QuiltnNan

:lol: :lol:

clem55

No air conditioning and no TV, block of ice cooled the frig, and walked to school 12 blocks in snow up to my knees. No "snow days" back then.

sandilee

Carol....also we girls had to wear dresses to school! frozen legs! We knew no difference!

Chele

My childhood may have been more illicit...dad poured old motor oil and gasoline into the ground and my mom probably smoked while breastfeeding me. We're getting smarter, society. High five that! Don't turn my family in, they're model citizens now! ;)

Stitchnripper

All of the above, seems to me. When I was 9 my baby brother was about 8 months old. It was summer. I got him up, changed him, fed him, put him in a giganto old baby carriage and walked him to "town". I did this almost every weekday in the summer. No one thought this was odd and no one called child protection, and, nothing bad ever happened to us. Where was my mother? Sleeping in of course!

New Quilter

I loved this...it was my childhood too...lol...Naomi
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dd

Drinks from the garden hose, lunches with no ice packs, no air conditioning, catching lightening bugs, riding bicycles with no helmet and bare footed, running barefoot in the grass (still do), I'm surprised we survived.

bearisgray

the cats and dogs ran free (we were in the country) and the vet was seldom visited or called

Chele

Another one I've been preaching to my kids...college with a typewriter, your imagination and white-out. No Google or internet.

nana20010

yes the good olddays whene childred respeted adults and each others and plesse dont let the nabords have to get on to u cause u realy got it whene u got home.