For anyone born before the '80s

[bsg1fan1975]

A girlfriend of mine sent me this last night and I thought I would share it with you all.



Stop and think about these.




TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70’s!!










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.

[martok2112]

How true.

[BST]

Yep.

:)

[bsg1fan1975]

(here's the rest that somehow got cut off yesterday)












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 an d 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 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?!

[Darrell Lawrence]

...and what's the real kicker? It's those generations that are pampering the current generations! :LOL:

[bsg1fan1975]

We need to show the kids of today that life is not as easy as they think it is. we sacrificed and worked for everything we have today.

Heck, I remember the only times I really got anything I wanted was my birthday or Xmas!

[Lara]

All so true..

Nowadays its all about 'rights' and not about 'responsibilty'

As a generalisation, genY are without a doubt the most selfish generation yet spawned.: MeMeMe..anything they don't like is your problem, not theirs, and they expect everything NOW.
Makes you wonder how they are going to bring their own kids up?

Cheers,
Lara

[Darrell Lawrence]

They're going to raise their kids to be superlazy is what they're gonna do.

Just how lazy? How does an AUTO TOILET (http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=5c2dbc9f-e524-449f-b1d7-121f594b3c95,2f906c71-0c1e-4911-8281-427f51bfa0b1,17b85abb-6d02-46b4-8ae7-d330853ef21c&t=m11&f=06/64&p=) sound?

[amberstar]

All so true.........I think being a kid back then was more fun :D

[Stevew]

Unfortunatly this is true LOL my generation overall has done a pretty bad job at raising our kids
:cry:

[bsg1fan1975]

I remember family vacations were going to visit a relative in a far off state, not going to Disney World or a foreign country and it was okay to spank your kid for misbehaving and it was called discipline!

[martok2112]

it was okay to spank your kid for misbehaving and it was called discipline!

Amen, Bi La Kaifa, and 'nuff said!

[KJ]

Hmmmmmm?

Interesting read.

Times have changed people.

KJ

[Cylon Number 13]

We need to show the kids of today that life is not as easy as they think it is. we sacrificed and worked for everything we have today.

Heck, I remember the only times I really got anything I wanted was my birthday or Xmas!

I remember when I was a kid, that rather than asking my mom to buy me a toy gun or whatever, I made my own gun. The original run of the BSG series was on TV back then, and I created my own laser pistol out of some wood. I would run around pointing it at things, making laser sounds. I liked making my own things. Still do.

[bsg1fan1975]

I remember when I was a kid, that rather than asking my mom to buy me a toy gun or whatever, I made my own gun. The original run of the BSG series was on TV back then, and I created my own laser pistol out some wood. I would run around pointing it at things, making laser sounds. I liked making my own things. Still do.

oh heck yeah! I remember having Barbie dolls and the only clothing they had that was original was what they came with when they were bought. My grandmother used to make the rest of the clothing for them!

I am one of these kind of people that I would rather have something that was homemade than bought in a store. My mother began teaching me how to do crafts when I was around 7 and I am still doing them today! My first project that I did alone from start to finish was a tissue box cover that i did for my maternal grandparents and when they died, it was written down that it was to come back to me as I had made that for them and they cherished the time and effort I put into it for them. It sits proudly on my coffee table. Todays generation think its so muchbetter to go and buy the stuff already made from a store!

[Scatha]

oh heck yeah! I remember having Barbie dolls and the only clothing they had that was original was what they came with when they were bought. My grandmother used to make the rest of the clothing for them!

I am one of these kind of people that I would rather have something that was homemade than bought in a store. My mother began teaching me how to do crafts when I was around 7 and I am still doing them today! My first project that I did alone from start to finish was a tissue box cover that i did for my maternal grandparents and when they died, it was written down that it was to come back to me as I had made that for them and they cherished the time and effort I put into it for them. It sits proudly on my coffee table. Todays generation think its so muchbetter to go and buy the stuff already made from a store!

