I was born in 1960, and the 60s were pretty good too. My parents were born in the mid-30s, and they were convinced that the 30s, 40s, and 50s were golden times. It's the same with every generation.
I was born in 1971, so I grew up during the late 1970s and through the 1980s. I remembered walking a mile to school or later riding a bicycle. I was able to wander around or ride my bike around the surrounding area. I could ride off with neighborhood kids or my friends from school. I just had to return home for dinner when my parents set the time. Later in middle school and high school, cars became more of a factor. We could go further out if a friend's parents or older sibling could pick us up. Our parents returned the favor for my friends. I could go pretty much anywhere I wanted in town by bus; I just needed to tell my parents where I was going and when I expected to return home. Despite a lack of mobile phones, we managed. Pay phones, phones at local businesses, or phones at the homes of friends or neighbors could be used to contact your parents. It worked out.
I am sad for kids these day as a mom of a 9 year old I can see the difference. I am a Gen X at 9 I would have started my day with cartoons and breakfast and then I would have went outside checked the park and if no one was there I would have started knocking on friends doors to see who wanted to play, I would have rode my bike everywhere with my friends, I only went home for lunch and dinner (assuming friends would not have me over especially for lunch- most would). My daughter does not go out unless I take her, sometimes there is no one at the park and if she wants to have a friend over we have to organize it with the parents (assuming you know them). My mother did not know most of my friends parents she did not need to because I handle my own social life, she knew where my firends lived and their phone numbers but she did not have to organize my social life for me. I was out all day on most days, it is sad now when you think of the difference.
The 80’s were definitely times of less stress and more fun. We communicated with each other and just had the best times we could have outside. People were more friendly and respectful. The 80’s was the best decade to grow up in. Especially if you were born in the mid to late 60’s.
Most of these kids were 70's babies and the 80's were during their middle school and teenage years when they did most of these things. I graduated high school in the 80's and yes Kabir we were a lot more social then. I loved the movies, going to the skating rink and house parties. The kids today who spend so much time playing video games, being on social media for hours and barely going outside don't know what they are missing. Those were the good old days.😊
Loved this!! I graduated in 1986, but was the oldest of 4 so this is all so true! I was a kid in the late 70's and it was similar. The only thing they left out about the 80's that was big was Atari, PAC Man and arcades. That was probably a foreshadowing of what was to come! There is an awesome video clip that I will share in the comments that I think you'd enjoy. It is the Today show in 1996, trying to figure out what "the internet" was, and how to pronounce the "@" symbol. It's really wild to see the transistion from the no internet 80's to the start of the internet Love your reactions!
I was born in ‘78 and grew up during the 80’s and 90’s. A lot of us were latchkey kids, so I think that gave us a lot more independence than kids today have. And yes, it was A LOT more social back then. I have so many fond memories of growing up then, and I’m so grateful I grew up without the internet, cell phones and social media. We could just be kids for the most part. They should have put the smell of the ink (it was purple) they used to make copies back then (can’t remember what it was called) but if you know, you know. And remember the jelly shoes and bracelets? The tents you could put on your beds? Ahh memories….
It's a fact, we enjoyed a lot of things that kids today rarely experience. Running the neighborhood, biking everywhere, pickup sports at the park or in the yard, games and toys and social norms that have gone extinct. We socialized in real space without adult supervision, imagine that. But it's also true that kids today enjoy a lot of luxuries that we couldn't have imagined. Given that, it seems natural for us oldsters to be wistful for what's gone, but I think there's more at issue. It seems today's kids are protected from many "dangers" that weren't dangers to us. And yet they're exposed to risks and dangers (internet porn, internet bullies and predators, social isolation, physical inactivity, mental atrophy ) that we were never an issue for us.
