Swing
Excuse me, please, Tanya didn’t call? Yes, otherwise her phone is turned off. Give it to me. Put on protection. Found the time. Come on, come on, come on! We work by sector. Shakir, there was a woman crushed by a car. They sent one of their own. Who will I send? There the site is under fire. Take a sledgehammer to me, quickly! Can you get to her? - We'll cover you. - I'll try. Fire to the western flank, everyone! Help! Help! So what is it, Sledgehammer? Alive? Fine. Already enjoying himself. Lie quietly, understand? - Ready! - Eat! Makarov! Here you go. Listen, I called. Tanka didn't call you? No? Look, if you hear anything, call me, okay? Thank you. SWING Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello, it’s hard to hear, the connection here is bad! Hello! Tanya didn't call? I say, Tanya didn’t call? Yes! Tanya... Stand, stand, don’t move, hands up! Everything, everything. I went to watch cartoons. Please forgive me. For what? Don't know. But I can see in your eyes that you are angry. I've been calling all day. Wait, where's my mobile? Is my phone dead? What? - Were you worried? - I? I was just worried, and you were worried about me? - No. - Why? Because you are the strongest... And reliable. And I believe that nothing will ever happen to you. Mommy, give me a leg up! Let's! Look like dad. - What a swindler! Rogue! - Who is the crook? He bends his knee! Rogue! Get him down! Hooray! Mom, is this Wabuka? Let me send a plane, please. This is not Wabuka. Wipe the mirror. Dad, are we expecting guests? Why are we cleaning up? For what? To keep the house clean and free of dust. So that we can live here together and have fun. And they died on the same day. What are you doing? Nothing. I help clean up. What are you doing again, huh? You again? Again? Tanya? Tanya, is everything okay? Everything is fine, I'm watching TV. Everything you do makes no sense, do you hear? Because I'll leave anyway. I will go. Stubborn brat! Who are you to stop me? Am I a little girl for you to constantly teach? Give me my things! I'll wake up the whole house now! Psycho! I’m going to break down these doors... I’m going to break down these doors... You crazy fool! Maybe you'll let her go? I'll break down these doors, I'll break them down! She seems to have calmed down. I don't care what they say about me. And I don’t care what they say about you. Only I have to walk under bullets with you, but you don’t think about her. Forgive me, Sergey, but maybe you shouldn’t? What are you, a fool? - What costs normally? - Should I show you? Why can’t you raise your grandmother? I've already slacked off once, a second time, and then what? I don’t know, maybe he’ll understand? What will he understand? What she can’t do without me, she will die with this degenerate... She’s like a child. By God, do you know what her knees are like? Maybe you should get another woman, Makarov? I don't need another one! One, two... And three and four. Well done, everyone. Classes are over. Till tomorrow. —
Quotes about childhood
Children often get offended if their parents don’t play with them and their grandparents don’t pay attention. They require attention and play. Their psychology does not allow them to understand that parents need to do business, work, and care for them.
Childhood is a time that evokes two feelings in us: joy and sadness. We dream of returning to a time when there were fewer worries. Now our task is to make sure that our children are happy. This page presents a selection of the best quotes about childhood that we have collected from various sources.
Childhood is a wonderful time when children learn to manipulate each other.
We all come from childhood. Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
It is enough to fall back into childhood to begin to show hope again. Don Aminado.
You need to learn to love, learn to be kind, from childhood. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
Miracles happen only in childhood. Vladislav Grzegorczyk.
Childhood ends when other people's tears become more unbearable for you than your own. Philip Roth.
Age is too high a price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard.
Childhood is a disease, a disease that heals itself as it grows. William Gerald Golding.
Childhood ends as soon as you realize that you are going to die. "Crow".
Who else “sometimes” rewound audio cassettes with a simple pencil?
The sun on the swing and somersaults from the trees: 60 stories about a dangerous childhood
We asked our readers to tell us what they did as children that they wouldn’t allow their children to do now. The stories turned out to be very different: about how fun it is when you are a child, and about the dangers that today’s adults miraculously managed to avoid when they were teenagers.
