Kids love building cubby houses.
What is behind this? Is it an expression of some basic human urge to make shelter?
Do boys and girls do this to the same extent?

morrie said:

Kids love building cubby houses.
What is behind this? Is it an expression of some basic human urge to make shelter?
Do boys and girls do this to the same extent?

yep and yep

Also about having a secret place away from parents.

The kids around here cut down trees I’ve planted to create new cubby’s.
They drag rubbish from all over the village to create and furnish them.

Divine Angel said:

Also about having a secret place away from parents.

yep.. starting out at the plan for eventual separation.

Do any other animals display similar behaviour?

morrie said:

Do any other animals display similar behaviour?

If you look at it from the light of .. matching parents behaviour, then yes.

morrie said:

Kids love building cubby houses.
What is behind this? Is it an expression of some basic human urge to make shelter?
Do boys and girls do this to the same extent?

It’s just kids playing grownups isn’t it?

Do grown ups still have tea parties?

Skeptic Pete said:

morrie said:

Kids love building cubby houses.
What is behind this? Is it an expression of some basic human urge to make shelter?
Do boys and girls do this to the same extent?

It’s just kids playing grownups isn’t it?

yep.

here’s some fungi trying that with an aphid considering low cost rental.

Divine Angel said:

Do grown ups still have tea parties?

they add gin.

I never had a cubby house. Or a bike.

I think my paternal grandfather had way too much influence over my parent’s parenting.

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

Do grown ups still have tea parties?

they add gin.

and right wing rhetoric

Skeptic Pete said:

I never had a cubby house. Or a bike.

I think my paternal grandfather had way too much influence over my parent’s parenting.

My grandfather’s pushbike was passed down to me when my brother got sick of riding a fixed wheel.

We didn’t have the space for a cubby house but we had bikes. What kid isn’t allowed a bike?

Skeptic Pete said:

I never had a cubby house. Or a bike.

I think my paternal grandfather had way too much influence over my parent’s parenting.

Did you never improvise cubbies out of bits and pieces? My grandson will grab anything at hand and fashion a cubby in a couple of minutes. Cardboard boxes are especially useful.

morrie said:

Skeptic Pete said:

I never had a cubby house. Or a bike.

I think my paternal grandfather had way too much influence over my parent’s parenting.

Did you never improvise cubbies out of bits and pieces? My grandson will grab anything at hand and fashion a cubby in a couple of minutes. Cardboard boxes are especially useful.

My kids made them out of the old paper supermarket bags. Put one over your head and one could become a dalek or almost anything imaginable that the parent had to guess at.

looking at the image I uploaded. It is time i swept the floor of the camera cubby.

Divine Angel said:

We didn’t have the space for a cubby house but we had bikes. What kid isn’t allowed a bike?

It wasn’t that I wasn’t allowed a bike, I just had to buy my own with my pocket money, which at the time was about 50cents a week.

morrie said:

Did you never improvise cubbies out of bits and pieces? My grandson will grab anything at hand and fashion a cubby in a couple of minutes. Cardboard boxes are especially useful.

Oh yes of course we improvised and made our own. But nothing of a permanent nature like all my neighbours and friends seemed to have.

morrie said:

Kids love building cubby houses.
What is behind this? Is it an expression of some basic human urge to make shelter?
Do boys and girls do this to the same extent?

I was building grass cubby houses at school in the bushes

got into trouble for it

basic human instinct I think

I used to flash myself at school to the girls

got into trouble for it

basic human instinct I think

dont do it now though :)

Skeptic Pete said:

Divine Angel said:

We didn’t have the space for a cubby house but we had bikes. What kid isn’t allowed a bike?

It wasn’t that I wasn’t allowed a bike, I just had to buy my own with my pocket money, which at the time was about 50cents a week.

I bought Lithgow single shot .22 cal, for $5 at about that time in history. My pocket money was non existent. I planted grape vines in a vineyard for five long hard days to gain the $5

Skeptic Pete said:

Divine Angel said:

We didn’t have the space for a cubby house but we had bikes. What kid isn’t allowed a bike?

It wasn’t that I wasn’t allowed a bike, I just had to buy my own with my pocket money, which at the time was about 50cents a week.

i got a bike for xmas when i was 4, my nephew now uses it 30 years later :)
I never had a cubby, but dad was in a pit crew when i was growing up, so i spent my spare time in the shed with him and his mates.
My nieces and nephews have a pretty spiffing cubby house that now takes up half of my parent’s house yard.. i guess also they didn’t have things like gumtree when i was their age…

CrazyNeutrino said:

morrie said:

Kids love building cubby houses.
What is behind this? Is it an expression of some basic human urge to make shelter?
Do boys and girls do this to the same extent?

