstimulates the child a lot quicker than a movie.

@ginack19

Ай бұрын

@@evelynaaspidov123 yes there should definitely be controls put in place for how long the kids can play video games and which times so for example 30 mins- an hour after school if they have finished their homework and got some fresh air.

I'm not Jewish, but I am old and this was my childhood. I wish my grandchildren and great-grandchildren had this.

@Psychiatricnerd

4 ай бұрын

I’m not old and I remember this childhood to a degree. I lived in a rural area and now I don’t. Womp womp.

Wonderful to see children getting to play outside! And I’m surprised to see how much they play outside in a big city!

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

I know! Stoop side playing is not the norm in NYC!

@VioletACordy

4 ай бұрын

🌳🌳🌈🔆😎🩵💙🩵@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

@PoppyOak

4 ай бұрын

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn so heartwarming and you gave us all a chance to be nostalgic about our childhoods playing outside! ❤️ thank you for the videos!

This is normal in my country and I love it! My country isn’t very developed but I like it. Kids are outside, having fun. No phones, some don’t have tvs but the ones who do, is still very limited on what channels.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

It’s wonderful! Which country?

@sanjaymoncrieffe7126

2 ай бұрын

I'd love to know which country toom

@neelakhadizah849

2 ай бұрын

Same in Bangladesh in 90's and 00's when I was growing up. But today's time it's much change.

@j.clements2093

Ай бұрын

When kids in poor countries have a better childhood than the oh so prosperous West. We are prospering ourselves into oblivion.

I’m 71. As a child we were always out of doors. We had a lot of freedom and used our imagination much more than today!❤

@pizzapartytime1826

2 ай бұрын

You also were allowed to!

@Kalani_Saiko

2 ай бұрын

Most kids aren't allowed to now

I grew up as a secular Jew with television and computer games, but my parents in their wisdom limited how much of that was allowed. Much of what I see in this video are also things that I did. One particular thing I did was have a cardboard box "house." This was a huge cardboard box that must have been used to deliver an appliance. My father cut a hole in the side for a window, and the lid was a door. This box house lasted many years. My cousin and I would play in it for many hours, and would write and draw on the walls of this "house." On nice days, when I was very little, I remember setting up lawn chairs in such a way that they formed a "house." I also seem to remember a lot of flower picking. We also played "school" a lot. (I had a good size chalkboard, which helped.) The games I remember playing with friends and cousins were mostly games of the imagination. We would act out or pretend something. I remember once making a "museum" with rocks and sticks and other toys and displaying them on a table in our basement. There was a lot of pretend games with dolls and other toys. Other than that was your general jump rope, swings, hopscotch and other games you would draw on the ground with chalk, or were already painted on the ground in the school yard. In the winter there were always hills to slide down, with or without a sled. When I was older, I did a lot of arts and craft type of things, and learning to play musical instruments.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

Wow thanks for the memories. We also had refrigerator boxes but they never lasted. Too many people crammed in one home! And boy did we spend HOURS playing school!!

@katperson7332

2 ай бұрын

@@FriedaVizelBrooklynHere in Scotland we played outside all the time in the 1950s. Similar games to those mentioned in the video. I had a chalkboard as well and we loved playing at schools. I actually ended up going into teaching for nearly 40 years, though I’m well retired now! We children were safe and we played with all the other children in the street till we were called in for bed. We had tv but didn’t watch much as there were only a few programmes suitable for our age. What a great privilege it was to have been born in that era. The war was over so our parents were able to give us things that they couldn’t have before, although there was still some food rationing till I was about 5. Such happy memories! Today’s children are to be pitied. They don’t know how to amuse themselves without technology. My favourite occupation was making tiny furniture for my doll’s house. There were a lot of smokers then so we made things from matchboxes. I loved doing arts and crafts with my little primary school pupils once I began teaching in 1970, and indeed I still enjoy “making things”. Thanks for your video. It’s lovely to see happy children! I miss my little pupils so much.

