How did us 60's / 70's kids survive!!

jesilva80

add 80's babies.. lol

I was born in 80, so most of this was still going on, i think changes started around late 80's. What a different world it is now... :sad:

jujubean1992

i didn't have lead paint on my crib & i did have seat belts. but we didn't have a computer or a cell phone, we played out side until my mom yelled dinner out the door and we came running. sticks were our BB guns. i my childhood of playing out side and yelling for the neighbors.

EDIT: i was born in the 90's!

avalonms

See - "How to Land Your Kid in Therapy: Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports" (URL: http://tinyurl.com/3cvsxtn)

TheGoktor

I seriously think that we are the last survivors of hard work & preserverence! It kinda makes me crazy when I hear people say they want to give their kids a better life then what they had. Hello? What was so wrong with what we had? (Ok, ok... I know there are some exceptions, but really....) We were taught to respect other people, work hard & NOT have our hand out waiting for a freebie! I did ALL those things listed above & I'm proud to say I survived!

And we knew that no meant no, and didn't dare have a tantrum about not getting our own way (especially in public)! Also, I bet our mums didn't wash everything down with anti-bac either!

jeanneannupperman

Boy how true Think we actually turned out pretty good

Solly123

And we knew that no meant no, and didn't dare have a tantrum about not getting our own way (especially in public)! Also, I bet our mums didn't wash everything down with anti-bac either!

This anti-bacterial cleaning I think is a major problem.. How on earth are kids meant to get an immune system when they never meet a germ in their home? No wonder when they start creche or school they catch every bug going.
Too many people are getting too uptight about their children. I don't mean they should neglect them but they need to be sensible. Clean dirt does no harm!! If it did - I should be dead long ago - and so should my son!!

I'm so lucky that I am very very rarely sick. I've never had a flu, only get a cold once every couple of years.. And I put it all down to my "free-range" upbringing. Plenty of fruit and veg, meat 2 or 3 times a week and gallons of milk (now tea!!). I remember as a child, on holidays with my aunt on her farm. We would bring up the cow, milk her and drink the milk, warm, straight from the bucket. It was the most delicious milk ever.. So creamy.. Mmmmm. Never did us a bit of harm... If I tell people that now, they are shocked that my aunt allowed us to drink unpasturised milk!! Why ???? We owned the cow, knew what she ate - so whats the problem!!

The world has really gone a tad nuts, me thinks....

TheGoktor

This anti-bacterial cleaning I think is a major problem.. How on earth are kids meant to get an immune system when they never meet a germ in their home? No wonder when they start creche or school they catch every bug going.
Too many people are getting too uptight about their children. I don't mean they should neglect them but they need to be sensible. Clean dirt does no harm!! If it did - I should be dead long ago - and so should my son!!

I cannot tell you how vehemently I am anti-anti-bac! Someone I'm very close to even washes down her sink with it before running the water to do the washing up! She says it's because she doesn't want her kids to get bugs (yeah right) but I suspect it's because she's fallen for that whole advertising-playing-on fear thing. And because she lives in a village which couldn't be more Stepford if it actually was Stepford! :noway:

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I'm so lucky that I am very very rarely sick. I've never had a flu, only get a cold once every couple of years.. And I put it all down to my "free-range" upbringing. Plenty of fruit and veg, meat 2 or 3 times a week and gallons of milk (now tea!!). I remember as a child, on holidays with my aunt on her farm. We would bring up the cow, milk her and drink the milk, warm, straight from the bucket. It was the most delicious milk ever.. So creamy.. Mmmmm. Never did us a bit of harm... If I tell people that now, they are shocked that my aunt allowed us to drink unpasturised milk!! Why ???? We owned the cow, knew what she ate - so whats the problem!!

When I was at senior school, we had a small farm there, which was run by my chum, Norma. I spent every lunchtime there, and many after schools too, plus used to help her in the school hols. One of my favourite things was to milk the goats, and then drink the milk - wonderful!

I suspect that city kids may have had different experiences but for me, living a largely rural life meant I could more or less wander wherever my feet took me, without fear of being run over etc. (when I mentioned the multi-storey car park in my earlier post, the town centre was actually several miles away)!

The world has really gone a tad nuts, me thinks....

Oh, I don't think it, I KNOW it! Statistically, this is the safest time for humans to have ever been alive, so why are people so bloody paranoid these days? Is it because the media tells us that if germs don't kill our kids, then they'll be kidnapped, murdered, or worse? Of course, if they survive that, we must make sure we give into their every whim because otherwise they'll develop 'issues'. And woe betide us if we curb their free spirits by daring to tell them no, or punish their misbehaviour, or not give them a prize because they didn't come first. Or second. Or third. Or 10th.... Furthermore, let's not forget that they need to have special chemical-filled-child-friendly food because they couldn't possibly eat the same things as adults.

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melt57

So true!!! At 33, my parents are wondering when they are becoming grandparents, but the husband and I can't imagine raising a child in a world where everything has to be antibacterial. If we tried to give a child the childhood we loved and remembered, we'd probably be considered awful parents. Whats so wrong with being raised in a way where you are expected to listen to your parents, you need to EARN praise, and you pick up a few bumps and bruises on the way. It gets you ready for life!!! Argh! I'll take the lead based paint over the antibacterial soap any day :bigsmile:

yaddayaddayadda

Ahh... the good old days! Remember when water, TV, and radio were all free...

TheGoktor

Ahh... the good old days! Remember when water, TV, and radio were all free...

You clearly don't live in the UK! :laugh: