Um me it??? Did I miss something? I couldn't have, I'm still along way off from hitting 35.

 

There are a few more that need to be added to the list:

We were taught to respect our elders, teachers, and people with authority. Failure to do so might just mean a sore behind.

You will keep your room clean. If not, we will do it for you. I will assure the readers of this, the first part of this was the best alternative.

If you don't like what's for dinner that's fine, you don't have to eat it. But don't expect us to feed you later tonight. I'm amazed at how many people I know today allow their kids to demand what the family will eat.

If you got spanked at home, you didn't go to school and tell teacher what happened so that CPS comes out and talks to mommy & daddy. You were ashamed, you learned, and you didn't do it again. Besides, if the teacher were to hear about it, it was assumed that you deserved it.

We didn't get free breakfast and lunch during the summer, compliments of the schools and taxpayers. Our parents provided for us.

And sometimes people wonder why I refer to what is going on around us as "the new America"..............

 

I agree with the spanking thing. you'd be ashamed of it
Another thing I remember... is our friends parents bustin our butts for being bad. If you were at their house and was bad, they'd spank you like they were your own... NO biggie at all. You wont hear of that anymore.
As for the free breakfast/lunch thing... I had to go on that during school one year. I very much appreciated it. (it was reduced price, not free) But thats another story.
Now you have everyone and their dog on that plan, and atleast 1/2 of them don't need it....
That brings me to another thing.... Work... it was the right thing to do back then

 

You're so right, but there is a reason school districts like doing it. By lowering the standards so that people who don't need it get it, the school district get's more money to burn. And they call this "progress"...............

 

use your seatbelt...trust me on this one.

 

Well im not 35, im 23 and by this thread im lucky to be alive as well, lol. Besides getting my butt busted by a switch (that i had to get myself, which really sucked) was the door slamming punishment, lol.

When id get mad at my parents id go to my room and slam the door. Well they had a cure for that, lol. They made me open and shut the door softly until they got tired, and let me tell ya after a few times of doing that i didnt slam any more doors.

The push mowers without a motor, well let me just say we had one of those when i was 7-10 yrs old. I was 7 in the summer of 88 (until august) and we had that thing until summer of 90, lol. I hated mowing with that thing, and i didnt even get allowance. Free lunches or reduced lunches back then, well you had to be really poor to get on it. We was very poor (eating beans and taters every day with the occasional mac and cheese, when it was on sale for 50 cents a box) and we couldnt even get on the lunch program, lol. Now days if you make less than 50k a year you get put on the lunch program.

I also agree with Jimmy Dean, if you grew up in the 80s down here, you are lucky to be alive. King, the card sound was the coolest, i just couldnt ever get the clothes pin to stay on the bike and hold the card long enough, lol. But then again i also strapped an air pump onto my bike so i could still go ride with friends, lol.

*tags wlihntr* your it and no tag backs. oly oly oxen free

 

Holy Smokes, that brings back memories of my childhood. I am 48 years old and after reading the posts on this thread it really made me think about how we used to play games (outdoors). In todays 'politically correct' world. there is no such thing as playing cowboys and indians. Now it's cowboys and 'native americans' and who the heck plays that game anymore? We used to get old shoe boxes and make them into 'strap on your back' radios by putting a stick in the top and a string and a matchbox to make up the microphone. Then we would play soldiers. Toy guns were a favorite item for myself and many of my friends. If you had a 'capgun' you were in the league of somewhat fortunate kids who got more than the other kids. (But we didnt care)..In todays world, God forbid if kids carry a toy gun. (too dangerous)..... A simple thing we did for fun.....We used to go into fields (private property to which you could now be prosecuted for trespassing) and chase the cows or sheep or whatever animal the farmer had there that day. No lawsuits back then as far as I recall. The only Sue I knew was a pigtailed girl who nobody liked. Playing at the local dump was always a joy to us kids. Finding loose change in discarded jackets etc was always a plus. Building our own go-karts from old pieces of wood (BIG splinters were common) and old pram wheels held on with nails was always a lot of fun. Kids today just don't understand the fun we used to have with everyday items. Back then, us kids did stuff that the kids of today would think 'suicidal tricks' Like the time my friends and I would climb a somewhat large tree and dive to grab a sapling top (located close to the large tree) and 'parachute' down to the ground! Many a bone was broken back then but did we care? Not a bit!! As soon as we healed our broken bones, we would go and do it all over again (much to the horror of our parents) What were we thinking?????? Not having all these gameboys, computers, hi tech toys, cell phones etc made us kids of back then use a valuable human resource that kids today lack...What is it? IMAGINATION. Ahhhhh ...The good old days.......

