I was born in 1971. Didnt meet my parents till I was 6 when they gave me a key to the house! And Ive earned my gray hair... being married for 33 years and having kids... each one has a name on it!
Here is something interesting.....when I was 6 years old (1970) and in the first grade, my older sister was 7 1/2, the two of us walked 3/4 of a mile to school and back, on the street (no sidewalks) with the other elementary kids in the area. THIS WAS NORMAL. Today, high school kids can't walk 1/4 miles to school. Their parents drive them to school because there is no bus for students who live that close.
Born in 1970! Super independent, figure things out for myself, independent thinker, Intelligent, witty, and responsible! Not a lazy bone in my body!!! We didn't have computers or video games until we were older, played outside in nature, rode our bikes, made up games, freedom galore!!! Wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm tough and strong and don't melt down easy. I know what I want and problem solve quickly. I tried to raise my kids the same way, but I find the next generation was exposed to much to a less responsible lifestyle and they are not nearly as strong or resident as I am just from outside influence!
@@tladnier4324 Haven't had it happen to me yet. But, I know that day will come...lol! I just still get shock and blown minds when I tell people my age. The downside of that though is I don't get the respect I have definitely earned in life. I'm often treated like I'm new or told "You don't even look old enough to have any education or knowledge on _______." whatever the subject may be. And I often get condescended to by my own peers, and well as people younger than me. It has its pros and cons, the cons are super annoying though, and even my son goes through it. He's nearly 18, but he looks so young people think he's a 5th grader. He had to miss a day of school just a few days ago for an appointment, but before that I sent him out to grab something from the store for me real quick. As he was walking past his old grade-school (which is right next door to our home) a facility member saw him with his backpack on (which he uses like a reusable shopping bag when running quick errands) and she grabbed him by the arm demanding to know how he got out of the school and why was he wondering around outside.
*I had a pager.* In the early 1990's (they were around in the 1980's too) since there were no cell phones yet, the only way to communicate with someone who was not next to you or at home (they were "out") was to send them a message on their pager, if they had one. The pager had a telephone number, and could receive a text that was typed with the numbers on a telephone (the letters that are under the number). Most times it was someone telling the person with the pager to call them. Other messages could be 'I'm home" if the person was returning from a trip that day, and other messages. It was "high tech" back then, because previously......there was nothing at all.......which I now believe was better than having cell phones now. Back then.....you were out doing what YOU want or needed to do.....AND NOBODY COULD BOTHER OR INTERRUPT YOU! Now, anyone can yank your electronic leash at any time.
They didn't want people around the newborn because of colds and other viruses. They wanted the child to develop some immunity before meeting (and being handled by) tons of people.
I was born in 1974, in a big city in the UK. From about age 7 myself and a group of friends aged between 6-10 were playing outside most of the time with no adult supervision. If it was a school night or near teatime (evening meal) we had to stay local within the few streets that we all lived on. But on weekends we'd regularly walk through the allotments and across a huge grassy field, well over a mile away, to play by a stream or in the playground, on the grounds of a local high school climbing onto the roof, or in a derelict burned out and boarded up building a half mile in the opposite direction, and we'd be out all day until we got hungry. Our parents never asked where we were going; we were just shooed outside for the day, and we loved the freedom. It's strange to look back on now though, knowing the huge risks our parents were carelessly taking.. but without social media and a deeper understanding of the dangers, our parents didn't know any better.
I was just telling my daughter today how sad I was that she wasn't raised when I was. I hated the fact that society changed so much that she could not go out into the street to play because nobody else's parents let their kids go out to play. It wasn't as unsafe as you would think, because first of all I don't think there were as many creepers as we have today, and secondly, too many witnesses! Too many kids with sharp eyes! But even when I parted with my friends as we finished our walks home in different directions, I was aware but not afraid. We knew better than to get too close to a strangers car when a stranger was trying to talk to us like that. And most adults knew better than to try to engage kids they didn't know in that manner. It was so much healthier for us to be outdoors playing. Our society is plagued with inflammation and one of the best things to calm down inflammation is to be outdoors letting the natural sunlight modulate our immune systems. Help us get enough vitamin D on board. Breathe the fresh air. Run around, exercise. Know how to entertain ourselves without a screen in front of us. They may not have been the best "old days," but they were so much better than today when it came to living like free and normal human beings.
People in my generation can do math in our heads in 1 or 2 seconds, making change or figuring out the sale price by taking off the percentage of the sale. THIS generation......can do math on a calculator on their phone only, completely forgetting that they learned how to do math in school. I can do the math on these things before a person can get their phone out.
Docter Spock wrote a lot of books on child raising. His method was to let the baby cry it out and let them learn to self sooth. He was a very popular author. Pagers were a small device that typically only received numerical messages. So if you called the number to your friends pager you had a few choices on what to send, your actual phone number. phone number with 411 for information, or your phone numer and 411 with 911 meant you needed it asap, So you had to then find a payphone if you were in the wild or use your home phone to call your friend.
Even today it’s good advice to keep newborns away from germs i.e. other people. Not to keep love and affection away forever. There is a certain method to pinning a diaper so you don’t stick the baby. Even safety pins can come open however, so it was on a list of things to check for why baby was crying. The three hour suggestion was because they were encouraging you to feed on a schedule and that was 4 hours.
Please don't hate on Bruno aka Bruce Willis I bought Return of Bruno in 3 different formats! His music is fun and he kicks butt at playing the harmonica.
Parents looked to Dr. Spock to help raise their children. He advocated a basically hands-off approach, so, letting babies "cry it out" and "self soothe". That was the beginning of our general abandonment and neglect. Spock didn't want you to have your child depend on you. So even from infancy, literally, we learned we could only depend on ourselves and that trying to communicate to our parents was in vain. Thanks Dr. Spock, you raised an entire generation of neglected (though independent) children.
Don't worry, we can tell if gen z is being real with your compliments 💙 Also know when people are being cheeky,💙 I can't compare, but I am sure the breeders will know💙 She was funny😂😂 ✌️🍂💞
The gen x and gen z kids had it easy. Im a baby boomer, we had the most fun. Born in the 40s mom and dad knew we could take care of ourselves. We memorized friends phone number. Only one phone in the house and not even a calculator. Had to actually learn math. Fun times.
My mom still thinks it's funny that she and my dad used to put my brother, who cried a lot as a baby, in the laundry room at night so he could cry but they could still get some sleep. I used to have nightmares when I was 7-8 and would run into my parents room crying, so they started locking the door and would just yell at me to go back to bed. Ah, good times being raised in the 70s by boomers. And then they're confused when their grown kids maintain as little contact as possible, solely through obligation. Go figure.
Pagers were before cell phones, someone could send you a number and you would find a phone to call them as most only took numbers. My husband and I used pagers to send messages to each other by using the number of the letter of the alphabet so like 8-9 would be hi. Wow, I would enjoy 43 again, I'm at the opposite end of Gen X...lol.
It's not just 70's babies. Most, if not all of the stuff she talked about I experienced growing up as a child in the 80's. And yes, pagers. I had one in high school. Got called a "drug dealer" because of it. I had it because I had grandparents with health issues and a dad with heart issues. I had it so I could be contacted quickly in case anything came up. I may have also dealt drugs out of my locker. Just weed. I'd never mess with anything else. I'm not dumb. I just like flower.
The problem with “you look young” compliments is everyone knows they are shallow & not true. The other aspect of them is the actually perpetuate the idea that older = less than.
The key to complimenting someone who is older on how young they look is to either get them to say how old they are in a very unobtrusive way, or to "Guess" how old they are and be about 10 years younger than their actual age. I put "guess" because it's not good when your guess is correct, or older! 😂
We sought approval we never received so we kept seeking it through out our lives. I think it made us more receptive of rejection and less likely to take it personally. We shook it off and carried on. Being taught you're the center of the Universe and don't have to earn it is only setting you up for disappointment. It gives you no coping skills.