“From the age of four I went to the swimming section, so throughout my childhood I swam in the river and lakes in the summer like crazy, ignoring all the safety rules. I was about ten years old when on a small lake they wouldn’t let me rent a catamaran to swim to the other side: girl, they say, you’re alone and so small, you can’t do it, you’ll suddenly drown. I moved away from them and swam without a catamaran. I swam there, rested, climbed through the bushes and back. I returned safely with the mood of “Take a bite!”, but now I would never want my daughter (who is also a good swimmer) to do such tricks.” (Anastasia T.)
“We played a game of “who can avoid cutting ourselves the longest”: we went to the trash heap, picked out pieces of glass and bottles, and threw them at the wall. Whoever doesn't cut himself the longest wins. In the end, everyone lost. The most relish we played during walks in kindergarten. The teachers saw, but they more or less didn’t care until we left the yard. Well, that is, I think so now, the task was to keep the children physically alive until the evening, and in what condition is not particularly important. The 1990s were a tough time." (Innocent T.)
“I’m 13, my sister is 9. Mom sends the two of us by train to grandma. He asks a random guy and a boy to look after us. There were four of us traveling in one compartment. Now this is impossible, even if it occurred to me to send my children of this age alone a thousand kilometers away.” (Svetlana B.)
“As a child, we loved to climb as high as possible on the dorm grate (at the ends of the five-story buildings there were such external fire escapes). One day I was walking alone and decided to climb as far as I could, like, I’m a climber. In the end, I don’t remember which floor I fell from, some guy brought me home in his arms, there was blood everywhere and my teeth were knocked out. I haven’t even gone to school yet.” (Tatiana G.)
“A classic of the genre - a pit of water and a crust of ice that cracks in a funny way. Then it didn’t seem like something scary, but now I understand that if one of us (the two of us were walking) fell through the ice, it would be deep there.” (Valeria G.)
“My mother left me at 3-4 years old on the floor with toys, water and a snack, for four hours before lunch and for four hours after. In winter, I turned on the light at lunch so that I wouldn’t be afraid; one day I forgot. She came running, and I was playing calmly, a lantern was shining a little from the street, and since it was getting dark slowly, I didn’t notice the darkness, my eyes got used to it. Well, that’s when mom stopped leaving the light on.” (Valeria V.)
“From the age of seven, I went almost everywhere I needed to go by myself: my mother died during the autumn holidays of my first grade. I came home from school, warmed up lunch myself, did homework myself... Now I look at my five-year-old son and understand that it was PPT. According to the doctors, I went to the clinic when I was 10 years old - as a result, it was a combo of sores, because no one really looked after my health.” (Natalia I.)
“The girls (11-13 years old) and I rode bicycles far beyond the village to the quarries, where there was no one, just us, and there we learned to swim. Of course, I learned to swim then, but I don’t know what would have happened if one of us had started to drown. And the icing on the cake in this story is that there was a favorite stopping place for truckers nearby. Well, you understand: teenage girls are all alone, and strangers. Thank God, everything worked out.” (Ksenia V.)
“We did somersaults from a tree, and my sister got a compression fracture of the spine. They spun the sun on a dead and rusty swing. They jumped from the window to the balcony. Sixth floor, we studied at the beginning.” (Natalia N.)
“I would not use my children as a worker-peasant force, my childhood and youth as a laborer “dig up, drag the bag with your weight, bring vegetables and lift it to the second floor” and other joys still cause shudder and disgust at the phrase “ It’s so nice at the dacha in the summer.” (Julia E.)
“At the age of 11, we rode a shift on heavy covert stud stallions into the forest without saddles and without an instructor. But sometimes with one mare. Now I understand how good-natured those stallions were.” (Margarita Ch.)
“We were about 14 years old, and in the summer we went to the local pond. It takes about 20 minutes to walk along the landing, but I’m still lazy. And so we slowed down the ride. Three 13 year old girls. Our domestic auto industry is not ice, foreign cars have slowed down. Once we stood for a long time, and the eight stopped. And when we got into the back seat and drove off, I realized that this car was a real trap, that if they didn’t let us out, we would be finished. We were released, everything is ok. But at that moment a switch just clicked in my brain.” (Ekaterina B.)
