Did you climb trees or have a treehouse? | ADHD Information
Our pet parakeet's favorite word's were, "get off the table!"
I climbed everything, tables, counters, fences, trees, on top of roofs. I've had my head split open more times than I can remember from taking wicked falls. I can still hear my family Dr. whistling Yankee Doodle, while sewing up the gashes in my scalp.
Strange, that I'm now afraid of heights.
My treehouse was the best...our house had the garage in the back of the house so there was a drive that ran behind our house...kids would ride their bikes back there and play...I would get into my tree house and hide and spy on them...I knew everything that was going on with the neighborhood kids...it was the best...I would take all my stuffed animals up there and stay forever....it was so much fun..I built it myself..it took me only a couple of falls to figure out if you put a nail in the middle of a board used for a ladder that it will spin when you step on it....so I put two nails one on each side so the ladder step was seccure to the tree. I remember though that the tree had sap come out when I poked holes in it and I remember thinking I was hurting the tree ......anyway...the tree did fine...and I felt better about nailing stuff to it....I also hid in the treehouse when I was in trouble for stuff like not doing my homework or getting a note sent home for talking too much in class.
I also climed the roof, the front yard tree and any other tree I could find to climb...I still climb on furniture to get something who needs to use the stepping stool...LOL....Ummmmm...I think I want a tree house!!!!!!
I loved to climb trees as a kid. In fact, I still love to climb. Climb them, jump from them, fall from them and break a bone (did alot of breaking). Would love to rock climb again.
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holy crap. thats soo funny!!what else did they say on that show? i totally forgot about it.. doh!
but yaaaaaah.. i climbed EVERYTHING growing up..i even have pics cuz i'd make my parents take it after i'd get to the top. haha.. and i never had a tree house.. it was always a dream of mine..and i even said a couple of times that when i grow up.. im gonna build a tree house in my backyard just for me!!
< =""> i climbed a lot too. everything from any tree or rocks i could get onto, to a very high train trestle(bridge). a few years back i took my boys to the train trestles, and i was shocked. they were so high and i was glad my mother didn't know where i was taking my two younger brothers. i would not have allowed my kids to play on such a thing. i do let them do some rock-climbing here in Colorado, but that high wooden bridge...
lol I am so ditzy I read the first posts in the beginning and totally missed mine. heh
Thanks Gypsywomyn you always make my day. 8 )
I sure did! I climbed so high that nobody could see me, even when they climbed as high as they could go. I'm lucky my dad was a tree surgeon, so he had climbing spikes and ropes to get me down when I got stuck! Heehee
I found one! I found one!A rentable treehouse!!!!!
http://www.narrowsvillage.com/html/lodging.html#
Check it out! It's even in my home province! LOL!!!
All right, bcgirl!
Now all (we) need is 3 couples, ATVs, 0 - 0 (a night!) and a partner for me to make one of those couples! I never knew these 2 things were related, but I used to climb trees in my parents yard when no one was looking. I did that from pre-teen throguh the teen years.[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn]and a partner for me to make one of those couples! [/QUOTE]
Reizende, I know you posted this quote under another topic, but I wanted you to see the great topic we did on building ourselves a treehouse...I'm sure there's room for you, too.
Creative Crazy, isn't that a great idea for a name? ADHD Acres!
What do you think?
[QUOTE=Reizende] I never knew these 2 things were related, but I used to climb trees in my parents yard when no one was looking. I did that from pre-teen throguh the teen years.[/QUOTE]
I don't know if AD/HD and climbing trees are actually related, but there sure seems to be plenty of women on the Board who were "Tom Boys" growing up.
I knew plenty of girls and boys who liked climbing trees (although none were as good at it as I was!) However, I never knew them after growing up (were kids together in the 50s) so never knew if they were actually ADHD or not. But who knows, maybe it is related. [QUOTE=Mark Goode]
[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn]and a partner for me to make one of those couples!
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Aww, Mark, you did it again....my
is all aflutter. *sigh* Wowy Zowy! OOU OOOH I wasn't called a "monkey" for nothin'! We had a big empty lot between the two city blocks where I lived, and I was always climbing the trees in there. I always wanted a tree house, but dad wouldn't let us build one in the big ole maple in our backyard. 
However, when I finally went to Disney World when I was in my 30's, the first place I wanted to go was the Swiss Family Robinson's tree house! I was sooo disappointed they wouldn't let you in the rooms, you just got to walk through and look at rooms with ropes keeping you out. 
bcgirl! I remember going back as an adult to the park where we played on one of those metal jungle gyms...and it was so SMALL! And, it's still there after 50 years!
