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

I grew up in Australia and we also had milk and bread delivered a few times a week... we knew everyone on our street and I mean for about 3 blocks each way - we brought meat at the butcher shop and he had whole carcasses hanging up - you knew what you were eating, fruit and veg at the fruit and veg stand, fish at the docks........ an d most foods had a season - you could only get them at their time - no avocados or mangos all year around. You had to ask your neighbours mother if he/she could come out to play and if they were in trouble you were told all about it - no organised playdates then you had to organise your own!!!

ahhhh the relaxing joy of reminisence

Tim,

How about driving around without seatbelts?

Oh Tim,

What a great question!

Yes I will have to be careful I could go on and on...lol

I think my biggest thing is thoughts of when I was a kid and now seeing what my kids have had to go thru is the hardest.

We played with all the kids in the neighborhood from morning till night, I was only interested in TV on saturday morning when Puff N Stuff, Land Of The Lost & Scooby Doo was on. None of us ever had weight problems because we were always playing there were no computers, tv in our rooms, cell phones.

I remember playing with my boy friends and no one thought anything of it. We would go in the field behind my house and dig us a fort and put wood over the top and have snacks, a flashlight and our share of frogs and horny toads...the funny thing is I haven't seen a horny toad in probly 30 years.

When you went to school and you didnt like someone you told them to buzz off, if they didnt then you beat the crap out of them, there was no mention of "Im gonna knife you" or "Im gonna shoot you" usually the bully took his beating and that was that.

Me and my friends use to ride in the BACK of my Dad's pick-up and we loved it!

Me and my friends lived together, there was no well we have to have 1 weeks notice or well suzie has dance on monday, karate on tuesday and so on and so on.

If we got in trouble at school you might as well expect to get in trouble at home if you were innocent or not, the teachers law was word.

I guess me and my friends were just dumb or never knew where we could get drugs...not that we wanted them I didnt know what weed, crack, cocaine, smack or any of that stuff was, in school they always made us watch what can happen to you if you do drugs, in this 1 scene this girl is high on something and she is in this room that is psychadelic and the room is spinning and she climbs on the rail of her apartment thinks she can fly and falls and kills herself, that movie did at least 1 little girl good, I always thought I am keeping all my brain cells...lol

We went to school where we celebrated halloween i even liked being a witch...I didnt turn into some satanic devil worshiper...and we celebrated Christmas every year with a Christmas play....it is so sad that my children have to be punished because of someones idea we may hurt anothers religion. I think we should have a christmas play, and hannakah week, there is nothing wrong with learning anothers culture.

So many changes some for the good but many not so much....too much today takes the innocence of our children much too early with tv, video games, too mature friends.

I like to tell my kids the story of my Dad and his 4 brothers and 1 sister who would get 1 pair of shoes each summer and 1 pair each winter..if they got to little you cut the toes out but then you might have to walk 4 miles in the snow to get to school.

Christmas for them usually consisted of a pencil box, a pencil and 1 orange and then if my Grandma had time to sew thrm something like a shirt.

They ate meat 1 time a week on sundays and usually had company from church over and the adults ate first. Alot of times there was not enough meat for the kids. They got to eat eggs thru the week but that would be nothing compared to ham.

I love listening to my Dads stories and my Moms when she was still here, her family was really poor because they were Indian. They ate alot of onion sandwiches. Some of the clothes they took their school pictures in were awful but those kids were always clean. i listen to these stories and i am ashamed of some of my ways with my kids and pretty much the way kids are raised today.

It all just seemed so much simpler then,

Lisa

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when I was a kid our candy was 25 cents.

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I'm sorry you had to pay so much, we had penny candy (1 cent).

Oh my gosh, Halloween, I didn't think about that. We would dress up and to door to door. We didn't need an adult with us, and we could go as far as our legs would take us. Didn't have to worry about people putting harmful things in the treats. When my daughter was young we drove her around just to people we knew. What a shame.

I remeber land of the lost, and scooby doo...and that's true what you say about how innocent everything was. I've had a bit of a resurgence of halloween inspite of my religious beliefs...because I get so tired from the suspicion, back then..it was just a night to dress up funny and get candy! ALL the kids were out and you got see who you could recognize, then drive across town(which back then was a 5 minute drive) and Gramma had made popcorn balls and all kinds of stuff that would surely add to diabetes today but it was just fun. and simple. I got shoes once a year and spent most of the year with holes in them. that was all we had money for and I knew that was all we had money for. If it got bad enough, I'd go bug Grandma I think it's true how some kids are brought up now...we had a tv but saturday morning cartoons were IT! We played outside..made sheet forts, color crayons and colour books..still one of my favourites!! anyway..just remembering Amy PS: I feel robbed!!! 1 cent for candy!!!! MAAAAAN!

Hey Alan,

Are you referring to Beethoven's greatest compositions being played by the one and only Spike Jones Band, as "noise"?

I'm just too old to take part in this thread.
OG

Just a few things here

I was born in the Czechoslovak socialist republic, then lived in the Czech and Slovak federal republic and since 93 in the Czech republic ...

It wasnt all that bad, but I do remember a few things that are actually unbelievable. There was a total lack of toilet paper and hygiene pads. If it actually appeared in a store, you d know - there would be a neverending line of people standing there, but then they would only sell two packages to a person. so mom would take two and I would take two, then the shop assistant would say that I am too small to need the pads, but mom said "what do all the men need them for?" and she d let us go.
and my grandmother would cut the newspaper (the bigges- as for format - communist newspaper) for tiolet paper - OUCH!

but life was also much easier ..... there was only one kind of everything so you didnt have to thing which kind of bread, milk, TV, toys, anything, you liked more

for a kid, everything was pretty straight forward and easy, life was enjoyable. until about the age of 13, when it became more complicated and the question of the family background came into question and could very much influence the choice of high school and other things.



apart from the history, the biggest change here is the possibility to connect to the world ...... travel, technologies etc.

GIDDAY,
Hey hi,I remember being brought up as a kid in sydney[oz]and living in an avenue[dead-end street]...us neighbour hood kids would spend hours riding bikes and climbing trees and best of all i remember endless containers[icecream containers]trying to catch tadpoles in the water along the side of the road[now curb and concrete drains] and sloshin thru the water and when we got sick of that we would sit next to it because thats where the buttercups were and we,d make buttercup flower chains.then we,d swing on the ancient 2 willow trees out the front and pretend we were tarzan and jane...or try to spot the family of owls that lived in the willow trees.....god i miss all that ...if only you could go back somtimes...mmmm think i,ll go to bed and have some sweet dreams...nite Jude2

LOL!!!



Sue