Class of 83 here. I loved the 70s and early 80s. I wasn’t a fan of big hair, arena rock, and pop. I had to bide my time until Grunge finally hit. But I really did love that as kids, we actually hung out. We went places and were very active. I was a wicked dodge ball player. 🤣 We really did ride our tiny skateboards on our hands! Many of us girls were gymnasts. I used to ride my skateboard doing a handstand on it down a long hill! When I was done and the skateboard slowed down enough, I'd simply do a walkover to get off. The thought of doing that now would mean certain death.😅
I was a teenager in the 80s. The last generation to grow up w/o texting. We were forced to interact with others. In the late 90's I was working at a bar. Looking around one night, I realized that nearly every bar patron was on their phone. I turned to my coworkers and asked, "When did people stop talking to each other in bars? This is literally where you go to be social!" Still work at a bar. Patrons still on their phones. Societal evolution right in front of my face. Fascinating. ❤
Couldn’t have been the late 90s. I mean…there were flip phones, but people weren’t staring at them all day everyday. The smart phone revolution took off in the late 2000s.
I was born in ‘82. My younger brother (the middle child) and I would set alarms for Saturday morning so we could watch our cartoons, first one up controlled the tv. Weekends were for the sugar filled cereal. The non-sugary ones (kix, wheaties, corn flakes and Chex) were for during the week. We had to be at least in the front yard when the lights came on. If spending the night at a friend’s, you were expected to follow their parents rules perfectly and they would let your parents know if you didn’t. Definitely rode in the back of my parents’s station wagon. When calling collect, you had to get the entire call into the recorded message. My mom used to yell at me for tangling up the phone cord. We had a swing set in the backyard, solid metal, but if you swung hard enough you could lift one side. Drinking out of the hose, because 1) you didn’t want to dirty a glass your mom just cleaned and 2) you didn’t want to miss the fun. Riding your bike or playing football, soccer, hockey in the streets. Dinner was eaten at the table together, except for Sunday night when the tv trays were broke out so we could watch Sunday night’s TV Disney movie. Walking to school. The Book Fair…😌
I loved going to the skating rink!!!! We had after school skating parties... our parents would sign a permission slip and pay $2-$3 and we'd ride the school bus to the skating rink and be there for 3 or 4 hrs until our parents picked us up. And I'd ride my bike everywhere, as long as I didn't cross any major roads(which gave me a huge area to ride in)
I was born in the 70's, grew up in the 80's. A great time to be alive & free. I believe that we were the last generation to have "Pen Pals". I remember writing to a pen pal in Copenhagen. He & I would write to each other atleast once a week. We would look forward to receiving a letter from OS. Jan would send me these 2 or 3 page letter & I felt apart of his world. I'm sure he felt apart of my world too. As high school got more intense & our respective social circles grew, the letters became less & less. Until the letters just stopped coming & going. I've tried a couple of times over the years to find my pen pal. To no avail.
Telephones were fought over by kids. Mum bought a timer that had a phone picture on it. It was 15 minutes long and you weren't allowed to restart it once it went off. Usually your sibling was standing there waiting for their turn. And, you had one call a night whether it was coming in or you called out. The phone was in the living room and Mum didn't want to hear chattering all day/evening. They were getting rare in the 80s but 'party lines' still existed. My neighbors had one. The phone line was shared with another household. Each house had its own number and different ring tones. You could pick up the phone and hear people you didn't know talking. The lines were assigned as requests for services were made so the people that shared your line could be way across town. Luckily, my parents opted for private lines.
I'm a 1970 baby, I was so lucky to get the best of the 70's and 80's as a kid & teenager. You got me choked up with the Rugrats, my kids favorite when they were little. Especially my son 🥹
I was a young parent in the eighties and I'm glad my kids got in just under the wire of high tech. My kids were out riding bikes, playing on the swingset, the neighbor kids down the street. But I'm a baby boomer so those were my expectations for my kids.
I was a teen to early 20's in the 80's. Both my children were born in the 80's. It was a great time! All my grandchildren knew how to operate a computer well before they entered school.
born in the 60's here and grew up with all that. When I moved out I had a waterbed. best sleep ever!!! those were the good days for sure. we stayed outside til the streetlights came on and then did it all again the next day. good memories
Those old cord telephones were annoying if the wire got all wrapped up, we had the old things for a while up until a few years ago at my house. I do remember those old chalkboards and having to bash the erasers together just to get the chalk dust out of them.
