How a great childhood we had

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

    I've been thinking for some time that I write something what you youngsters do not know. I did not know from where to start and how to convey a childhood we had in the 80s and early 90s, and yes I am not the oldest here at Forum, but I wanted to share with you a small piece of some earlier times.

 

I will not write about me, and the two wars that I watched live for years and felt on my own skin. A man can learn to live with bad memories, but unfortunately can never forget them.

   

But, even in those difficult times we only needed a little bit to be happy...

First, we where born normally and we survived, even our mothers when they had a headache they were taking 2 or 3 aspirines, they ate canned food, they smoked and worked until the last days of pregnancy and have never been tested for diabetes.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belt and without airbags, and we do not have a helmet on our heads for a bike ride or rollerblades. We drank water from the garden hose for watering, and not from a bottle purchased in large retail chains. We shared a bottle of Coke with our friends and no one get sick or died because of it :)

 

We ate milky ice cream, white bread and real butter and we drunk Coca Cola full of sugar, but we were not being overweight, because we were always outside playing. We went out of the house in the morning and we played all day, hide and seek, thieves and cops, cowboys and Indians and everything else what is just a child's imagination was able to come up, until the street lighs was turned on. Often parents were unable to find us all day, so they slaped our face few times as a part of education, but it was not abuse. Throwing firecrackers for a New Year was a great thing, reading piles of comics and we survived everything without consequences

 

We spent entire days making a real racing boards from the waste from the basement or shed, we where sliding down the street, forgetting that we made brakes. After a couple of falls, broken fingers and bruises, we have learned how to solve the problem.

 

And yes we did not have imaginary friends. We did not add any friends because we gained them with the time.

 

They did not gave us pills against hyperactivity. We did not have school psychologists and tutors, but we still finished some school. We did not have PlayStation, Nintendo, X-boxes, no video games, no 200 channels on a TV, we did not have DVD, mobile phones, computers, internet, chat rooms. But we have been happy and full of joy and laughter :)

 

When we get into trouble with the law, parents did not paying to bail us out. In fact, they have been often stricter than the law itself :)

 

We had freedom, right to make mistakes, success and responsibility. And we learned to live with it.

 

    Such a childhood we had, and we were happy with little things. Even a small things where enough to make us happy :)

[Pride.ln.Blood 1,065]

So true.

[Zenyth 6,494]

+1

 

Well even though most of my childhood friends did have it, even I was born in 1998, I didn't get any mobile phone till I was 15, and I never had any gaming console, and we got full TV (till then we had one-channel called Doordarshan only) when I was 11. I used to play cricket a lot, and didn't get internet till I was like 13.

[golden5648 1,686]

So true, and getting older always puts me and others on stress for our career. And we always keep our face in front of a screen.

 

But in childhood, it was so fun to play, we had full freedom. :)

[Darren4Turbo 4,913]

Most of the children now play/chat on the internet and when they are bored, they don't know what to do, I would suggest them to read a book or play sports if he / she was bored and use internet for useful stuff.

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

Most of the children now play/chat on the internet and when they are bored, they don't know what to do, I would suggest them to read a book or play sports if he / she was bored and use internet for useful stuff.

No offense, but you're 12 years old and still a child. I wrote this "from a point" of us who are +35 years old and we remember the 80's and 90's :)

[I.WalkAlone 548]

Sounds fun. Though, it must've been a horrible time for introverts.

[robbie56 2,403]

No offense, but you're 12 years old and still a child. I wrote this "from a point" of us who are +35 years old and we remember the 80's and 90's :)

You're on the wrong forum , the average age on this forum is probably 13.

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

You're on the wrong forum , the average age on this forum is probably 13.