I still like to climb trees, but it's frowned on because it's supposedly bad for the trees. In my opinion, it's bad for kids not to be able to climb a healthy, older tree! Ah, the wind in your hair and face, and the view! I still dream very often I'm way up high in trees, where no one can see me.
Unfortunately I didn't find out about the Jane Pauley Show until an hour after it aired.
GypsyWomyn38400.5006134259I loved to climb. I can't remember how high the
ceiling was in the elementary school gym. Maybe 20
feet. I remember always climbing the rope up to the
ceiling. I was probably one of the few girls that could do
it. I was just really active as a kid.I also remember going to my dad's office on a Sunday. The office was empty so I could play. There was a place at his work with a conveyer belt. It went up 2 stories. My friends and I would climb it and then ride it down!
May be this is why I'm still always looking for a thrill. Do any of you do any extreme sports. I don't have much opportunity cause of kids but if I did, I'd do more.
Simi
< =""> I've never tired any extreme sports. I'm too afraid of bodily harm - LOL! Everybody I've ever met who has rock-climbed, snowboarded, dirtbiked, or anything like that, has broken a limb or two. It's almost guaranteed at some point if you are seriously into this stuff.
I do LOVE the feeling of motion though - so I settle for good old fashion thrill rides at amusement parks. There's not much I will avoid.
Although I don't like roller coasters
and such with only a lap bar, because I do not like the feeling of
thinking I will fall out on the vertical drops. LOL I was always climbing something. I used to climb the trees in our backyard and I would be swaying from the very tips of them and the neighbors would be calling my mom saying "Ummm, your daughter is hanging from the top of the tree again" LOL I used to climb the roof of our house, basically anything I could climb I would :o) I had no fear when I was younger
I just
remembered that my elementary school had this massive jungle-gym in the
gymnasium. It was HUGE. It stretched all the way up to the ceiling, and
it folded up flat against the wall when not in use.That thing was SO cool. Ladders and bars and ropes and poles.... a hyperactive, climbing kid's dream! I was never good at climbing ropes, but I was all over everything else.
I find it hard to imagine something like that still being in a school today. It was pretty high! A kid could so easily fall and break a leg, or worse.
Of course, I was a little kid, so it is quite possible that I am remembering it much bigger than it actually was.bcgirl197838400.4455671296
I loved climbing when I was a kid! I lived in Montana, so I was always climbing the rims, or going to the mountains....I also loved climbing trees! There was a big trampoline that all the neighborhood kids would go to and I used to push the trampoline under trees so I could climb them and then do flips out of them lol...ahhh, the memories! On the Jane Pauly show Tuesday the author of the Driven to Distraction book said that boys are mostly ADHD and girls are ADD...boys tend to be hyper and climb...I also read that children with ADHD tend to climb trees or anything they can as a child and often have a tree house.
I had a tree house and climbed everything...I was diagnosed as an adult female with ADHD.
Did any of yall (male or female)have tree houses or climb trees as a child?
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!I LOVED to climb when I was a kid. In fact... I still do. I worked at Toy-R-Us for awhile, and I used to climb the racks in the storage room. Someone would see a box on the top shelf that they needed, and would start looking around for a ladder, and I would annouce "I'll get it!", and start limbing like a little monkey. LOL - I was 22 years old at the time.
Anyway, back to the kid thing, I used to love climbing trees. However I grew up in a sub-arctic climate, so finding suitable climbing trees was often quite difficult. Finding a good treehouse tree was impossible. I remember visiting some relatives in another part of the country, and their neighbour's kids had a treehouse. I used to freak out with excitement at the thought of playing in it.
I was always climbing when I was a kid. In middle school I took
an after school rock climbing trip and LOVED it. At my last job
we used to store equipment up in a loft above our office. It was
a pain in the a$$ to get the ladder so I would climb up using the
desk and couple of cabinets and books shelves next to the loft.
Everyone thought I was nuts!
Yes! I was always in the tops of trees (the teenage boys next door had to come get me out of the top of a couple a few times).
I've been diagnosed as adhd- and I am very hyper, I have to say. I'm always fidgeting and was extremely active as a kid. It got me into real trouble in school. I can hike or walk for hours.
What's really funny to me is that my daughter is so non physically active (she's not add), bc I automatically expected a tomboy kid. You know, I had trouble watching that show bc I kept spacing out and looking out the window. The add person cant even sit still to watch the add show. If that's not funny!