This would horrify parents today, The Danger and Fun of Growing Up - Life in America
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The biggest difference was probably that we didn't grow up having to compete for 'Likes' from strangers to feel good about ourselves.
I liked your comment. LOL
Amen to that
Thank God we didn’t grow up with social media. It is a poison on our society today, making our kids brainless and lacking in common skills and sense.
Well said 👍👍
Very well put ! Ironically this will probably receive a lot of likes LOL
I'm 71 and experienced everything mentioned here. With possible danger came responsibility . Not required today with all the ambulance chasing lawyers.I pity the kids of today, they don't realize how much freedom and fun has been stolen from their lives by the criminal politicians today.
Amen, so sad. So disappointed with our "society"
Luckily I was a 90's kid and most of the stuff from the 60's to the 80's was still around but mostly in small towns.
I am 72 and grew up in a small town. I rode my bicycle all over this town and was never afraid. My brother and I did everything in the video. Our daddy worked hard, and our mother was always home when we came in from school.
My kids were born in the early 80's. We live in the country where they climbed trees, worked in the garden and played in the dirt and mud. I was blessed to be able to stay home with them. Believe me, they had chores, and when they got old enough to drive, they had to get jobs after school and on weekends if they wanted gas money or other things. Now my grandchildren are being raised the same way. I am so proud of them. Their dad and I have been married 50 yrs. Times are scarier now, but some kids are still being raised as I was in the 50's and 60's.
Kids deprived of freedom become adults willing to live without what they have never experienced.
The parents of today are also to blame. I have family members who are grown adults but behave like overgrown babies. One major culprit, their parents.
Just my opinion but I think the biggest difference from my childhood and the childhood of today is that we actually played outside with friends. We knew how to interact with others. We socialized. I've noticed that children today think they're being punished if they have to go outside and away from their computers or phones. I am thankful for my childhood.
That's because the fun has been drained out of being a kid outside. You cannot go next door, you cannot ride your bike unless you strap on 20 lbs of protection and then only peddle sitting down, absolutely no wheelies, you cannot climb a tree, ect.
All the fun has been stripped from childhood.
Born 1980, had video games and a PC as a kid, but we just rather play outside, my city is called "The City of Parks"
@@gregoryeverson741 my children were mid-seventies and they did the same thing
I was born in 68, being young in that era was a blessing.. We played outside, my parents couldn't keep my sister and I in the house, neighborhood I grew up in was full of life with kids and teens of all ages out, this video is pretty accurate of the wonders of youth back in the day, not to write a book but I visit my Dad often in the same house in the same neighborhood, the neighborhood is full of a new generation of young people NOBODY PLAYS OUTSIDE IT BLOWS MY MIND. Times have changed I guess, today's youth are being cheated compared to the way we grew up. I cherish the way we grew up such a different time I feel lucky. Peace.......
And there were no Amber Alerts when I grew up . As everyone in my Neighborhood knew who everyone kid belong to
Yes we walked to school to kindergarten in the elements ! 1957 to 1970 we fended for ourselves. 70 years old and still strong.
Yesssss it was very fun to walk to school and pick off the neighborhood’s fruits trees 70s-80s
@@Doll676Miss my pear trees! Thanks for the memory!
I’m 78 and walked to kindergarten 5 blocks away too! Never thought about it.
@@winifredherman4214 in Germany this is stil normal, we have Million of kids who walk to school or use Public transportation. In summer and Winter, no fear of Kidnapping or a shootout, glad for living in europe.
And we drank out of the yard hose...
I'm a proud survivor of my childhood... and you know what, it was AMAZING!! 😅
I too! Childhood: "The Greatest Adventure". And looking back, and maybe unlike some, what is really amazing is the fact we both can fondly brag about it. As for now and what's up ahead is for us all to hopefully go past our expiration date with a kind fate. Everyone be careful out there.
I didn’t have to walk to school. I was fortunate enough to have what we called a “cheese bus.” But having been born in 1967 I fondly remember everything mentioned here. I still have skinned shins from bike pedals and all the other questionable activities from the 70’s. I can even remember the taste of water from the garden hose!
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From the Netherlands, we still ride bikes everywhere, rain, cold, heat, doesn't stop us. Moms put small kids on her bike and go about all the daily errands. Even our king cycles to work sometimes. We have a very low crime rate. Maybe we are as the states were back in the old days covered here?
I grew up in the 50s & 60s and remember all this. Also tall climbing toys that went up at least 10 - 12 feet. Riding bicycles all day, going several miles from home. Playing in the woods by my house totally out of sight from any adults. Playing in the creek looking for crawdads or tadpoles. Being outside all day with no contact at all with my parents. Remember... We didn't have any cell phones to call for help! We learned how to work together, solve problems, use our imaginations, and be responsible for our own behavior!
Right there with you bud.lol. Also riding on the tailgate of a truck with your legs hanging off wasn't even a concern. Fond memories...
My reality was very similar, except that it was the 60s and 70s. But even then we had neighbors that tried to chase us out of the creek because "liability". We made some very unkind gestures in the general direction of "Rosy" the nosy neighbor.
I remember asking permission to take a hatchet to go play in the woods near our house, and getting it! “Just be careful!” was the admonition accompanying the permission. Looking back the danger was just accepted as a consequence of anything we decided to do. For example, we were taught the dangers of using the hatchet and told to ask permission to use it, first. This was the case in a lot of the things we did and were allowed to do. The consequence of Kleenex day growing up today, is that they more likely more often than not don’t accept responsibility for their actions or behaviour. Not all of them, by any means, but I’ve noticed the people growing up in rural areas/communities still have the chance to experience those freedoms I grew up with, and the dangers accompanying that freedom. “Judgement comes from experience; EXPERIENCE comes from poor or bad JUDGEMENT!!” This is very true maxim that people should live by, and perhaps parents be allowed exercise in raising their families. It worked me and my siblings and so many of the people we grew up with.
Those were fun times. 😊
Spending the summer barefoot.
Great memories! made us into tough adults, not like the soft kids today
the secret to why our seniors aren’t so uptight and worried about every little thing
I remember running around barefoot all summer long, also, not wearing a bike helmet, walking to school by myself, literally no adult supervision all day long during the summer, being home alone after school, and many other things that nowadays would get parents arrested for child neglect. But at the time it was perfectly normal.
I remember making fun of the only kid that would wear a bike helmet.
We had more sense back then kids these days are totally woke and parents full of shit.
My parents kicked us out of the house in summer until dinner time. We typically ate breakfast, head out, skip lunch, then back in for dinner.
My dad had a cottage along a red shale road and we would run up and down that road barefoot all the time and used to laugh at company that had to walk in the weeds because their feet were city kid feet
@@handle-schmandle Then so were all the parents in my neighbourhood. How old are you?
It was a real privilege to grow up in this era.
As a parent today, these things don’t horrify me. Some of these are great memories from my childhood. A lot of the things in this video should still be common today. It’s sad.
Social networking back in the day was hanging out with neighborhood kids OUTSIDE.