@GracefullyAutistic

Ай бұрын

That's awesome, I also had a big 'box house' as a kid that lasted a couple years (would've lasted longer if we didn't move to a new house), and I also feel very nostalgic every time I think back on it.

We played like this in the early 2000s as well! I was born in ‘96 in NY and we played until it was dark almost every day. I hope this makes a comeback for every household from every background.

A בליק (glance) of our growing up years in the 1950s in NYC. Cat’s cradle (using bakery box string,) jacks, various jumping rope, potsy, marbles, bicycles, running madly, monkey bars, swings, slides, friends all with imagination making up games & plays. And the ever present “Spaldeen”. The Spaulding pink ball that would bounce So high was everywhere. Catch, stoop ball, stick ball (with Mother now missing her broom handle!) or just bouncing to see how high you could go. Thank you for the reminder of kinder, fun times! And then the call of every Mother from a window or stoop to come for dinner!

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

The spaldeen!!! Did you also put it in a sock and swing it side to side against a wall?

@Zelde-M

4 ай бұрын

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn in the sock as a weapon but not hitting the wall…

@cbspira

4 ай бұрын

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn "hello hello hello sir!" - that was 70s-80s in BP. Gotta say, was very odd chanting about catching polar bears in Brooklyn!

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

@@cbspira Our version didn’t have polar bears!! “Hello hello hello sir! Meet me at the grocer! No sir! Why sir! Because I have a cold sir! Let me hear you sneeze sir! Hachoo hachoo hachoo sir!” Thanks for the memories. I’m working on a video on childhood chants and I’d forgotten of this one.

@cbspira

4 ай бұрын

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn so ours went "... Because I have a cold sir. Where'd you catch the cold sir? At the north pole sir. What were you doing there sir? Catching polar bears sir. How many did you catch, sir? One, sir, 2 sir.... 10 sir and that's enough for me sir." Good times 😁

This makes me wish even more that I wasn't addicted to TV : ( but I'm sadder for the grandchildren who have phone addiction from such a young age. And even sadder for the children whose parents ignore them because THEY are addicted to the phone.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

I'm also sad for the parents who want to be there for their children but find the lure of the phone so distracting that they miss their children's childhoods.

Thank you so much for this!!!! I am a kindergarten teacher at a modern Jewish school, very different than the upbringing these Hasidic kids have. I often think about this current generation and how they are missing out on the independence of simply playing outside! I have always cringed at the term playdate in fact which came into being around the time outdoor, creative play became a thing of the past. Why should the word “play” be connected with a “date” such as a date on a calendar. Just go outside and play!!! I have such joyful memories of hide and seek in the neighborhood with kids until we’d hear a parent at the door or from inside a bedroom window yelling “Time for dinner” or “bath and bed!!” No cell phones tethering us to our parents. From age 10-18 my friends and I would meet at the neighborhood lake supervised with lifeguards. We would walk the mile independently, bring a towel or not, we never brought lunch, we walked home after a day of swimming and splashing wishing we remembered to grab an apple or two. Again, no cell phones. Blackberry picking, playing in neighbors tree houses, hitting those “firecracker” strips with rocks on the sidewalk for the bang and the sparks. Jumping rope. Chalk on the sidewalk, filling up the plastic pool with water and cooling off. Walking to the store without an adult in sight for ice cream and candy. On summer nights we’d set up a tent in the fenced backyard and sleep outside. No parents. Just siblings. One of the greatest aspects of my childhood was playing with children of all ethnicities. We had every shade of skin, several religions, various nationalities. It was so wonderful especially for me and my siblings because we attended a Jewish school. Building years of friendships with neighborhood kids that were Catholic, Muslim, Filipino, African. I guess that’s certainly an area my play time differed from today’s Chassidish kids. Not only did we play with kids from various backgrounds, we were allowed to invite the kids for the shabbat meals with us. As is Jewish custom my father gives a blessing to his children at the Sabbath table. If my neighborhood friends were interested my father gave them their own blessing. Frieda, thank you so much for giving me reason to reminisce about my childhood play! I loved this topic!!!

