A friend who is Polish used to fly back to Poland to see her grandparents and then collect call the parents when she arrived. She was 7 and her sister was 4.
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Grownups never took us trick or treating. And this was in the days when you would go into people's houses to pick out what you wanted w out a second thought.
This is it. My mom was at work and she did NOT want any messes when she came home. And god FORBID you even thought about letting your friends in that house.
My brother and I were pretty feral (late 70s, through the 80s.) We traveled the German bahn system by ourselves. When we were with my grandma on her South Jersey farm, there were fewer opportunities for exploration, but she threw us out of the house if it was nice outside. No one knew where we were.
I tried to give my kids as much freedom as I could without getting protective services called, but I understand people my kids' ages and younger deciding they don't want to be required to be helicopter parents.
If my son spends more than 30 seconds outside without me, someone will call the police. I have walked out of my building more than once to people looking around panicked because he was "alone." I was in the vestibule getting the mail one time. He was less than 10 feet from me. Neighbor was
It's funny how, in all your lolligagging, you somehow found enough money to split something from a corner store. We were roughing it in an urban/suburban setting. This was kiddie camping.
Yep same here. Walk to the kid down the road. Knock on the door to get him out for the day. Then spend the whole day at the park falling off the play equipment and out of trees. Home for dinner. Started at about six. Were in the same house and at the same school as my buddy until eleven.
And if we got thirsty? Turn on a random neighbor’s faucet and enjoy some hot hose water fresh from the tap. “I think I tasted chlorine, vinyl and a hint of PFAS”.
I'm trying to figure out, if they think it was just a portrayal, what they believe the alternative was? Because even most of the sheltered kids would sneak out to play with us when their parents were gone. 😭
It was a different time but I have tried to raise my own kids with more of this autonomy and it is interesting to see them try to push back because they don’t think they are old enough.
Yes! I would give Gene, the store manager, a note from my dad for a carton of Winstons! My friends would go in w notes from their parents for Thunderbird. 🤦🏽♂️
My grandfather chewed tobacco. He would send me down to the corner store w enough💰 for his chew, Sen Sen, & candy.
I was 5.😆
Yep. Also keep in mind this was the time in which, if we got hurt at somebody else's house, our mom would come over to that person's house and then chew US out because if we got hurt it's because we were doing something we knew we weren't supposed to be doing. 🤣🤣🤣
This is 💯true. I was accident prone,so my mom yelled at me a lot for exactly this.
My dad yelled at me one day for falling at the grocery store. I really got hurt, too.But he said it was my fault for running down the aisle.
OMG,I got yelled at for breaking my arm at school, by the school nurse. 😳
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They made it.
They were 12 & 13.
Grownups never took us trick or treating. And this was in the days when you would go into people's houses to pick out what you wanted w out a second thought.
And if Halloween fell on a Saturday or Sunday... we'd start when it was still daylight and go until late at night. We'd cover miles. 😆
My grandfather chewed tobacco. He would send me down to the corner store w enough💰 for his chew, Sen Sen, & candy.
I was 5.😆
My dad yelled at me one day for falling at the grocery store. I really got hurt, too.But he said it was my fault for running down the aisle.
OMG,I got yelled at for breaking my arm at school, by the school nurse. 😳
Wow... you had helicopter parents compared to mine.