We would hang out at the Malls and go to the movies
No cell phones!😮
When I was five in 1967, our kindergarten playgound had oak and magnolia trees and all of us climed nearly to the top of them. The teachers thought nothing of it. At five, we were expert climbers.
That was one thing I noted was missed in the video, I can remember climbing WAY higher than could even possibly be safe in Elm trees as a kid. Built quite a few tree seats out of found lumber.
In 69 in 5 grade, we go outside for recess and play on the snow mountains . And there was snow ‼️
@@iamanovercomer3253 Yes :-), And when the roads or areas were cleared of snow king of the mountain was the game to play. Getting soaked was the norm... put your coat by the heater, hope it gets dry and go again.... The area at the doors always had boots and shoes to dry on the heaters during winter time... almost more there than the boot racks provided. It was fun though.. a different time to grow up than now to be sure. In manys ways I think thats a loss for character development now. Just imagine the insanity for the next generation. Glad I will be gone... I already just shake my head and roll my eyes. lol
@@razor6888en we played in the snow in the '60s, we also got soaked. When we came inside, we had an old gas oven/stove in the basement we would light with a match, and put our mittens, scarfs & hats in to dry them out. And I was 5 years old! Never had a fire, always remembered to turn off the gas & keep flammables away from the stove. Never had a problem, no one passed out because of gas fumes. And if I heard of a child doing this today, I would freak out!!😮😊
And we also had an incinerator in the basement to burn garbage, etc. Again, never a problem. This was safer than the stove. But safety codes have long since made the later owners of the house have it removed. ☹️
I am glad to have been a kid in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. We had so much more freedom to just go out and have fun and as long as we were back before the street lights came on nobody cared. What a blast!!
Even then we would ask for 5 more minutes..and if our parents were out talking with neighbours bonus 😊
I enjoyed those days.
I agree ... I grew up in the 60s 70s and wouldn't trade it for nothing 😊
When we were lucky we'd get to stay out later and junebugs were under the street lamps. We enjoyed stomping on them hearing them crunch
the only way we could stay up all night was to spend the night with someone who could!
I’m from England & sixty years old & I lived a wonderful life as is shown here. Sure we got knocks & scrapes but rarely any fatalities. Yes, also walking miles to school in snow several foot deep, school never closed because a bit of snow. The life I led gave me strength of character & responsibility. People in general were genuinely happy & content with their lot. We were constantly busy & didn’t have time to spend hours playing games or watching tv. The children we are producing today will be so closeted & cocooned in their modern world that if all the creature comforts of the modern world were to fail then they would not know how to survive & that is a fact. The only time I was indoors was when I was called in for meals or bedtime..such happy days.
We did spend some time in our bedrooms playing Barbies or making paper dolls, but we spent the majority of our time outside.
Nowadays if you saw a youngster outside playing you might be wondering where they live or where their parents are because they might do something stupid.
They really were better times. So grateful for the time I grew up!
Where in England did you live to have several feet of snow on the ground? I always thought that England had a temperate climate, that snow was relatively rare and that when it did snow, it rarely stayed on the ground for very long.
England, yes, Wandsworth Common, South London. Cross country running (at least six miles) when the snow was too deep for playing rugby. Walking two miles to school starting at age five. Age eight, walking several miles to a different school, fog so thick you could hardly see your feet and thick thick frost, " Be careful dear" was the encouragement from mum. Early teens, riding our bicycles miles across London until we were totally lost, then trying to find our way home. Those were the Days.
What’s funny about these nostalgic practices is that when I grew up, my parents and friends always assumed everything would be LESS guarded and protected as we moved into the twenty first century. Never did we imagine things would go “wussy” the way they have!
Best comment.
USA got more paranoia after 9/11 and in Germany kids are stil free, go swimming, outsite, walk alone to school. In many european countries all those things are stil normal, Winter or summer, kids walk or use the Bus, no danger of a shootout or massaker like in the USA, crimerate in Germany is pretty low in comparsion to America.
I was born in 1953. This is almost exactly how we grew up. I feel so fortunate to have been a kid during this time and I would not trade it for anything. We also experienced the greatest collection of music ever produced...everything from Sinatra, Elvis, to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and the list keeps going. I would trade all the cell phones, social media, and the internet for the innocent carefree days of that era.
You got a few years on me but it's the same with me. I was born in 68 while my dad was in Vietnam, this video was so accurate with my childhood of the 70's and 80's my parents couldn't keep me and my sister in the house!!! The joys of youth, us kids piling into an open bed of a pickup truck and cruising down the road for ice cream on the coach after a win in farm league, then little league ect. Thankfully we were young before the cell phones, and social media and all the BS that it is!!!! Todays youth are being cheated!!!!! Peace to you.........
You and me both.
The 'good ole days' are simply that because we as humans tend to forget all the bad things... And I was born in 54 so I lived these days also and would love to go back and do it again!
1952 for me. truly THE WONDER YEARS
Couldn't agree with you more John. I have always said the 60's had the Best Music Period! 😊👍
Overall, growing up in the 50s and 60s was far safer than growing up today.
ditto that
In fact I remember one Halloween growing up in a suburb of Chicago, setting out at 4:30 in the afternoon with a black king size pillowcase that I was determined to fill with candy. I kept going and went for blocks and blocks and filled it twice that night. My parents didn't and no one else had to worry about me. If you say it's no different today, then you go try that in Chicago!!
Far , is an understatement
70s and 80s too.
This is just statically wrong, you can google childhood morality rates and they have been plummeting since the 50's/60's. It's just you didn't have media being constant perpetrators of fear for parents back then, and it's you older generations and your kids who are raising the current generation as helicoptor parents, this is on you guys not us younger generations. And personnaly i'd rather not being assaulted by lead petrol and ciggerate smoke everyday hahah.
I`m glad i grew up in these kind of days. It was the best time to be a child..... and we all survived and are stronger for it!
No, not everyone survived.
No, we didn't. How many of us had a friend who blew off a finger with a fire cracker? Who can forget the Atomic Boy Scout who built a nuclear reactor in the backyard without his parents unaware of what he was doing?
Omg!! The horror!!
Darwin's law..🇺🇸 😎👍☕.@@tiffbeevachou108
@@tiffbeevachou108....and there it is!! Your kind( the complainers) never dissapoint!
Having grown up in the 40s and 50s a lot has changed over the years! Back then, crime was taken seriously and people felt safe because of it. People respected other people and their property. Kids had a lot fewer toys but we invented our own and always had things to do. We didn't have all the distractions that our kids have today and we didn't miss it. Many of us were poor but we didn't know it because we didn't know what we were missing.
People only felt safer but crime rates were actually higher.
Not true! We actually had less prisons and less crime.@@desperadox7565
I drank from the garden hose. A neighbor said I drank from the downspout too. We rode bikes all over for miles. No helmets. Rode in cars with many kids. None belted. We played in dirt and sand then wiped our faces and hands. Not washed. I walked alone to school almost a mile. It was darn cold many winter days. We only had one car back then. Between my sisters and I we had some broken bones, stitches, road rash and a concussion. We have been healthy and are middle aged now.
