It is Terrible Now but Fine Then

[coconut]

My how things have changed. Especially involving safety. What do you remember from your childhood? Examples please.

Here's a baby in an overhead cradle on an airplane in the early 1950s. I wonder if it was water tight?

 

[Raptorman]

Seatbelts only in the front seats of our 63 Pontiac.

Riding in the back of a pick-up down the highway at 70 mph.

No such thing as a bicycle helmet.

 

[Dodgersrf]

Walking to school without adult supervision.....in the 1st grade.
It just wasnt a big deal back then

 

[1maGoh]

Walking to school without adult supervision.....in the 1st grade.
It just wasnt a big deal back then

In the early 90's in second grade my mom used to let me walk a few blocks down the street to the 7-11 by myself in San Diego. It didn't seem like a big deal back then, but I have a first grader of my own now and hell no.

 

[dieterbrock]

My how things have changed. Especially involving safety. What do you remember from your childhood? Examples please.

Here's a baby in an overhead cradle on an airplane in the early 1950s. I wonder if it was water tight?

Meanwhile, about 4 rows ahead was likely the "smoking section"

 

[Angry Ram]

Walked alone from school; went trick or treating alone; went outside; drank water from the hose, riding SCOOTERS with no helmets.

God I was stupid.

 

[coconut]

Walked alone from school; went trick or treating alone; went outside; drank water from the hose, riding SCOOTERS with no helmets.

God I was stupid.

Not stupid. Normal. Stupid is being afraid of everything. You were normal. I believe parents owe that to their kids.

 

[coconut]

In my neighborhood we were big on mud ball fights and BB gun battles.

 

[coconut]

4th of July without firecrackers should be a crime.

 

[Farr Be It]

Delivering papers at age 12 without parental supervision.

I tried to set my boys up with a route back in 2005 when they were around 14 and the city required an adult to go along. So there I was driving the boys around at 5:30am in my SUV.

Kind of takes away from the experience.

 

[LesBaker]

Seatbelts only in the front seats of our 63 Pontiac.

They used to be an option that you had to pay for.

To this day school buses don't have seat belts and I just don't understand that.

Walking to school without adult supervision.....in the 1st grade.
It just wasnt a big deal back then

My (almost entire) elementary school walked to school, then walked home for lunch, then back to school, then home. If someone had nobody at home to make lunch they went to a friends house. If someone had nowhere to go they could bring lunch and eat it in the gym at lunchtime. That's what the kids in kindergarten did, they didn't walk home. Although some did if they had an older sibling they could go with.

And we had recess in the afternoon. Everyone would go outside to play.

This was a tiny school that served the neighborhood. Each grade had one or two classrooms, there were 5 grades and kindergarten.

Things like this don't exist anymore I'm guessing.

Meanwhile, about 4 rows ahead was likely the "smoking section"

LOL yup.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Playing in the neighborhood with friends, all day, without the need to call home and/or check in. Gone in the morning, home by dinner. That's all that was planned. No worries.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Shooting bottle rockets at each other in a game of "war".

If one blew up close to you, it was a good laugh.

lol.

 

[Dodgersrf]

Meanwhile, about 4 rows ahead was likely the "smoking section"

Our high school had a smoking section. Even though most people there weren't old enough to smoke.
Nobody cared.

 

[Memento]

Dodgeball in school. Some people thought that it was "targeting" kids, so they banned it. I remember having so much fun in PE during my elementary school days...

 

[LesBaker]

Our high school had a smoking section. Even though most people there weren't old enough to smoke.
Nobody cared.

My HS also had a smoking area, called Hippie Hall. It was closed off by doors and had an outdoor area where kids smoked also. That's where most of the weed purchases were made haha. And where people would meet up to go out in someones car to drive around and get high.

It used to be one of the finest high schools in the nation but I don't know if that's still the case.

The smoking hall was turned into a daycare. I don't know if it still is, but at one time it was.

Oddly only one girl in Jr. High and High School gave birth in the six years I was there.

 

[Farr Be It]

Washing my knickers down by the stream.

@LoyalRam

 

[CeeZar]

Toy gun commercials


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhYbg3KVu0

 

[coconut]

Delivering papers at age 12 without parental supervision.

I tried to set my boys up with a route back in 2005 when they were around 14 and the city required an adult to go along. So there I was driving the boys around at 5:30am in my SUV.

Kind of takes away from the experience.

It takes all the meaningful work ethic experience out of it. At least it was some time with dad.

 

[coconut]

Dodgeball in school. Some people thought that it was "targeting" kids, so they banned it. I remember having so much fun in PE during my elementary school days...

Yeah dodgeball was great. Well it sucked as a freshman. Kicked ass as a senior!:yess: