When we reminisce about the best parts of growing up, we don’t talk about recess as much as we should. Take a minute to think about how stoked you would be a bell went off twice a day at work just so you could go mess around with your colleagues. Recess might be the most underrated part of childhood.
No matter where you grew up, there were some go to games every kid played at recess: four square, basketball, hopscotch, you know them all. Every school also had some games unique to them. For example, at my school we invented a game called squash where we’d throw one of my buddies’ soccer socks at each other in a mix between dodgeball, tag, and king of the hill.