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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
A kick up the arse when you were bad  |
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A crack round the back of the legs   |
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E numbers
Poorly fitting clothes
Boredom
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fresh air. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Channel 5 porn |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
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Hand-me-downs! |
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"Channel 5 porn"
Yes that's just what the kids need |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Discipline |
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The excitement of going to the video store and tbe video you want actually being in and then spending 30 minutes browsing anyway |
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Penny sweets! They not a penny anymore x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Shit haircuts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Manners
Might been arse
But still had line I wouldn’t cross
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"Penny sweets! They not a penny anymore x"
Black Jack's fruit salads xx
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Peace of mind. There's way too much pressure on kids |
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By *oo..Woman
over a year ago
Boo's World |
Sunny D Orange Juice that made your skin go a funny colour if you drank too much....  |
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No designer gear and a £10 Xmas gift. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sense of adventure and personal responsibility
Mr |
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Patience resilience and empathy
Not all of them but some of them geez! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fossil fuels
Cheap buses
Walkmans
Woolworths |
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Games like Buckaroo or Operation |
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"Penny sweets! They not a penny anymore xBlack Jack's fruit salads xx"
Yes and snakes liquorish novelties loved the pipe one x |
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Freedom and the chance to be a kid. |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
Large chocolate and sweets then might not take everything else for granted |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Kerby |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The school tuck shop |
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Seeing white dog poo in the street? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Books and imagination.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The ability & desire to go out & about with my mates..
Overprotective parents & kids glued to screens indoors means that doesn’t happen so much nowadays. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Shit haircuts. "
Oh,they still have those. |
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Hand-me-downs! "
Mine always had hand me downs when younger (advantage of friends having babies 4-11 months before us  ) They were handed back & passed on again & again. I love seeing FB memories of friends kids in our kids clothes
Then they got bigger & all caught up etc…
J x
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Patience |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Shit haircuts.
Oh,they still have those."
Not as bad as the late 80’s/early 90’s |
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Freedom to enjoy ourselves without health and safety legislation
Restrictions |
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"Seeing white dog poo in the street?"
Why was it white? I got dared to pick one up with my bare hands as a child! Of course I did! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Backbone
Respect for others
Laughing at jokes
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"Seeing white dog poo in the street?
Why was it white? I got dared to pick one up with my bare hands as a child! Of course I did! "
I have no idea, but you never see it anymore. |
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By *batMan
over a year ago
Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales) |
Outdoor play without adult supervision.
Gbat |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Outdoor play without adult supervision.
Gbat "
This website has ruined sentences like this for me |
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Rickets, Diptheria, smog....pmsl |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Personal responsibility. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
"Seeing white dog poo in the street?
Why was it white? I got dared to pick one up with my bare hands as a child! Of course I did!
I have no idea, but you never see it anymore."
High levels of calcium in dogs' diet causes white dog poo |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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45 and in
British Bulldog
Playing war! With your mates.
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A life free of social media, camera phones, "influencers", and the whole phoney plastic shit show that is celebrity culture. |
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Quite alarming reading this thread as a zoomer.  |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
I actually think kids today have a tougher time as there is a lot less security and certainty, the family unit as it was known is beginning to disintegrate for many and on top of that the whole "plastic and fake world" as some have aptly described it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sex pistols |
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"Seeing white dog poo in the street?
Why was it white? I got dared to pick one up with my bare hands as a child! Of course I did! "
They bulked dog food out with chalk, to make it cheaper and because obviously dogs love eating chalk! |
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By *batMan
over a year ago
Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales) |
"Outdoor play without adult supervision.
This website has ruined sentences like this for me "
Hah! What about "outdoor play with an adult only audience" Sound better?
Gbat |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Outdoor play without adult supervision.
This website has ruined sentences like this for me
Hah! What about "outdoor play with an adult only audience" Sound better?
Gbat "
I don’t think there is a way to make it better. Fab has corrupted my mind. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Naked weather reports both visually stunning and informative |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Freedom and the chance to be a kid. "
Definitely this  |
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inner city riots
raves on deserted airfields
free money every two weeks
stonehenge festival
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Freedom and the chance to be a kid.
Definitely this "
School holidays, heading out in morning into the forests and hills returning at night in time for tea
Using Bowie Knives to cut down branches and make gang huts, without even a thought of using them against each other. |
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"Seeing white dog poo in the street?
Why was it white? I got dared to pick one up with my bare hands as a child! Of course I did!
I have no idea, but you never see it anymore.
High levels of calcium in dogs' diet causes white dog poo "
Thank you Glyn |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
A social life togethernesses less of being a knob head |
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They need more time to just be kids 24/7 bad news for them form global warming covid and unjust capitalist state. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Choppers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jimmy Savil...oh wait |
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As virtually the second post said
Fresh air
Exercise - run outs, footy in a field with jumpers for goals
Playing in old buildings (lived near an old fort) - god knows how no-one died
Climbing trees, Scrumping
Did I mention no girlfriends as a result! |
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"Jimmy Savil...oh wait"
Don't even go there, that arsehole nearly cost me serious buck's. |
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Fresh air.
Respect for our elders.
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Not read the whole thread but how many old people have said manners? |
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Ridiculous pressure to excel at everything. Not doing well is failure. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
Kindness directed towards them.
Time with parents after school and during school holidays.
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"Not read the whole thread but how many old people have said manners?"
Which is rubbish because my grandchildren and my relatives grandchildren have manners.
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common sense
appreciation that things have to be paid for by someone who has to earn the money
ability to chat and disagree face to face without tantrums
tolerance of things they dislike |
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Grandparents who look after them after school and during holidays |
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"Not read the whole thread but how many old people have said manners?