Haha. Did all that stuff too. I remember walking to school in the winter without drying my hair before I left the house. My hair would be frozen by the time I got to school. Lol
I did many of the same things. I went to 3 different schools in my town and walked to all of them. Drank from a hose, and a public water fountain outside of the waterworks. Used to investigate the local dump for any usable items. There was a large concrete drain pipe where the runoff water from the streets would go that ran down to the dump. We would throw M-80's and cherry bombs up inside the pipe just to hear the cool echo. Jumped our bikes over many a homemade ramp, Evel Knevil style ( sorry, can't remember how he spelled his name). Good times.
I did the same too. Lived on a bike and luckily never broke a bone, which is amazing to me. Our community center had a huge jungle gym and instead of playing on it I'd climb above it and walk along the top. When I think about that today as an adult I know I would have had a cow if I'd seen a youngster do that. Good, fun, learning times.
We were told living in desert watch for rattle snakes! Come back for lunch and dinner! Sad what we have taken from our children! Don’t remember not having bruises cuts from enjoying life! The world wasn’t perfect but active baseball, skate boarding swimming! So much have been stolen from children to day! Let’s face it we are not what we were! Normal now is protect your children there is no choice any more
We drank from garden hoses all over the neighborhood. Didn’t matter if we knew who lives there. And people didn’t care! As long as you didn’t leave the hose running.
We rode our bikes to middle school 10 miles away. It was great.
At a young age (10-11 years old) we would leave the house in the morning during the summer and wouldn’t come home until it got dark. We’d go to the pool, the beach in our neighborhood, wherever! It was freedom.
I was a little girl of the 70's. So grateful I was one of the last generations to have a fun, free spirited childhood
I wish I had a nickel for every time I said that! I would be rich! The 70's were the best!
As a Child in the 70's, all I Can Say Is - "THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND!"
@@cj.t.7321 Fuck yea!
Here! Here!
Me too, born in 66'
I remember kids falling on the blacktop playground. They just went to the nurses office and perhaps the hospital. No one sued the school because it's just how it was. I miss the money bars and the spinning discs that kids would try and jump on when it was moving.
Yes, the increasingly litigious nature of society has had a big impact on what children can and can't do for fun. A few big awards and the insurance companies get wary. Rates go up, leading to the disappearance of services and products. When the incident rate get high enough, various levels of government step in and outlaw things or state mandating safety measures to decrease the impact on health care systems.
I had plenty a blister on the monkey bars
In Germany there is Not a big different today Kids Play outsite with Friends but the adults give the kids Smartphones. Its all the older Generation.
I grew up like this and it has been shocking and sad to see how things have changed so drastically. My children missed all of these carefree times. Couldn’t run freely around the neighborhood… not just because of danger.. my own next door neighbor called me one day to remove my boys from catching tadpoles in her little pond. She said I might sue her if anything happened 😢
"Be back home when the streets lights come on" was a familiar refrain from Mom during summer vacations. We'd ride bikes all morning, grab a sandwich for lunch at a friend's place to re-fuel, then out to the public pool in the afternoon. A good night's sleep was practically guaranteed!
My mom was a little more strict. She wanted me home BEFORE the street lights came on
Or if you happened to be at one friend's house, her mom always fed you and it was a bowl of Campbels alphabet soup & i/2 grilled cheese sandwich. True comfort food
@@margaretmurphy9498 and you'd always call home to give an update if you'd be running late
What's a street light and a phone city people??????
@@donnienicholson6062 welcome to the 21st century
I never realized how much fun and simpler things were 50 yrs ago.
I think the second world war took care of most overindulgence ....We kids had less , but never knew it...because we had our freedom..
However, phone calls were EXPENSIVE..until smartphones
you had to rely on mail😊
I was born 50 years ago and I’m glad I was
@@mogznwaz I wuz hatched 61 years ago, when things were simpler.
@@dinosaurcomplaints2359 i was birthed 60 years ago Dec. Best time ever for kids. Man we used to have clubs ,forts, tree houses. Grass spear fights, bike ramps to nowhere. Fishing in the same stock tanks we swam in and the cows too. Jump off the roof with mama sheet trying a parachute and broke an arm. Lol
Enjoy. Peace goodwill friend
Now that I look back it occurs to me that walking to and from school, without a cell phone or any distractions, gave me a lot of time to 'think'. It was almost a mile away so plenty of time to spend with my thoughts.
The worst thing that ever happened was the "consolidated" elementary school system. The old neighborhood schools that kids could walk to once they became "car wise" were much better. Parents would also attend PTA meetings and would be more involved with schooling.
Going for long solitary walks so I could make up stories was one of my favorite activities. I learned years later that my parents were afraid of me hurting myself, but did not think it was right to deprive me of my independence.
@@smithno41school system in this country turned into a shitshow!
I also remember the huge tractor inner tubes you crawled into and rolled down a hill. And the wood burning iron that got as hot as the sun that you drew or wrote with. Being able to go with friends to a nearby field to camp overnight. Walking or bus riding two or more miles to watch a movie or go to the arcade or the pier amusement area. Kids today barely are allowed to walk 2 blocks to a friends house alone.
I was the only one in the neighborhood with a giant inner tube. Thank you for bringing that memory back up. Small town private swimming pits, abandoned mining roads, giant taconite hills to slide down in winter or climb with your motorcycle in the summer.
Wow isn't it a surprise that so many of us survived, didn't get to hibernate in the house all day, actually had to go outside and do something whether it was chores or play. Man I was lucky, wouldn't trade what I had growing up for what's out there today .
It was the best.
I'm so grateful I had a real childhood before parents decided to sedate, leash, castrate and bubblewrap their kids.
I love what you said, it's so true... unfortunately
You forgot lobotomize.
@@Lili-xq9sn yeah, but parents don't bother with that. That's what phones are for.
It's sad when you realize the parents of the kids of every beloved "kids on bikes" movie like Goonies, Stand by Me, The Sandlot, ET and more recently Stranger Things, would all be considered "neglective monsters" and thrown in prison while CS takes their kids away.
Today's kids are all on speed (Adderall ia an amphetamine) so that they can compete in school. We used to have dumb kids and smart kids. Now the dumb kids are on drugs for their learning disability. It seems everyone is really smart, some just need amphetamines to bring it out. And then Xanax to get to sleep at night. The pharmaceutical companies love dumb kids.
As a kid of the 70s, 80s - the gives me the nostalgic feels right in the heart. Makes me feel young by taking me back. Makes me feel so old by realizing how much times have changed and how much time has passed since then. Thank you!
Born in 68 , this video brings me back 100 percent great time to be young. Today's youth are being cheated.
Today's youth are being indocrinated and groomed to be obedient and controlled by a Satanic government! Also, there were only two genders back then, and we didnt want to be the opposite one!
I thank God that I'm old and that I grew up in a society that was free and not neurotic. My sister and I walked ten blocks to school and ten blocks back. I was six years old at the time, and nothing bad ever happened to us.