Today's kids grow up on TV and the ads displayed upon it, the world isn't the same.... unfortunately.

[bsg1fan1975]

how true that is. they expect mommy and daddy to just give it to them.

[Sealtm2]

I can remember making our own fun, our own games, using our imaginations. We built forts, made our own toy swords and used metal garbage can lids as shields. We played outside all summer long and even in the winter when we could. We went fishing, played sports, did cub scouts, weblows and boy scouts. It was a great thing to have been an Eagle scout. T.V. was watched very little we had books, drew pictures, made things with our hands, climbed trees. I can remember making parachutes from my hankies, some thread from mom's sewing box and a clothes pin as the paratrooper and we were happy with the toys we did get. There were no video games, gameboys, ipods and things like that to entertain us.

You were expected to obey the law, your parents, elders you didn't talk back to them. You would have never even thought to strike your parents. If you were bad you were punished you didn't have some one telling you that you were breaking your child's will. Not like now where they have no boundaries, manners or respect life. We were spanked but that didn't turn us into mass murders, child abusers and criminals. There is a big difference from a swat on the bum to remind you that you were out of line and that your parents gave a damn to beating a child to a pulp out of hate and anger by parents that could give a shite about you. Many of the bad kids I grew up with had parents that didn't care where they were or what they were into.

I fear for the young people today for many have no direction and the ones that do are made fun of. We are giving our future into the hands of a self centered, spoiled, hateful and mis-guided generation.

[martok2112]

I can remember making our own fun, our own games, using our imaginations. We built forts, made our own toy swords and used metal garbage can lids as shields. We played outside all summer long and even in the winter when we could. We went fishing, played sports, did cub scouts, weblows and boy scouts. It was a great thing to have been an Eagle scout. T.V. was watched very little we had books, drew pictures, made things with our hands, climbed trees. I can remember making parachutes from my hankies, some thread from mom's sewing box and a clothes pin as the paratrooper and we were happy with the toys we did get. There were no video games, gameboys, ipods and things like that to entertain us.

You were expected to obey the law, your parents, elders you didn't talk back to them. You would have never even thought to strike your parents. If you were bad you were punished you didn't have some one telling you that you were breaking your child's will. Not like now where they have no boundaries, manners or respect life. We were spanked but that didn't turn us into mass murders, child abusers and criminals. There is a big difference from a swat on the bum to remind you that you were out of line and that your parents gave a damn to beating a child to a pulp out of hate and anger by parents that could give a felgercarbe about you. Many of the bad kids I grew up with had parents that didn't care where they were or what they were into.

I fear for the young people today for many have no direction and the ones that do are made fun of. We are giving our future into the hands of a self centered, spoiled, hateful and mis-guided generation.

AMEN!

[AJMarks]

I remember making my own sword and guns. The one toy I played with the most was lego, tried to make everything out of it. I even created the viper and a cylon raider. It was great for showing battle damage. Even made a Galactica, of couse that didn't turn out as good as the only pictures i had to go from was what I could remember from the show.

I remember riding a bike down a hill without a helmet, I crashed, got hurt, but I also learned from it. We also knew all of our neighbors and they knew us.

[martok2112]

I will say this though. Hillary Clinton is full of B.S., especially with a book titled "It Takes a Village..."


Sorry, but NO! Politically Correct Claptrap!


It takes a parent (preferably two if possible in this fracked up day and age) to raise a child....NOT a village.


It has always been my view that parenting belongs in the hands of the parents, NOT the village, and most certainly NOT the government on any level, unless there is a CLEAR CUT case of abuse or neglect.....and NO spankings DO NOT count as abuse.

Martok2112

[Sealtm2]

I will say this though. Hillary Clinton is full of B.S., especially with a book titled "It Takes a Village..."


Sorry, but NO! Politically Correct Claptrap!


It takes a parent (preferably two if possible in this fracked up day and age) to raise a child....NOT a village.