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this wonderful comment. Your diverse yet wonderfully Jewish childhood seems so beautiful, especially about your father offering a blessing to the neighborhood friends. ❤️

@maril1379

4 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed your comments

@shespeakssoftly

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for painting this picture of your childhood for us, it was wonderful to read. What a beautiful time you had. 🧡

@aggieglitter

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for this comment. You described my childhood also in Poland. I'm 41 now. When I went back a few years ago the place was dead, not one child in the playground. Noone sitting outside. Old people used to sit together on the benches, mothers with prams used to watch their kids play, you saw people walking to the market. Now....nothing. It was like I experienced another life long ago.

@Racheli-

4 ай бұрын

מקסים! ❤

I grew up in Queens and played outside like these children do. However in this day and age, it makes me a little nervous to see such young kids outside by themselves. I hope it is safe for them.

@BBWahoo

4 ай бұрын

They're more in danger around the rabbi than strangers lol

@zimrasawyer1881

4 ай бұрын

Everyone watches the children...every mother in the neighborhood knows each other and the children of the neighborhood. And there is always an adult nearby. Remember it takes a village and that what these neighborhoods are like.

@beans4853

4 ай бұрын

She literally said that either the mothers or an older sibling will watch the kids. Sometimes you ask a neighbor who is sitting outside anyways to watch your kids while you go in to get a few things done. I lived there and there are rarely any unsupervised children out

I grew up like this in the 80’s- in Canada. Not Jewish. I always say how this is the BEST way to grow up.

My childhood :) ...... fun has been robbed from young children😢

There is no better sound or sight than children playing

I grew up playing outside, riding bikes, playing games with the neighborhood kids. I am so glad my kids got to experience the same thing before video games took over.

I remember being a kid, and never being bored. Early '70s, no cell phones, and limited channels on the TV. We rarely, if ever, watched TV. We ate breakfast, lunch and dinner at the table. When the weather was bad, and we couldn't go outside, we'd play games or read.

@tammygant4216

4 ай бұрын

same!

@MF-kd1xc

2 ай бұрын

Same here... Especially when the power went out: hunker down, read, play a board game together as a family (by candlelight) or just sit around the kitchen table waiting for the electricity to come back on.

@Kaidrawsstuff

2 ай бұрын

I still do this I was born in 2010 but I love reading and being outside in general

Thank God there's still some " normal" life somewhere, kids having a nice , safe, carefree fun time.

This is the way I was raised. There was no such thing as a cell phone or a PC. We had one TV but it was in the living room, and we were only allowed to watch what my parents wanted to watch. We had one phone, and it was in my parent's bedroom. We hung out with friends and entertained ourselves.

TV (or phones) aren't keeping kids inside. These kids actually have the ability to go somewhere they can see their friends after school on their own, on foot or by bike. I didn't live in a neighborhood with sidewalks, or with anyone else who went to my elementary school. If I wanted to see my friends, I had to beg my parents to drive me half an hour (or more!) to see them. The only way I saw them outside of school was through "playdates" or "sleepovers", or if we were doing the same extracurricular activity, like a dance class. All of these were places I had to be driven to, by car. I got my license as soon as I was able to, but I think things were already broken by then. If kids have the opportunity to see their friends from school I guarantee they will take it. I was still in elementary school in 2016, I had a phone, and a Nintendo DS, so did everyone else, and we still ran around outside and played games at recess. But at home, I would play video games online, with voice chat or video calls, with the people I'd spent my recess running around with. Because I couldn't just go and see them if I wanted to. Where would we even go? A playground is gauche when you're 12. We'd send messages to each other and play Minecraft instead. And this online space became an aspect of social life-- made even more inseparable when social media came along. If you brought your DS to school, you couldn't trade pokemon with your friends before class started if you hadn't spent any time collecting them at home. The same goes for socialization. I can't deny the existence of people with rich social lives who aren't online, but they seem to be a vanishingly rare group in my generation. If you're friends with someone who chats online and you don't, you're never going to get as close to them as the people who chat with them online, even if the interactions you're missing out on are as inane as passing funny images back and forth. You'll mean less to them, because when they're scrolling down their river of content, they won't ever see something and think of you, and send it to you. You won't have a place in that part of their minds. I decided anyway at 20 that this was something I was willing to give up and deleted social media anyway. And it's made me much more isolated! People don't think of you as much when they're not reminded of your existence by your status updates.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

What a great comment and I think you really describe the crux of why so much “socializing” is online.

