Posted on 03/04/2016 10:06:31 AM PST by PROCON
If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s, then you know how relaxed everything used to be. Our parents never forced us to wear seatbelts, we pretty much at whatever we wanted, and were given way more responsibiity than we should have been given. It's a little sad kids today won't get to experience half the things we did, but looking back, there's a good reason why they won't.
Were these 12 things we did as kids kind of dangerous? Yeah, maybe some of it was.
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My sibling, cousins and I did just about all the terrible things on that list-we are all alive and well-so are our kids who were born in the late 60’s and after, and grew up the same way...
We grew up on the family ranch in BFE-3 houses, extended family including kids. We roamed all over 60+ acres all year in a little pack, the “alphas” being the ones 12 and older-they were responsible for the rest. We went off on our expeditions early in the AM, knew we had to be home before dark, watch out for snakes, scorpions and such and not to eat any plants unless we knew they were safe.
We were armed with air rifles and .22’s, usually carried matches or a lighter, lunches or snacks from home, and always had containers of water to drink. Sometimes we hunted small game and picked wild food to take home to eat. We rode bikes-no helmets-down steep, rocky hills just to see if we could avoid a crash, and we rode horses unsupervised-if the horse wasn’t in the mood for kids, we got thrown.
The only thing we did that would be allowed today was to eat healthy food-there was a garden, orchard and plenty of free ranged livestock and chickens-paleo diet before it was popular-none of us are overweight even now.
I’m sure the very thought of that kind of free ranging childhood gives today’s parents a case of the vapors...
In black and white I remember our first color tv it was a big deal!
***We’ve feminized this country.***
It began in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered and America went into an anti-gun anti-violence hysteria.
Looking back I did alot of stupid things in those years that I have nobody to blame but myself. I’m lucky to be alive today. I guess the good lord was looking over me.
My kid and I drilled in two .45 230 slugs for weight, I think he showed everyone possible that his car had two bullets in it!
Did the same in SW Texas-it was called “fun” and “learning responsibility” back then-now it called “dangerous”-something is just so wrong with that...
I remember playing "smear the queer" everyday at recess. Today you would get expelled for even saying it.
I remember my dad teaching all the kids in the neighborhood how to play “Halfball”. Best game for a gang of poor kids ever!
Our first color TV was about half the size of the black & white, and had about 6 knobs to adjust to get the color right. It was a pain. We kept the black & white and used to color for special shows.
Notice nobody has mentioned a television or video game yet?
Television was for rainy Saturday mornings. Classic Looney Tunes, Little Rascals and Three Stooges.
Best post yet...The last thing I wanted to do was sit in fron of a television ~ rain/shine or snow...
“It began in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered and America went into an anti-gun anti-violence hysteria.”
Probably so. The anti-Vietnam war movement was be huge, MLK was assassinated, the NRA pushed the 1968 Gun Control Act, Charlton Heston went on TV with other actors to denounce gun violence and demand the 1968 GCA be passed, so, yeah, I can see 1968 being the turning point of feminization.
A game and phrase carried out daily with no consequences because we trusted each other as kids. We counted on each other.
Now companies hire consultants to find and develop those traits in work forces.
“I remember playing “smear the queer” everyday at recess. Today you would get expelled for even saying it. “
LOL Yep! We used to pay that game at random. We were two white kids and two black kids, and the other white kid would yell,” A fight! A fight! A nigger and a white!” just to rile the other two. We were 10 years old and couldn’t care less about racism. We didn’t know what it was and were the best of friends. I hated when he yelled that as it meant I was at the bottom of the queer pile and getting smashed.
I remember doing that with 20GA shells.
Good times.
They love to watch shows like "Survivor," but the truth is that the average twenty year old would probably have a breakdown if they were half a mile out in the woods with NO PHONE and body that was all bruised and bloody from falling out of a tree. Forty years ago every eight year old boy in America had experienced it multiple times.
Good list except I don’t remember RUNNING AFTER DDT TRUCKS.
Indeed! - - those were tha' times.
lol
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