My humble childhood
#31
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Location: Fort White, Fl
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Originally Posted by sandilee
As a child I saw Tarzan almost naked, Cinderella arrived home after midnight, Pinocchio told lies, Batman drove over 200 miles an hour, Snow White lived in a house with 7 men, Popeye smoked a pipe and had tattoos, Pac Man ran around to digital music while eating pills that enhanced his performance, and Shaggy and Scooby were mystery solving hippies that always had the munchies. The fault is not mine!
#32
I remember laying out my school clothes the night before, changing into play clothes after school and wearing my Sunday best only on Sunday!(no jeans allowed at church, what would the neighbors think!lol) I remember our Dr. making house calls & that was the only time we were allowed to sit on the table. Dinner time was 6pm each & every night & we all had to be there, no elbows on the table either & my dad use to say sit up straight! My mom & dad raised 6kids with only 1 bathroom, there wasn't a shower we had a claw foot tub, had to rinse my hair using a cup while sitting in the tub or over the kitchen sink! LOL I was raised to keep my shoulders back, head up straight & tummy in! What happened? There was no antibacterial I'm still here! The old saying's were you'll eat a bushell of dirt before you die, or you'll live till you get married! LOL Penny candy was only a penny! No snow days, & if I wore pants in the winter they were under my dress & I had to take them off once I got to school. Ed Sullivan & Lawrence Welk were our reality shows.
#36
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We played basketball (usually it was flat) out behind the barn & our hoop was an old 5 gal. bucket w/a rusted out bottom hung on the barn. Always had to milk the cows (we had a dairy) before & after school. Butchering chickens & hogs for our meat, we did send he beef to the processing place. Canning, boy, we canned enough to last through the winter until the next garden was producing. Hot, too, no a/c at all, no tv. Did have a radio. Lots of board games w/my siblings & our parents in the winter always outdoors in the summer playing on the creek after chores were done. Good days, well, I wouldn't want to be w/out a/c esp. this summer. Average temps for us was around 105 all summer.
#37
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I went back and read all of these posts and have laughed myself silly. These all bring up childhood memories. We would go outside in the morning and sometimes did not go home until almost dark unless we were hungry. No one called child services if our parents did not know where we were. In the winter we walked across frozen ponds and lakes. We played in corn fields and followed the fenceline home, jumped from haylofts, climbed big trees, drank from the hose, played in the rain and walked everywhere we went. If we wanted to talk to our friends we went to where they were. These were the good old days and when my GKs are with me I share all of this and let themm do as much of it as possible. Iam 64 with 8 kids 24 GKs and 9 GGKs and I still drink from the hose.
#38
Originally Posted by 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!
May in Jersey
#39
Originally Posted by lillybeck
I went back and read all of these posts and have laughed myself silly. These all bring up childhood memories. We would go outside in the morning and sometimes did not go home until almost dark unless we were hungry. No one called child services if our parents did not know where we were. In the winter we walked across frozen ponds and lakes. We played in corn fields and followed the fenceline home, jumped from haylofts, climbed big trees, drank from the hose, played in the rain and walked everywhere we went. If we wanted to talk to our friends we went to where they were. These were the good old days and when my GKs are with me I share all of this and let themm do as much of it as possible. Iam 64 with 8 kids 24 GKs and 9 GGKs and I still drink from the hose.
#40
We walked to school on a major road -- rte 66. Drank water from a tin dipper from the pail. Used the outhouse and played in the dirt outside at recess. It hit the state newspaper when we got a ceramic jug and used paper cups for our water. -- the water came from a neighbors well pump.
And this was in "civilised" CT
Remember the saying "you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die" How much was a peck??
Mim
And this was in "civilised" CT
Remember the saying "you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die" How much was a peck??
Mim
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