I was building grass cubby houses at school in the bushes

got into trouble for it

basic human instinct I think

I used to flash myself at school to the girls

got into trouble for it

basic human instinct I think

dont do it now though :)

So you weren’t one of the wino derros that frequented the shrubs on my walk home from school. The place was littered with porno mags of the 60’s.

roughbarked said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Divine Angel said:

We didn’t have the space for a cubby house but we had bikes. What kid isn’t allowed a bike?

It wasn’t that I wasn’t allowed a bike, I just had to buy my own with my pocket money, which at the time was about 50cents a week.

I bought Lithgow single shot .22 cal, for $5 at about that time in history. My pocket money was non existent. I planted grape vines in a vineyard for five long hard days to gain the $5

My first job was picking cherries on the xmas holidays for 5 cents a pound.

I picked 100 pound one day, but gave myself heatstroke and diarrhoea.

Skeptic Pete said:

roughbarked said:

Skeptic Pete said:

It wasn’t that I wasn’t allowed a bike, I just had to buy my own with my pocket money, which at the time was about 50cents a week.

I bought Lithgow single shot .22 cal, for $5 at about that time in history. My pocket money was non existent. I planted grape vines in a vineyard for five long hard days to gain the $5

My first job was picking cherries on the xmas holidays for 5 cents a pound.

I picked 100 pound one day, but gave myself heatstroke and diarrhoea.

I picked olives.. got docked for every one that was bruised.

roughbarked said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

morrie said:

Kids love building cubby houses.
What is behind this? Is it an expression of some basic human urge to make shelter?
Do boys and girls do this to the same extent?

I was building grass cubby houses at school in the bushes

got into trouble for it

basic human instinct I think

I used to flash myself at school to the girls

got into trouble for it

basic human instinct I think

dont do it now though :)

So you weren’t one of the wino derros that frequented the shrubs on my walk home from school. The place was littered with porno mags of the 60’s.

I frequented shrubs in the 70’s

Divine Angel said:

Also about having a secret place away from parents.

predators.

roughbarked said:

Skeptic Pete said:

roughbarked said:

I bought Lithgow single shot .22 cal, for $5 at about that time in history. My pocket money was non existent. I planted grape vines in a vineyard for five long hard days to gain the $5

My first job was picking cherries on the xmas holidays for 5 cents a pound.

I picked 100 pound one day, but gave myself heatstroke and diarrhoea.

I picked olives.. got docked for every one that was bruised.

er.. for a dollar per bushel.

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Also about having a secret place away from parents.

predators.

From my experience the worst predators were amongst my peers.

Skeptic Pete said:

roughbarked said:

Skeptic Pete said:

It wasn’t that I wasn’t allowed a bike, I just had to buy my own with my pocket money, which at the time was about 50cents a week.

I bought Lithgow single shot .22 cal, for $5 at about that time in history. My pocket money was non existent. I planted grape vines in a vineyard for five long hard days to gain the $5

My first job was picking cherries on the xmas holidays for 5 cents a pound.

I picked 100 pound one day, but gave myself heatstroke and diarrhoea.

when i was 8, i got 80 cents an hour, with a 10 cent/hour pay rise each year :) worked out ok, i still have the 600 piece tool kit i saved up and bought within a few years working

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Also about having a secret place away from parents.

predators.

From my experience the worst predators were amongst my peers.

No, I mean it’s an old evolutionary hard-wired thing left over from tens of thousands of years of human evolution.

stumpy_seahorse said:

Skeptic Pete said:

roughbarked said:

I bought Lithgow single shot .22 cal, for $5 at about that time in history. My pocket money was non existent. I planted grape vines in a vineyard for five long hard days to gain the $5

My first job was picking cherries on the xmas holidays for 5 cents a pound.

I picked 100 pound one day, but gave myself heatstroke and diarrhoea.

when i was 8, i got 80 cents an hour, with a 10 cent/hour pay rise each year :) worked out ok, i still have the 600 piece tool kit i saved up and bought within a few years working

My boss offered to buy me a set of expensive Swiss watchmakers screwdrivers if I got a haircut. I got the haircut and the screwdrivers and a couple of weeks later the hair was as long as before.

Hippy :p

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

predators.

From my experience the worst predators were amongst my peers.

No, I mean it’s an old evolutionary hard-wired thing left over from tens of thousands of years of human evolution.

Yeah, I did comprehend. However the human predator thing is passed down the same route.

Divine Angel said:

Hippy :p

I once wrote an article described.. “what is a hippie?”