Excellent post! Saving it... :)
My mom went back to school to be an R.N when I was 4, then she divorced my dad when I was 11. Definitely less supervision!
And yes we didn’t take offense to jokes or pranks. It was just called life. If we complained, you were viewed as a “baby” or the P word. New music in the late 70s and early 80s was new wave and punk and music to a degree paints the generation better than other indicators.
Great post. :-) I agree with you about the music. We were young in a time like no other. I’m glad we got to live it.