and skip the most bars in between. We would challenge each other who could leap off the highest point in the play ground. We would run a gauntlet every morning with backpacks on using the severed stumps that were chained together along a path towards school where we would bounce single foot on each stump not pausing and spring across the fifteen or twenty stumps without falling off.

nothing that child did was actually that extraordinary, yet some of you are making wild claims about how few children could actually do this. Children today are as capable as children of my generation unless they are conditioned not to be.