Did we have it better?

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Endless summers playing outside
Morecombe and Wise
The 2 Ronnies
The Jungle Book (1967 :eek:)
The Good life
4 sweets a penny
Abba
Sweet
Elvis

No central heating
3 day week
Margaret Thatcher
no jobs
Walking to school
snow in the winter
2 to a bedroom
One B/W tv per house with 2 channels

Rose tinted hardship?
 
I certainly think i had it better as a kid (I'm now 33) than kids have it these days.
No FaceBook,smart phone,internet,online gaming...
We use to play football,build dens,ride bikes....
And if we did play computer games we were playing them together.
People now (not just kids) seem to be constantly on their phones.
 
bobmac said:
Endless summers playing outside
Morecombe and Wise
The 2 Ronnies
The Jungle Book (1967 :eek:)
The Good life
4 sweets a penny
Abba
Sweet
Elvis

No central heating
3 day week
Margaret Thatcher
no jobs
Walking to school
snow in the winter
2 to a bedroom
One B/W tv per house with 2 channels

Rose tinted hardship?
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Life was certainly different and at times a lot harder
 
bobmac said:
Endless summers playing outside
Morecombe and Wise
The 2 Ronnies
The Jungle Book (1967 :eek:)
The Good life
4 sweets a penny
Abba
Sweet
Elvis

No central heating
3 day week
Margaret Thatcher
no jobs
Walking to school
snow in the winter
2 to a bedroom
One B/W tv per house with 2 channels

Rose tinted hardship?
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The four sweets for 1d was only good if they were fruit salads and not black jacks
 
I think you appreciated things more but kids today just want, want, want and expect, they won't value things with that attitude IMO and later life can then become a huge car crash.

I hear the term, "I want them to have what I didn't" far too much, but does that stand them in good stead for the future by spoiling them too much?

How many of your kids have daily or certain chores, do the washing up, help with the garden, put the washing machine on, I don't mean skivvying but realising early doors that there's life outside of sitting playing games on the internet or being on the phone in the bedroom!
 
Fish said:
I hear the term, "I want them to have what I didn't" far too much, but does that stand them in good stead for the future by spoiling them too much?
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I want my kids to have what I didn't - will it stand them in good stead? I don't know until 30yrs from now.
 
Fish said:
I think you appreciated things more but kids today just want, want, want and expect, they won't value things with that attitude IMO and later life can then become a huge car crash.

I hear the term, "I want them to have what I didn't" far too much, but does that stand them in good stead for the future by spoiling them too much?

How many of your kids have daily or certain chores, do the washing up, help with the garden, put the washing machine on, I don't mean skivvying but realising early doors that there's life outside of sitting playing games on the internet or being on the phone in the bedroom!
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Well said Robin. In my youth, my jobs were lighting the fire, cutting the grass at weekends (that was a 3 hour job) and taking the dog for a walk. I also had a job on a dairy farm at weekends as I didn't get pocket money from my parents.

And when that was all finished "I had to lick road clean with me tongue". :p
 
I think we had it simpler - and that could also mean better...

We weren't poor but my Dad worked hard to provide for 5 kids and we did fine and learnt the value of "stuff" which has stayed with me. I think being a kid was less pressured than now and more just being a kid and having fun. Home was a sanctuary if things got rough at school but nowadays social media means there is no sanctuary.

Oh - for me it was 2 Black Jacks and 2 Fruit Salads :-) Plus a pack of Savoury Vinegar crisps (Smiths I think)!
 
I used to be out of the house by 6am to do a paper round, fell off my bike numerous times when the paper-bag hit the spokes. Used to get home 7.30am frozen solid in the Winter, close to tears, only to get ready and go stand at the school bus stop for 30mins.

There's NO WAY I'm going to do that to my son. No paper round, and I'm happy to give him a lift to school.
 
srixon 1 said:
Well said Robin. In my youth, my jobs were lighting the fire, cutting the grass at weekends (that was a 3 hour job) and taking the dog for a walk. I also had a job on a dairy farm at weekends as I didn't get pocket money from my parents.

And when that was all finished "I had to lick road clean with me tongue". :p
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I wondered how long it would take for the gents from Yorkshire to make an appearance. :)


Was it 'better'? Probably not, I think I just miss it.

But I'd rather have been playing football, British bulldog, rounders, building dens, building bogies (carties), making homemade bow n arrows etc than playing computer games.
 
c1973 said:
I wondered how long it would take for the gents from Yorkshire to make an appearance. :)


Was it 'better'? Probably not, I think I just miss it.

But I'd rather have been playing football, British bulldog, rounders, building dens, building bogies (carties), making homemade bow n arrows etc than playing computer games.
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Add in kick the can , cricket in the summer , tennis , swingball , riding bikes.

IMO its part of the reason why we struggle at sports - too many playing on a computer instead of playing the actual game
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Add in kick the can , cricket in the summer , tennis , swingball , riding bikes.

IMO its part of the reason why we struggle at sports - too many playing on a computer instead of playing the actual game
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Yep, agreed.

I remember scoring around 400 runs (no joke) at cricket one day........... I hit the ball below the 'workies' hut and the fielders couldn't reach it. No 'local rule' was in place, the ball wasn't lost, they could see it, so I claimed my runs had to stand! :)

Cricket was binned for the rest of that week, bad losers!! :D
 
And when your parents or teacher or a policeman told you to do something, you didn't dare question it, you just did it.
Or was that just me?
I cant believe how many times I've seen under 10s argueing with their parents in shops :mad:
 
bobmac said:
And when your parents or teacher or a policeman told you to do something, you didn't dare question it, you just did it.
Or was that just me?
I cant believe how many times I've seen under 10s argueing with their parents in shops :mad:
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If you didnt do as you were told i certainly got a slipper to the ass and couldnt sit for half hour
 
bobmac said:
Endless summers playing outside
Morecombe and Wise
The 2 Ronnies
The Jungle Book (1967 :eek:)
The Good life
4 sweets a penny
Abba
Sweet
Elvis

No central heating
3 day week
Margaret Thatcher
no jobs
Walking to school
snow in the winter
2 to a bedroom
One B/W tv per house with 2 channels

Rose tinted hardship?
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we've still got all that.....:whistle:

on Dave

..and many parts of the country
 
The world of today is incomparable to the world of your youth so to do so is pointless.
 
There's no doubt Kids have a hell of of lot more opportuinitys these days but looking back I'd certainly prefer growing up in the era I did.

Loads of friends all out all day pretty much every day. Bmx's,building ramps, Football, building dens, Fishing, Camping out, garden hopping, building carts/bogies, collecting conkers, climbing trees, Army, travallio, Knock-a-door run,

Sure beats staring at a screen all day wearing skinny jeans and a quiff looking moody ;)

Musically it was better..

There has been countless musical/youth movements right back to the 50s, as far as I know.
Rock & roll, 60s type stuff,Punk,ska, prog rock,mods, new romantic, We had Madchester in the north, 80s/90s indie. Rave/ House music.

As far as I'm aware there's been nothing since the early 90s.
It just seems teenagers have had nothing musically to call their own for some time now. All a lot of them know is generic American garbage or extremely average stuff like George Ezra & Ed Sheeran.

Like I said.. Loads more opportuinitys but give me the 80/90s anyday.
 
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