90’s childhood & we didn’t have TV except for education ( homeschool). we spent as much time as possible outside playing until it got dark. We had the blessing of a backyard, trees, garden, & neighborhood kids to keep us busy. The best adventures & memories were outside climbing our favorite trees, riding bikes, digging holes, picking produce in our garden, swinging super high in our tree swing, & so much more! 😊❤

I was born in 1960. My most fun childhood memories are playing outside with all the neighborhood kids . We played basketball, baseball football, tackle football rode bikes, played hide and go seek inside and outdoors and lots of other athletic activities outdoors. I would say about 90% of our time was spent outdoors playing with neighborhood friends. It was a great time. I don't have as many memories of being with friends indoors.

This reminds me of my childhood but there were a lot less kids where I lived. This is so wholesome, so healthy. 🥰

this is why i intend to raise my future children with limited to no screen time

We built Go-Karts and forts, we played tag and red-rover, we made up skits and plays, and learned crafting skills like woodworking and sewing and model trains. We had toys, but our best days we spent outdoors.

This is how we did it in the 1960s. Your parents told you how far, how many blocks you could go, and that's as far as you went. You played with other kids. Sometimes you just met them that day. There were no playdates. A playdate was way, way too much parental involvement and over-planning. I grew up on a business district street, in an apartment above stores. I collected soda pop bottles from trash cans and ran errands for my grandfather and other merchants. So did my sister. There was a playground on the "working" side of the building, across an alley that had trucks going through it several times a day for deliveries. We watched for trucks, and trucks watched for us.

How beautiful the modesty of clothing. SO refreshing. ❤

@potato1084

2 ай бұрын

They’re children. I don’t deem it necessary unless you know people in your local community put them in danger in which case move to another community.

I was a child in the 90s and early 2000s. Much of my childhood was spent outside playing similar games. This brought back a lot of memories. Very grateful to have grown up in a time when screens did run our lives.

So nice. I grew up in Seattle during a time when children were allowed to play, ride bikes, and be kids. Today, they are shuttled from activity to activity. People say, "Well, there wasn't as much crime back then." My response has been, "Maybe so, but I was almost abducted by a man in a van walking home from school." True story. My mother called the Seattle Police Dept., reported the incident, and we were ignored. Later I saw the man and the white van in a grocery store parking lot. I loved playing with the neighbor kids. We'd act out fairy tales, play hopscotch at school, and bike everywhere. It's wonderful to see children having fun, using their imagination, and watching out for each other.

@loraleepooley3669

2 ай бұрын

I was almost abducted twice in LA. Bad luck I guess. I still played outside 🤷‍♀️

@andreaf7886

2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you were able to escape. We all know not everyone is so lucky. Still, there are and will always be dangerous people and situations. @@loraleepooley3669

Kid walking past with a sandwich while she was talking was so cute ❤❤

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

I know, ha ha. I had no idea till I saw the footage.

This was my childhood in the 50/60’s. Wonderful childhood.

THIS is the way children should grow up. I grew up this way.

I'm a millennial and I feel like we were kind of the end of the beginning of this new age. When I was a child people barely had computers in their house, cell phones wouldn't be popularized until I was in my late childhood. Kids still played outside though, you could watch TV only so much and then you would get bored. And then even video games back then were very limited if you had a computer or console. Kids were starting to get more cooped up in but it wasn't every kid. An arcades were popular in the '80s and '90s. for teens, especially malls in the '80s and '90s and 2000s for places that adolescents would hang out. Especially the AlphaGen live in a culture of on the demand there is no time to slow down. They can watch whatever they want when they want. They can play video games whenever they want. People don't have to shop in stores anymore so teens don't really hang out in the malls anymore, both for good and bad. Clearly as a millennial there's a lot more consumerism in my generation that I was brought up in. Than previous generations, consumerism of a course is in multi-generations even the boomers had a lot of consumerism growing up in their childhood, but not as much as millennials or gen Z or gen X. The only time I seen a lot of kids out was during quarantine and I think it was just because everybody was in the house and we're probably going a little bit nuts and the parents were like go out outside and play!

