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Originally Posted by JasmineNoelle  Wow.....some times that is all I can say.
When I was a child (I am 60) we ran all over our neighborhood. Not as a gang, not in a hood......a hood was what was on a jacket. We had fun. No one poisoned our dogs and they actually ran free with us kids. Neighbors knew each other, had block parties together, watched out for all the kids (meaning if you did something wrong like said a swear word or spit on someone they immediately corrected you and then called your parents...and your parents were glad they did). Teenagers babysat the younger kids in the neighborhood. We all went to the Saturday matinee by ourselves and our parents never had to worry about someone molesting us. We took our pillow cases on Halloween night, just us kids, and walk the neighborhoods trick or treating. No one had to check our candy for razor blades or worse. You didn't pick up your newspaper with your morning coffee and read about a neighbor going crazy and blowing away several next door or in a theater. Things moved at quieter, slower pace. You could still hear children laughing while they played outside late into the night catching lighting bugs. I miss those times. |
I am almost 50 and I remember when we not only had our parents we had neighbors who became sergeant parents that watched over us and corrected us as you described, boy do I miss those days. We never got away with anything. Try to correct someone's kids today and you get cussed out or the law called on you. But I still do it, its the child care provider in me I guess. Times and people have changed so drastically and I can only imagine what it will be like for my kids as parents. It just so sad and disturbing to me it make me cry every day seeing the tragic and crazy stuff that happens now a days.
