LOH Community Contest #77 ~ My Favourite Childhood Games

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Growing up in an environment filled with the opposite gender made childhood an interesting stage of my life that I will never forget and also made me a wild young lad who didn't care about anything but just wanted to have fun.

Although my childhood games always made me go back home with injuries most of the days but my parents couldn't stop me from playing because they knew that would only end up in them being stressed with my problems, so they just allow me to enjoy all the fun I needed regardless the injuries and most times, I never got to disturb them about the injuries because I hated drugs and anything that has to do with hospitals and still do.

For me, playing with toys was not an option because the joy I have played with my peers even though the opposite gender and a bit older than I am can never be compared with the joy of playing with toys because they are no fun, so I never told or disturbed my parents to get me one.

What were your favorite games (or toys) as a child? Tell us about them!
Do you still play any of them now?

For an average Nigerian kid, I think I played 80% games an average Nigerian kid knows and plays the kind of games we play should play, and out of all my favourite games as a kid were

- Daddy and Mummy Play
I always played the role of a mother whenever we are doing this game and I played a good mother, who loves her husband and children so much and wants to see them succeed.

"- Running with Tyre"

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This was mostly done on Saturdays because we would have all the kids around to participate. We would get a condemned tyre and a strong stick that can roll the tyre for a very long time without breaking and decide to do a running competition. It was always fun and most times we run around with just our nighties till our parents are ready to bathe us and other times with just our panties and singlets.

• "Hide and Seek under the rain"

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Whenever it started raining, all the kids around run into the rain and begin to play hide and seek, and most times we just enjoy the feel of the rain on our skin

- Washing our parent's blackened pot

Yeah, we did that too and most times our parents encourage us to do this because they are always willing to give out cash prizes to the person whose back of his or her pot will be whiter and cleaner.

Since our parents usually use stoves to cook, they always end up having black backs of pots, and most times because they are busy they will decide to give us this part of the dish to do. All we were given was a detergent and sand and I was the only girl in the midst and that makes me come out the winner because I made sure to wash the pot till it comes out sparkling white like a new pot.

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I never had the chance to play all those kinds of games after my dad took us out of that neighbourhood because he felt we were going to turn out like the kids in that neighborhood.

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This is my entry to the Ladies of Hive Community Contest #77 and I invite @merit.ahama and @iskafan to participate in it.