Frieda, Thank you for a refreshing and uplifting vlog. President Kennedy's famous quote : " Children are this country's most valuable natural resource. "

You are so Awesome! My Jewish Grandpa drove me around to Mrs.Stahls from East Meadow but he was Agnostic because he was mad at HaShem over the Holocaust. I mistakenly perceived my people as sexist and I was a Patrilineal who was forced through Anti-Jewish Christianity. Ironically, I grew up in So. Cal. as a latchkey with no siblings, Dad, T.V. or electronics in the 80's because of the Christian Cult we were in. I turned to Gardening as a result. These kids are living the LIFE!🕎🚸I also played the piano with Neil Diamond's Jazz Singer songbook having NO CLUE what Kol Nidre really was, since my Jewish family taught me Yiddish but no JUDAISM. 🙄

@YeshuaKingMessiah

4 ай бұрын

What cult?

@russrussel3947

4 ай бұрын

@@YeshuaKingMessiah 44,000 "Denominations" and especially "Non-Denominations" of Forbidden Idolatrous Trinitarian Paulinianism are such. (I'm a Counter Missionary now.) I focus on bringing Wayward Jews, Weak, Secular, Malnourished Jews out from under Paul and back to HaShem/ Judaism. There is a large and growing movement of Ex-Christians and Ex-Pastors who are now free of the Veils and Scales of Paulinianism and are free of the Dark Arts of Pagan Idolatry and have come home to the TRUTH and BEAUTY of JUDAISM.🕎🚸🕎🚸🕎🚸🕎🚸🕎🚸🕎🚸🕎🚸🕎🚸🕎🚸

I grew up on a farm in Illinois. I can't imagine growing up like these kids (I don't mean that in a negative way). The differences are vast -- and fascinating.

I am 66. There were no screens when I was young ofcourse. We dug our little trails in the grass in our garden and made miniature villages with everything we found in the garden. My mother send us to the shops close by, by ourselves, when we were 5 years old. I pity the children nowadays. They don't get a chance to be kids and they are treated like babies. They are never free it seems.

They are enjoying childhood - I grew up in England & played many of the games you mentioned. The good old days before technology.

This is proper community.

I absolutely love the old houses. I'm glad they haven't been torn down and replaced. When you listed the games the children play I was immediately transported back to my own childhood in the 70s, when the same games were played.

Happy to see another video. I played with the landlords son who was about 2-3 yrs younger. We laughed hysterically about feet. Not sure why. Also made mud pies a lot. Eventually the house was sold and I really missed my friend. I got a 26 inch bike and that was my activity for years. I took my bike with me. I wasnt allowed to ride in the street, only the sidewalk. Thanks for your video. Always appreciate them. ❤😊

I grew up in the 60s and 70s always playing outside .Getting ice cream from the ice cream truck in the summer if you could run in the house for the money quick enough !I think our childhood was so full of fun adventures with the whole neighborhood block playing kickball in the street,sledding with our friends outside in the snow down our street .It was great ! Writing with chalk playing kickball, hopscotch playing baseball,and frisbee, climbing trees, riding bikes, camping out in tents in our back yards ,walking downtown walking to the library ,and to the bakery to get 10 donut holes for $1 and a can of pop for 25 cents.Playing with our dolls together outside .Playing badmitton outside and riding our bicycles and big wheels !❤😂 We had jump rope and roller skated outside and played two square . It was a fun childhood with lots of kids on our street ! I think it's sad how many children don't go out to play now because of cell phones and video games and computers.They don't have have much social interaction .I think the Hasidics have it right with that for their children ! We had so much fun!❤😊

Melbourne, Victoria 1970s this was my childhood. Struggled to maintain this in country Victoria with our own kids. Very sad to observe the attack on childhood by big tech, corporations and nefarious forces.

@beth7935

Ай бұрын

Pretty similar in 70s-80s Hobart, Tasmania. Far out in the suburbs with less kids nearby to play with, but we could walk 15mins to the beach & buy lollies at the shop, & we entertained ourselves with the same activities. My sister's doing a great job giving her kids the same childhood- barely any screen time, & they never want it when I babysit them- too many other great ideas, & I'm sure your kids do fun stuff at home too, even if they can't roam the neighbourhood.

Oh my gosh, Frieda! I thought I was the only person who remembered the Jingle Jump. I got it for my birthday one year and it was my favorite gift ever! 💜 Thanks for the blast from my past. Loved this whole episode. It warms my heart to see things much the way I remember them growing up in a small NJ factory town. Beautiful that time stood still for the children of this community - they did not stand still in my old community. It's a different world now. Through your videos I feel like I have come to know, understand, and love a community I knew nothing about. The world needs more of this right now, Frieda. Thank you for doing your part, and doing it so well.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

3 күн бұрын

I'm so happy not to be the only one in the Jingle Jump lover's club!

Frieda! You have me screaming! I'm 47 years old and I grew up with "lemenation" and "123 a-larry" and jingle jump... it's mamish hilarious to relive all this. Keep all the good vibes coming, youre the best!

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

🤓🤓those were the days!

I love this I’m a Muslimah pregnant with my first child and would love to have my young family and future children to be able to play outside like I used to as a kid. Now in the UK even in safe areas you rarely see children playing outside it’s a shame

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

Ай бұрын

Congrats on the baby 😁

@canders207

Ай бұрын

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn thanks girl

@theylovevivi

Ай бұрын

Oh wow!! As a jew congratulations!! I hope ur new son or daughter is healthy, ur in my prayers for a safe delivery!! much love ❤

This is a world I would like for all children. Every child deserves to grow up safe, loved, and connected to play. Wonderful video.❤

It’s so important for kids to tire themselves out. This should still be implemented by parents across the world, much as possible !

This is SUCH a beautiful monument and glimpse into a vibrant, extremely special community. Thank you.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 💕

It's always so entertaining to watch your documentaries! Keep it up! ❤from ,🇮🇱

@LFriedman

4 ай бұрын

As a hasidic boy growing up in borough park I didn't even recognize all the benefits I had growing up as a hasid but now knowing what I know I'm so glad I grew up where I did.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

Sending my warmest to my good people in Israel.

@BBWahoo

4 ай бұрын

🔻 🇮🇱

@potato1084

2 ай бұрын

@@LFriedmanNot a very good Hasidic Jew if you’re posting that flag everywhere

I've been reading The Death and Lofe of Great American Cities and the author makes a great case that playing on city streets is the best way for children to grow up. This community has something very valuable, that most of the rest of us abandoned. Strong Towns is a great book convincing me of that too.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for mentioning this book, I'm going to look into it. I'm very interested in how organizing in cities has huge consequences on how we live as a community/hive.

This sent me back to my childhood when there was so many children to play with. Life was very simple then. If you had a ball of jump rope life was great. 😊

Love to see an actual COMMUNITY spending regular daily life together, and families doing the same. These kids will be 1000x more creative and grounded than the average messed up American kid.

This is wonderful! I genuinely want a community full of self sustained children everywhere in the world not just a niche community in Brooklyn, I am really happy for them tho!

I'm glad to see kids still be kids. Reminds me, even back in the early 2000s. We would ride bikes for hours and hours.

I used to live in a quiet neighbourhood, so I didn't see many friends outside of school, but we had a large garden which me and my brothers would play in. We had loads of toys in the shed, and I have lots of memories of riding on a toy tractor, playing with tennis racquets, going on the swing and trampoline. As I got older, I didn't enjoy going outside as often, but I did like to play with Lego and do drawing. When I moved to my current neighbourhood, it was more dense and lots of my school friends lived nearby, so I was able to go out occasionally and meet up with them to play games and go for walks. Now I'm a young adult, I tend to stay inside and play music or just waste my life getting lost on my phone! 😂 I miss the good old days!

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Playing music is wonderful though!

These girls are enjoying the exact same games that I played and loved in Brooklyn.

@Hazeleyesx2

4 ай бұрын

Same here these were my childhood games in Bklyn

Thanks Freida. So good to see children playing " old fashioned" games. For sure they will have better concentration as adults than those children who brain neural pathways did not develop because of too much screen time too young

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. While we did watch some TV and play Atari, we also spent a lot of time outside doing some of the activities that were mentioned here. I think it’s important for children to be able to creatively play. They’re able to use their imaginations and to explore the world a little bit on their own. It allows them be able to problem solve, to network, and to communicate well.

This is amazing this is what all kids need. Breathing in fresh air, playing, having fun, developing gross motor skills, making friends and learning conflict resolution.

This video is a little ray of hope and innocence and makes for wonderful calming levity in the absolute unrestrained chaos happening at the moment. Shalom, amiga. ✡️🇲🇽

I grew up like this with friends in my neighbourhood. I think this is good you can see the children developing communication skills with each other in a natural unhurried way where free time play is honoured. Much better than plunking children in front of screens. Thanks Frieda.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

❤️

Thank you once again. How refreshing. I’ve just bought my 4 year old granddaughter a skipping rope. It’s lovely to see the children taking part in such “ old world “ activities instead of being glued to a screen. I hope they will all have a marvellous Purim! Bill. Uk

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Aww that’s so sweet Bill. You should teach her how to skip it ha ha!

It’s great to see kids being kids. When given the opportunity, children are exceptionally good at play and amusing themselves without the help of social media and / or adults. In fact, they’re brilliant. We live in a neighborhood that has young children. We only know this because we see small bikes laying in yards and they do come out on Halloween----adults in tow. We often note that, unlike our childhood, we never hear the children playing outside until dinner bell rings. I remember being exhausted, itchy all over from rolling around in leaves and the grass, and bathtime a necessity. Your video clearly shows that 21st century children are alive and kicking and not zombies placed behind video screens so that the adults in their lives can have some “me” time. However, something of note, your video also shows 21st century children playing in garbage ridden streets and sidewalks. This aspect was definitely missing in my childhood. As I listened to your commentary, I couldn’t help but notice all the trash and that it appears this is the new normal. This is a nationwide phenomena. Garbage on the highways and byways. Garbage on sidewalks. Everywhere. Children will always persevere and thrive when given the right atmosphere and opportunity. It’s too bad that we do not, as adults, take a moment during “me” time to set good examples and put garbage in a garbage can to give our children a clean environment to explore their own neighborhoods and beyond.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Yes trash is a real issue, you are absolutely right about giving children a clean place to play.

This brings back good memories. As a Christian who grew up in the country we played many of these games.

I grew up in 1940s/50s. Our block was mostly girls so hopscotch & jumprope were very popular. All ages played together. Mother may I , devil on the sidewalk(tag with the grass being safe spot), were popular. There was often a game of "Chicago" in our narroow side lot with random boys from the neighborhod. Sometimes in evenings we would put on plays for our parents.

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

4 ай бұрын

We played "Johnny May I cross..." not Mother May I.

I’m from Tx and a few years ago I moved to New York for a short period of time. I remember riding through this area of Brooklyn and being completely amazed! They have their own grocery stores, banks, schools, police and fire stations, hospitals, etc. It’s truly as if you’ve been transported into a different country. You can tell that they are truly a community; that everyone knows each other, which I’m sure helps parents to be comfortable with their children playing outside in this day and age. Truly remarkable to witness

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

2 ай бұрын

Yes yes thanks for the comments, very on point!

It’s pretty much the same in the Jewish neighbourhood in Antwerp- where I spent my first ten years as a mom. Although we are not Jewish, my daughter frequently used the fact that the neighbourhood children were allowed to walk to the shops alone etc.. as an argument for her to do the same, and we let her. I am glad I did because this is a real confidence booster. We have moved to the countryside and this is how recess looks at my daughter’s school, which is 100% screen free.