It has always been my view that parenting belongs in the hands of the parents, NOT the village, and most certainly NOT the government on any level, unless there is a CLEAR CUT case of abuse or neglect.....and NO spankings DO NOT count as abuse.

Martok2112

I agree. I remember back a few years ago one of the state governments wanted to hold parents of children skipping school accountable. Some of the parents went nuts saying it wasn't their resposiblity to make sure their kids didn't skip school and that it was out of their hands where their kids go once they leave the house in the morning and that it was the job of the school to deal with their kids skipping school.

Yeah right, if the school deals with it then these same parents will complain that the school is too hard on their kids or has no right to punish their kids. Yet these parents have no control over their child. So is this a population depending on government too much or a case were government has made a parent afraid of controlling their child in fear of being called an abuser? :/:

[bsg1fan1975]

I agree. I remember back a few years ago one of the state governments wanted to hold parents of children skipping school accountable. Some of the parents went nuts saying it wasn't their resposiblity to make sure their kids didn't skip school and that it was out of their hands where their kids go once they leave the house in the morning and that it was the job of the school to deal with their kids skipping school.

Yeah right, if the school deals with it then these same parents will complain that the school is too hard on their kids or has no right to punish their kids. Yet these parents have no control over their child. So is this a population depending on government too much or a case were government has made a parent afraid of controlling their child in fear of being called an abuser? :/:

ditto! government has poked their noses where it doesn't belong!

[Lyra]

(here's the rest that somehow got cut off yesterday)












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 an d 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 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?!



















I couldn't agree more with you! Ditto!!! :thumbsup: :colonial: :salute:

[cobrastrikelead]

Heee-Heee-Heee. Real good stuff.

[Cylon Number 13]

I will say this though. Hillary Clinton is full of B.S., especially with a book titled "It Takes a Village..."


Sorry, but NO! Politically Correct Claptrap!


It takes a parent (preferably two if possible in this fracked up day and age) to raise a child....NOT a village.


It has always been my view that parenting belongs in the hands of the parents, NOT the village, and most certainly NOT the government on any level, unless there is a CLEAR CUT case of abuse or neglect.....and NO spankings DO NOT count as abuse.

Martok2112

You said a mouth full, Martok. I couldn't agree more. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[martok2112]

:salute: Thank you, sir.

And thank you, Sealtm2 :salute:

[gmd3d]

I will say this though. Hillary Clinton is full of B.S., especially with a book titled "It Takes a Village..."


Sorry, but NO! Politically Correct Claptrap!


It takes a parent (preferably two if possible in this fracked up day and age) to raise a child....NOT a village.


It has always been my view that parenting belongs in the hands of the parents, NOT the village, and most certainly NOT the government on any level, unless there is a CLEAR CUT case of abuse or neglect.....and NO spankings DO NOT count as abuse.

Martok2112


Totally agree with that statement Martok . well said

[martok2112]

Danke. :salute:

[gmd3d]

Words of wisdom :)

[Sarika]

Danke. :salute:
Indeed I agree with your philosophy Martok, and how nice you are a little bi-lingual, german ancestory?
I have half Austrian roots myself... :salute:

Love your avatar by the way, trés magnifique!

Regal wishes! :girl:

[martok2112]

Danke, Sarika. I don't know much Deutsch at all....I speak very little of it.

A little Spanish (at least what I can piece together), a little Chinese, a little Russian.

My descent is German-Irish. :) :salute:

And merci beaucoup for the kind words on my avatar. :blush:

[TIRex]

those where the day
I'm now 33 years old and I've read that text years ago in my nativ language and is so true.

For example, I remember building Captain Futur's Bodyarmor from paper and is Proton-Gun from an old drill machine, Star Treks Paser an Tricorder from gas-gast (or what ever that was) an Conans Sword and Luke's Lightsaber from wood (glued with aluminiumfoil for the metal finish). With enough fatasy it worked perfectly.