We used to leave our bikes out in front of our houses unchained. In the morning they were still there. The same with riding our bikes to the nearest convenience store or supermarket. We never even considered securing our bikes with chains. They would always be there when we exited the store.
What beautiful times! Such wonderful freedoms we experienced!
Incredibly, I'm still alive to relate these experiences in spite of the horrific "dangers" that we experienced according to modern society.
Looking back to my childhood, its almost as if I grew up on another planet
I think we actually DID!!! (LOL)
I agreed. I wish I could go back to that planet.
the founders and Jesus both said to SEPARATE from evil. "come out from among them, be ye separate". "what you do NOT oppose, you are giving hardy approval to". waste & fraud tax & spend lie & steal death & debt sick & tired ? I am. BEWARE the Military Industrial Complex..... 3 years later, Amerika had an insurrection. we became an oligarchy. wise up
We were never left unsupervised. Our mother did not work until years later and then it was part time, typing at one of the local Catholic seminaries.
I was born in 1949 so grew up during the 50s and 60s. We were "free-range" kids. Small town surrounded by farms. We learned to take care of ourselves and our friends. We could read the changing weather and knew when it was time to head for home and cover. I doubt that we considered anything particularly dangerous: just more exciting and fun. Skinned hands, elbows and knees were normal for everyone. Garden hoses were our water fountains: just be sure to run the water for a few moments to empty out the hot water! Someone's aunt or great-aunt or grandmother would have cookies or brownies for us. And we respected all adults: even ones we did not know. Thanks for the great video.
I like the term Free Range 😉 that was us for sure. Wild Indians my grandparents would say laughing. Both my parents grew up in city apts. So owning a house in the suburbs with lawns & garages allowed them to spoil us with bikes & swingsets
Great comment!
Only thing bad about the fifty's through the seventies (I was born in the mid sixties) was the more common racism
The respect is deeply missing these days.
@@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980 I never noticed that, but I was born in the north east in a small town where every one cared for everyone, and nobody cared about skin color.
Born in 1956 I never had to walk to school either. But my parents told us kids of having to walk for miles in all sorts of weather to go to school when they were young. I grew up in a rural area of narrow dirt roads and we had a school bus that picked us up and dropped us off right in front of my house. Some of the bus stops were at intersections where there were lots of kids in that particular area. They would have to walk or their parents drove them to meet the bus. Very few closings because of snow or bad weather. The bus getting stuck on those narrow dirt roads was always a treat as well as a great excuse for being late! After school and weekends we went out to play without any supervision. Running through the woods and fields in our local area with the neighborhood kids. Most of us lived at least a mile or more away from each other in different directions. That gave us lots of places to investigate in each others areas. Swimming in neighbors ponds, flipping rocks in creeks to catch anything we found. I always came home with something. Flowers for my mom, soaking wet clothes, a critter I found, Poison Ivy, scratches and bruises but never a broken bone! Not that I didn't come close a few times! The only rule I was ever given was "Be Home By Dark" because " The Bears Come Out " which was instilled in me from the time they gave me freedom to run free and be a kid! Thank You Mom & Dad💖💖
Born in the 60s... No bus for me because I was less than 2 miles away.
My dad was born in the 50s. He lived in Alaska and had to cross-country ski to school! He said he entertained himself by chipping off ice that formed on the interior of the windows in his bedroom! He looked forward to doing the dishes because the water was warm!
Also a '56er, I walked to school most of the time from kindergarten on. In high school we had a bus, but the mean girls made trouble, so I usually rode my bike instead, even after beating up a couple of the mean girls so they finally left me alone. Nobody got in trouble for that kind of thing, neither them nor me. You had to learn to handle yourself and solve that kind of problem. Mom taught us to watch out the back window of the car for police cars. She was a young woman herself, and not into slow and stately driving. We enjoyed that job and took it very seriously! We did most of the things this video showed, and when I was grown in the '80s I'd still take kids for rides in the back of my truck and use the gears to make it bounce them around back there. They liked it.
A lot of this really wasn’t as long ago as many of you might think. This extended into the 80’s and 90’s.
Yeah I grow up in the 80s and 90s
Yep can attest to this as well
Yep. I was born in 82 and experienced most of this. The only thing I didn't do is walk to school
I grew up in this period of history. Such a wonderful time to be a kid.
AMEN!!!
Born in the early 60s I have to agree. As kids back then we had so much more freedom and independence
I agree
Hell Yeah
Street lights went on,. Time to go home!! Simple!!
When you look back to that great period you realize just how much freedom we've lost.
It's not so much the freedoms we lost as it is the idiots we gained.
Kids could still mow the yard today. Parents just dont make them. And they get their money from mom dad. Or else ill tell.
I remember the long straight steel slide at my elementary school in the 80’s. Years later they cut it in half to make it “safer”. Then they got rid of it all together.
If you went over the top bar of a swing set you would turn inside out
@KcP Can't get safer than no play equipment at all.....
So sad...the newer slides aren't even slippery and poor kids have to inch down them.
Besides building character and work ethic, the experiences we had growing up also taught us how to keep our mouths shut.
My knees were always skinned up from falling on monkey bars, bike riding , playing baseball with the boys and I survived.
My mom kicked 5 children out of the house for the day and we were on our own…. Had the greatest of fun!!!!
I remember thinking that I'd know I'm grown up when I don't have scabs and bruises on my knees.
Betty, me too. My knees were scabbed all summer.
When you got 2 brothers, 17 cousins and only 4 are girls… one 10 yrs older, one 10 yrs younger you learn to rough it w/the boys and take to scrapes. Oh, but those skinned knees and hands from falling on the rough ground or rocky driveways keeping up. 🥲
I remember being jealous of kids who broke a bone and had a cast. They were the coolest kid in school and everyone wanted to sign the cast or draw on it.
Now, you see so many teens sporting tattoos. However, those of us that grew up in the 50's and 60's have scars. They are kind of like tattoos, but they have a much better story behind them. We all either have, or know someone that has, scars that were from those times and they all remind us of something we did...often something we should not have done. Kind of like the "Hey, ya'll! Watch this!" moment. Or "it seemed like a good idea at the time" moment.
we were jumping from tree limb to tree limb, i guess i jumped out to far, i caught the limb but my momentum keep going and i couldn't hold on. i slipped and fell directly on my arm/shoulder/wrist. i put my arm out to stop myself from falling on my head and pretty much broke everything............yeah, don't be jealous of any kid that breaks a bone.
was one of them in casts or with stitches often, was major bragging rights.
I broke my wrist falling out of a tree a few years later broken ankle from skating. Numerous stitches, I don't know how I'm still here sometimes. 😆
Remember parents putting that red stuff on mecurachrom...burning pain from that was worse than injury
I'm also a proud survivor of my childhood and I was one of the 80s latch key kids. Also played on those metal playgrounds and walking to school in the winter. Oh yeah and no seat belt in the car and my mom held us in the seat. Oh I just remember all of this video from my childhood. Love the stroll down memory lane.
