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Loved your post. Your experiences growing up reflect my own back in the 40s & 50s. My mom never worked during her marriage..only after my dad passed away many years later. We had married dads and moms and grandmas’s/grandpa's in those day, who worked together and helped one another. Mom took care of her husband, children, home. My grandma helped out my mother when she could with babysitting. My mom & her nine siblings took care of grandma & grandpa throughout their lives. My dad worked full time and worked around the house in his free time.

Your daily routine was like my own as a kid. Mom made us breakfast & off we walked to school. Back home for lunch and then the walk back to school. After school, we had a snack, changed out clothes & went outside to play. After dinner, it was homework time, & then listening to the radio for our nightly favorite programs. And then it was bed time. On Sunday, after I picked up the Sunday newspapers on my way home from Mass, my parents would read the news, and my brother & I would read all the cartoons..looked forward to them each Sunday. Use to go to the neighborhood show each Saturday, along with many of the kids in the neighborhood, for the movie, popcorn, candy, cartoons and news of the world on the big screen.

I think we got our first TV in the late 40s/early 50s,and then we'd watch a kid's TV program called kids’ TV program called Lunchtime Little Theatre with Uncle Johnny Coons while we ate our lunch and then back to school. In the evening, we'd do our homework first after dinner, and then watch TV with our parents. If my Dad fell asleep in his char, & my Mom was busy in the kitchen, we kids would then turn the channel to watch something a kid would like to see. Sweet memories, and only one TV in each home!

In the summer, the fun never ended, and we get to stay up later and do summer fun things. Aside from my roller skates, my bike and Red Flyer wagon, all our play consisted of fun things we thought up to do and the props we built with our own hands. The local Boy's Club..we lived in Chicago (b/4 they had Girls & Boys Clubs) and the local parks provided lots of fun opportunities, aside from the big yard we had at home. We also liked to play boardgames & cards when we were younger, as you said defconw, there were no video games or other electronics. “We wined if we could not go outside” to quote your words, and that is sooo true. Even IF it was snowing. Those WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIEND.

OOPS! Sorry for all the errors but I wasn’t able to correct them. QUESTION: why is when I go to preview my post and check it for errors before hitting the post key, that I can’t bring back my original post, in order to correct it. Sometimes I can bring back the original post, and sometimes I can’t,and unless it’s a recognized spelling error, I can’t correct the error as I find them. Can anyone help?

Yes they were. You reminded me of something. If there was no one to play with I would ride my bike all day long. Just round and round. We had a little park near by, we thought it was big then. We would ride our bikes down there everyday in the summer and take a sack lunch.

We would go swimming every afternoon and spent evenings after the street lights came on in the yard chasing lighting bugs. TV was for winters and rainy days. But I remember if it was warm enough and no lighting was in the area, we would put on our swim suits and play in the rain or on someones front porch. I feel lucky that I had that. I feel sorry for today's kids. Everything is organized and structured. Blah!