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

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:

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)

Boy how true Think we actually turned out pretty good

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA-0nki_XL8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fFOelpE_8

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