I remember when the local grocery stores had ashtrays at the end of every aisle so you could smoke while you shopped. You could smoke in the mall, in every restaurant, hell you could even smoke in the waiting room at the hospital.
I think our school bus driver smoked!
@@samanthab1923 i definitely remember having a teacher who smoked in class
@@picktreebrag College they did. Even had a nun who smoked 😆
I remember that..
Seeing how the internet/social media has changed things, I've become more and more thankful that I got to grow up in a time before it existed. I feel sorry for kids today, childhood may have been more dangerous in my time, but it was a heck of a lot easier, heck of a lot more fun too...
AMEN...
Yes, and we weren't afraid of, ... everything.
We didn't need Adderall to do our school work.
The truth of it is that childhood was not more dangerous at all back then. I'm 66 and I wasn't in any danger as a kid. The difference now is in the fear factor and safety fetish that is rampant in today's society. For every layer of safety, there has to be a corresponding layer of danger. And with every danger, you have an element of fear. More safety, more "danger", more fear: it builds up like a never-ending scaffold. I would say that childhood today is far more dangerous because the ability to explore things, to think for yourself, to question, has been taken from kids. Should anything happen, which is always a possibility, kids today are not even remotely equipped to deal with it.
If they had social media when I was in school I probably would have hung myself! At least I could get away from the bullies and jerks after school.
I am a child from the 70's and 80's. I remember doing everything in this video and never once did I think I was going to die or that I was even in danger.
I'm around your age, so you and I probably died once and our mothers told us to "walk it off"
@@Saurles mom's spit could fix anything
Bring on the Lawn Darts!
@@Saurles 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think I "might" have slightly scared myself once when I climbed too high in a tree, and had to bear hug and skin my arms & legs to get back down. We learned the hard way. But damn it we learned well
Born in 1980, I experienced all of this. I loved rinding in the back of my Dad’s station wagon and making faces at the drivers behind us. They’d get mad & honk and my Dad didn’t know why 😂
I have to hold my hands up that I have committed that offence too ha ha
kids used to lie down on the back window deck of cars
@@bobsmoth-iv3sp Oh my word, yes !!!!!! ha ha they did!😂😂😂
@@bobsmoth-iv3sp I did that too, lol
I am 80 yrs. old. Believe me, it was a great time to grow up. I was a part of a lot of those things you just watched.
What's often overlooked is that this sort of childhood actually helped prepare kids for adulthood by teaching them self reliance. We look back on it as being "allowed to be kids" but in reality we were gaining valuable life skills and learning to watch out for ourselves. We learned early on (often the hard way) that the world wasn't safe nor should we expect it to be. It's not that today's kids are robbed of their childhood, it's that their childhood is unnaturally prolonged. We shelter them for 20 years then turn them loose on the world with no idea how to fend for themselves.
Yep, exactly...I do agree with you
So true! Look at the whims we now have!
Yep, they arrive at college and claim they are unsafe from words they don't agree with. Ridiculous.
Less crime back in the old horrible days
@@techguy2696 Not really. We just didn't hear about much beyond our own area. The 60s and 70s were crawling with serial killers, especially out west where I grew up.
I was born in 1963 and can relate to this video. If my mom or dad knew half of the things I did they would have had a heart attack. I remember playing all day somewhere within a two to three mile radius of my house only to come home for dinner. Then, it was back out playing knowing the parental rule of "be home when the street lights come on." I wouldn't want to be a kid in todays time.
Your mom and dad did the same or “worse” meaning less supervision
so very true.........
Man the street lights must have been universal. I had the same requirement. Boy did those summer nights last forever. My mom would also flick the porch light on my sister, whichever one happened to be parked out front making out. Flick that light . . one sister was hard to get in. Mom had that porch light singing boy. Lmao!! I love it and miss it. Two months shy 60 and can't believe it. Where is little jerry?/ya know?
I'm a 63 baby too
We had a loud bell on the side of our house that Mom or Dad would ring to call us home from our adventures in the nearby countryside. I can still hear it it my mind's ear! Our range around the house was about a mile. Then as we all got a bit older, it was common for us to bike the couple miles into town to swim at the lake all summer - all we needed to do was to check-in with Mom at the boutique where she worked part-time. (In those days, Mom worked out of the home for personal edification and for experience in case Dad died prematurely. Eventually, they shared a home-based business together and spent decades working together - something they both enjoyed.)
1:00 I remember my father telling me how he would walk 5 miles everyday uphill to and from school barefooted in the snow.
I am 70 years old and all this made me a strong independent woman
I know this doesn't directly relate but, in 1964 (8 years old), I was in a hospital for open heart surgery (pulmonary stenosis).
My mom was walking down an intersecting hallway when a nurse realized some kids were racing wheelchairs down the other hall and before my mom saw them (me) the nurse pulled her back just in time.
My mom was very upset until the nurse reminded her, "This is a Children's hospital, a Children's hospital". ;-)
Those kids racing about in wheelchairs were just saying, We may be in a wheelchair but we can be as rough and tumble as the rest of the kids.
When hospitals treated the patient like a human... visitations, benches for some sun, etc.
Most of my life I've tried to have a normal life, but with my health issues, it comes down to the expression; "you must know your limitations."
It was the adventurous type that founded this country. If you dont let your kids do stupid things when theyre young, they'll only do stupid things when theyre adults. Death and injury yields to nobody. Life is a risk and you wont know how to win unless you risk losing.
@@TairnKA My exact moto. I was left with piss poor health from a raging case of TB caught working military hospitals. I have to listen to my body carefully and not set myself up to not be able to fulfill an obligation. I'd rather say "No" than have to disappoint someone after agreeing/promising to do something. I get super sick super easy. It's all about doing what feels safe and not trying to go too far. It's totally out of my natural tendencies, but necessary.
This just randomly popped into my head ...When I was a kid (in the '80s) we didn't have what they now call a playdate. We just went around the neighborhood and knocked on each other's doors and played together without having to have a set appointment or time to get together.
@Jennifer Hansen: Yes!!
Yep, we mainly went to one house in particular where it was mostly me my brother and a girl, where we went over to her house, all her brothers and sisters were older and, that was our plan on snow days when, all the parents we’re working because, one of the older kids could fix us lunch or if her mom came home early she would fix our lunch.
@@sonyafox3271 Snow days were the best!! Do you remember how it felt to wait to hear your school announced as being closed? That was always so exciting just waiting to find out!
@@jenniferhansen3622 Snow days were the best, even though the logic escaped me. Cancel school because the weather was too nasty to send the kids out. So how did we spend the unexpected holiday? Outside, building forts, snowmen, and having what seemed like hours-long snowball fights LOL. Good times!!
"Oh Hi Mrs. Walker, Can Tommy come out to play?" You went out thru your neighborhood till you found a friend to spend the day with. It's just the way it was. Good times then.
Born in 63. Definitely remember riding in the back of a pickup truck many summer days, which would horrify many young parents today. 😄 Not to mention cruising down hills on my skateboard without a helmet. 😁
Monkey bars were in every playground and was an icon of growing up in the 60’s.
