12/10/2020
You guys just don’t appreciate what you have...
When I grew up our tea time was at a regular time, Sunday lunch was chicken ,beef or lamb and all the trimmings, we all sat down at a table and used our knives and forks correctly with no elbows on the table.
We only received toys on birthdays and at Christmas 🙂
Fast food was fish and chips on saturday and having a bottle of Corona pop from the shop was a real treat.
You took your school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your 'playing out' clothes. - children looked like children, we didnt pout, wear makeup or have anxiety. There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you walked or rode your bike if you had one and bunked off there was no such things as private conversations or mobile phones, even the landline was attached to the wall!
We didn’t have Now tv, Sky or Netflix, we had only 3 channels to watch. 🙂we had to watch all of the adverts unless you switched to BBC.
We played British bull dog, kerby, hide & seek, tag, football, we made mud pies and rode bikes 🙂
Staying in the house was a PUNISHMENT and the only thing we knew about "bored" was --- "You better find something to do before I find it for you!"
We ate what mum made for our tea or we ate nothing at all. If we rushed our tea we weren't allowed to go back out and if we didn't eat it we weren't allowed back out either 😅
Bottled water was not a thing; we drank from the tap, Council pop.
We watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, and rode our bikes for hours and ran around.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark... street lights were our alarm.
If someone had a fight, that's what it was and we were friends again a week later, if not SOONER.
We watched our mouths around our elders because all of our aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandma's and our parents' best friends were all extensions of our parents and you didn't want them telling your parents if you misbehaved! Or they would give you something to cry about. Everyone had respect. I still dont argue with older people and always give up my seat 🙂
I did my research by borrowing books from the library. There was no internet and no Google! 🙂
These were the good old days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid 🙂 I loved my childhood and all the mates I hung around with. Good Times. ❤️ 🙂
Copied from other parents, but the feelings are shared.