[Cylon Number 13]

I remember making my own sword and guns. The one toy I played with the most was lego, tried to make everything out of it. I even created the viper and a cylon raider. It was great for showing battle damage. Even made a Galactica, of couse that didn't turn out as good as the only pictures i had to go from was what I could remember from the show.

I remember riding a bike down a hill without a helmet, I crashed, got hurt, but I also learned from it. We also knew all of our neighbors and they knew us.
You said it, AJ.

I loved making things when I was young too. Still do, actually. I made a BSG blaster out of a 2-inch thick, foot long piece of a tree and couple flat wooden slats that I nailied at an angle near one end of the foot long section of tree. It didn't make sounds, but that's where my imagination came into play. That's one thing we had back then....Imagination.

I also created a Thor's hammer, and a wooden katana.

I have plans to build a lightsaber in the near future. I am currently working on finding the parts needed to build it. Here's hoping.

[Sarika]

You know gentlemen, I can remember when I was little too, and my imagination was the realm I lived in most of the hours of the day...being born a Piscean, well that's just who we are. I guess I'm still that way.

I love hearing all your tales of your childhood and the creative imagination we all had, and had immense fun with.

Certainly iconic classics such as our beloved BSG sparked many a child's mind to produce and create thnigs of our own making.

We really used our inspirations to the max, I wonder do many kids still posses that innate childlike faith that "we can create anything, our mind's eye see". And even if our "pretend ships" don't fly or make noises, that's what our vocal chords and imaginations are for!!!

I even recall a funny little thing I used to believe when I first watched BSG (like a religion, when I was only 7 or 8, was I used to think my heros were really up there in the heavens looking for Earth..... :LOL:

I would gaze up at the stars at night through my bedroom window, and wish to see a viper landing.... one day maybe...I still secretly wish that, when I am star hopping on a clear night. :rotf:

I think that's what incited my life long passion for astronomy. I love the idea of looking up and beyond ourselves, to feel that oneness with the universe, our part in it. :superholy

[gmd3d]

I really read through this thread.
And remembered my own childhood in Ireland and guesss what it was the very same .. did not have a lot of money for toys but we got by .. by building our own.
Tree Branchs became rifles ,, or swords . our bikes became Police cars or bike's :)
(Chips was populer then) or and Xwing chasing Tiefighters .. or a simple game of chasing .. course when you get a little older closer to the teens it become Kiss Chasing .. (never got way as much as i use too, just like getting caught) :D

I also remember building my own Laser pistols by scavaging parts from other toys making my own belt and holster . (from a leather school bag.. Got a good beating from that.:0.. but became my friends hero because I made enough to go around )

:rotf: :rotf:

In my present occupation I go into people homes every day .... I see all the crap they have . most look cool as toys etc. but where is the imagation the creative design that myself and all my friends built every day when we where kids ..

and if you try to explain that to kids now they look at you as if you a hole in your head .. "What Use a stick and pretend its a gun" pfff.... Get Lost"

Mother's and Father's now don't have time to play with their children , now both parents have to work just to make ends meet .. over here its gone money mad.(that ok if there is balance in the home ) but now people just want a bigger Expanceive Cars. so they can sit bunper to bumper in Ireland biggest parking lot
"The moter way" more expancive crap in the house . and every thing is electonic . so more power is needed the more thing cost to run more hours a week in work. kids get what they want now .. and value nothing ..

our game's . like your games went on all during Summer break.. Imagin if you will Children playing .. not 3 or 7 children but perhaps 30 playing BSG . StarWars . Cowboys . Solders etc very day . altogether .. ok ok there where a few disagrements and fights .. but we play together the very next day like nothing happend ..

ahh Kiss Chasing .............................................................................What sorry
the end

:)

[bsg1fan1975]

I heard this on the news last night and it makes me sad. In Attleboro, Mass. contact games such as tag, touch football and the like are no longer allowed. The reason they banned it, too many kids were getting hurt, or so they claim. Shoot, the best part of playing those games were that you were having fun and not worrying about getting hurt!

