Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group From your childhood what has changed.....

Figured I would post a weekend thread to take our minds off AS for a second with this thread...

I recalled this morning that growing up in the 70's, we would have milk delivered to our back door (had a little box outside the back door) once a week. We would place our old bottles in the box to be picked up and voila... they were replaced with full bottles.

Anyone else with something to share... something that has changed from their childhood or something they see different in how their children grow up today vs their childhood.

Take care,

Tim

Good post Tim...
I remember being able to cruise on my bike ALL day long..not home till dinner...my brother and I would love it! We grew up on a corner house and the 6 blocks next to us were a huge cul de sac so there was only one way in and one way out...

Sure we'd make periodic checks...grab some sandwiches and some koolaid and off we flew off again...i still remember the wonderful feeling of going downhill on one of the steep hills.
Fall off....wipe off the dust and wince...but jump back on and go !

That brought back some wonderful memories Tim...

Tim that was such a good question. I have been thinking about the change from childhood to adulthood a lot recently. (I turned 23 on the 17th). I think that one of the things I remember the most was the lack of technology and being connected at all times. I am sitting here, on my brand new lap top computer, with the tv on and cell phone by my side. I would love to feel so 'disconnected' again!! Ride my bike all day, eat whatever I want and nap. Man...work and school suck. Haha
Michelle

'NOISE'

what a good idea for a post! To me, time has changed. I never used to worry what time it was or when it was time for something. everything was a lot slower! EVerything. We went to the park, and when it started to get dim...we mozied home. You didn't know if someone was trying to call you because if you weren't there, you just didn't know. that was nice. there was time for popscicles, walks, and cartoons life is so busy now and with modern technology, it turns an already busy day in a fast busy day. Often i think to myself that i would like to live out in the boonies where I didn't have to deal with technology if i didn't want to. Amy

No more trips outside to the toilet and know your brother is going to lock you in. TV (got that when I was 10), locking doors, "noise", (that's a biggy), central heat/air, computers, washers and dryers; no more wringer washers and clothes lines in the middle of the winter/summer, jumping on a plane for a vacation when I never even knew anyone who had flown until I was a teenager (unless they were in the Air Force),

OK now......Pain when I could play any sport and did all day and under the yard light, running and jumping on the horse in the pasture and now couldn't even "climb on one". Just me and my honey in a King size bed instead of sharing a room with 2 sisters.
No more home made ice cream almost every night and sitting on the freezer while Dad turned, now we just run to Braum's. Or would if it weren't that cholestrol was discovered. Seatbelts. Car seats that don't hang over the top of the seat.

Oh, this is had better stop. You will think that I came over on the Mayflower. Come to think of it, my ancestors were here to greet them.

Don't know if this was fun or not. It was but oh my do I feel old.

I can just hear you all now laughing your heads off. All you young'uns.

Possi

Better get some help to get up out of this chair and off to bed.

Great question, Tim.

All of the things already mentioned ring true for me as well. We also got milk delivered in glass bottles with cream on the top, but we also got our bread delivered. The bread man would come around with bread, rolls, sweet cakes etc.

Listening to shows on the radio before TV (see Possi, you're not the only one . We did all kinds of things for entertainment as a kid. We would put on skits and make our parents pay to watch . We also had the freedom to ride our bikes anywhere, camp out in our backyards with no adults, climb trees. When I was a teenager, we didn't have curling irons, we used brush rollers and orange juice cans to curl our hair. Sleeping on those brushes was not fun, but we did it. No blow driers either. We did have one table top salon style dryer in my later teen years.

Clothes... Of course they are constantly changing, but when I went to school the girls had to wear skirts, we couldn't even wear those split skirts, and definitely no pants. Even the guys didn't wear jeans to school.

I'm sure I could go on, but I'll let someone else have their say.

Tim,

When I was growing up we lived in Germany on a farm and we had to go outside to use the toilet until my father put in a new bathroom in the Oldhouse that is. But every 2 weeks the Beer Truck would pull up to the front door and take away the empties and drop of more beer and soft drinks. I also find that people were a lot more friendlier back was I was growing up. ( People would stop and talk and say good morning or what ever ) Now people all seem to be in such a hurry to get to places and will not just say Hi! to anone now a days.
The biggest thing is now we have to worry more about our kids when they go outside to play and when we were kids we could just play and go places without having to worry about anything happening to us like the kids do today.

Another thing was going to the movies back when we were kids we only needed 25 cents and that got us in with our snakes and drink and a lot of snakes at that.

John

goodness! I would've liked to have been around in those days...instead of just the fed ex guy you had a breadman, a milkman, a beerman, all kinds of men to "flirt" with! and door to door service to boot!!! oh well..when I was a kid our candy was 25 cents. it was like special treasure if you happened upon a lonely quarter who'd lost it's person. A found quarter was one free candy bar and some of the candy, the small stuff was still 10 cents Ames

Like many have already stated, you could go outside and play for hours and hours. Nobody cared if you created mud pies in your sandbox, rolled down a grassy hill or jumped in puddles after a spring rain; the dirtier you were stated how much fun you just had! You could also occupy yourself without the company of the television. Of course, the best thing was, that I didn't have a care in the world.

Thanks Tim for starting this,
Sam