My school didn't allow digital watches when they came out. They wanted us to learn to tell time on a round clock. Luckily, Swatch Watches were popular, so we could wear a "cool" watch that still used a dial.
Below is true of me as well. Born in 1970, the 80's were the last couple years of Elementary, All of Jr High and High School and start of college. Yes, Kabir, I agree the only news was either 1) the Paper -- EVERYONE GOT THE PAPER or 2) 5/6 PM News and 10PM News. Cable (at least for my family) didn't become a thing until later half of the 80's so there wasn't even CNN or things like that.
Growing up in the 80's if you got punished for bad grades, acting up, whatever it was. Our punishment was staying in the house.. Modern day kids have their phone or laptop taken away or worse for them told to go outside.
as a kid in a wheelchair, Dodgeball was my school days equalizer, waiting for the one person to turn or just loss concentration of what going on and SMACK right in the face
A few reasons why kids were healthier back then. Getting all that excersise on bikes, roller skates, skateboards. Climbing on jungle gyms. Just all that rime ourside they were soaking up Natural Vitamin D from the sun.
My grandparents had a party phone line where they lived so 4 or 5 families could get on the line even if they didn’t know who it was. My brother got caught talking dirty to his girlfriend & one of the neighbors told my grandma. She called my parents to come get him which was a 12 hr drive. 😂
The reason why so many schools have banned anything with peanuts or peanut butter is because some kids allergies are so bad that they can have a reaction just by smelling the offending item and do not even have to put it in their mouth.
Peanut allergies are nonexistent in third world countries. I knew of only one person with a peanut allergy in the 70s. It would trigger her asthma if she ate peanuts. Peanuts used to be a common snack served on airplanes. I’m not sure when they adopted because of peanut allergies.
Dude, I was born in '65 and the eighties were DANGEROUS. We did make our parents ashtrays in pottery class, lol. He's spot on with the cereal--I hated it, but it was super popular to talk about which cereal you had in the morning. Playgrounds used to be BRUTAL! We all had cuts and bruises from them. the seatbelt bit was also brutal--my parents actually forbade us from wearing them because it "shamed" them for not wearing them. And did he just say "It really was a beautiful time"??? Uh, not if you were a girl That time SUCKED for girls. Boys would feel us up in class and the teachers would say "oh, boys will be boys." Grown men would catcall us from the street when we were just kids. We'd go to the park and they'd drop trow and show us their penises. It was not cool.
"Parents" today are more worried about being their child's friend and not their parent. They let tech babysit their kids instead of spending time with them.
Kabir, Yes back in the 80s yes you kinda knew that if a country was having a very bad day, they could launch a nuke at anytime, yes you could walk anywhere, and the treatment for ADHD was gym class and going to play to burn off the excess energy.
Kids today are weak. They need a computer or they are useless; they couldn't survive in an emergency because they do not have real survival skills. I would go back to the 1980s in a second. I was a teen back then and no one could call me when I wasn't home.
Howdy from Texas. Anything and just about everything, with the notable exception of computers of course, that generation X brags about. Was first done by Boomers. We pioneered jumping bikes from ramps, we rode in the backs of pickup trucks and station wagons, we stayed outside and played until dusk, only going inside to eat lunch or pee. But with the exceptions of the computers, we Boomers did all of that first as well as many things generation X never even knew about. I was around eight years old when the very first digital watches came out. You actually had to push a button on it's side for it to display the time and or date. And shortly after removing your finger from its button the tiny screen would just go black and you couldn't see anything. We ran behind big trucks slowly traveling down the neighborhood streets spraying mosquito spray containing DDT insecticide. We happily ran through the thick white fog of DDT and nobody really cared. There were even films shown in schools then that showed adults happily spraying Liquid DDT pesticide directly onto children in a public swimming pool. With their little happy jingle song playing in the background that had the memorable phrase " DDT is good for me ! ". Because at that time the gullible adults believed the chemical companies lies about how DDT was a harmless chemical pesticide. Just wanted to set the record straight for anyone who grew up in the 80s and beyond. Just in case they were delusional enough to think that their generation came up with any of these things. They didn't. They were just simply taught how to by us Boomers. 🤠
Swatch watches were a huge deal in my school. To be really cool, you needed to wear more than one at once. Two or three was respectable, four or five was just showing off (and being exceedingly cool/rich), six or more and you were just being ridiculous.