“They burned everything in the fires. I've had a scar on my arm from a melted piece of styrofoam ever since. We climbed into an abandoned factory, walked across a river along a narrow pipe, and I fell into the river. I don’t have children, but it’s scary to even imagine that they could do all this.” (Alexandra S.)
“We played with mercury from broken thermometers at home, played catch on the roof of the house, and played hide and seek in an active quarry (they mined iron ore). We made bombs from saltpeter, climbed the light towers at the stadium.” (Sabina S.)
“We played bandits, actually entered the territory of someone else’s dacha, stole some nonsense from there, like an old lampshade for a chandelier, just to symbolically show ourselves that yes, we are a gang.” (Natalia S.)
“When I was 11 years old, I traveled across the city to the suburbs to the equestrian sports section. Together with a friend, really, but sometimes on her own if she gets sick. I returned in winter in pitch darkness, the transfer was in an industrial area, where you have to quickly, quickly walk among factory unlit and empty buildings...” (Olga K.)
“We went swimming alone. They went further into the forest to get lost and survive. Luckily, it was a park, and we just left it in a different area.” (Svetlana Kh.)
“We looked for old batteries in landfills, took the lead out of them and melted it over a fire. So that, then, you can pour it into different molds and make all sorts of “medallions”, “crosses” and so on. It turned out badly, of course, but the process itself was fascinating. Adults said that lead fumes were harmful, but at eight years old such information is not very well received.” (Katya P.)
“Neither my husband nor my father-in-law can now imagine how he was sent out on a boat at the age of eight to fish on a deep lake with the same boy. We didn’t really know how to swim, no vests, of course.” (Olga K.)
“I went to explore an unfamiliar area of the city. Without warning anyone, of course.” (Natalia F.)
“We played in an abandoned long-term construction site. To climb onto the canopy, we carefully walked along the window sill from the outside at the level of the fourth floor, and then back. I don’t know how I did it, after the birth of my child I’m hellishly afraid of heights.” (Tatiana K.)
“My sister and I (ages 9 and 7) went to the steppe to look for the mysterious “white house”; there were various legends about it among the children. They found the house, but they themselves were lost, and they were looking for us with motorcycles in the dark.” (Olga T.)
“They stole carbide at a construction site, spat on it, threw it into a bottle (or a bottle of dichlorvos, I don’t remember exactly), sealed it with something and threw it into the fire. It exploded quite well." (Oksana T.)
“Once I wanted to spin the “sun” on a swing, but the swing was against it. One metal side burst, and I woke up under the swing, lying on my back on small stones. I still don’t understand why the site was sprinkled with them. She quietly got up and hobbled home.” (Nina R.)
“We ran through the military unit, the boys threw potatoes from the garages at the soldiers, we watched. They went to the hill where the onanist walked, and ran after him, and then away from him.” (Anastasia S.)
“I’ve been walking alone in the yard since I was three years old, and it was normal. I was left alone at home since about four or five. If I try to do this to my daughter now, I will be sent to prison. Without exaggeration. Well, it’s okay to leave her at home, but I wouldn’t let her out alone myself. She is six years old." (Ksenia V.)
“They put a wallet on a string on the road and had fun when people tried to catch this wallet. They put on bloody makeup, lay down in the quarry, pretending to be dead, and one of them ran after the parents: “Aunt name, your daughter fell into the quarry!” They're just juvenile idiots." (Sasha P.)
“I’ve been buying and drinking alcohol since I was 12, quite a lot.” (Irina Y.)
“In summer exile, my grandmother and my cousin went into the forest in the village; we were 9-10 years old: we looked for blueberries and raspberries, lit fires. Once in this raspberry we met a bear. Luckily, he ignored us as we ran away. There was also a case when my brother brought some bags stolen from somewhere, we wrapped them around a stick and stuck them in the fire, the melted cellophane dripped beautifully. And then my brother managed to stumble and fall, and this bag immediately stuck to him, leaving such serious burns on his thigh.” (Vitoria V.)
