Posted on 04/18/2015 5:32:00 PM PDT by Daffynition
Mommyshorts.com asked their readers to submit childhood throwback pictures from the 70's and 80's. Judging by these pictures, it's a miracle the generation survived. Here are 20 things parents did back then that would be considered completely questionable today:
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I was allowed to play outside. Even down the street at a neighbor’s house.
I miss my childhood.
America was a better place back when just about everyone smoked.
My parental units never installed a computer in my bedroom much less gave me an Internet connection. Deprived I am. Reperations I demand....
My parents were pretty easy going but they did make us do a lot of things instead of letting us choose.
We had to go to church Sunday Morning and Sunday Night. For a long time we also had to go on Wednesday. They gave each of us a tiny amount of money and we had to give it in the offering. I was the youngest and I think they only gave me a dime but this was in the 50s.
I once stole a small bottle of ink. I have no idea why. They embarrassed me by making me return it to the store and apologize.
A lot of things like that.
Paladin reruns on Youtube rock.
Country boy here: baseball, lawn mowing, swimming in the creek, riding in the bed of the pickup standing up, coming in just before the sun went down...everyone in our country town looked out for one another...good times (50s).
My granddad told me when he was eight living in Queens, NYC would go visit people in NYC using the subway. Eight. Alone. No problems.
Taking photos of you and a sibling in the bathtub.....Today that gets arrested.
What a bunch of wimps that exist today. Wish I was born back then.
Don’t know what church you belonged to, but I don’t know of too many where you went three times a week. It was the Salvation Army for me. Sunday morning and evening, band practice Tuesday nights, and Corps Cadets Wednesday evenings. It wasn’t until later in life I learned that some people only went to church once a week !
My mother used to have to send a kid to find us when it was suppertime, and this was in Newark.
Being dropped off at Disneyland w a friend at age 13.
My mom, who passed away in 2012, still watched Lawrence Welk every week.
We were Free Range kids. Don’t go out in the road we were told. Other than that there were no fences.
It was a small Southern Baptist church out in the country. It was probably over a hundred years old when we lived there. Daddy actually helped build the building which is there now.
He returned from WWII and was a combat engineer. He did carpentry work, was a brick mason too. He was farming at the time.
Sunday morning Sunday School and preaching. Sunday night preaching and training union. Wednesday was prayer meeting and they also did sword drills which was calling out a book, chapter and verse. The first to stand and read the correct passage got a tally mark. Once a month the person with the most would get a free Bible.
Our preacher BTW was retired from being president of a seminary and had a PHD from Yale.
I’ve been watching the Untouchables for the seasons I don’t have.
Paladin was good stuff too.
For a while there was 1st season of Matt Houston with the obsession of sinking vehicles in pools a lot.
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