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27 Things '60s Kids Did That Would Horrify Us Now
Country living ^ | 10/30/2017 | Laurie Sue Brockway

Posted on 09/10/2023 7:35:22 PM PDT by DallasBiff

It's pretty much a miracle that any of us survived childhood in the 1960s! Parents exposed kids to secondhand smoke and let them run wild in the streets. Sugar was in everything and hazards lurked everywhere. Given today's hands-on style of parenting, it's hard to believe some of the things that were "normal" for kids in the '60s.

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KEYWORDS: 60s; childhood; countryliving
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My favorite one is #9 chewing surgary bubble gun, well at least back then, one did not have to worry, that the gum was laced with fentynal.
1 posted on 09/10/2023 7:35:22 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
70s too!


2 posted on 09/10/2023 7:37:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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lol- i set up a crappy jump and took my bike over it and wiped out bad on a gravel driveway- face was all skun up, hands, legs- went to school and kids asked what happened to me and i told em that i got attacked collecting eggs from the chicken coop- lol


3 posted on 09/10/2023 7:39:21 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DallasBiff

All of the above except mercurochrome

No hydrants. We were lucky to live near tge beach


4 posted on 09/10/2023 7:39:58 PM PDT by stanne
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To: DallasBiff

I would like to see statistics on how many kids of various ages died in, let’s say, 1964 compared with 2023 or 2014 or what not.

Have the death rates changed? And if they have, is it almost entirely because of car safety issues? I feel that we have made a million changes to make people safer without really making anyone safer. Except, I suppose, seatbelts and similar items.

I feel that we have sacrificed freedom in a million ways all in return for a negligible improvement in security.


5 posted on 09/10/2023 7:42:17 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: DallasBiff

I do too.

6 posted on 09/10/2023 7:45:16 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DallasBiff
80s baby. Although judging by the brand, might explain the LGBTQXYZ trend:


7 posted on 09/10/2023 7:49:29 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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death rates include the pre-born? I was a late 50’s early sixties kid.

Consider this also. The average lifespan of the colonials included the deaths of children under 5 and many little ones died young. If they took out the kids I bet the life span would not be 45.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/longevity-throughout-history-2224054


8 posted on 09/10/2023 7:56:12 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: DallasBiff

Once school was out we disappeared into the woods and nobody knew where we were or what we were doing until dinnertime. At 13 I rode my bicycle about 6 miles to the hobby shop to buy fuel (alcohol/castor oil/nitromethane) for my Cox Baby Bee. Mother wouldn’t allow me to go shooting by myself or I’d have done that, too. As it was we made our own bazooka rockets until a neighbor kid blew his hand apart with one.


9 posted on 09/10/2023 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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I would like to see statistics on how many kids of various ages died in, let’s say, 1964 compared with 2023 or 2014 or what not

This sounds stupid today, but having a broken arm or leg was a rite of passage back then, I still think I have my cast somewhere, which everybody signed, when I broke my arm jumping off a wall as a dare.

My mother said, "Well you learned your lesson".

10 posted on 09/10/2023 7:58:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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I wiped out on gravel on my bike, front wheel was bent so I had to limp home walking the bike. Left a trail of blood to the bathroom. Mom came in while I was picking gravel out of my legs. She looked at me and said, "remember to clean up the mess."

"Yes ma'am."

Over dinner Dad looked at me and the bandages. "I see you learned something today."

"Yes sir."

"What did you learn?"

"Don't pull sharp turns on gravel with that bike."

"And?"

"Hydrogen peroxide takes the blood out of carpets."

"Good. We'll pound out the wheel tomorrow."

11 posted on 09/10/2023 7:59:08 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I have the same photo of me same age. Schaefer

Schaefer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one.


12 posted on 09/10/2023 8:00:07 PM PDT by stanne
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Younger folks today just gape at me when I explain that I walked to school every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, from kindergarten on, until driving age, when I rode with a friend sometimes. Jr. high was just a block, but elementary and high school were over a mile, all on roads with no sidewalks. We had a whole group of us that walked together, and everywhere we went there were watchful eyes in the windows.

Never got on a school bus until I went to a field trip on one with my daughter.


13 posted on 09/10/2023 8:02:08 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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“ As it was we made our own bazooka rockets until a neighbor kid blew his hand apart with one.”

People here shouldn’t kid themselves. We got hurt. And killed

No one got abducted.

That’s the problem now.

It’s worse than any of those injuries combined. It’s unthinkable.


14 posted on 09/10/2023 8:02:43 PM PDT by stanne
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Our moms told us, “Go outside and I don’t want to see you in here until suppertime.”


15 posted on 09/10/2023 8:03:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Our moms told us, “Go outside and I don’t want to see you in here until suppertime.”

Yep. We went miles away from home on our bikes and nobody missed us unless we weren't home for supper. And we not only survived, we thrived.

16 posted on 09/10/2023 8:07:22 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: DallasBiff

These were the days when toddlers didn’t know more about sex than their doctors did.


17 posted on 09/10/2023 8:07:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
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To: DallasBiff

We used to play cowboys and Indians with bebe guns. Everyone survived with their full eyesight.


18 posted on 09/10/2023 8:08:10 PM PDT by NorseWood
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The black boy friend at dinner would have said we will steal a new bike for you in the morning


19 posted on 09/10/2023 8:08:16 PM PDT by al baby (I know its the way the measure the cooling capability )
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To: DallasBiff

Today’s kids die from taking selfies at a cliff edge.
They die from boredom(suicide) and drugs.
They also develop few useful skills unless you consider texting a useful skill.


20 posted on 09/10/2023 8:09:14 PM PDT by Revel
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