As a kid we got Pong for Christmas one year. Remember Pong...
Hours of fun for those snowed-in Saturdays.
Dammit....where did I put the scissors??!! LMAO
That's great. I grew up in the '80's in the country, but we were poor so that pretty much summed up my life.
I was talking to my dad the other day about how much things have changed. When we were little, we wouldn't hear from some of the family for weeks. Now, if we call, and no one answers the cell phone we want to know what's wrong.
No car seats either. I remember riding the flip-down arm rest in the front seat while it was flipped down. Also, my mom has a picture of us in the car getting ready to go someplace and I am wrapped in a blanket while she held me.
Been there done that and have the scares to prove it.
These are the people who are directly responsible for creating the Nanny State we live in today.
Sometime ago, I was watching Stand By Me.. It is sad that kids can't be kids nowadays.. It is funny that the saftey freaks grew up in the same era and somehow survied yet want to tell us in how to raise our kids. I think they had a misrable childhood..
Practiced all winter in all kinds of weather so you could make the team the next year. And you usually rode the lumber most of that year.
God, how did we ever survive that trauma!
As a kid we got Pong for Christmas one year. Remember Pong...
Hours of fun for those snowed-in Saturdays.
....would like to add one other FACT to this:....we have paid more into the Social Security system than we will ever get back......
Oh! and the big thing was to Jump off the garage and take your Sting Ray Bike and go down the Steepest hill without holding the handlebars!
Sundays were family day all the women with Big Hair smoking Cigarettes cooking men sitting around watching sports, everyone talking Kids galore in the frony yard playing!
Man those were the days!~
I hitchiked in the 1970's. Got into cabs of truckers. At age 16, 17. Female from NY. went from Manhattan to Vermont and Massachussets and back. Glad the one guy I made out with wasn't a rapist.
NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER would I do that now. I wouldn't even let my kids ride their bikes out of my sight now. Just look at the proliferation of pedophiles, perverts and loonies just waiting to pray on unsupervised kids in parks, country roads, behind laundromats...
We may not have had all this computer stuff but we did have TV and we watched a lot of it. Just as dulling to the brain as an XBox or Playstation.
AND as for eating crap growing up, many of us are FAT because of it and many of us had ROTTEN TEETH needing to be pulled at early ages from eating a diet of candy, Twinkies, Twizzles sticks and sour acid candies.
And as for riding in cars without car seats, exactly why do you think it is now a law? Because some of your fellow kids growing up in those days were mangled and died when their little bodies were propelled, unrestrained, in a sudden stop.
As for lead paint, I for one am glad they finally figured out it causes brain damage to kids with high levels of it. Thousands of children's learning problems have been traced to high lead levels.
My mother smoked with me and as a result I was low birth weight and am an adult barely 5 feet 2 inches.
Just remeber that many kids who did not survive the 30's-70's and many who are not healthy now because of poor diets and health choices during those years. Not all modernities are worse than the past.
Kick the can
Ding-dong-ditch-it (ring someone's doorbell and take off running)
Hide and seek
Kick ball
hahah that was brilliant!
we weren't just to play outside we were told to play outside!
everyone smoked and the only non smokers were the "little ones"
hahaha that was the good life! what the hell happended anyway?
Anyone else remember playing "Smear the Queer"? Now you'd be thrown into sensitivity training for even suggesting it. Sigh...
And we got sunburns ;~D
I think they make the parents stupider these days.
or the kids... or both...
When I was about 4 years old, I acquired a little hand saw. I sawed wood, lots of it. There was a wooden table in the family room, and all around the edge of it were saw cuts, about an inch or two deep.
I got my first pocketknife when I was eleven. I carried it to school. I still carry a pocketknife--two, on some days.
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I remember playing "Smear the Queer" in elementary school, if kids played that today they would at least be expelled and probably prosecuted for hate crimes.