I remember playing dodgeball in school and getting hit with the ball in the stomach during gym. It only hurt for a little while, not bad enough for my mother to have to come and take me to the hospital and claim I had been injured from playing the game.

[Stevew]

My generation survived well but have done a lousy job at raising our kids over all IMHO
:(

[martok2112]

I heard this on the news last night and it makes me sad. In Attleboro, Mass. contact games such as tag, touch football and the like are no longer allowed. The reason they banned it, too many kids were getting hurt, or so they claim. Shoot, the best part of playing those games were that you were having fun and not worrying about getting hurt!

I remember playing dodgeball in school and getting hit with the ball in the stomach during gym. It only hurt for a little while, not bad enough for my mother to have to come and take me to the hospital and claim I had been injured from playing the game.

I LOVED DODGEBALL!!! :D

[bsg1fan1975]

I LOVED DODGEBALL!!! :D

me too. I was better at dodgebal lthan I was at kick ball!:LOL:

[Stevew]

I loved kickball as well
:)

[martok2112]

me too. I was better at dodgebal lthan I was at kick ball!:LOL:

OMG, Kickball....I haven't even thought about that game in years!!

LOL! One day, (some century and a half ago) we were playing kickball in the gym, and the opposing team was setting up a pyramid of players, to try and prevent the ball from going too far out in the field. (We were little kids, so obviously we couldn't kick too far......or so some of us thought. :devil: ).

It was my turn at kick. They formed their pyramid. I kicked the ball so hard (and surprisingly accurately enough....this is no felgercarb), that I caught the top player in the gut. Now obviously kickballs were NOT that hard.....but it caught him enough by surprise that he fell over, thus toppling the pyramid.

I think I was prouder of toppling the pyramid than I was scoring a run. :D

[Cylon Number 13]

I heard this on the news last night and it makes me sad. In Attleboro, Mass. contact games such as tag, touch football and the like are no longer allowed. The reason they banned it, too many kids were getting hurt, or so they claim. Shoot, the best part of playing those games were that you were having fun and not worrying about getting hurt!

I remember playing dodgeball in school and getting hit with the ball in the stomach during gym. It only hurt for a little while, not bad enough for my mother to have to come and take me to the hospital and claim I had been injured from playing the game.

I agree, bsg1. It is sad when the people who grew up playing those games are so scared of being sued or whatever that they prevent any future generations of children from having the pleasure of playing games like that. I mean, after all. I believe that someone probably came up with "touch" football because kids were getting hurt playing "tackle" football. WDYT?

[Sarika]

I remember in my day at school, the teacher could still smack a naughty child...now it's considered as molestering or sexual harassment if a teacher tried to discipline a student.
Even children and their own friends can't even give eachother a hug or any physical touch like a pat on their shoulder, at school...
Has the world gone completely mad?? :wtf:

[martok2112]

In a word.....yes.

[gmd3d]

I second the word .. yes .. complety mad

[bsg1fan1975]

I'll third that!

It was unheard of in my house or my hubby's to ask your parents for money for stupid things. We had to earn it by ourselves!

[Lyra]

My 15 year old niece and I get on like a house on fire. Often on school holidays we play a game of monopoly or cards, as well as when I join her in doing things on the computer together,,,we laugh, make silly voices, and have a panic attack when we lose something on the computer, just for a giggle of course..we're usually in tears from laughing...I sure she thinks I'm not you're usual "run of the mill" aunty, but I always feel proud we bridge any generation gap, and get along. She probably thinks my taste in music is probably a little strange too...it's mostly stuff I remember growing up with, and listening to on my big brother's stereo,,good stuff from the seventies and early eighties...ahh good times. :) :D ;) but then she suprises me, by jiving to something I used to hear, that's been revived...glad to know she can enjoy some of my favourite songs.