BRUCE WILLIS WAS A GREAT SINGER WHO WENT BY THE NAME: BRUNO RATALINI!!! UNDER THE BOARDWALK COLABORATION WITH THE TEMPTATIONS WAS AWESOME! LISTEN TO IT ON TH-cam!!! I ALSO LIKE "COMING RIGHT UP"! GIVE IT A LISTEN AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!
I was born in 1979. My mum left me lying in front of an electric fire when I was a baby and wondered why I was crying and screeching so much. I almost went up in flames. Apparently i was all burnt down one side lol And that's not the worst of it. I won't go into it though. Not here. And yes, i have chronic mental health problems now as an adult.Dont think theyll ever be fully " fixed" , not now. Absolutely mental but hey ho. 😅 Soldier on i suppose....
The first pagers didn’t display numbers or text they bleeped and you rang another number to find out who had bleeped you. I’m a 70s child and my father had a pager. When he got home from work in summer it was given to me. When my parents thought it was time for me to return home from ‘playing out’ they bleeped me and I had 10 minutes to get back home or I’d be in trouble.
That's a neat idea! I'm glad my parents never thought of it 😂 my poor mum went traipsing my usual hangout spots calling my name if I was late in. Oops.
I was born in 1971. Didnt meet my parents till I was 6 when they gave me a key to the house!
And Ive earned my gray hair... being married for 33 years and having kids... each one has a name on it!
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Here is something interesting.....when I was 6 years old (1970) and in the first grade, my older sister was 7 1/2, the two of us walked 3/4 of a mile to school and back, on the street (no sidewalks) with the other elementary kids in the area. THIS WAS NORMAL. Today, high school kids can't walk 1/4 miles to school. Their parents drive them to school because there is no bus for students who live that close.
Our diaper safety pins had little duck faces on the ends. They hurt like a mofo but they were cute.
Yup we had green blue yellow and pink
Born in 1970! Super independent, figure things out for myself, independent thinker, Intelligent, witty, and responsible! Not a lazy bone in my body!!! We didn't have computers or video games until we were older, played outside in nature, rode our bikes, made up games, freedom galore!!! Wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm tough and strong and don't melt down easy. I know what I want and problem solve quickly. I tried to raise my kids the same way, but I find the next generation was exposed to much to a less responsible lifestyle and they are not nearly as strong or resident as I am just from outside influence!
"You look good for your age." is such a backhanded compliment...lol!
My heart sank the one time someone said that to me 😳
@@tladnier4324 Haven't had it happen to me yet. But, I know that day will come...lol! I just still get shock and blown minds when I tell people my age. The downside of that though is I don't get the respect I have definitely earned in life. I'm often treated like I'm new or told "You don't even look old enough to have any education or knowledge on _______." whatever the subject may be. And I often get condescended to by my own peers, and well as people younger than me.
It has its pros and cons, the cons are super annoying though, and even my son goes through it. He's nearly 18, but he looks so young people think he's a 5th grader. He had to miss a day of school just a few days ago for an appointment, but before that I sent him out to grab something from the store for me real quick. As he was walking past his old grade-school (which is right next door to our home) a facility member saw him with his backpack on (which he uses like a reusable shopping bag when running quick errands) and she grabbed him by the arm demanding to know how he got out of the school and why was he wondering around outside.
What's a pager?? I need a nap, now. Doctors and hospital staff still have them. We had em in the 90s lol.
It was the bane of my existence being on call for the social service agencies I worked for in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
@lynn2574 my dad wouldn't let my brothers get one because he didn't want cops hassling them back in the '80s.
She's a comedian... It's perfectly fine to tell women they look younger. Most of us like that even if we deny it!
*I had a pager.* In the early 1990's (they were around in the 1980's too) since there were no cell phones yet, the only way to communicate with someone who was not next to you or at home (they were "out") was to send them a message on their pager, if they had one. The pager had a telephone number, and could receive a text that was typed with the numbers on a telephone (the letters that are under the number). Most times it was someone telling the person with the pager to call them. Other messages could be 'I'm home" if the person was returning from a trip that day, and other messages. It was "high tech" back then, because previously......there was nothing at all.......which I now believe was better than having cell phones now. Back then.....you were out doing what YOU want or needed to do.....AND NOBODY COULD BOTHER OR INTERRUPT YOU! Now, anyone can yank your electronic leash at any time.
They didn't want people around the newborn because of colds and other viruses. They wanted the child to develop some immunity before meeting (and being handled by) tons of people.
A pager only received messages and usually just a phone number. Think of it more like a missed call then a text message
Although we found ways of putting messages in 😉 all numeric of course
I was born in 1974, in a big city in the UK.
From about age 7 myself and a group of friends aged between 6-10 were playing outside most of the time with no adult supervision.
If it was a school night or near teatime (evening meal) we had to stay local within the few streets that we all lived on.
But on weekends we'd regularly walk through the allotments and across a huge grassy field, well over a mile away, to play by a stream or in the playground, on the grounds of a local high school climbing onto the roof, or in a derelict burned out and boarded up building a half mile in the opposite direction, and we'd be out all day until we got hungry.
Our parents never asked where we were going; we were just shooed outside for the day, and we loved the freedom.
It's strange to look back on now though, knowing the huge risks our parents were carelessly taking.. but without social media and a deeper understanding of the dangers, our parents didn't know any better.
I was just telling my daughter today how sad I was that she wasn't raised when I was. I hated the fact that society changed so much that she could not go out into the street to play because nobody else's parents let their kids go out to play. It wasn't as unsafe as you would think, because first of all I don't think there were as many creepers as we have today, and secondly, too many witnesses! Too many kids with sharp eyes!
But even when I parted with my friends as we finished our walks home in different directions, I was aware but not afraid. We knew better than to get too close to a strangers car when a stranger was trying to talk to us like that. And most adults knew better than to try to engage kids they didn't know in that manner.
It was so much healthier for us to be outdoors playing. Our society is plagued with inflammation and one of the best things to calm down inflammation is to be outdoors letting the natural sunlight modulate our immune systems. Help us get enough vitamin D on board. Breathe the fresh air. Run around, exercise. Know how to entertain ourselves without a screen in front of us. They may not have been the best "old days," but they were so much better than today when it came to living like free and normal human beings.
I remember being told, don't come back till it's dark 😅
Not having our parents around all the time watching taught us to figure stuff out for ourselves instead of having to ask for help all the time
Gen X just didn't have alot of hands on parenting
People in my generation can do math in our heads in 1 or 2 seconds, making change or figuring out the sale price by taking off the percentage of the sale. THIS generation......can do math on a calculator on their phone only, completely forgetting that they learned how to do math in school. I can do the math on these things before a person can get their phone out.
Docter Spock wrote a lot of books on child raising. His method was to let the baby cry it out and let them learn to self sooth. He was a very popular author. Pagers were a small device that typically only received numerical messages. So if you called the number to your friends pager you had a few choices on what to send, your actual phone number. phone number with 411 for information, or your phone numer and 411 with 911 meant you needed it asap, So you had to then find a payphone if you were in the wild or use your home phone to call your friend.
Self Reliance, Self-entertainment, rough and tumble life. Learned how to live BEFORE Tech.
Even today it’s good advice to keep newborns away from germs i.e. other people. Not to keep love and affection away forever. There is a certain method to pinning a diaper so you don’t stick the baby. Even safety pins can come open however, so it was on a list of things to check for why baby was crying. The three hour suggestion was because they were encouraging you to feed on a schedule and that was 4 hours.
A pager is a device that just gave you a number to call back
Please don't hate on Bruno aka Bruce Willis
I bought Return of Bruno in 3 different formats! His music is fun and he kicks butt at playing the harmonica.
