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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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
All of the above except mercurochrome
No hydrants. We were lucky to live near tge beach
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.
I do too.
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
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.
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".
"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."
I have the same photo of me same age. Schaefer
Schaefer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one.
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.
“ 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.
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.
These were the days when toddlers didn’t know more about sex than their doctors did.
We used to play cowboys and Indians with bebe guns. Everyone survived with their full eyesight.
The black boy friend at dinner would have said we will steal a new bike for you in the morning
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.
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