[spcglider]

All true,

But the majority of those things have been shown to be dangerous in the world we live in NOW.

You can take some of that stuff with a grain of salt and chock it up to nostalgia (except the lead based paint) OR you can give it the credence it needs in today's world and realize how lucky we all are to have dodged the bullet!

But there IS a difference between now and then. I grew up in the 1970's. When you were told "get outside and go play". No scheduled play dates with friends. No soccer practice. Just get your butt outside and entertain yourself until dinner time. Kids don't have that any more. Its just not possible in a lot of cases.

And kids have replaced it with video games mostly. Kids don't even read comics that much anymore. Remember walking down to the corner market and picking up comic books at $.30 each? And don't tell me they were a NICKEL... comic books were NEVER a nickel.

That was all part of us as kids learning how to self-manage. Kids don't get that today.

-G

[PaulGTweed]

For everyone with 1970's and 1980's nostalgia some good websites are: www.retrojunk.com, www.8ostvthemes.com, www.toontracker.com, www.tvobscurities.com and www.tvparty.com

[bsg1fan1975]

My 15 year old niece and I get on like a house on fire. Often on school holidays we play a game of monopoly or cards, as well as when I join her in doing things on the computer together,,,we laugh, make silly voices, and have a panic attack when we lose something on the computer, just for a giggle of course..we're usually in tears from laughing...I sure she thinks I'm not you're usual "run of the mill" aunty, but I always feel proud we bridge any generation gap, and get along. She probably thinks my taste in music is probably a little strange too...it's mostly stuff I remember growing up with, and listening to on my big brother's stereo,,good stuff from the seventies and early eighties...ahh good times. :) :D ;) but then she suprises me, by jiving to something I used to hear, that's been revived...glad to know she can enjoy some of my favourite songs.



you too Lyra? I remember listening to Rick Springfield with my sister and then while having my brother help me with my homework while we listened to The Fixx and his stuff and I loved it. It was quite a shock to find out that when I met my hubby we liked the same kind of music and play it often in the car on trips, of course I had to play some country music from my collection too.


All in all, I think that today's generation just doesn't understand us older folks and the fun we had!

[libernull]

I remember GI Joes, Micronaughts, and the original Star Wars dolls... I mean, Action Figures. I remember going around the neighborhood with my best friend picking up bottles and cans to recycle for quarters so we could play Tempest all afternoon. I remember summer nights, when we could stay out til after dark thanks to the time change, playing kick the can. I remember pick up games of wiffel ball in the street. I remember when we all got plastic skateboards and had no frame of reference - so ended up skating around like dorks, flailing arms trying to keep our balance. None of my friends became skaters. I agree - it was just go out and entertain yourselves. Imagination was key. Being a kid was fun.

[doc834]

My mother used to tell me to "Go outside and play!", and never told me how far I could go. So long as I didn't cross a busy street, I was fine. Walking to the corner staore was a treat, especially if I went for my mother. She always gave me extra money to get something for myself. Now I have to take a car to get to the nearest 7-Eleven.

[gmd3d]

universal problem these days .. the small corner shop is almost a thing of the past .. real pity

[doc834]

Not to mention that subdivisions are getting bigger and bigger. The nearest store from my house is 2 miles away. When I was a kid, the nearest store was at least 3 blocks, in either direction.

[gmd3d]

REMEMBERING my childhood .. I knew the name of the shop keeper .. knew the parents and the children .... short a few pence .. no problem . drop it in again .. when money tight . the same ..

[martok2112]

My mother used to tell me to "Go outside and play!", and never told me how far I could go. So long as I didn't cross a busy street, I was fine. Walking to the corner staore was a treat, especially if I went for my mother. She always gave me extra money to get something for myself. Now I have to take a car to get to the nearest 7-Eleven.

LOL....and remember when directions to any given location were referenced BY 7-11's?