Yes I know what is average age on this Forum and in the game. And I do not mind about that :)

[Bydo 20,179]

No offense, but you're 12 years old and still a child. I wrote this "from a point" of us who are +35 years old and we remember the 80's and 90's :)

In the 80's and 90's those were the teenagers ages for me or in early 80's had tons of fun back then went to Alice cooper concert and many others and back then it was never issues of how late you stayed out cause the police watch people way more then now..also as a kid i only had a bike or my feet to go places  or transits started in about the middle of the 80's in my part of town and when your parents told you there story's having to walk for two miles in a snow storm to get to the neighbors houses well for me that's how far school was or the nearest grocery store's were ..we did not have candy readily available to eat due to parents lived off the land and made jarred foods or had them in the  freezers ..going from the country to the big city and only one road to go on took us over 3 hours to see grandparents who we saw every weekend..now back in the 90's its true only the ones who had money had video games or computers we mainly stayed at the mall to play arcade games like pin ball or race cars for the movies star wars or  ET ,  star trek were some of the big box openers ..next to the bar screens were rave or new wave / rock was a huge hit...also washing clothes in the winter and pulling them off the line stiff as card board..or hanging them up in the bathroom so they can dry over night ..those were the best year's of my life

 

kids have it way  too easy to understand what we had to go threw..

 

 

also great article... 

Edited February 12, 2016 by frozen_heart

[dogm45 10,675]

I remember those days!!! Thanks for bringing me back!!! Mine was in the 70's, but the same.  :D

Edited February 12, 2016 by dogm45

[The-Operator219 1,929]

Hey, I'm fifteen but I got to experience my dad's NES and all of it's great games.

And while I can't speak for everyone, reading is still a large part of culture today.

[DanTheKiller1 2,889]

People will always say their generation was better than the future one

But yeah,I guess it was funnier when technology had a smaller impact on our lives

Not like I`m any old,but still,I`m from before the Facebook boom,the Let`s Play videos,PewdieCrap,back when samp and 1.6 ( I didn`t play either one when I was younger) were the only ones,and the glorious Yahoo

Shall I also say about all the free emoticons downloads,free make-up games to download,all the mails I got when going on random sites and so on

 

I kinda went off-topic because I brought up all those pc things,but still,they were less important back then,it`s just me that was marked by those

 

 

Or for true net veterans,goggle

[robbie56 2,403]

People will always say their generation was better than the future one

But yeah,I guess it was funnier when technology had a smaller impact on our lives

Not like I`m any old,but still,I`m from before the Facebook boom,the Let`s Play videos,PewdieCrap,back when samp and 1.6 ( I didn`t play either one when I was younger) were the only ones,and the glorious Yahoo

Shall I also say about all the free emoticons downloads,free make-up games to download,all the mails I got when going on random sites and so on

 

I kinda went off-topic because I brought up all those pc things,but still,they were less important back then,it`s just me that was marked by those

 

 

Or for true net veterans,goggle

Ours really is better though.

[Benefactor 6,888]

I remember when you needed quarters to play video games. I would save up my allowance just to blow it all at the end of the week to play video games at the arcade. Other than that, it was either go outside and meet up with friends or (if the weather was bad) stay in and watch TV.

 

And there was no flat screen TV at the time. We had this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DanTheKiller1 2,889]

Ours really is better though.

What was your age ?

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

And there was no flat screen TV at the time. We had this:

In the 80's it was the fashion for TV's to look kinda wooden :) And I remember we had 2 channels during a day and in the evening one more. Later they added more, at the begining of 90's.

[E.Leclerc 1,887]

Yugoslavia... Good old days, I wish that I was there. :)

 

Edited February 12, 2016 by E.Leclerc

[Bydo 20,179]

yea cable came out then

 

for the lady's we have shoulder pads and tight jeans..music was  Madonna and Micheal Jackson ..

 

pop was sold in glass bottles and plastic was just starting in store's

 

bubble gum you could get 3 for a 25cent  chocolate bars were about 50 cents...Canadian prices

 

Friday nights and Saturdays we were mostly found at the skating rink or roller skating ..in summer swimming

Edited February 12, 2016 by frozen_heart

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

pop was sold in glass bottles and plastic was just starting in store's

During hot summer days, three or four of us would buy one Coca Cola bottle and then we would all share it :) I did not saw Coca Cola glass bottles from a liter (or half and a liter) at least 15 years. Only small one.

[Bydo 20,179]

yea they were mostly getting rid of them ..also swimming in the lake ..and not worrying about the sun getting cancer

Edited February 12, 2016 by frozen_heart

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

Yugoslavia... Good old days, I wish that I was there. :)

I have been a pioneer and it was the most important day in the school days of every pupil :)