My parents would have faced a firing squad....
Same here. At 7 me and friends used to head off on our bikes for hours exploring Alexandria, VA. At 9 I walked over a mile to and from school by myself. Was home alone until 6:00 PM weeknights. And my dad was a fed law enforcement officer at the time.
My grandmother always thought the gypsies were going to take us if we stayed out after dark.
My mother would tell her if the gypsies did take us they would gladly bring us back.
Whatever happened to “make sure you come home when the street lights turn on”...Oh yeah that was 50 years ago.
My guess is that extreme positions held on each side of the issue can’t come up with a common sense solution...Everyone, it seems, needs someone to blame.
Let me guess, those upset were all liberals? When school was out, my parents used to throw me out of the house and tell me not to come back until dinner. I would walk the three miles to Sheepshead Bay and go fishing. If I didn’t do that I went to the beach.
My parents would have faced a firing squad.
Indeed. In the summer when I was no more then 11 my parents left for work at 7am and got hime at 5pm. My grandmother leved next dor butI rarely saw her. We lived in the country and I ran around outside all day and often late into the night. I hated being indoors.
We have become a nation of wusses. Allowed the Govenment to become our nanny..
>>My parents would have faced a firing squad....
Yours and a whole bunch of others who lived through 1968 the first time and weren’t stupid enough to want to “recreate” it.
In the 60s every kid in my neighborhood walked to school from kindergarten on. We also walked to the park where our little league was. And to the church where our boy-scout troop was.
Of course, that was before the neighborhood community was destroyed by forced busing.
My mom and her siblings wandered all over the neighborhood all day, built sod houses in the summer, ice skated in the winter.
I had Super Nintendo, but I envy them.