"Yeah, you wanna get to (such and such a place)? Ok, you go down to the corner, and turn left at the 7-11. Then you go past two more 7-11's, probably another couple of miles, turn right (that'll be your last 7-11), and you're there."

:D

[doc834]

That was any place in San Diego. In Detroit, the corner stores were family owned and operated. Some of the owners lived right next door to there stores. Pretty convenient.

[JaiQwan]

WoW talk about memory lane, Just the other day my younger 8 year old daughter was asking me if I liked watching Sponge Bob when I was a kid or some other kids cartoon that is now days for the kids. She really started me thinking of what it was like back when? geeze it seems so long ago when we
used to hang out with a group of our friends and just having plain ole fun running around.

And doing what came to mind, or going out to the sand box and playing with the Ole Tonka Toy Dump Trucks and such, now days it is all wireless remote control, Now that I think about it I can remember the old AFX race cars where you had to put the race track together. And the biggest thrill was taking apart the cars swapping the motors to make them go faster, heck we even had a four lane race track and would have races to see who AFX car was faster. Ya know I still have one or two of my old AFX cars, gonna have pull it out and take a pic of it.

PaulGTweed, I checked out a couple links you posted and I was looking at the cartoons from back then, I can remember watching the Abbott & Costello Cartoons and Casper the Friendly Ghost and all the rest. And then I checked the one other site you posted and I scrolled down a bit and read this.

""Kids, Guns and TV
Some modern-day experts contend that violent video games encourage savage behavior in our young people, while others say that's just another example of the latest entertainment medium becoming society's scapegoat du jour. Keep in mind, the same breed of expert said the exact same thing about comic books and toy guns in the 1950s - and look at how great the baby boomers turned out."" Here is the rest of it http://www.tvparty.com/emguns.html

When I was a kid I had to work and earn my money to buy things, Wash the dish’s, sweep the floor or steps, mop the floor, wax the floor, clean the bath room, ect; and I was paid not a lot maybe like 5 or 6 bucks a week but money was just not handed to me because I asked for it. Now days the world has become a disposable world, "use it through it away buy a new one, Why Fix? why take care of it" I remember back in shop class I made a Snoopy Lamp from wood and painted it like Snoopy’s dog house and the shop teacher helped me cut out and paint a Snoopy figure to glue on top of the Snoopy dog house, WoW I held onto the lamp up until about six years ago when my daughter broke it beyond repair (terrible Two's).

Anywho, when my daughter was asking me about the cartoons she watch’s now days, I started to think and I told her ya know what, from now on, you and your sister will work and earn your allowance, help in the kitchen cleaning up, take out the trash, walk the dog, you want things, toys, MONEY, you will have to earn it, I am not going to be your money machine, I will help you when and where I feel it is the right thing to do, but by god you both will learn the value of Money and how to care for your things and so on. And on a last note, I do have to say that when the two of them are out playing in the yard or in the house, they both have a very good active imagination when they are not fighting with each other, they have really learned how to pretend.

Okay that is it from the peanut gallery :LOL:

[bsg1fan1975]

I remember when I lived in Rhode Island as a kid we had to go to downtown Newport to get penny candy till the shop closed up. i used to get two or three bags for less than I can buy it now!

[bsg1fan1975]

to continue the discussion about the topic here, country singer Bucky Covington has a song out that uses some of the things discussed in this topic at the beginning. The song is called "A Different World"

[Sarika]

Holy Frack ! You found this thread again Bsg!

Thanks! Now if only i could recall what I wanted it for again(:blink:):D

[Damocles]

What do steel splinters and country music and the 1970s have to do with each other? :blink:

[Athene]

I was born before the '80s :D

Anyone remember the earth shoe? ;)

[Sarika]

What do steel splinters and country music and the 1970s have to do with each other? :blink:

Good question, Damo.
When you figure it out, request an open channel with me, and let me know. :D:LOL:

[Aphrodite]

What do steel splinters and country music and the 1970s have to do with each other? :blink:
They are all annoying?