“As a young teenager, I was given the task of picking up some kind of “humanitarian aid” coupons, a certain food package. There were a lot of kilograms there. The adults knew this. I took completely heavy bags with my younger brother. And I literally dragged myself through the neighborhood in two-step increments to catch my breath - my heart jumped out from such a heaviness, and my arms were painfully cut by the straps.” (Zoe A.)
“We walked on the ice across the river, on skis and so on (there is a bridge nearby), we fell through a couple of times: once the ice cracked near the shore, once we fell into a ravine in the middle of the river with one foot, the ice held on, but it was scary. We climbed in a granite quarry without a safety net, several times I almost fell - once from 8-10 meters, once from two meters, but into the water.” (Olga M.)
“I climbed the tallest oak tree in the yard, the height of a five-story building, for a bet. And she screamed and called her friend to go for a walk. The windows looked right at the top of the oak tree.” (Maria T.)
“We blew up the asphalt. You had to dig a hole in it, pour sulfur from matches into it (a lot, otherwise it’s not interesting), put a dowel on top of it, and hit it.” (Svetlana Sh.)
“They strangled themselves to get high, chewed tar, went for a walk early in the morning and returned late in the evening, played with the sun on a swing...” (Anastasia M.)
“There was a case with my sister when she and her friends, at the age of 16, got drunk on body alcohol from plastic bottles, of which there were plenty in the stalls, and almost threw off their skates, they pumped them out in a narcology clinic. True, we all didn’t drink less after that. But we started thinking that we were drinking.” (Natalia S.)
“They threw empty aerosol cans into the fire to make it boom, put construction cartridges on the rails (for the life of me, I don’t remember where I got them from), ran and jumped on blocks at a construction site, hung out on the roofs, swam on a raft made of “shit and sticks” at a local swamp pond, they burned some kind of plastic, which melted and dripped with a whistle.” (Vera S.)
“They ate everything that grew under our feet. We cooked soup over a fire using all sorts of herbs and wilted carrots from the garden. I’m still surprised how we didn’t eat some mushrooms and wolf berries.” (Elena U.)
“During the first summer holidays, I was sent to a medical camp for a month and a half. With strangers accompanying us, on a plane, from the Urals to Evpatoria. Without the opportunity to check how the child is doing, whether he is being bullied or bored. In the evenings, we, the youngest little ones, cried throughout the ward, missing home and our mothers. And they beat us for it.” (Zoe A.)
“They stole from the private sector and ate green everything that could be grown in the summer - apples, cherries, apricots, cherries. They chewed plastic - a semi-liquid industrial composition for filling the seams between the panels of houses. They picked up the unused remains from the ground and chewed them. In general, it was in my mouth what was possible and what was not.” (Irina V.)
“I talked on ICQ and with a friend on chatroulette with anonymous people. Fate saved us, but this is clearly not the best way to spend time.” (Polina K.)
“We walked in the taiga at any time of the year, except summer. We got very lost several times and the dog saved us.” (Ksenia L.)
“I swam in an ice hole, walked on ice, left my visiting aunt at two in the morning at the age of 10, and got home at five. At the age of 13-14, we caught rides and got into any car. In the pioneer camp we went into the forest at night.” (Lyudmila R.)
“We dived into the fountain near the “Battle of Stalingrad” panorama for tourist dimes, one child somehow terribly broke his forehead, running into some kind of piece of iron, and we took him home because blood was pouring into his eyes.” (Olga K.)
“Most of the time we were left to our own devices, and our parents would have no idea where we were or what we were doing. How they survived can sometimes only be explained by a miracle. I remember a childhood friend (in elementary school) who found a barrel with the remains of resin at a construction site and decided to set it on fire. So he threw a lit match into the barrel, but it didn’t burn. Well, he looked into the barrel to see what was there, to see if the match had gone out... And it burst into flames in his face! Okay, I managed to close my eyes. But the eyebrows, eyelashes and hair on the head are as they were.” (Olga Sh.)
“I read everything I could get my hands on, and none of the adults even tried to control what I read there. For example, I definitely wouldn’t allow my child to read de Sade.” (Olga I.)
