I can't believe we lived this... (free, house, sidewalk, elementary)
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I love this Nitram!!! It is so true! Where I grew up, everybody in our neighborhood knew everybody. Parents treated all the kids like we were their own, and that included discipline in whatever form they chose and our Mama's were usually called as well long before we got home. The parent/neighbor grapevine was well intact.
I don't know what happened along the way, and why so much changed, and not necessarily for the better. But I do know that life was much different back then, when accountability meant exactly that, and that there was a price to pay for doing wrong, and rewards in one way or another for doing right.
Now days, I just shake my head and wonder how the newer generations will survive.
Thanks for putting up this thread Nitram! It's a good'un!
So true.I was born in 1970.Played outside all day.Went all over the neighborhood.Walked a mile to the bus stop.Other parents kept an eye on us.My father always took the teacher's side.There was none of this "not my little angel" stuff that teachers deal with today.How did we survive?
The good old days... It forgot too mention playing with fire works and things that go BOOM and fire..and getting into trouble and the punishment was a chew on Life Boy soap..that big orange bar. And for those that grew up in the country it did not mention the out house or the 2-3 channels of Black and White TV.. Or going too the drug store to test the old TV tubes in the free machine. Or running butt Na-kid into the muddy pond with the cows too cool off on hot summer day in July. Or having your mother take you hunting for squirrel for super. It was so much fun growing up then.. kids today have it soft.. milk a cow shovel @##@@%$# out of a stall in the winter when it's still steaming on the shovel. Hard work... but fond memories...every one respected one and other and you always said please an thank you.
I grew up in a very protected environment on military bases but we could still find trouble to get into. I've always loved to skate and I remember skating on the sidewalks that had cracks and yet I never broke anything when I fell.
The one place in Hawaii we were really warned about was a fenced place and near the elementary school. There was still unexploded ordinance there that was dropped on 12/7/41. So guess where we wanted to play? The Air Police picked us up and showed us a film about bombs and we never played there again.
We drank from the hose, we ate flowers, we did have to rest in the afternoons because polio was rampant. We rode our bikes all over the base except the flightline. It was a great time to be a kid.
I love the youtube, nitram. Thanks for posting it.
Big teased hair.
Rock and Roll
Chubby Checker
The Beatles
Elvis and his gyrating hips
and on and on.......
thanks for the memories.
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Everything oh so familiar!
There was still unexploded ordinance there that was dropped on 12/7/41. So guess where we wanted to play? The Air Police picked us up and showed us a film about bombs and we never played there again. 
