According to today's regulators and bereaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50's, 60's and 70's shouldn't have survived, because...
Our cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or latches on doors on cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets just flip-flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels.
As kids we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the front was a treat.
We shared 1 drink with 4 friends, from 1 bottle or can and no 1 actually died from this.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - it tasted the same.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personel computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
There's a lot more...Toe.
2007-09-25 10:49:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
You better believe it - I am 41 and had a great childhood - no money like many people at that time but you had to be creative as did our parents!
I feel sorry for kids now, surrounded by so much policital correctness and wrapped up in cotton wool. When we were kids were used to go out all day or for hours at a time. We had to walk three miles to school each day and back again - my parents did not have the money for the bus! There were never any fatties around then - just the usual one or two in the WHOLE school!
There was a great attitude - you just go on with things - there was no time for molly coddling - if you were ill, there was not watching TV - it was in bed all day until you were better - I was never ill for more than a day or two - it was so boring you just wanted to get out there again!
Life as harder then without doubt but I would prefer my upbringing anyday than what some kids experience today! I feel a lot of kids will not be able to even wire a plug when they are older - they can't seem to do anything for themselves.
Those were the days!
2007-09-25 11:03:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup, I was a kid in the 60s, and in many ways it was safer then than now, same (Los Angeles) neighborhood. The lack of safety now is caused by an increase in the number of gang members walking around carrying handguns. Win some, lose some.
> We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - it tasted the same.
Actually, water from the bottle tasted terrible -- we had it for a while in the 60s, the kind that was delivered to the home dispenser in a big 5 gallon bottle. Water from the garden hose tasted bad too, but a different kind of terrible. I always drank from the tap in the kitchen, which tasted pretty good. Still does. Bottled water tastes all right, but not as good as the tap water. Tap water doesn't taste as good as it used to, since the change from chlorine to chloramine.
2007-09-25 10:59:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we were never bored, cos we just went out and found things to do.
My dad used to make us a sledge out of an old cupboard and use old metal curtain rails for the runners - and all the kids in our street were jealous! Ha
There are two brothers in my street who are coming up to the time to leave school and i could count on my two hands the amount of times that they have played out in the street in their whole lives. Now that makes me sad.
2007-09-25 11:27:25 · answer #3 · answered by Sir Bobby`s Hairdresser 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol I used to play teeter totter on a fence with a ladder, and build our own treehouse with a REAL hammer and nails! I and my siblings and the neighbor kids all survived just fine.
2007-09-25 11:02:50 · answer #4 · answered by weluvJesus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must of been pretty bored, im 16 so i grew up in the 90's. Im at the perfect age right now for t.v's, computers, digital cameras(i LOOOVE my camera), cell phones, etc...etc..... I like the time period im growing up in but i guess its because i dont know anything different.
2007-09-25 11:14:15 · answer #5 · answered by »cottoncandy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Or digital watches,Colour televisions,Camcorders,Alarm clocks that worked off electricity,Aids,Happy days long gone.
2007-09-25 11:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah and I bet we out live the feeble specimens born in the 80's, 90's and 00's.
we were tough in those days!
2007-09-25 10:54:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ha Ha! Funny! 10!
2007-09-25 13:36:05 · answer #8 · answered by cats 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're probably going to live to be a hundred and ten.
2007-09-25 21:21:50 · answer #9 · answered by lost 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mom Said that was true
2007-09-25 12:45:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