[skyberrys]

This was a very compelling read. Everyone feels the lure of climbing to the tree house, yet where did it come from? What motivated our desires for the tree houses? Now we have some answers, they are surprising to me. I guess for myself I did get the idea from reading children's books, The Swiss Family Robinson anyone?

[Aeolun]

I don’t think I’ve ever read anything about tree houses, but you don’t have to tell a 7 year old that a tree house would be cool. They’ll already be climbing the trees anyway, bringing up a convenient plank to sit on, then turning it into a pallet you can sit on together, then to cover it with a roof, and when you find our the rain still blows in sideways with walls, that’s childhood to me.

I spent years on that treehouse and then it burned down :(

[noir_lord]

I remember when I was ~8 asking my grandfather if I could build a tree house and he just pointed at his scrap lumber pile and told me to put the tools back clean when I was done.

My grandfather had an amazingly hands off (by modern standards) style of parenting and amazingly I have all my fingers (I did fall out the tree house twice).

It was a killer tree house at the end of the summer, it is absolutely one of my favourite memories.