Poll to follow, but just wondering what sort of kid’s stuff you never learned or did?
Growing up in San Diego, makes sense I never learned to ice skate. Bike riding is another story, something I still haven’t learned to do and even wrote a blog post about it.
Never went camping (outdoors, in a tent, etc.) as a kid but have done it a lot as an adult.
We lived on the main street of our small town, and my Dad was concerned there was just too much traffic for me to have a bike.
Should have clicked other. Never learned to dance to my satisfaction. Looks like fun if you’re good at it. Not interested in learning in front of a crowd so I’m very subdued when dancing in public.
Never learned ice skating or board skating. I had a skateboard, but I couldn’t go more than a couple feet on it.
I was and am a physical coward. I never learned to do anything that involves balancing–bike, roller skates, ice skates.
I came in here thinking it was going to be a happy nostalgia thread.
Me too.
I went ice skating once (at an indoor rink in Orlando), and I guess I could have tried harder to ride my brother’s skateboard, but I didn’t.
Everything but skateboarding. Skateboards weren’t popular in the late 60s through the 70s though, were they?
Seems to me I tried a few times, but couldn’t balance long enough.
Never rollerskated, and inline skates weren’t a thing when I was a kid.
I tried learning how to skateboard as an adult. On my second outing I broke my arm in 2 places.
I grew up in Minnesota but never learned to ice skate. I learned to roller skate because we could rent skates at the rink, but nobody rented out ice skates.
ETA: We did have skateboards in the late '60s/early '70s, but they were just actual boards with skate wheels on them, useful mostly for falling off of.
I grew up in a part of town with no sidewalks (asphalt to the gutters), so roller skates and skateboards were not common. We had a long driveway, but it was gravel until I was in my later teens. The first time I was on roller skates was in a rink with my young daughters, and I took two steps and did a flying land on the small of my back. Developed dark-blue bruising across my rear belt line and numbness around my hips (and other, uh, sensitive areas) for several days. It all went away in a few days, but scared the bejeezus out of me. So I just watch now.
Nearest ice rink was 10+ miles away in a bad part of town, so the first time I wore skates was in my 30s, some time after the roller skate incident (I did badly at that, too, but mostly because my ankles wouldn’t hold out.)
I had a pair of those kiddie extendable roller skates that fastened to your shoes- so I thought I could skate. Then I borrowed a pair of skates from a friend when I was about 10, and they actually rolled, mine sort of scraped along the floor. I couldn’t even stand up on ‘real’ skates 
Ridiculous claim! I was born and raised in San Diego, and I learned to ice skate on the rink at UTC, which has been there forever.* Granted, I’ve never been ice-skating outdoors.
*For some values of forever, including “as far back as the mid-70s” and “as far back as Dr. Drake can remember.”
I bought myself one of those tot-sized skateboards at a garage sale (Barbie!) and tried my darndest to learn how to ride it, up and down the driveway. I never ever got the hang of it. I wonder if it was just too small for me? (I was a huge kid)
I have BEEN ice skating several times but I never quite learned how to do it with the same skill as roller skating. But that’s not what the poll asked 
aw. I think we could get you up and running on a bike if you really wanted. biking is not as much of a balancing thing as skates are by a long shot. It’s the gyroscopic affect of the wheels and not your skill keeping you upright.
when I was a kid in the 60’s skates were those hideous metalic things you strapped to your shoes. They were metal on cement harsh. You could get up a huge head of steam and it was all lost the second you coasted. My skateboard was a dismantled skate attached to a board. It was even less fun than skates. It’s odd that I remember the board came from an old crib. The edge wasn’t even straight. Had some design scrolled into it.
Skateboards weren’t around much when I was a kid. Also, I could never get e hang of a cartwheel no matter how much I tried. I ever camped outdoors, but I never wanted to, either.
I did all of those things, some of pretty well and others not so well.
Although I was taught how to do baseball and basketball in high school, I both sucked at them and hated them.
The nearest thing to “not learning” was ice skating. I have pretty good balance, and I could technically skate, but I was slow and wobbly. I should have practiced more, but I got tired of falling flat on my tits on the cold hard ice.
Wow, I thought I had a pretty sheltered childhood (my mom was very overprotective), but I, as a bookish, nerdy only child, actually did everything in the poll as a child. Only exception was ice skating, which I didn’t learn until I was older (we didn’t have a rink anywhere close to my house). I even had a skateboard, which in retrospect I kinda wonder how I managed to get Mom to let me near!
Camping was only once (Y camp one summer for two weeks). I was never any good at swimming and hated it, partly I think because Mom signed me up for lessons too young (I think I was three) and I was terrified of the water. I liked splashing around in the pool, but anything where I had to put my face in the water while moving was a no-no.
I sucked at organized sports, but I did play them, at least in PE and recess. Never joined any leagues, though.
I surprised myself by checking just one (camping). I guess I did more cool stuff than I’d imagined.
And as it turned out, I didn’t miss a damn thing by not going camping. I’ve done it twice as an adult and hated it.
(personal opinion, of course)
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