Are kids nowadays not allowed to enjoy their youth?

gent9662

When I was small I was raised on meat & potatoes, went to bed when it's dark, road a bike with no helmet, played in the dirt, had no child proof lids or seat belts, got smacked when I misbehaved, had 3 TV channels & no remote, school day always started with assembly, stores were closed Sunday, drank water from a hose, didn't know what a Happy Meal was, and still turned out OK.

Children nowadays are totally different! Is it for the better?

kfallon

Hehehehehehehe.......you said 'helmet' :pac:

FatherLen

dclane wrote: »

road a bike with no helmet

you're mad

hondasam

dclane wrote: »

When I was small I was raised on meat & potatoes, went to bed when it's dark, road a bike with no helmet, played in the dirt, had no child proof lids or seat belts, got smacked when I misbehaved, had 3 TV channels & no remote, school day always started with assembly, stores were closed Sunday, drank water from a hose, didn't know what a Happy Meal was, and still turned out OK.

Children nowadays are totally different! Is it for the better?

I never got smacked when I was a child, I'm making up for it now.

drank from a hose,what year were you born ?

cml387

dclane wrote: »

When I was small I was raised on meat & potatoes, went to bed when it's dark, road a bike with no helmet, played in the dirt, had no child proof lids or seat belts, got smacked when I misbehaved, had 3 TV channels & no remote, school day always started with assembly, stores were closed Sunday, drank water from a hose, didn't know what a Happy Meal was, and still turned out OK.

Children nowadays are totally different! Is it for the better?

What were these 3 tv channels?

wild_cat

Is it only in the last 15 years people have become adverse to having half the kids on the road in the back of the car?


I can remember this happening in the early 90's, when did it start to die out or was it just a bogger thing?

phill106

hondasam wrote: »

I never got smacked when I was a child, I'm making up for it now.

Less More of that kinky stuff now...

ronaneire

This generation rule the nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIyEjcCtFg8

Edit: for some darn reason it won't paste the embed code
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIyEjcCtFg8

Latchy

ronaneire wrote: »

This generation rule the nation

Just like the hippys in the 60s but without the mobiles ,internet ,games etc .Pioneers...the lot of them :cool:

mconigol

ronaneire wrote: »

This generation rule the nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIyEjcCtFg8

Edit: for some darn reason it won't paste the embed code
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIyEjcCtFg8

Old timers....bless em :rolleyes:

Do you need a hand?

WallyGUFC

There's nothing enjoyable about anything OP said apart from playing in dirt...and GIVING smacks, not taking them.

Dangerous Man

They're allowed to enjoy it too much if you ask me, what with their stationplay, and their webnets and their fappin'. Shut 'em down, I say.

Mike 1972

cml387 wrote: »

What were these 3 tv channels?

CUT TV
AND TV
PASTE TV

Buceph

I remember when I was about four going to the local shop about five minutes walk away to buy my child-minder's husband cigarettes. Me and the other kid she minded would walk all the way up (holding hands so one of us doesn't run out on the road) to the shop by ourselves. If the shop owner questioned us on buying cigarettes we were to say they were for Billy. We then got to spend the coin change on sweets.

Happy days.

Orando Broom

They are, so long as they are quiet.


Sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

CrazyRabbit

dclane wrote: »

When I was small I was raised on meat & potatoes, went to bed when it's dark, road a bike with no helmet, played in the dirt, had no child proof lids or seat belts, got smacked when I misbehaved, had 3 TV channels & no remote, school day always started with assembly, stores were closed Sunday, drank water from a hose, didn't know what a Happy Meal was, and still turned out OK.

Children nowadays are totally different! Is it for the better?

I disagree with your assertion that you turned out ok.

ronaneire

mconigol wrote: »

Old timers....bless em :rolleyes:

Do you need a hand?

Nah your ok thanks, I've done many times before and it worked a treat

CrazyRabbit

Things have changed a lot.

Starting when I was 11, I was allowed to go from Dublin to a Aisling Caravan park in Wexford with just a few mates for a week each summer. Jump on the train, dodge the ticket inspector, walk a few miles to the camping site, sleep outdoors or in the tents/caravans of new friends we'd made, and then return home perfectly safe.

And where I lived in Rowlagh (D10), there were some huge 'conker' trees that we would climb each spring. I don't recall anyone ever falling or getting seriously hurt even though we were climbing 20-30 feet.

We used to 'skoot' on the back of buses and lorries too. Anything to shorten the walk to/from school with those 15kg school bags!

Nowdays, it's wrap em up in cotton wool, keep them in sight 24/7 and drive them everywhere. Pity.

AnonoBoy

dclane wrote: »

When I was small I was raised on meat & potatoes, went to bed when it's dark, road a bike with no helmet, played in the dirt, had no child proof lids or seat belts, got smacked when I misbehaved, had 3 TV channels & no remote, school day always started with assembly, stores were closed Sunday, drank water from a hose, didn't know what a Happy Meal was, and still turned out OK.