Yeah back in the 80s people weren't soft either .the reason why we need soft playgrounds . Is because parents are so soft that makes for extremely soft kids.
It was a great time, but I do think more kids died back then. I lost at least 2 or 3 classmates before I graduated. That's why you see the safety changes today. People were tired of children dying from preventable stuff. So go jump that ramp kids, but wear your safety equipment. You're still cool.
I knew it at the moment the tablets came out to the market that kids will never play outside again I thank God everyday I don't have any kids and I'm 42 years old
The 70’s, 80’s & 90’s were the best times to be a kid
I was born in 1960, and the 60s were pretty good too. My parents were born in the mid-30s, and they were convinced that the 30s, 40s, and 50s were golden times. It's the same with every generation.
Born in ‘75, the 80’s were a fabulous time to be a kid! 🎉
I was born in 1971, so I grew up during the late 1970s and through the 1980s. I remembered walking a mile to school or later riding a bicycle. I was able to wander around or ride my bike around the surrounding area. I could ride off with neighborhood kids or my friends from school. I just had to return home for dinner when my parents set the time. Later in middle school and high school, cars became more of a factor. We could go further out if a friend's parents or older sibling could pick us up. Our parents returned the favor for my friends. I could go pretty much anywhere I wanted in town by bus; I just needed to tell my parents where I was going and when I expected to return home. Despite a lack of mobile phones, we managed. Pay phones, phones at local businesses, or phones at the homes of friends or neighbors could be used to contact your parents. It worked out.
Gen X rocked the world, I graduated in '84, the '70's were a blast.
I am sad for kids these day as a mom of a 9 year old I can see the difference. I am a Gen X at 9 I would have started my day with cartoons and breakfast and then I would have went outside checked the park and if no one was there I would have started knocking on friends doors to see who wanted to play, I would have rode my bike everywhere with my friends, I only went home for lunch and dinner (assuming friends would not have me over especially for lunch- most would). My daughter does not go out unless I take her, sometimes there is no one at the park and if she wants to have a friend over we have to organize it with the parents (assuming you know them). My mother did not know most of my friends parents she did not need to because I handle my own social life, she knew where my firends lived and their phone numbers but she did not have to organize my social life for me. I was out all day on most days, it is sad now when you think of the difference.
The 80’s were definitely times of less stress and more fun. We communicated with each other and just had the best times we could have outside. People were more friendly and respectful. The 80’s was the best decade to grow up in. Especially if you were born in the mid to late 60’s.
Yup we were TOUGH in the 80's who knew no fear! It was fun!
And watch Schoolhouse Rock. I still want someone to react to the old Schoolhouse Rock episodes.
I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill and I’m sitting in Capital Hill! 😂
Most of these kids were 70's babies and the 80's were during their middle school and teenage years when they did most of these things. I graduated high school in the 80's and yes Kabir we were a lot more social then. I loved the movies, going to the skating rink and house parties. The kids today who spend so much time playing video games, being on social media for hours and barely going outside don't know what they are missing. Those were the good old days.😊
Loved this!! I graduated in 1986, but was the oldest of 4 so this is all so true! I was a kid in the late 70's and it was similar. The only thing they left out about the 80's that was big was Atari, PAC Man and arcades. That was probably a foreshadowing of what was to come! There is an awesome video clip that I will share in the comments that I think you'd enjoy. It is the Today show in 1996, trying to figure out what "the internet" was, and how to pronounce the "@" symbol. It's really wild to see the transistion from the no internet 80's to the start of the internet Love your reactions!
I see kids playing at the park playgrounds, but I almost never see anyone playing in their yard, even if their driveway has a basketball hoop
I was born in ‘78 and grew up during the 80’s and 90’s. A lot of us were latchkey kids, so I think that gave us a lot more independence than kids today have. And yes, it was A LOT more social back then. I have so many fond memories of growing up then, and I’m so grateful I grew up without the internet, cell phones and social media. We could just be kids for the most part. They should have put the smell of the ink (it was purple) they used to make copies back then (can’t remember what it was called) but if you know, you know. And remember the jelly shoes and bracelets? The tents you could put on your beds? Ahh memories….