“We built a raft from what we found on the shore and rode around the pit. It was impossible to swim in the streams - the current was very fast, the depth was up to the butt. We clung to the stones with our hands and “rinsed ourselves.” We knew that people were sometimes carried away by the current and were not always found, but we thought that this would never happen to us. They blew up everything in the fires, starting with slate. They carried cartridges from the hunters and also into the fire. During geological exploration, in the adit, they stole a bottle of vitamins with mercury - they played with it on the palace - they collected cool balls.” (Marina M.)
“Boys in the sixth grade would lie down under parked heavy trucks that were pulling away from stores: this is how they trained to lie down under trains. (They only talked about this, I only saw the cars myself.) All the boys were trailer drivers, otherwise you wouldn’t be a “boy.” (Marina M.)
“We were skating on a frozen pond, which did not freeze completely, there were ice holes. Once I fell waist deep and barely got out.” (Olga K.)
“I once fell 3-4 meters into a concrete basement. These were just the conditions of the game: get around him on the edge. I was six, and I decided to get off while sitting, but fell straight into it. It was lucky that the change was light. She escaped with a concussion. My son is now six, I can’t imagine him going somewhere without me.” (Nina R.)
“Six years: I went every other day to the dairy kitchen, more than a dozen blocks through fairly busy streets, the center. I washed diapers and ironed them (how did I lift that Soviet iron?). I sat with the children for hours. At 10-15 years old she could carry a bucket of fruit in each hand for kilometers. Hello, problems in gynecology! (Elena B.)
“I shot an arrow at an apple on my head, stood in line with an apple on my head.” (Helena DR)
“As a child, I happily tinkered with yard dogs, half of which had lichen, just hairless spots all over their bodies. I’m surprised how it passed and didn’t catch it myself. Now, of course, I wouldn’t allow a child under any circumstances.” (Elena U.)
“In the summer of 7, in the village, we ran in a flock to the pond to swim (without adults, of course), to the old cemetery, drowned in dirty puddles, watched strange people, called witches, climbed trees... And no, this was not that ideal childhood.” but here we are as children.” During the short summer time that I spent in the village, in the small flocks of surrounding children, one drowned, one disappeared, and some kid died - I don’t know why. I was lost in the forest, a half-drunk man took me away on a motorcycle, and in general I think that everyone who survived was lucky.” (Martha I.)
“We climbed into an abandoned factory through broken windows. You climb right into a hole in the glass, and fragments of this glass hang over you and can fall at any moment. There they rode on trolleys and stole cement. And from the age of eight we went to the mountains ourselves. Or we were at a friend’s dacha and went to the pond to swim ourselves. Several times we were accosted by grown men. Once at the dacha, one lured us to his puppy. But we escaped from him safely.” (Svetlana D.)
“When I was 13 years old, my parents transported cattle to their dacha and practically moved there themselves. And I stayed with my little sister in a large private house with a garden of 12 acres. One. I cultivated the garden, spent the night in a house where the only lock was a frail hook on the door. Then my parents started making repairs and called in two drunk construction workers, and, naturally, they appointed me to command them. By lunchtime, two men were already crooked and askew, but I was afraid to pass by them, and I didn’t let my sister go. I slept with a knife under my pillow.” (Inna V.)
“I spent the summer on the river, there was zero supervision - check-in/out only for breakfast, lunch, dinner. The river is small, but stormy, very cold and with steep banks. Accordingly, you need to think about where you enter and where you can get out. Swimmers from children 10-11 are not great, they almost drowned many times. Once my younger brother was saved by fishermen because he was drowning me and I couldn’t get him out. Well, it’s good that there was actually someone on the shore. But that didn’t stop me from continuing.” (Anna P.)
“Once I, seven years old, was left alone with my sister, who was not a year old. For a long time. My sister was crying, I guessed that she was hungry, and cooked semolina porridge for her in my toy aluminum bowl. On a real gas stove. She lit the stove herself with a match, boiled the milk, and, however, poured a lot of semolina - she had to cut the porridge with a knife. But my sister ate it." (Svetlana Ya.)
