Posted on 09/06/2023 9:11:54 AM PDT by jcon40
“”””Very few would seriously want to go back. And many were traumatized or they would be raising their kids the same way.”””’
Your take is way, way off, and ignores generations of legal and demographic changes, for example, law, politics, and government creating woman-raised children in a feminized culture and society and institutions.
Bactene for scrapes.
I remember lots of deaths among late 1960s teens, a couple of dozen that I knew.
My school lost one killed when hit by car while riding bike during summer break .
In the days before permanent press fabric and when ironing boards could be lowered almost to the floor!!!
“””Even though I am old enough to know better; I just went up AND down a flight of stairs holding a pair of scissors to cut a couple of mulato isleno peppers off a plant for a fresh batch of salsa.”””
Good point, in the 50s we knew that hot peppers were dangerous.
Mercurochrome! One of my friends had that stuff. We used iodine.
Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
= = =
Throwing rocks at signs, from that moving PU truck bed was dicey.
LOL - good catch. I really do need to reread my stuff twice before hitting post...
LOL - good catch. I really do need to reread my stuff twice before hitting post...
‘bridge’ not bride...
“Far mor kids die to ...”
Do you favor or oppose:
Seat belts
Baby seats
Kids riding in the back of trucks
Pregnant women smoking and drinking?
Yes! I also remember using an Alka Seltzer when we ran out.
That’s none of your business.
Can’t be out playing all day while Chinese and Indian kids are learning math.
“I remember lots of deaths among late 1960s teens, a couple of dozen that I knew.”
I don’t beleive you for a second. I am a product of the 60’s, and kids simply were not dying at such a rate outside of 18-19 year olds in Vietnam, and even then not so much that someone knew “dozens” dead.
“Monkey bars on concrete! Fun stuff.”
Even us preteens in the 50’s were not that stupid!
Or maybe we couldn’t afford concrete.
Bactine??? Damn my mom used Iodine.
In my grade school clas through high school lost one kid. Was sledding down hill, went onto turnpike and hit by truck. Lost about 1/2 dozen within 5 years of graduation to cancer, drugs and car accidents.
Survival of the fittest.
We had tons of deaths in my age group, the normal cancers, other medical, cars, and motorcycles, I killed one in football practice, and we had suicides, murders, drug overdoses, and shot doing a crime.
There were spurts where it was just plain nasty, especially the suicides.
You must have lived a sheltered life or gone to a small school or something if you don’t remember the deaths of the late 60s.
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