Was hit with a status-repost bug... and started thinking.

[milhent]

My curfew was the street lights, my mom didn't call my cell, she yelled my name, I played outside with friends, not online. If I didn't eat what my mom cooked then I didn't eat. Sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap. I rode a bike without helmet, getting dirty was OK, and neighbors gave a damn as much as your

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[ghymoreids_mum]

current children, the so-called "instant gratification" group. I also pity them.

e-books might be easier and cheaper, but where is the gratification of feeling a book, smelling the fresh pages etc. how are we to choose books for children if we can't pick it up and look through it all?

I can't remember the times I've fallen out of trees, or off a pushbike. we'd wander/roam virtually at will, in groups with ages varying from the toddlers to the teenagers, and usually with a dog or several

memories..... I must be getting old.