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Moxie's post on the mindset of the incoming college freshman got me thinking.  Like many parents, I've always enjoyed sharing the "when I was a kid" stuff with my kids.  I love their shocked faces and...

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When I was a kid... - There were TV shows the entire family could watch together, like SMK, The Fall Guy, and The A-Team; - We only played video games when it rained, and the rest of the summer was...

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Ha! I was the human remote. I laid on my back under the TV and turned the knob every time my dad said, "Turn."

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Haha, Paula, that was my job, too! How I envied the kids with the wired remotes... I was 10 before I saw a TV show from the comfort of a chair.

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When I was a kid MTV actually played music videos.

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You mean they don't anymore?!?  I haven't watched MTV since college.  Even then I didn't get it.  - Soda cans had pull-off tabs- You could still get soda dispensed in glass bottles- We had a milk man...

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When I was a kid - no color TV and no remote control - bananas could you only buy two times in the year and you had to wait in a long line - we had no car no phone and no PC (you had to wait for a car...

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When I was a kid: - you could leave your door unlocked when you went out for the day, or overnight. The 'bad guys' were in the big cities, not the country. - any job was a good one and people were...

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That's sad, Ardeliah. I guess it shows progress isn't a universally good thing. It depends on what we are progressing toward.

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Walked to school and had crossing guards at the major intersections. Drank from the garden hose. Played outside ALL DAY Rode bikes without helmets and sat in the backseat of monstrous station wagon...

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When I was a kid...We walked home from school for lunch.  Girls could not wear pants to school.I remember in sometime in  the 5th grade all the girls being excited because we could wear pants. 

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When i was but a wee tiny soap bubble (& a teenaged one): - you had to wait for the neighbor to get off the phone if you needed to make a call - 8 track tapes were the 'wave of the future' - we...

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Hahaha!  All good ones, guys!  Especially the "If the President was on TV, your night was shot" one!  I can relate.You know what I've noticed lately?  All the public playgrounds in my county are...

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Oh, and what Soapie said about soda coming in glass bottles . . . Coke used to be made with REAL sugar!  Not High Fructose Corn Syrup as it is today.  Somewhere along the line they silently changed to...

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You can still get Coke and other soft drinks in glass bottles, just not all that frequently anymore. Coke also used to be made with real cocaine, but that was well before any of us was children. For...

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When I was a kid - there were no child car seats, there were not even seat belts in every car. - you bought mineral water and milk in glass bottles, and when you opened the milk bottles there was...

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My first transistor radio only played local AM stations. At night I could listen with my earphone (only for one ear) to Wolfman Jack on a Chicago station. Since I lived in SC, and Chicago was so far...

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When I was a kid: - We had a party line. If the neighbor forgot to hang up when they were done talking, you had to wait for them to remember. - There were no answering machines. - If you traveled...

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SusieQ wrote:When I was a kid: - We had a party line. If the neighbor forgot to hang up when they were done talking, you had to wait for them to remember. - There were no answering machines. - If you...

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