[Fiji Hill]

I walked to school by myself when I was 6 (in 1957) I was outside all the time no matter the weather.
People forget how we lived before we turned into pussies

We were born about the same time. I walked to kindergarten when I was five, and so did all of my classmates.

[jmacusa]

I was five years old in 1961. The Catholic elementary school I attended was two blocks from my house.

My mother walked me to school the first two days and after that I was on my own.

I ran around outside in all four seasons and had to be in when the streetlights came on.

I rode a bicycle without a helmet, played in the mud, climbed trees, played with fireworks and cap pistols and generally didn’t give a hoot about much else.

Wasn’t any the worse for it.

Today’s kids haven’t a clue about how care free childhood once was.