How did us 60's / 70's kids survive!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them !
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The very idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age !!
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them !
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The very idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age !!
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This is so very true. I have done pretty much everything on this list and I survived.0
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so this is where all my parents problems stem from it explains alot :laugh:
(jk of course):flowerforyou:
hell i was born in the late 80s and i was even raised that way!0 -
Very well put! I concur with all that was said!! I am a child ofthe 70's!!!0
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ah.....memories!! LOL0
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Love it. It's so true!0
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!! This is SO true!! I was just saying something similar to this to my 12 yo son and he thought I was crazy!!0
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I survived being T-boned in a '65 Chevelle while STANDING UP IN THE BACK OF THE CAR!!! I was three at the time. I got a bunch of stitches above my right eye from flying glass, but otherwise I was fine.0
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add 80's babies.. lol0
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add 80's babies.. lol0
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Amen, sister! Beautiful horse, by the way.0
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I was an 80's baby but a lot of this list was true for my growing up! miss the good ol' days0
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I love it! Soooooo true!0
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I am one!!0
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Amen! SO TRUE! :laugh: Especially the eyes thing. I really gotta get mine checked.... damn 40's....
Another thing to add to the list - we didn't have to go to the doctor when we were little - only for a check up! Nowadays babies have every virus under the sun, ear infections and acid reflux (we called this colic) etc. Amazing...0 -
Original poster, did you grow up in Alabama? I'm pretty sure we were friends back in the day!
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They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them !
these still apply to me and i was an 80's 90's kid0 -
I was born in the mid eighties, but this totally sounds like my childhood. We lived in a forest, and I would pretty much disappear all day every day, and it was fine.First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them !
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The very idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age !!0 -
I was a child of the '60s, and apart from the US-specific stuff, I can so relate to the original post! I distinctly remember playing on the building site of the new multi-storey car park near the town centre, making dens in the woods, making skateboards, tying bungie cord to the big tree and jumping off the garage roof with it tied around my waist....
And we all used to have a competition to see who could go a week without getting scabby knees - no one ever managed it...we were always falling off something, falling over, or falling out of a tree. It's actually a wonder I have any kneecaps left! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I raised my children like this too. I've never been a believer in wrapping kids up in cotton wool - they have to learn to live in this world, so best they get used to it ASAP!
I now want to go and buy a Spacehopper!0 -
I was born in the 60s. In the 70s, I used to pedal pell-mell round the streets, towing my cousin who was on roller-skates with a rope tied on my bike! Neither of us wore helmets or pads of course.
My mum was advised by her doctor to drink Guinness or "rough red wine" during her pregnancy to boost iron levels! She was on about two packs of *kitten* a day too :laugh:
Definitely no seat-belts - I used to lie down on the back seat for most journeys and even had a "car pillow"!0 -
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them !
these still apply to me and i was an 80's 90's kid
True story!0 -
Amen!!! How did we EVER survive...LOL.0
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OMG, i love this. It is all sooo true, we all survived and i think are better people for it.
Thanks for the great read this morning0 -
Born in the late 70s and this is soo true.
I was just talking about this to my husband the other day. He freaks out if I let the kids go out and play in the backyard unsupervised. and the yard is fenced in.
My argument is for them to play, get active and use their imagination.0 -
add 80's babies.. lol
i was thinking the same thing! i was born in early 80s and same stuff!!!0 -
Original poster, did you grow up in Alabama? I'm pretty sure we were friends back in the day!
No sorry.. Born and bred Irish.. Still here and its still blinking raining!! Lol...0 -
Amen, sister! Beautiful horse, by the way.
Thats my baby - Solly.. I bred him from my Irish Draught Mare.. He is by a Registered Irish Draught Stallion - Ard Grandpa.
He is now 5 yrs old and I love him to bits. Such an old wise head.. Nothing phases him, except me falling off!! Lol!!
Still have his mammy - the Sexy Mare.. I'd trust her with my life. Fantastic XCountry horse..0 -
I don't know how the children of the 50's, like me, survived either. This list pertains to us as well!!0
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I think now we would be referred to as "free range kids"...man, those were the days! When the streetlights came on, we all knew to head home. Didn't need a text reminder from our parents 0
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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!0
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1973 baby here
And boy, they were wonderful days to grow up in
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