" The Good Old Days " v "Today"

 

KIDS THESE DAYS WOULD LAUGH AT THIS, BUT IT'S SO TRUE…..

When I grew up our tea time was at a regular time, Sunday’s was a roast, simple as that!

Eating out was not heard of, we only had a take away on special occasions, only received a present on birthdays and at Christmas. None of this Halloween, Easter and Play dates.

Fast food was fish and chips and having a bottle of lemonade 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 didn't pout, wear makeup or have anxiety. There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you walked or rode your bike!

Our house phone had a cord attached, so there was no such things as private conversations or mobile phones! Ours was out in the hall.

We didn’t have Now TV, Sky or Netflix, we had only 3 channels to watch. Channel 4 and 5 was an exciting addition! we had to watch all of the adverts unless you switched to BBC.

We played rounders, kick the can, Hide & Seek, nick nack, Football, climbed trees, daisy chains and Rode Bikes.

Everyone could play ball! We used tops for goalposts. A wheelie and bunnyhop on your bike was a standard skill and we used cartons in the spokes of the wheel so it sounded like a motorbike.

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 me Ma 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.

We had scraps, some we lost, some we won but we always had a go back.... Or we got another one when we got home

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, grandmas, 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 did my research by borrowing books from the library. Internet was non existent and no Google!

We saw toys on adverts and had to wait until 'santa' came before we expected. None of the amazon same day crap

These were the good days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid .