Wildswanderer
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Good times!
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The good old days.
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Good times!
I miss my good old days, too.
I grew up in the 90s. There were video games, like Mario Brothers, but none of us were consumed by them(honestly, Mom played more than anyone).
I lived in the city, so there weren't gravel roads and hay to play in, but there were parks, and one had lakes and a creek. We all swam in that.
Spent a lot of time just roaming the city with friends on foot or on bike. Buying snacks and eating them in the park. Going to visit each other. Playing in yards. Good times, indeed.
I still am barefoot, though. Only put shoes on for the snow.
I grew up in the 90s. There were video games, like Mario Brothers, but none of us were consumed by them(honestly, Mom played more than anyone).
I lived in the city, so there weren't gravel roads and hay to play in, but there were parks, and one had lakes and a creek. We all swam in that.
Spent a lot of time just roaming the city with friends on foot or on bike. Buying snacks and eating them in the park. Going to visit each other. Playing in yards. Good times, indeed.
I still am barefoot, though. Only put shoes on for the snow.
One of several reasons we moved to France was to allow the children to play outside without constant surveillance and us having to worry.
Orbit
I'm a planet
I grew up in the 70s also. We were "free-range" children, completely unsupervised with the only rule being "be home in time for dinner" or "be home before dark". We seem to have survived as a generation, but I agree that today social services would have been called on our parents by today's busybodies.
It depend son where you go, this still happens in places. I see it in my new town, and I saw it in the city I loved in. Kids playing in the street in the neighborhood til dark.
I even did this growing up in the 90s. My sister (14 years younger than me) also grew up doing this same stuff in the 2000s.
It just depends on what you see/are looking for.
In deed they were, also for parents. We raised our kids in the late sixties.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I hear ya.
The loss of personal and economic freedoms coupled with a stable nuclear family structure missed the most. .
One single job could provide for a whole family.
Employer provided a good retirement pension for life.
Wife could stay at home full time with the kids and raise them well until they could take care of themselves.
Food was actually delicious and affordable.
It was the kind of life that only a few generations had gotten to enjoy I think. Maybe some earlier as well.
Probably won't see another Stable Renaissance period like that for a long time to come, if it ever does.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
People were different in those days. A terrible loss now as we enter this modern freakish and unstable generation of people.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Memory lane.... albiet the 50s but it lasted well to the late 70s where things took a starting change for the worse.
The Crimson Universe
Active Member
While growing up in the 90s, me and a friend of mine, used to enjoy doing this...
Ahh good to see the time honoured tradition of lamenting the youth for its follies and idolising the past is alive and well.
Socrates would be proud, you guys
Socrates would be proud, you guys
In all seriousness, do you guys think that just maybe the rise in information regarding the crimes that have legitimately happened to kids in the past may have caused some to be a tad overprotective?
I mean yeah most parents nowadays wouldn’t let their little kids walk like 6 blocks unsupervised but I don’t know if I would either. One or two and then slowly increase that as a child ages, sure. But I mean people before the internet and 24 hour sensationalist news channels simply didn’t know the potential perils.
I’m not for wrapping kids up in cotton wool or anything. I’m just saying, sometimes parents can get overprotective. In any number of ways.
And there’s usually a “trigger” for that route to be taken
Oh and us millennials ran about outside too. Geez!
I mean yeah most parents nowadays wouldn’t let their little kids walk like 6 blocks unsupervised but I don’t know if I would either. One or two and then slowly increase that as a child ages, sure. But I mean people before the internet and 24 hour sensationalist news channels simply didn’t know the potential perils.
I’m not for wrapping kids up in cotton wool or anything. I’m just saying, sometimes parents can get overprotective. In any number of ways.
And there’s usually a “trigger” for that route to be taken
Oh and us millennials ran about outside too. Geez!
The picture reminds me of the 50's when I was growing up
I recall the change in the 70's, when instead of walking to a neighbor hood school, kids were having to take a bus to school.
So, to me the picture's former days were the good old days, so in a way we might say 'the former days were better' but I find that is not biblical wisdom according to Ecclesiastes 7:10.
Rather, it is the coming good days that are going to be the real ' good days '.
Instead of feeling hurt in one's heart, there will be happiness in one's heart
Happiness
because the Bible promises a coming lasting safety and security: - Isaiah 32:17-18; Isaiah 65:21-25; Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 28:26
I too 'feel sorry for kids now in many ways' because they have to deal with these last days of badness on earth as described at 2 Timothy 3:1-5,13 and without the hope of the 'best of days coming' what happy hope do they have?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
That's when kids got hurt and learned life lessons of boundaries. Of course a couple of scrapes and bruises never stopped me all the same. Some never learn. *grin*While growing up in the 90s, me and a friend of mine, used to enjoy doing this...
Today the paranoid and insane will try to force seatbelts on swings.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Well I'm sure there were kids in my time period that didn't have my experiences. I can only speak for myself and my siblings all agree that we had an idyllic childhood.
Here's one that might be hard to believe... I was carrying a .22 rifle walking along the berm of a four-lane highway near my parents property. (There was actually a clause in the game laws that allowed farm kids to carry a rifle for killing trapped animals, even if they weren't at the required age of 12 yet, but of course I wasn't technically on the farm.) A State trooper pulled over, talked to me and ended up letting me go on my way. I'm pretty sure I was 10 years old at the time.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Not when you had actually lived in those periods.
You notice what's changed and whats missing.
It's was simply better in the past then it is now.
People have been saying that since before Socrates.
In English they refer to this as “nostalgia.”
Wow.
I think that’s a “typical rural” experience where I’m from.
I grew up in the suburbs though lol
My parents were admittedly a bit overprotective.
But yeah I grew up with video games, the internet and playing in the dirt.
My “cousins” had this big acreage where I’d spend my school holidays as a kid. A huge field of bush and farm (ish) land, where we’d spent countless hours exploring and hiking through the bush. (Had to be careful of snakes and spiders though.)
A big swimming pool we’d play in. And despite there being two sets of parents on property, we only seemed to run into them at breakfast time and dinner time.
I’m sure they were keeping an eye on us, like I said, snakes and spiders pose a legitimate medical emergency. And they had actual bush land where encounters were a possibility.
But still, to us it was like they disappeared during the day and we’d just play and eat and watch Lord of the Rings for the billionth time, unimpeded by adult supervision lol
Ahh those were the days
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