Oh, let me answer(and I can only hope I am right). Click Clacks were two hard plastic balls, about the size of pool balls. They were suspended from a metal ring on two strings and the goal was to grasp the ring and move your arm in such a fashion that the balls clicked together below the ring and then had enough momentum to clack together above the ring. You tried to get them clicking and clacking longer than anyone else without stopping. And if I'm wrong I'll only be embarrassed for a day or two.
And they were originally made of GLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonder how many eyes were damaged before they quit making those things! (lawsuits weren't as prevalent then!)
We WALKED or BIKED home from school--WITHOUT A PHONE!
HOW did we do it??!!
(of course, my sixth grade son did this most days last year...quite a LONG walk, and had to cross a highway--at a crosswalk--and a relatively busy street. He & a responsible buddy managed it very well. Got exercise, learned responsibility, and had fun visiting together all the way home; they did get a ride when the weather was messy)
We walked to the neighborhood store w/o parental supervision. We rode bikes all over the neighborhood until WELL after dark in the summer.
My mom worked nights...and basically kicked us out every summer morning! Can't blame her...she needed sleep!
But luckily the good stuff remains...afternoons at the pool, evenings full of baseball games or running around the neighborhood, ice cream runs, lemonade, family vacation, amusement parks, county fair, weekly library trip to fulfill the summer reading program, sleeping late (well, I am, even if the kids don't!),sleepovers, miniature golfing, the zoo. Good times.
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