@saradresdner6146

4 ай бұрын

Klopt, lijkt een beetje op de Joodse, Antwerpse opvoeding.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of screen time. My kids play outside, do art, read, play sports, and have imaginative play, but they also watch movies and play on the switch. We limit screentime, but I'd never deny them it. So much of their future will be dependent on screens, so they need to learn how to operate interfaces, and open world building games like Minecraft can have benefits. Everything in moderation, of course. This is an interesting look at a community without screens, though.

They living a healthy life playing with each other like we used to do when we were kids. No screen time but playground time. These kids will be mentally stronger than the counterparts spending time with games

It’s interesting how the way these kids spend their time reminds me so much of my own childhood, growing up in a small Canadian city in the 1970s. We had TV but there were only two channels so most of the time there was nothing on we wanted to watch, so like these kids, when the weather was nice, most of our time when we weren’t in school was spent playing outside, mostly unsupervised by adults. We all had bikes and rode them all around the neighbourhood and to the local parks that all had playgrounds, and played the same kinds of games like jump rope and hop scotch. I often feel sorry that today’s kids don’t have the physical freedom I got to grow up with.

I am old now and none of my children like this any more, but I loved making roads and houses and stuff with rocks and sticks and acorns when I was a little girl and when my children were little. I have a little creek on my property now and I can still spend a whole day by the creek, happily absorbed in moving rocks and sticks.

I love this video, it does remind me of the way we would play back in the 60's -70's in Brooklyn. Things have changed not for the better, children nowadays don't know how to play outside or use their imagination so sad. Thank you for sharing this video of precious children being just that, children.❤

@user-vl6so5ze1j

4 ай бұрын

Next time I'm in New York visiting family I'm going to have to schedule a tour with you, I know I will enjoy it.

I raised my kids without a TV too. We are LDS and we try to live an orthodox life too. It is so good for the children, and the family in general.

I am a baby boomer. When I was growing up we always played outside because there was nothing to do inside. Back then families were larger. I was very lucky to grow up in that era.

As a teenager now, I wish I could’ve had this. Recess at school was really my only chance to do these kinds of things. I live in suburbs with little to no kids in the same neighborhood as me, so I would and still do tend to keep to myself unless otherwise prompted. Nowadays I’m always outside the house doing some sort of performing arts so I still get to use my imagination thankfully

Here in the California Sierras kids spend most of their free time outside. And studies show that children who spend time outside be it the city or rural areas, tend to have stronger immune systems.

What a great video ! I enjoyed my childhood. We played double Dutch, bike riding playing in the park, etc. Summer always went too fast. My birthday is 8/17, when my birthday rolled around summer was over. I live in a cold climate, and we would ice skate, go sledding and build igloos in my front yard. It wasn't all fun, I cut the lawn, washed dishes, shoveled, dusted the house, and made sure my room wasn't too big of a mess. That is how I earned my spending money. Thanks for the video!

In 1960's through the 1970's we had the same wonderful sort of childhood, but as gentiles in suburban NJ. It was fantastic ☺!

It’s nice seeing kids playing by themselves and having fun but it’s really sad that they have to do it in such a narrow space. No wonder kids don’t leave their houses when outside everywhere you go the space is taking up by cars.

This is so wonderful and gives me hope for the future. The fact that the kids are sweaty and red-faced because they are playing with their friends is so beautiful! Thank you for showing this to the world.

This is the best thing I've seen after COVID

I was raised Lutheran (converted to Catholic later), but we spent ALL our time outdoors during the '70s! We had so much fun!

Wow. I remember those days. In Flatbush it's a little different. More like all the kids on the block would gather together in one backyard or in front of one house. Shabbos and Yom tov were the best. Whenever our parents called us back inside we would beg for hours to stay out. I remember those days. Screeching swings, mosquitos, the hard smack of the ball. Elimination was big one with us too, Chinese jump rope, "machanayim" etc. Nothing like it. Some of my best memories.