The best times to be a kid growing up!! 90s was the best decade to be a teenager 😊
It's a fact, we enjoyed a lot of things that kids today rarely experience. Running the neighborhood, biking everywhere, pickup sports at the park or in the yard, games and toys and social norms that have gone extinct. We socialized in real space without adult supervision, imagine that. But it's also true that kids today enjoy a lot of luxuries that we couldn't have imagined. Given that, it seems natural for us oldsters to be wistful for what's gone, but I think there's more at issue. It seems today's kids are protected from many "dangers" that weren't dangers to us. And yet they're exposed to risks and dangers (internet porn, internet bullies and predators, social isolation, physical inactivity, mental atrophy ) that we were never an issue for us.
Schools banned dodge ball because bullies would target other kids repeatedly hitting them where it would hurt most.
Class of 83 here. I loved the 70s and early 80s. I wasn’t a fan of big hair, arena rock, and pop. I had to bide my time until Grunge finally hit. But I really did love that as kids, we actually hung out. We went places and were very active. I was a wicked dodge ball player. 🤣 We really did ride our tiny skateboards on our hands! Many of us girls were gymnasts. I used to ride my skateboard doing a handstand on it down a long hill! When I was done and the skateboard slowed down enough, I'd simply do a walkover to get off. The thought of doing that now would mean certain death.😅
I was a teenager in the 80s. The last generation to grow up w/o texting. We were forced to interact with others. In the late 90's I was working at a bar. Looking around one night, I realized that nearly every bar patron was on their phone. I turned to my coworkers and asked, "When did people stop talking to each other in bars? This is literally where you go to be social!" Still work at a bar. Patrons still on their phones. Societal evolution right in front of my face. Fascinating. ❤
Couldn’t have been the late 90s. I mean…there were flip phones, but people weren’t staring at them all day everyday. The smart phone revolution took off in the late 2000s.
I was a teenager in the 90s. Poor people still grew up without most technology then.
@@jwb52z9 born in 82, yeah I was broke in the 90's if u had a beeper with ring tones u were rizzin.
I was born in ‘82. My younger brother (the middle child) and I would set alarms for Saturday morning so we could watch our cartoons, first one up controlled the tv. Weekends were for the sugar filled cereal. The non-sugary ones (kix, wheaties, corn flakes and Chex) were for during the week. We had to be at least in the front yard when the lights came on. If spending the night at a friend’s, you were expected to follow their parents rules perfectly and they would let your parents know if you didn’t. Definitely rode in the back of my parents’s station wagon. When calling collect, you had to get the entire call into the recorded message. My mom used to yell at me for tangling up the phone cord. We had a swing set in the backyard, solid metal, but if you swung hard enough you could lift one side. Drinking out of the hose, because 1) you didn’t want to dirty a glass your mom just cleaned and 2) you didn’t want to miss the fun. Riding your bike or playing football, soccer, hockey in the streets. Dinner was eaten at the table together, except for Sunday night when the tv trays were broke out so we could watch Sunday night’s TV Disney movie. Walking to school. The Book Fair…😌
I loved going to the skating rink!!!! We had after school skating parties... our parents would sign a permission slip and pay $2-$3 and we'd ride the school bus to the skating rink and be there for 3 or 4 hrs until our parents picked us up. And I'd ride my bike everywhere, as long as I didn't cross any major roads(which gave me a huge area to ride in)
I was born in the 70's, grew up in the 80's. A great time to be alive & free. I believe that we were the last generation to have "Pen Pals". I remember writing to a pen pal in Copenhagen. He & I would write to each other atleast once a week. We would look forward to receiving a letter from OS. Jan would send me these 2 or 3 page letter & I felt apart of his world. I'm sure he felt apart of my world too. As high school got more intense & our respective social circles grew, the letters became less & less. Until the letters just stopped coming & going. I've tried a couple of times over the years to find my pen pal. To no avail.