 

I am a deadman walking.

 

Cap guns were cool and you could buy them at any 7-11 store, along with caps! My favorite ammo was the paper ones that came in "rolls". If caps were too expensive we could always say, "BANG!" My sister and I had rubber band HANDGUNS that our dad made for us out of 1/2" pine wood and a spring action clothes pin for the trigger. We started out target shooting with them at a hole cut in a cardboard box and it didn't take long until we were shooting rubber bands at each other! Mom & Dad said to be careful and not put each others' eyes out. I think I'll go down to Dad's and bandsaw out a new rubber band gun this weekend, I haven't had one for almost 30 years.

 

I grew up in a rural area and while playing in the woods, when I got thirsty I would drink from any "crik" I crossed. Contaminated water wasn't a thought. Water didn't flow in creeks back then, that was the noise the doors made.

 

I was born in the mid 60's and have seen such a change in the world in my relatively short time. Some of it has been for the good, such as seat belt laws, tamper-resistant bottles, etc. I'm also amazed at the things that haven't changed in over 30 years. Many people still drive gas pigs (if your truck/SUV gets less than 20 mpg don't gripe about gas prices!), many public buildings don't have sprinklers (remember Rhode Island?) and we still don't have a national health care system that everyone can afford. Frivoluos lawsuits seem to be the new 'lotto'.

 

dloud2002
Man did you ever bring back a funny memory,My dad used to take our family and my cousin and grandfather to Rice Lake in Ontario every year fishing.Well one year we decided to go cow tippin,well,we were out in the farmers field for a while,having fun,cow chasing then dung wars,well my cousin decided to climb a steep hill that lead to a cornfeild.He was going to bomb us with corncobs.We were down in the pasture ducking his bombs and each others cowpie bombs.well we look up to see if he is reloading and spot the farmer coming around the edge of the corn crop,we yell to him,he looks over,sees the farmer,panics,and starts running down the hill,well I did mention it was steep,you got it,he lost his footing and came rolling down that hill,by the time he got to the bottom he was pure cowpie.My mom would not even let him in the cabin,he had to strip naked and wash up behind it!I think I am laughing as hard now as I did then!

 

I'm 17 and i used to get my but whooped quit often over some stuff i spent every summer camping in the woods no tv no running water i mean come on it was the best time of my life wish i could go back and that was only a few years ago.

 

Well Im into my 40's and I do agree it was rough in those days....... I did all of those things F2504 spoke of ................ But GEEZ it wasn't half as bad as MY dad had it........ He told us that as a child he had to walk over 5 miles to get to school and walk back everyday, sometimes in a blizzard........He had to brush his teeth with salt and ash because toothpaste wasn't invented as yet, He had no TV, PC, phone , refridgerator, stove or washing machine...... He lived in a house shingled with coconut leaves and bathed under a public water pump shared by the entire neighbourhood....... during snowstorms He and his other 6 brothers had to share only one blanket at nights and for food they ate mostly bananas, coconuts and pineapples grown in the backyard and hunted and ate wild goats for meat....... and his pop was one of the richer men in their neighbourhood......... Im just amazed at how rough it was here in the Bahamas back then.

 

I love dung wars!!