Life seems to be changing at an ever-increasing pace for our children as they wrestle with the pros and cons of technology and an increasingly commercialised society.
They seem to be either glued to a TV/computer/mobile/tablet screen for an unhealthy amount of time or competing to have the very latest this or that to keep up with their peers.
What happened to playing in the streets all day until your mum called you in for tea? And shouts of ‘you’re either in or out’ and ‘shut the door behind you’? Ah, simpler times.
Of course, kids still play out, but they have more options to choose from now.
Anyway, join us as we take a journey from the past to present with a series of stirring images of kids playing outside in Liverpool - from as far back as 1890.
What happened to playing in the streets all day until your mum called you in for tea? And shouts of ‘you’re either in or out’ and ‘shut the door behind you’? Ah, simpler times.
5. 1929
Boys trying to learning hay carting in Liverpool. | Getty Images Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
6. 1938
Pupils of Underlea Open Air School at Liverpool, wearing sunbonnets in the grounds. | Getty Images Photo: Fox Photos/Getty Images
7. 1949
Two young girls placing flowers in a small dockland garden on the banks of the River Mersey. | Getty Images Photo: Fox Photos/Getty Images
8. 1956
Boys scrambling beside blocks of housing in Liverpool. They are members of the Rodney Youth Centre, known as ‘The Street Corner With A Roof’. | Getty Images Photo: John Pratt/Keystone Features/Getty Images