For Those Born 1930-1979

[chocolatepuppy]

Aw, the good old days.

[lizbud]

My Mom never smoked or drank when she was having us, but all the
rest fits my experience. Those were the days.

[Dorothy39]

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

Bravo!!!

[Reachoutrescue]

I was born in the late 70's so much of this does not apply to me, but the things that are out now are just crazy! I do miss the simple days that I remember!

[sirrahbed]

That was fun to read I think the thing I miss most is seeing kids outside playing. That was always such a part of my life, espcially on the military installations where I grew up. I always had a group of friends to play with and we had tons of games we would play out in the streets near our homes. The streets were always patrolled by SP's and the speeding limit was so slow that I don't think our parents ever had to worry about traffic. Kids would come right into the house looking to play and I would do the same. We knew the parents and of course had to call them Mr., Mrs., ma'm and sir I still love icy cold water from the garden hose

But I am very glad for such things as carseats and medical advances. Those good old days were not all good, but they sure have some great memories.

[DrKym]

Taken in the spirit it was meant, we are lucky! My older kids were too they all grew up in small towns and relative safety, we knew eveyone and their playing all day and gone till dusk was the norm(funny I never minded summers home with them they were never home LOL)

Things change, Adrian has a cell phone for emergencies and also in case something happens on his bike. Which I do make him wear a helmet the street here are busy, now the playing all day is done in MY yard so that I know they aren't getting nailed with empty needles, drug dealers, or sexual predators. My yard resembles a boys home in the summers and that is fine with me, as they still get to watch fireflies in the evening after the Kool aid is gone, the watermelons eaten the 500th popsicle devoured, and stains made that will challenge even Maytag.

Thanks Mags for the trips down memory lane, and the horror of realizing school is out in 5 weeks LMAO

[moosmom]

WOOHOO!!!! Them was the good ole days!! Where you could sit out on your front porch after dark without worrying about getting killed by a stray bullet. Being able to play in your own yard without the fear of being abducted by some whackjob pedophile.

Where have those days gone???

[Karen]

People are more in touch with the world now. Kids on my street still play outside, and after dark, too. But I know my neighbors, and my neighborhood, and it is the exception, not the rule. Fifty years ago, we would only have learned of the Virginia Tech massacre on the radio, or the newspaper, maybe ther might have been a mention on the network news, but there wouldn't have been the 24-hour coverage there is today. Were children abducted back then? Yes, but with no "Amber Alert" system, the whole country didn't hear about it. Were people killed needlesly back then? Yes, but again, no 24-hour, examine-every-angle coverage.

My mother neither smoked nor drank during her pregnancies, and yet two of my siblings lived less than a day. My friend Sandy lost her eye because of playing on a golf course where she wasn't supposed to be. A neighbor kid was killed when his Big Wheel was hit by a car - no, he didn't have any helmet on. An older kid was brain-damaged for life when he was riding his bike through traffic - no helmet - and got hit by a car. My friend's brother was killed when his mother's car hit a light pole on a slick street - no airbags back then. He was in a coma for two awful weeks before he died.

Want more examples of why the good old days weren't necessarily all that great?

Anyone can look at selected bit of any period of time and conclude it was great, or terrible.