loishe

Amazing isn't it? We didn't have lots of money...just lots of imagination!

ptquilts

I would like to add another one to Ditter's list.

We played sports, all by ourselves, with no adult coaches, umpires, or spectators. We made and enforced the rules, settled disputes, chose up sides, without ANY HELP from grownups. If anyone's parents had sat on the sidelines, cheering them on, we would have thought they were certifiably insane.



Kids these days miss out on all that. They can't do anything without an adult to tell them what and how to do it.

And yes, I was the one who was always chosen LAST for the team. And I survived.

stitchinwitch

WE - adults as well as children - have become LAZY. We use to be OUTSIDE most of the day - good weather, bad weather. Now we are on the computer or watching tv. We ALL need to do more gardening this year - flowers and vegetables. What do you think??

Ps 150

I would love to garden but my black thumb is quite terrible. My DH actually tells people that his wife has an "apocolyptic" thumb. But each year I take our girls hiking. Perhaps I can get them into gardening, with the promise that their mother will stay far away from all of their endeavors. :lol:

jpthequilter

Umm, I was born in 1930 - that makes me older than your dad...81 yrs now!
and you and I were lucky...but you know there are lots and lots of good people around everywhere who are like you and your dad!

jpthequilter

Have y'all ever thought that we oldsters possibly lived in the best of times ever to happen?
It isn't exactly better now...
I remember seeing actual clouds of butterflies, coming down to drink from puddles after a rain...
...and lots and lots more birds!
When they killed the bugs, they killed the bird food!
Maybe the reason we are oldsters now is because our water did not have complicated toxic chemicals in it...although it might have had some sand or earth in it.
...and our food wasn't sprayed with chemicals, we just cut the bug or bird bites out...an apple with a worm in it? We ate some of the good part, or put it in a pie and threw the rest away.
I washed my hair from the water in our rain barrel because it was soft, and drank it too,
thinking water from the sky was the cleanest!

Ps 150

There are lots of people who still believe in raising their children themselves, rather than allowing the t.v. to do it. Unfortunately, we're not considered the norm anymore. My girls have been called "old fashioned" because they wear dresses/skirts to church on Sundays, just as I wear skirts to church. I could understand calling a woman "old fashioned" for this, I suppose, but my girls are 6 and 8. If it's not normal for little girls to wear girly clothes anymore, then I don't know if I want to be normal. My 6 year old has been a tomboy for most of her life but has recently started to like pink and girly things--thus, making her mommy rejoice ;-) --but now it's considered wierd to like pink or wear dresses. I'm going to encourage this as long as I can, normal or not. :D

gal288

Love it, I'm making sure my daughter,, a new mother, reads this.

She is a nervous reck, having read all the new mother books. I' ve told her to stop driving herself crazy,, she's missing out on the joy of motherhood with all her worrying.

cheri stonespinner

I remember sledding down an icy street across another icy street ducking my head under a barbed wire fence to come to a stop in a horse field repededly during fridged Minnesota winters. :-)I'm not sure how my fre

LMB

AMEN!!!!! I thank GOD I am proud of this generation... I was raised without the help of some Dr.s book, and so were my kids... it's called common sence. Thank you for posting this I am sending it off to my kids... they will get it!