Unless you grew up in the US then you're just cutting and pasting from a forwarded email, aren't you?

Buceph

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Unless you grew up in the US then you're just cutting and pasting from a forwarded email, aren't you?

Shops were closed on Sundays in Ireland for yonks. Unless you're referring to the "stores" part, which could be about Roches (although it isn't.)

AnonoBoy

Buceph wrote: »

Shops were closed on Sundays in Ireland for yonks. Unless you're referring to the "stores" part, which could be about Roches (although it isn't.)

No I was referring to use of the word 'stores'. Very few people back in the day called shops 'stores'. And most Irish people still don't.

Also starting the school day with assembly? I don't know of any school that used to do that where I grew up.

Saila

the safety police have taken over

AnonoBoy

In fact I have no idea what shops closing on Sundays or school days starting with assemblies have to do with children being allowed to enjoy their youth.

Some of the points seem to be saying that kids aren't allowed do things that were ok in the past, that they're too wrapped in cotton wool. Other points seem to be saying the opposite.

I'm confused. What sort of credentials does the author of this piece have?

Kevin Duffy

Yeh, we had much more fun back in the '70's, when child abductors were free to roam 'cos communication wasn't as fast or widespread as now and a cult of strange, black clad men who chanted in big buildings on Sunday mornings could get away with abuse and murder, when holidays were rainy weeks in caravans and some kids were still shabbily dressed and malnourished, when education was at the end of a stick.

Rds1989

dclane wrote: »

When I was small I was raised on meat & potatoes, went to bed when it's dark, road a bike with no helmet, played in the dirt, had no child proof lids or seat belts, got smacked when I misbehaved, had 3 TV channels & no remote, school day always started with assembly, stores were closed Sunday, drank water from a hose, didn't know what a Happy Meal was, and still turned out OK.

Children nowadays are totally different! Is it for the better?

im not sure but nowadays we know how to spell rode grandpa

Manic Moran

cml387 wrote: »

What were these 3 tv channels?

RTE1, RTE2, and The Weather Channel.
This last one always had 'Snow', for some reason.

I guess UTV may have been on offer for the lads near the border?

NTM

Solnskaya

I went to school in a very rough neighbourhood(Kentish town, st paddys) and we spent the best part of each day battering each other with intent. Not a week would pass without a fairly serious row. I now get called up to my kids school if they so much as use bad language, to me, this is overboard. We were kids, we fought, we swore, we played rough, and we all turned out pretty ok and had a happy childhood. Now it seems boys especially are expected to act like little girls, no roughhousing, no contact sports and pretty much no freedom. The school does not even let them play rugby in case they get hurt. A generation of Homogosexuals is coming along, the boys are like girls, and the girls are like boys.

Cantona's Collars

Solnskaya wrote: »

I went to school in a very rough neighbourhood(Kentish town, st paddys) and we spent the best part of each day battering each other with intent. Not a week would pass without a fairly serious row. I now get called up to my kids school if they so much as use bad language, to me, this is overboard. We were kids, we fought, we swore, we played rough, and we all turned out pretty ok and had a happy childhood. Now it seems boys especially are expected to act like little girls, no roughhousing, no contact sports and pretty much no freedom. The school does not even let them play rugby in case they get hurt. A generation of Homogosexuals is coming along, the boys are like girls, and the girls are like boys.

This is the future:eek::eek: http://www.nerdnirvana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/men-then-and-now.jpg

filmbuffboy

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Yeh, we had much more fun back in the '70's, when child abductors were free to roam 'cos communication wasn't as fast or widespread as now and a cult of strange, black clad men who chanted in big buildings on Sunday mornings could get away with abuse and murder, when holidays were rainy weeks in caravans and some kids were still shabbily dressed and malnourished, when education was at the end of a stick.

It'd be nice to think that there are no more shabbily dressed & hungry children in Ireland.... but thats not the case.

Solnskaya

filmbuffboy wrote: »

It'd be nice to think that there are no more shabbily dressed & hungry children in Ireland.... but thats not the case.

we used to be jealous of the shabbily dressed, hungry, posh feckers..aww no, I've turned into my auld lad....

Dudess

dclane wrote: »

When I was small I was raised on meat & potatoes, went to bed when it's dark, road a bike with no helmet, played in the dirt, had no child proof lids or seat belts, got smacked when I misbehaved, had 3 TV channels & no remote, school day always started with assembly, stores were closed Sunday, drank water from a hose, didn't know what a Happy Meal was, and still turned out OK.

What was the third channel? Yes, children are "allowed" to enjoy their youth. Why wouldn't they be?

Stuff from someone else about boys overall being feminised too: fiction.

Children are children - there's just a fetish for going on about the good auld days. Sometimes even from 19-year-olds here.

mconigol

ronaneire wrote: »

Nah your ok thanks, I've done many times before and it worked a treat

There's no shame in asking for help!