Children are exceptionally good at transmitting their traditions throughout history. We played this exactly the same, and in this exact order of movements, in 1984:
Are your children playing the same games you did?
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I don’t know that one, but I do remember playing Ring around a Rosey as a kid, which I recently found out was from Europe during either the bubonic plague or the black death, can’t remember which.
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We had some version of that, with the elastic loop. But clap games and jump rope chants were more popular.
We all knew Rockin Robin:
And Mary Mack:
I think kids do not do them much anymore, but some, and they have not changed really.
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