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How many of you played "don't fall into the lava" when you were little?

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EpsiIon

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I used to play this game with my brother all the time. I used to think it was somewhat original, but now it seems like everybody played it. Did you?

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Ok, I guess everybody didn't play it. It's the game where you treat the floor (or dirt or path or some other subsection of the area on which you walk) as lava and avoid it because, if you fall or touch the lava, you'll die. Everybody knows you die when you touch lava, right?

For us, this usually involved jumping from couch to couch and "saving" each other. 🙂

I wonder what people who study child development would say about this game?
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I thought maybe it could have been just a midwest thing or something, but I see cali in the prof.
 
yep! we had this little brick border on the ground near our fence, you had to stay on that border or you were fvcked.

we also used to pretend we were ninjas (this is when I was like 11 years old). my street was kind of a double street with long grassy traffic islands running down the length. the one nearest my house was "Dojo Island", we always practiced our ninja fighting skills there 🙂
 
little did you know that your little brother, after falling into the lava, would become darth vader
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
yep! we had this little brick border on the ground near our fence, you had to stay on that border or you were fvcked.

we also used to pretend we were ninjas (this is when I was like 11 years old). my street was kind of a double street with long grassy traffic islands running down the length. the one nearest my house was "Dojo Island", we always practiced our ninja fighting skills there 🙂
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That's sweet! I've always had the hardest time getting up for school. But when I was around six or seven, my brother and I would get up at 6:00 AM on Saturdays to watch TMNT. We had headbands and weapons and would jump around on the couch. It was awesome.
 
Hell yea! Find a playground, and either the tanbark or sand is the "lava." If you touched, you died. That was fun. I miss being a kid.
 
Originally posted by: EpsiIon
I used to play this game with my brother all the time. I used to think it was somewhat original, but now it seems like everybody played it. Did you?

[EDIT]
Ok, I guess everybody didn't play it. It's the game where you treat the floor (or dirt or path or some other subsection of the area on which you walk) as lava and avoid it because, if you fall or touch the lava, you'll die. Everybody knows you die when you touch lava, right?

For us, this usually involved jumping from couch to couch and "saving" each other. 🙂

I wonder what people who study child development would say about this game?
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AWESOME. My siblings never played games with me that didn't involve hurting me in some manner... but MY KIDS play "lavamonster" which is the same concept... they also play "sharks in the water" which is the same concept. Sometimes a particular person or thing is a shark and sometimes there are just sharks EVERYWHERE.

You've pretty much got to stay out of the room unless you want to get sucked in as a prop.

😀
 
It's wild that so many people have played this as a kid, yet it seems as if nobody taught anybody the game. It is like an instinct or something.
 
Originally posted by: Babbles
It's wild that so many people have played this as a kid, yet it seems as if nobody taught anybody the game. It is like an instinct or something.
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Yeh.

I view parenthood as a great sociological experiment... My kids are endless sources of entertainment and inspiration.

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