Telephones were fought over by kids. Mum bought a timer that had a phone picture on it. It was 15 minutes long and you weren't allowed to restart it once it went off. Usually your sibling was standing there waiting for their turn. And, you had one call a night whether it was coming in or you called out. The phone was in the living room and Mum didn't want to hear chattering all day/evening.
They were getting rare in the 80s but 'party lines' still existed. My neighbors had one. The phone line was shared with another household. Each house had its own number and different ring tones. You could pick up the phone and hear people you didn't know talking. The lines were assigned as requests for services were made so the people that shared your line could be way across town. Luckily, my parents opted for private lines.
Had relatives in rural Michigan. They had party lines. So yeah, I know.
I'm a 1970 baby, I was so lucky to get the best of the 70's and 80's as a kid & teenager. You got me choked up with the Rugrats, my kids favorite when they were little. Especially my son 🥹
I was a young parent in the eighties and I'm glad my kids got in just under the wire of high tech. My kids were out riding bikes, playing on the swingset, the neighbor kids down the street. But I'm a baby boomer so those were my expectations for my kids.
I was a teen to early 20's in the 80's. Both my children were born in the 80's. It was a great time! All my grandchildren knew how to operate a computer well before they entered school.
born in the 60's here and grew up with all that. When I moved out I had a waterbed. best sleep ever!!! those were the good days for sure. we stayed outside til the streetlights came on and then did it all again the next day. good memories
I remember those dot matrix machines.Looked so futuristic!
I was born in 83 so I remember a lot of this I grew up in both the 80s and 90s
Those old cord telephones were annoying if the wire got all wrapped up, we had the old things for a while up until a few years ago at my house.
I do remember those old chalkboards and having to bash the erasers together just to get the chalk dust out of them.
Absolutely more social. I had a great time In the 70s.. Even partied with my mom on the AFBase where all the foreign students were. Great memories.
My school didn't allow digital watches when they came out. They wanted us to learn to tell time on a round clock. Luckily, Swatch Watches were popular, so we could wear a "cool" watch that still used a dial.
Below is true of me as well. Born in 1970, the 80's were the last couple years of Elementary, All of Jr High and High School and start of college. Yes, Kabir, I agree the only news was either 1) the Paper -- EVERYONE GOT THE PAPER or 2) 5/6 PM News and 10PM News. Cable (at least for my family) didn't become a thing until later half of the 80's so there wasn't even CNN or things like that.
Kabir, so sorry you did not grow up in the 80's here in America. I dig the 50's, BUT the 80's was the greatest time to grow up.
Use to be 2 versions of dodgeball
I haven't seen them for sale recently, but there used to be a plastic potty chair with a built in holder for a tablet. It was called the "IPotty".
I never went miles from home. Just stayed in the neighborhood.
Growing up in the 80's if you got punished for bad grades, acting up, whatever it was. Our punishment was staying in the house.. Modern day kids have their phone or laptop taken away or worse for them told to go outside.
Many of the things mentioned are echoes of the 60s and 70s. Yes, life before technology expanded was a simple and freeing.
I grew up in the 70s and early 80s it was the best time. Kids today have really missed out.
i had a swatch collection. with bands
7:51 What is that grass doing on the playground?!😂
as a kid in a wheelchair, Dodgeball was my school days equalizer, waiting for the one person to turn or just loss concentration of what going on and SMACK right in the face
They don’t get off their ass’s to go out and play!!
I was born in 77 and the 80s was best time of my life. My generation is the best
I have heard that some people can have a allergy to peanut so bad. That if they walked in a room with peanuts,they could have a reaction.
Poor kids today! Life was fun back then!
Without social media we actually talked to each other. Now people can't even relate.
A few reasons why kids were healthier back then. Getting all that excersise on bikes, roller skates, skateboards. Climbing on jungle gyms. Just all that rime ourside they were soaking up Natural Vitamin D from the sun.