True, there isn't much danger in being glued to a cellphone, other than growing up to be a mindless zombie, or your muscles atrophying to the point you can hardly move. It was a whole different world during the time of the video . Kids trusted their parents and parents trusted their kids. Most of us over the age of 40 grew up under those conditions and almost all of us survived them!!
we live in a society
I had a thought the other day about how I couldn't remember the last time I saw a kid climb a tree. We had an old dying oak in my Mother's backyard that we'd constantly test the laws of physics with. I also remember my Grandfather's weeping willow. He'd encourage us to go climbing by telling us it was weeping because it was lonely.
There was a cute fun boy in my neighborhood. I was playing with him and I climbed a neighbor's tall tree very high. My foot slipped and I fell into the crotch of the tree wedged in a v shape with my legs at my face. I yelled for a minute then... Oh, I can just jump down. Not hurt at all. Fun days.
My grand daughters, ten, eight and three climb in trees! My son wants them not to be afraid
When I was seven and eight we climb a tree to get on the garage roof to throw our G.I. Joe’s off with homemade parachutes that never worked.
I'm 54 yrs old. My dad is now 83, and he still has Super8 film of me climbing about 30 feet up a tree when I was only around 3 years old. No joke or exaggeration.
I planted trees in my yard, so that my granddaughter could know what it's like to climb a tree.
I was a kid in the 50s and 60s and pretty much decided for myself what was safe enough and what wasn't. I never got seriously hurt. It was a good time to grow up.
Thank you. I was born in 1954. I had a great childhood. Lived in a simple neighborhood, not poor, but nothing fancy. Great friends and we were free to run as wild as we felt. My mom fixed a special little room under our front porch for us to play with our dolls. It was an old coal bin. To us it was a mansion. Thanks mom. Miss you . 😊❤❤
It's weird how drinking out of the hose has so many good memories.
I know, just watching the video made me think of that slightly rubberish taste and miss it. Now I wonder if hoses to day have that same taste.
On a hot summer day you had to remember to let the water run out of the hose for a minute or two or you'd get a mouthful of hot water.
@@cindyp5703 First thing I thought of when I saw that was wondering if they let the water run to cold first,lol. Plus that hot water had a stronger "hose taste" then when we let it run a bit to cool down. But the water sure was refreshing and you didnt have to go inside and take time out from playing.
That hose water man, after mowing them yards for five dollars, was delicious. Was hard to wait on it to cool. I still have that taste in my mouth. Plastic rubber garden hose water. Yum
Dude I still drink out of the hose, I live dangerously. ; )
My kids think my growing up was crazy. We swam in rivers, ice skated on ponds, we only came when mom rang the dinner bell. We went everywhere with our dogs, walked the railroad tracks and sledded at about 40 mph down the huge hill in someone’s else’s yard. My adult kids who have kids think I was raised by wolves lol
Lol
WOW, MY MOM HAD A DINNER BELL TOO!!!
Nothing wrong with being raised by wolves. It was a lot of fun.
This isn't normal?
Rode in our station wagon. Mom and dad and 8 kids. Dad worked all the time.. No help from the government then. Mom and dad went without. Shared a huge bike. See saw in our backyard.
Not only that- in 50's & 60's, girls in elementary school still wore cotton dresses - all year. When below freezing, we were allowed to wear slacks -usu corduroy- under our skirts, but could not keep them on at school. By jr-sr high, usually wore skirts with sweaters or blouses. Skirts had to be knee-length. Boys wore long johns with jeans, warm shirts. Sweats were only for boys doing sports. Often walked home, rode bikes 15 mile radius wherever, took city bus to local mall (no adult), and further into city to shop or movie. Incredibly normal.
Born 1949 lived threw it and enjoyed it.
Jumped out of those high swinging swings. No seat belts, lighter and ashtrays, . Walked or rode bike all over town. Skated in the streets most times. We had parents that taught us to be safe.
You nailed this one. I would do it all again without hesitation.
I wish !
Same here, I would go right back and start all over again. Very different times than today's world.
Me too !!!
me 2. what a great childhood we had
And probably a little wilder
The taste of hose water was the taste of summer. I can't remember how many times I flipped arse over teakettle on roller skates. Great times. I'm glad I grew up when kids were still allowed to be kids.
That first line is wonderful.
I still drink from a hose here in Greece, and my children and the dog did, didn't know it was an issue, that's weird,am almost 66, and will drink from my hose.
Water from the hose was the best tasting, so good and cold, didn't need ice!
I drank from the water hose too here in Southeastern Kentucky. I drank from the ditch one time and Daddy saw me. I got spanked for doing that and I still grew up to be a normal, productive, law abiding adult. 😂
@@bethlehemeisenhour8352 Today's parents are abhord at what we did , and yet here we are, still in one piece ! We had imaginations because there was nothing on TV. We had 5 channels and except for Saturday morning cartoons and Disney on Sunday evening, that was it!So we created our own fun. I remember using cardboard boxes or anything I could find to slide down hill or steap embankment for snow parties. We made a skating ring in our back yard by roping the waterhole through the Basant window to fill up a man made shoveled out area so we could ice skate. Mom always had hot chocolate ready for us and don't forget about the goofy things we did like snow angels, building igloos and snow forts for snowball fights.
I think people forgot how resilient humans are, we didn't get this far by being weak...cuts, bumps, bruises, a few kids with a broken arm or leg by the end of summer vacation.. sorry but this is life.🤣🤦
It made us tougher AND smarter. We had to think for ourselves and accept the consequences of our decisions. NOTHING tasted as good as cool water from the hose on a hot summer day. I remember walking home from school for lunch in blizzards and then having to walk back after lunch
This was my childhood, and it was awesome! I feel bad for today’s kids.
They're going to be fk'd by Europeans or Hillary's kin...isn't that what you always wanted for your children?
I used to feel the same. Now nah not so much. Man kids today gotta be the dumbest not just kids. Ask ANYone simple history or geography or you get the picture.
Uhm can you tell me where Europe is?
College student: Canada?
Yes Ma'am. Agreed. Whole heartedly agree.
I was born in 68, this video is so accurate, we had fun as kids and teens, my parents couldn't keep me and my sister in law
I was born in 68,this video is so accurate this was my childhood as well. My parents couldn't keep me and my sister in the house! Kids went out to play, after supper my mom would say come in when the streetlights come on! This video was a trip down memory lane! I visit my dad often in the same residential neighborhood, in the same house we grew up in, back in the 70's and 80's the neighborhood was alive with kids of all ages out having fun, same neighborhood modern day, even though the neighborhood is packed with kids they don't go out of the house!! I am just glad I grew up when I did, like you the memories last a lifetime! Todays youth are being cheated!!!!!!
Amazingly, I survived childhood during the 60s. If you did something stupid that got you hurt, you didn't do THAT again!
A friend of mine had a "safe" Creepy Crawlers oven in the 90's. The oven itself was neon orange and green plastic, but the molds were still metal, and I'm pretty sure both of us burned the crap out of our fingers a couple times using it when we were eight/nine.