Parents looked to Dr. Spock to help raise their children. He advocated a basically hands-off approach, so, letting babies "cry it out" and "self soothe". That was the beginning of our general abandonment and neglect. Spock didn't want you to have your child depend on you. So even from infancy, literally, we learned we could only depend on ourselves and that trying to communicate to our parents was in vain. Thanks Dr. Spock, you raised an entire generation of neglected (though independent) children.
Don't worry, we can tell if gen z is being real with your compliments 💙
Also know when people are being cheeky,💙
I can't compare, but I am sure the breeders will know💙
She was funny😂😂
✌️🍂💞
The gen x and gen z kids had it easy. Im a baby boomer, we had the most fun. Born in the 40s mom and dad knew we could take care of ourselves. We memorized friends phone number. Only one phone in the house and not even a calculator. Had to actually learn math. Fun times.
My mom still thinks it's funny that she and my dad used to put my brother, who cried a lot as a baby, in the laundry room at night so he could cry but they could still get some sleep. I used to have nightmares when I was 7-8 and would run into my parents room crying, so they started locking the door and would just yell at me to go back to bed. Ah, good times being raised in the 70s by boomers. And then they're confused when their grown kids maintain as little contact as possible, solely through obligation. Go figure.
We do enjoy the compliments! We wouldn't tell you our real age, otherwise :P
Pagers were before cell phones, someone could send you a number and you would find a phone to call them as most only took numbers. My husband and I used pagers to send messages to each other by using the number of the letter of the alphabet so like 8-9 would be hi.
Wow, I would enjoy 43 again, I'm at the opposite end of Gen X...lol.
It's not just 70's babies. Most, if not all of the stuff she talked about I experienced growing up as a child in the 80's.
And yes, pagers. I had one in high school. Got called a "drug dealer" because of it. I had it because I had grandparents with health issues and a dad with heart issues. I had it so I could be contacted quickly in case anything came up.
I may have also dealt drugs out of my locker. Just weed. I'd never mess with anything else. I'm not dumb. I just like flower.
She was funny! 💙
The problem with “you look young” compliments is everyone knows they are shallow & not true. The other aspect of them is the actually perpetuate the idea that older = less than.
The key to complimenting someone who is older on how young they look is to either get them to say how old they are in a very unobtrusive way, or to "Guess" how old they are and be about 10 years younger than their actual age. I put "guess" because it's not good when your guess is correct, or older! 😂
Ancient that describes everything we grew up with
We sought approval we never received so we kept seeking it through out our lives. I think it made us more receptive of rejection and less likely to take it personally. We shook it off and carried on.
Being taught you're the center of the Universe and don't have to earn it is only setting you up for disappointment. It gives you no coping skills.
BRUCE WILLIS WAS A GREAT SINGER WHO WENT BY THE NAME: BRUNO RATALINI!!! UNDER THE BOARDWALK COLABORATION WITH THE TEMPTATIONS WAS AWESOME! LISTEN TO IT ON TH-cam!!! I ALSO LIKE "COMING RIGHT UP"! GIVE IT A LISTEN AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!
I was born in 1979. My mum left me lying in front of an electric fire when I was a baby and wondered why I was crying and screeching so much. I almost went up in flames.
Apparently i was all burnt down one side lol
And that's not the worst of it. I won't go into it though. Not here.
And yes, i have chronic mental health problems now as an adult.Dont think theyll ever be fully " fixed" , not now. Absolutely mental but hey ho. 😅 Soldier on i suppose....
The first pagers didn’t display numbers or text they bleeped and you rang another number to find out who had bleeped you. I’m a 70s child and my father had a pager. When he got home from work in summer it was given to me. When my parents thought it was time for me to return home from ‘playing out’ they bleeped me and I had 10 minutes to get back home or I’d be in trouble.
That's a neat idea! I'm glad my parents never thought of it 😂 my poor mum went traipsing my usual hangout spots calling my name if I was late in. Oops.
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You realize this is COMEDY 😒
Could I request not having so many beeps in your videos.
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