[Damocles]

:rotf:

[bsg1fan1975]

np Sarika!

During vacation I got to see my brother and his wife and we all agree that the kids of today unless the parents are hard on them like ours were on us won't be able to cope with the real world! My hubby has heard of parents going on job interviews with their kids!

[Athene]

I was watching some commercials from the 70's and boy do I remember those clothes they wore in those days. I found a shirt I used to wear way back then and it still fits! ;)

[Westy]

It takes a parent (preferably two if possible in this fracked up day and age) to raise a child....NOT a village.

I don't know....when I was kid all of us kids in the neighborhood were together from sun up to sun down. My best friends' mothers were like second mothers to me and my mom was their second mother too. If ANY of us did something bad, the nearest mother would take charge and march the offender off to their mom's house. Noone got upset because Mother A was picking on Mother B's kid or whatever. They all looked after us all and I don't think they ever got nervous about our where abouts if they knew we were over someone's playing or whatever. All the houses were open to all of us, no knocking required! My parents and their parents were always visiting each other...

When I see those "It takes a village" words, it makes me think of that sense of a village.

Anyways, looking back on it now, I had an AWESOME childhood. We played kickball, releive-e-o, hide and seek, wiffleball, baseball, basket ball, hockey...I think every sport really....we went to the park, signed up for summer activities and arts and crafts....on our own! He had tree forts out in the woods, played "army wars" against the kids on the *other* side of the block. There was even a scary cave we used to dare each other to go in! It was a freaking blast. Miss those days....

[BST]

I don't know....when I was kid all of us kids in the neighborhood were together from sun up to sun down. My best friends' mothers were like second mothers to me and my mom was their second mother too. If ANY of us did something bad, the nearest mother would take charge and march the offender off to their mom's house. Noone got upset because Mother A was picking on Mother B's kid or whatever. They all looked after us all and I don't think they ever got nervous about our where abouts if they knew we were over someone's playing or whatever. All the houses were open to all of us, no knocking required! My parents and their parents were always visiting each other...

When I see those "It takes a village" words, it makes me think of that sense of a village.

Anyways, looking back on it now, I had an AWESOME childhood. We played kickball, releive-e-o, hide and seek, wiffleball, baseball, basket ball, hockey...I think every sport really....we went to the park, signed up for summer activities and arts and crafts....on our own! He had tree forts out in the woods, played "army wars" against the kids on the *other* side of the block. There was even a scary cave we used to dare each other to go in! It was a freaking blast. Miss those days....


Westy,

You just described my childhood and as much as we parents have tried, unfortunately, our children will never experience anything like that.

I miss those days, too. :(


PS .. You mentioned wiffle ball... well, every couple of years the "gang" gets together and plays a game then, one of the families hosts a little get together buffet for us. (It's a real hoot watching us since the youngest of the original gang is 45. Needless to say, we get the "second generation" into the game as much as possible.)

:D

[Kronus]

Ah yes, I miss the good ol' days playing tribble ball or punch the Volcan to see who can get them to flinch first...I miss those days.

Yeah I had to agree, neighborhood moms were everyone's mom. If that was not so then I would have gotten in a whole lot more trouble than I did. Knowing that every mom was able to interact and intervene made it more difficult for me to wreak havoc on the other pataQ cowards in my neighborhood.

(No I wasn't a bully but I loved to torture those who were bullies, in fact they all had to unite and gang up on me in order to beat me in a fight but when I found them by themselves...ooooo they would get the beating of their lives. They would ride by my house on the bikes on the opposite side and go real fast or I would grab their bikes and throw them down and tear into them, By Kahless I hate bullies. There is no honor in fighting a battle you know you can win).

[bsg1fan1975]

god what happened to our way of having fun! It was a blast for us all when we were kids!