Posted on 08/15/2014 9:54:14 AM PDT by Drew68
I'm trying to raise my two boys with many of the same freedoms I got to experience, only I just don't want to get arrested and have my kids hauled away by child services.
Trying not to be too much of a helicopter parent either. Back when I was a kid, "helicopter parent" meant your dad flew choppers in 'Nam.
Where are the children in that picture?
I remember as a little boy riding with my dad in his pickup. I would stand on the bench seat beside him. Crazy times.......
You forgot school lunches ... kids were allowed to eat pizza at school - and buy cokes from a machine...
The big difference between now and then was there were many more children, especially among the people who have the ability or desire to create opinions. Thats my, perhaps brutal, take on it.
Not all the eggs were in one basket so to speak.
Now the cultural influencers, if they have children, have one, generally, or two at most. There are no “spares”.
All I see are great legs in some short shorts.
Back in mah Day, you weren't a real man until you had walked to school in the snow so many times you could feel in the cold in Summer!"
I hear nothing but crap about us Millennials, but the same was said about every generation before.
Don't recall coke machines until I entered high school. I do remember pizza though! And cartons of milk, milk so warm it was nearly curdled by the time I slurped it down.
We had a smoking tree at our school.
damn df, that’s some top notch laughs
Now to survive it’s dodge the Knockout game!
“Born in 1968 here. I should be dead. Any other examples?”
You were born the year I had my fifth.
The high diving board at the local pool is now gone. It was a rite of passage for my kids.
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In the early ‘60’s, we played “Army” and put gravel in aluminum foil, packed it around a “cherry bomb” and threw at the “enemy”...
When they hollered, we said, “You’re dead!!!! We gotcha!!!”
It was really fun....
Bill Cosby - Playground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqv38fP7cr0
“The monkey bars came in....we lost 124 kids in one day.”
This week our Trail Life USA Troop was in the Smoky Mountains for a weeklong summer campout. On Wednesday, we went tubing down a rain swollen river. Most of the boys came out with some battle scars from the rocks. One guy, not with our group did get cut up enough to need some stitches.
When we got home to Maryland last night, they were still comparing cuts and scrapes and laughing.
They all carry knives too. Some really big tactical or hunting knives.
Like packing black powder from firecrackers into empty C02 cartridges to use for blowing up beehives etc. in a nearby orchard?
Get hurt?, heck yeah, all the time. That's why they had bactine.
when we wanted to put out campfires in our back yard, we’d put a can of Hawaiian Punch or Campbells Soup in the fire.
Blip Blip Blip Blip KABOOOOOOOM.
The can would blow up in the sky about 100 ft and the fire would be completely exterminated.
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