Posted on 04/18/2015 5:32:00 PM PDT by Daffynition
Mommyshorts.com asked their readers to submit childhood throwback pictures from the 70's and 80's. Judging by these pictures, it's a miracle the generation survived. Here are 20 things parents did back then that would be considered completely questionable today:
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My parents forced me to eat beets. When I threatened to run away, they said if I do, they were going to move and leave no forwarding address.........
Two months ago i walked up s mountain at 9000 feet to view pictographs with my 14 year old off US 50
I felt like your poor horse
Sounds like my folks. I’ll bet when your dad slammed on the brakes, he put his arm out to hold you back, so you wouldn’t fly into the dashboard. And your mother had the nerve to eat, and maybe even the audacity to serve gluten to you and your sibs.
You’ll always remember your first deer .... and gutting it on a cold November morning. Or sitting by your dad’s side, learning how to load the ammo for the hunt.
Great for fishing too...lol
Yep
That woulda been me then
I got saved by James Robison in 66 at Wednesday night revival At Calvary baptist church.....Southern baptist
Put the skeer in me...it worked
I was 8
My parents never did that, nor did I with mine....just expected them to *try* a taste of something new ....and if they didn't like it, that was OK .... along with a lecture on how our taste buds change as we get older and an admonishment to try it again, sometime.
Spawn?.....nice
Both of them hurt like hell! Kids today have no idea. LOL
One of the guys in first grade smoked cigars, and yes we had 55 gallon drums that we rolled inside of down steep hills.
We would all go home and watch Gilligans Island.
If we were leaving the property (we had 7 acres of woods with a creek flowing through)we gave our parents a heads up.
It was cauliflower for me. They made me eat it and I ran outside and threw up. Last time they forced me to eat anything.
The dramatically increased level of supervision expected of parents is one reason why many people don’t have larger families.
It is exhausting to closely supervise and chaperone one or two, when you can’t just let kids run around outside.
Very cool, thanks!
Played in creeks a mile from the house, and even rode a bike there all our selves! Even played in a river a few years later. Went to the beach all by ourselves.
Heck, parents would be arrested for that now.
We ain’t free no more.
Sorry. I refer to my 3 kids as Spawn #1.........S1, S2, S3.
*every*one knows that. >8-0
Sub-standard coffee. Bad, bad girl.
Now that women are in positions of influence and power, things are much better than they were.
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