This really took me back to my childhood. I’m 45 now and haven’t thought about much of the things in this video for decades.
I was born in 71. Despite being younger than many who watch this channel, I still enjoyed many years of doing stupid things outside with my friends. I feel sorry for the kids of today who grow up staring at a cell phone all day.
Dude you're not out of place on this page.
Yep, they can't seem to put it down even at work. Glad that I'm retired, I couldn't take it.
68 here...
@@davebrown4841 me either. They couldn't survive until break without a cell phone. It's pathetic now . Glad I'm retired too.
@@lindabradford9591 Most construction jobs I did ,we didn't get these 15 minute breaks that people cry that they need.
Sleeping with the window open, a cool breeze blowing in and a steam engine train chugging in the distance…one of my favorite childhood memories.
Ohhhh! 🚂❤️
I m in my mid 50s. Back in the 80s I would leave the keys in my trucks and it was nothing to get in and it would have a full tank of gas and I knew it was only half full a day ago, a few farmers knew I left the keys in and if they broke down in a field near by they would take my truck to town get parts and fill the tank, a few even stopped in park tractor in by shed use my tools to fix them and left a note even a few $ . dang I miss those days.
Great memories growing up in the late 50s and 60s.
Good time's. I remember being told to come home when the street lights came on!
I was born in 62 and grew up in a small town in central Ohio with big woods and an old river that ran through it. People would think you were weird if you didn't sleep with the windows open. No street lights just some porch lights or the occasional old gas post light. We played kick the can and ghost in the graveyard literally in the dark with no worries, and of course we drank from the hose, you kidding me? LOL Sure our parents loved us and took care of us but not helicopter parents. We took BB guns and built forts in the woods and in winter we skated on the river when it froze over. We rode our bikes all over in search of a new adventure or maybe just kill some time skipping flat rocks across the river or flipping over big rocks looking for crawdads. And the best part is......my parents ENCOURAGED it all. We lived as curious kids should live. We explored and discovered things sometimes all on our own with no parents around, and then we'd run back home to share our News with mom and dad. Thank you, this video really took me back.
Holy s***, Brett! Did you live on my block? 😉
@@annehenry6243 hahaha! We had apple fights, snow Ball fights, played Wiffle Ball in the street, played cowboys and Indians, picked berries, throw balls over roofs back and forth for our other friends to catch it, dig for night crawler in the night with our flash lights, play kick the can, steal the bacon, red rover, then play witch in the seller, throw Frisbees, traded baseball cards, played house, made huge leaf piles to drive in them with or bicycle, play in tree houses and had clubs,play toss and catch, watch baseball on TV on a Sunday afternoon, play with matchbox cars and plastic soldiers....
Brett L, I grew up in a small town in Ohio. Before I adopted my daughter, who I’ll call Mandy*, she was almost eight and was my foster daughter; so, I had to abide by the safety rules that were given to me. However, I’d let her go to the plaza or strip mall next to our apartment building. I gave her a walkie-talkie so she could let me know she got there okay and when she was leaving. After I adopted her when she was ten, I would leave her alone for an hour or two with the door locked. I didn’t want to become a ‘helicopter’ parent. Had something happened to her, I would’ve been devastated. Thankfully nothing did.
Born in 63. You just described mine and my friends life in Michigan to a tee! World was so much smaller and what I wouldn't give to see times like that again.
I almost forgot...Skitching ( hopping ) cars in the winter time! Anybody remember that? Grab hold of a cars back bumper and let it drag you down the road.
Born in 1947 and did the same things in the 50’s. Red Rover, standing on the floor in the back seat, staying with my cousins on their farm, so many boomers each school year was divided in half, we were called mid-termers and played and played.
After reading through a whole batch of comments, I can tell you I'm 82, and my childhood in the 40's and 50's was even more dangerous and LOADS more fun . Did all the stuff in the video and even more.
I am 83 and agree 100%, We boys would sword fight with old curtain rods, sometimes dipped in red paint for realism.
@@marshalllpgraney920 We carved :pirate swords" out of orange crate wood, using my dad's electric saw. We rode our bikes around jousting at each other, and sometimes we were cowboys shooting each other with cap pistols. Today's entitled kids don't get to have that kind of fun, because it's "not safe".
I am just a youngster at 53 but I can say I had a good time and have the scars to prove it, Nothing like a good old stick fight(going to the woods and throwing sticks at each other) I grew up on the edge of a town and in the summer time I was told to go out after breakfast and lived off fruit trees and grapes until supper time.
@@caroldragon7545 however..IMK today's kids are more unsafe
They look like alleys with graffiti, and arent burning off fat...
Kids used to est junk, but went outside and burned it
Now, some are becoming type 2 diabetic😩
@@caroldragon7545 I do not think I am entitled just because something is unsafe. I just know that I would do that if I ever got the chance. I do get exercise by playing volleyball. Today's kids are just different
Such good memories. I remember all of these things from my childhood. It was fantastic and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Oh the horror of growing up in the 1960's, haha. Yes, indeed I did grow up in the early 1960's and we lived our childhoods as wild and vicariously as you described in the vid. As kids living in suburbia we entertained ourselves outside playing Cowboys and Indians, riding our bikes everywhere and enjoyed the freedom away from our parents to do pretty much as we pleased within reason. The one thing you didn't mention were those Chemistry Sets you could purchase with real chemicals that we could experiment with without any regard for safety. Ah yes, the good ole days. I miss them.
The good part about dangerous things? We learned how to be careful, knew what was dangerous. Today the kids wander through life, everything safe to a fault and they wouldn't know a danger if they fell over it (and they probably do).
Yes! Lots of options for play and lots of experiences to learn from....like "I shoulda listened ". We learned to trust our parents and figured out they maybe 'knew stuff'.
Born in '63. My lower middle-class childhood was infinitely superior to practically any today.
1963 too.
1963 girl here!
1962
We were poor but so was everyone else. I was the only boy . I had 3 sisters. We didnt take baths during the week. Only mama made us "wash those feet". Come sunday bath day. We all used the same bath water. Poor. Being the only boy i went last. I got the dirty water. Rings around the tub. Shoot man i could fly barefooted. Couldnt get me in a pair of shoes even if i had a summer pair.
Mom would send me to the store. She had a charge account and i would run up there get her smokes, sign the ticket and run on back hone with her ciggs. 6,7,8 years old. Never thought to bust into them till later up in the tree. Ahhh. I miss my youth.
@@jdaleb 😆 Today anyone who sold cigs to a 6,7,8 yr old the seller would be crucified then thrown in jail. It would be the crime of the century.
1968 - still 1000 times better than today!
Wow this brought back all the memories and feelings associated with them. Love this
Thanks you for the beautiful and wonderful memories you bring back some good times
Yes, accidents and even some deaths occurred (especially in cars) but by and large we survived. We were able to think for ourselves, had great imaginations, and most of us were not overweight before hitting our teens because we were so active.
Plus, the food we ate was much healthier even from fast food places! Soda had real sugar, cookies and cakes had real butter, milk had cream on top of the bottle, yet no one was fat.
Yes, we weren't sitting around in front of a screen all day playing games. We never felt bored. I remember getting together with the neighbor kids and making up games to play. We had this one game we"d play after dark in the summertime. I was about 13. It was like hide & seek, but in teams. We called the game "Chase". There was a designated spot for a base; a driveway. One team would go out hide around a designated area around our homes. After a set time, the other team would then go find the hiding team. If a hiding team member was found, they had to be tagged by the hunter to get captured & taken to the base. Thus, you could run and get away if you could from being captured. If you did get captured, you were taken to the base. There was a guard at the base, because a hiding team member could run in, tag a captured member of their team, and go hide again. But if the guard tagged the member running in, they were captured. Played after dark, we often found hiding places in very dark spots, sometimes right in an open field. And it was fun trying to uncapture your team members. You really had to be quiet to sneak behind the guard. The goal was for the seeking team to capture all the hiding team and sometimes that could take some time. It was so much fun. We spent hours playing that game & hated being called in at around 10 or 11 pm. We often figured out similar activities in the daytime, too. I find it sad that as a teacher today, I often hear kids tell me they are bored if they can't play on a computer. It's just not the same anymore.
We were allowed to play in the cars and occasionally we drove up and down the driveway and parked the car as usual. Parents didn’t know! But, eventually they found out later, they ended up connecting the dots as to why we suddenly started wanting the keys and play in the car. Never got hurt from it!
Just like accidents and deaths occur today! NO ONE is EVER 100% safe EVER!!!!!! And that will be true even after the year 3945!!!!
Growing up in the 60s and 70s was awesome! Especially summers!
Double Dutch, metal slides, standing on the swing seat as you'd go back and forth, then jumping off!
Thank you so much for bringing back my memory I can remember everything you listed on this video
Thank you very much for bringing back wonderful memories, definitely fun times!
Kids today don't have a clue as to what we used to consider fun! The playground equipment was like medieval torture devices compared to the soft, mulchy playground equipment that's made out of plastic rather than the steel equipment we had a blast on for hours at a time. We rode in back of pickup truck beds and sat in chase lounge chairs during the ride. The thing about the pickup bed, and convertible exposed us to the open air, and we felt on top of the world! It's a true miracle that I survived, but I wouldn't have had it any other way!
Lol, exactly!
A lot of kids now have safe spaces and cry rooms . smh . Edit to add . Remember MercuroChrome ? The red pain .
I got a few black eyes from getting hit from a hard wooden flat swing. At 6, I didn't always realize that it wasn't safe to walk behind someone swinging. Either that, or I was too busy having fun playing to realize I was in the way.
Many a burnt arse in summer for sure 😊
We had this teeter totter thing that sat on a tripod with a seat for two kids facing each other suspended by a heavy steel chain. pretty innocent fun for little kids, But us teenagers took it to another level and by standing up and pushing downward you would send the other guy flying upward. My head got kabonged many times hitting the cast iron tripod. Those were the days....
I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. Growing up in the 70's was great. Our curfew was the street lights coming on. Our playground was the woods and parks plus ball hockey on our streets. Your parents knew your friends parents. Your windows and doors were always open in the summer even at night. Though we had German Shepherds so just leaving the screen door was safe for us.
You can keep those times. I'll take the present time where I can keep my window closed and run the A/C!
@jensensarpy1784 good for you. Keep the bullet proof vest on as well. Back then we never worried about that either
Thanks for the great memories!
All the memories of being a kid in the 60s 70s and 80s !
I remember my parents giving me matches to light the charcoal snake tablets. They came in a small candy sized box and when ignited would grow into a long, charcoal snake. Good times!😂
I can STILL remember the SMELL!!! (LOL)
They still make those. You can buy them here in Florida.
In denmark we have a package with a small monkey and you put that charcoal tablet in a hole at the monkeys butt - ignite the tablet to watch the monkey make an endless s...
The days leading up to the 4th of July was awesome. Minnesota only allowed sparkles, smoke bombs and snakes, so we would purchase illegal fireworks from people who traveled to neighboring states to resell the good stuff--Roman Candles, M-80s, Silver Salutes, bottle rockets, firecrackers, cherry bombs, and rockets and missiles of all types.
Do you see how happy all those children were in those days???!! Look at their smiling faces!! Take a look at kids faces today, yep, huge difference. We were lucky, we had fun and were happy, life was an adventure, with so many ways to have fun without the safety police on our heads. Am glad I lived on those times. I feel sorry for today's children, they don't know what real fun is.
ok boomer
Gladys i think i heard a survey a couple years ago. Asked what was one thing 80 percent of kids under the age of 18 have never done this?
Push a mower.
We don't see many kid's faces today, because they are staring at a screen.
@@GigaDarkness I don't think you realize what a small person you are.
Went to the park when I was about ten or so, a little girl broke her arm on the spinning device when she fell from it a boy scout did a splint and parents took kid to doctor.. A small boy fell from the tall curving slide and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. I am sure there were other injuries that day but as that was 60 plus years ago....
Thanks for the reminders and memories. :)
Love your videos! I grew up in the 1970s and I remember everything was a competition. Who could jump their bikes off the highest ramp, who could jump off the swing at the highest point? It was about who was the bravest. Then of course all the dares we would accept. All in fun. Such a wonderful time.
It was a better time than today. I would gladly trade the dangers of the past for the modern dangers my grandkids are facing!
I am a proud survivor of just about everything mentioned in the video. We learned a lot of life's lessons including that sometimes life hurts and it isn't always fair. But we had fun! We didn't complain about every little thing, we learned to conquer our fears instead of surrending to them and learn how to function independently. Thanks for the memories.
Well said . This is what I taught my children of the 80s .
Yep the same here
Same experiences here also.
it got us READY for the REAL world!!! Back then, they DIDNT give out AWARDS for SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES....If you DIDNT make the TEAM....TRY HARDER NEXT TIME, or try SOMETHING ELSE....You wanted something.....you EARNED it or SAVED UP for it!!! GIFTS were for BIRTHDAYS & HOLIDAYS!!! We didnt have a park or playground in my neighborhood...we had LOTS....they were full of junk, rusty metals, scrap lumber, etc. & trees. Yet NO ONE ever got SERIOUSLY hurt, & we played in em EVERYDAY!!! We used the old rusty nails & scrap lumber to build clubhouses & a treehouse!! (LOL)
Thanks for these great memories and good music too.
I wonder if we should consider bringing back the fun of childhood again. I also wonder if kids playing outside and being more active is why some of the kids from back then were not over weight. The sad part is we let the liability attorneys ban many fun things from childhood today, because everyone is afraid of being sued. If you look at how many survived from back then and are still alive today, I suspect that statistically, the safety record was pretty good, granted it might not be today's level of safety net. Also studies on adventure playgrounds teach children to evaluate risk better.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Being a kid back then was fun and dangerous. I remember riding in the bed of a pickup, sitting in lawn chairs. It was a blast!