My grandparents had a party phone line where they lived so 4 or 5 families could get on the line even if they didn’t know who it was. My brother got caught talking dirty to his girlfriend & one of the neighbors told my grandma. She called my parents to come get him which was a 12 hr drive. 😂
I was a child of the la5e sixties and early seventies. We did things and played with toys that could put you in the hospital.
I was in high school from 81-85. Looking back, it was a great time. I think, almost everything I did, my parents would not have approved. 😂
When you hear folks talk about the 80s as if it was soo long ago 😂
The reason why so many schools have banned anything with peanuts or peanut butter is because some kids allergies are so bad that they can have a reaction just by smelling the offending item and do not even have to put it in their mouth.
Peanut allergies are nonexistent in third world countries.
I knew of only one person with a peanut allergy in the 70s. It would trigger her asthma if she ate peanuts.
Peanuts used to be a common snack served on airplanes. I’m not sure when they adopted because of peanut allergies.
I would go back to the 80’s in a heartbeat. But I would have to take my IPhone 😂
Does anyone else from the States remember “It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your children are?”
Dude, I was born in '65 and the eighties were DANGEROUS. We did make our parents ashtrays in pottery class, lol. He's spot on with the cereal--I hated it, but it was super popular to talk about which cereal you had in the morning. Playgrounds used to be BRUTAL! We all had cuts and bruises from them. the seatbelt bit was also brutal--my parents actually forbade us from wearing them because it "shamed" them for not wearing them. And did he just say "It really was a beautiful time"??? Uh, not if you were a girl That time SUCKED for girls. Boys would feel us up in class and the teachers would say "oh, boys will be boys." Grown men would catcall us from the street when we were just kids. We'd go to the park and they'd drop trow and show us their penises. It was not cool.
"Parents" today are more worried about being their child's friend and not their parent. They let tech babysit their kids instead of spending time with them.
Kabir,
Yes back in the 80s yes you kinda knew that if a country was having a very bad day, they could launch a nuke at anytime, yes you could walk anywhere, and the treatment for ADHD was gym class and going to play to burn off the excess energy.
Kids today are weak. They need a computer or they are useless; they couldn't survive in an emergency because they do not have real survival skills.
I would go back to the 1980s in a second. I was a teen back then and no one could call me when I wasn't home.
Howdy from Texas.
Anything and just about everything, with the notable exception of computers of course, that generation X brags about. Was first done by Boomers. We pioneered jumping bikes from ramps, we rode in the backs of pickup trucks and station wagons, we stayed outside and played until dusk, only going inside to eat lunch or pee. But with the exceptions of the computers, we Boomers did all of that first as well as many things generation X never even knew about. I was around eight years old when the very first digital watches came out. You actually had to push a button on it's side for it to display the time and or date. And shortly after removing your finger from its button the tiny screen would just go black and you couldn't see anything. We ran behind big trucks slowly traveling down the neighborhood streets spraying mosquito spray containing DDT insecticide. We happily ran through the thick white fog of DDT and nobody really cared. There were even films shown in schools then that showed adults happily spraying Liquid DDT pesticide directly onto children in a public swimming pool. With their little happy jingle song playing in the background that had the memorable phrase " DDT is good for me ! ". Because at that time the gullible adults believed the chemical companies lies about how DDT was a harmless chemical pesticide.
Just wanted to set the record straight for anyone who grew up in the 80s and beyond. Just in case they were delusional enough to think that their generation came up with any of these things. They didn't. They were just simply taught how to by us Boomers. 🤠
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Swatch watches were a huge deal in my school. To be really cool, you needed to wear more than one at once. Two or three was respectable, four or five was just showing off (and being exceedingly cool/rich), six or more and you were just being ridiculous.
Yeah back in the 80s people weren't soft either .the reason why we need soft playgrounds . Is because parents are so soft that makes for extremely soft kids.
the pics are american,you need uk pics to make sense
It was a great time, but I do think more kids died back then. I lost at least 2 or 3 classmates before I graduated. That's why you see the safety changes today. People were tired of children dying from preventable stuff. So go jump that ramp kids, but wear your safety equipment. You're still cool.
I knew it at the moment the tablets came out to the market that kids will never play outside again I thank God everyday I don't have any kids and I'm 42 years old