Which is rubbish because my grandchildren and my relatives grandchildren have manners.
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Complete lies. Everyone knows back in the day with football hooliganism, casual sexism, racism, homophobia was the zenith of having good manners |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"common sense
appreciation that things have to be paid for by someone who has to earn the money
ability to chat and disagree face to face without tantrums
tolerance of things they dislike"
First they need parents and grandparents to teach them those things! |
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Discipline
Actually going out and playing, instead of inside on consoles. |
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Parents who were grown ups.
And I don't mean age. |
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"Discipline
Actually going out and playing, instead of inside on consoles."
Yes no Internet, blue peter, and johnny morris, and other good tv shows, went to bed when told and enjoyed friday nights in bed with a bottle of /pepsi crisps and one of the popular comics of the times like the topper or victor amongst others even the eagle sometimes.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cheaper housing |
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The freedom of not being chained to the online world. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Phones where you can only speak to each other!
T |
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Kids actually played outdoors all day instead of playing games consoles or faces stuck in thier mobile phones also the innocence of children with no social media full of bullies and wierdos |
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By *D67Man
over a year ago
glasgow |
An imagination....ability to occupy themselves without phones etc! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The ability to memories every last one of your mates house nos and calling them individually to see if they were allowed out to play.
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
Respect for their elders. |
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"Not read the whole thread but how many old people have said manners?
Which is rubbish because my grandchildren and my relatives grandchildren have manners.
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I know right?? I find it's the old people that lack the manners more than the youngsters tbh x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago
Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’ |
Fields that you could play cricket/football on. Schools & Councils have sold them off.
I played cricket & football in all weathers. I was always playing sport, swimming in open Lido's. They don't exist now? My parents always knew where I was. You can't do the same nowadays... for obvious reasons!
Kids have all the technologies we didn't have. I find it amusing when some kids say they are bored! So much to research. Bored???? When I was younger there was only Karate or Kung Fu.
Present day there are so many martial arts that exist. Seriously, how can you be bored? Really?
YouTube can sometimes be better than a teacher. You can make things & get advice & info for the things you are interested in...  |
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Born in 93’
1) Penny Sweets
2) Playing in the park without fear
3) Riding our bikes instead of being glued to social media/electronics
4) Manners
5) Discipline
6) Playing board games
7) Blockbuster store
8) Woolworths store
9) Flicking through the Argos catalogue and circling what we wanted
10) Trocadero Arcade in central london
Just some to mention ^ |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Additives |
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A future, open spaces and The Smiths |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Fields that you could play cricket/football on. Schools & Councils have sold them off.
I played cricket & football in all weathers. I was always playing sport, swimming in open Lido's. They don't exist now? My parents always knew where I was. You can't do the same nowadays... for obvious reasons!
Kids have all the technologies we didn't have. I find it amusing when some kids say they are bored! So much to research. Bored???? When I was younger there was only Karate or Kung Fu.
Present day there are so many martial arts that exist. Seriously, how can you be bored? Really?
YouTube can sometimes be better than a teacher. You can make things & get advice & info for the things you are interested in... "
What are these obvious reasons? I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're talking about peado's?
If not, ignore the following rant.
I always think it strange when a generation of people that grew up with the likes of Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Max Clifford, Gary Glitter and Stuart Hall as celebrities make claims about how unsafe the world has become for children now. The reality is our parks and playgrounds have never been as safe as they are now - not to mention our youth groups, scouts, guides, schools and mainstream TV.
We are so preoccupied with keeping our children safe from stranger danger which only ever affected a tiny minority of children that we forget the far bigger danger is, and always has been, family and friends. Worse still we ignore the unseen and un-noticed consequences of raising children who never get to experience independence, the mild panic and then relief when they've gone a bit further than intended and got lost and had to figure out their own way home, or climbed a bit too high and frightened themselves. We ignore the fact that the young of all mamals use play as a way of preparing themselves for adulthood and that taking away the types of play children have enjoyed for countless centuries and sticking them in front of an X box cannot possibly leave them unaffected. We wrap our children up so they don't have to face anything difficult or hard and then wonder why, when they finally leave home, we have an ever growing population of young people with stress and anxiety disorders when they suddenly get faced with the realities of a life they've been studiously sheltered from since birth. We wonder why so many need counselling to teach them "coping strategies". Worse still, as the generation responsible for failing to parent our children in ways that give them a healthy start in life, we take no responsibility and instead bemoan the lack of manners, abilities, common sense and all the other complaints that routinely get levelled at millenials and gen z youngsters.
So my last contribution to the thread is that what we had as children that children today need more of is parents that let them experience challenging circumstances, that encourage them to deal with difficulties and that instead of rushing off to solve all their problems tell them life isn't fair, suck it up.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Fields that you could play cricket/football on. Schools & Councils have sold them off.
I played cricket & football in all weathers. I was always playing sport, swimming in open Lido's. They don't exist now? My parents always knew where I was. You can't do the same nowadays... for obvious reasons!
Kids have all the technologies we didn't have. I find it amusing when some kids say they are bored! So much to research. Bored???? When I was younger there was only Karate or Kung Fu.
Present day there are so many martial arts that exist. Seriously, how can you be bored? Really?
YouTube can sometimes be better than a teacher. You can make things & get advice & info for the things you are interested in...
What are these obvious reasons? I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're talking about peado's?
If not, ignore the following rant.
I always think it strange when a generation of people that grew up with the likes of Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Max Clifford, Gary Glitter and Stuart Hall as celebrities make claims about how unsafe the world has become for children now. The reality is our parks and playgrounds have never been as safe as they are now - not to mention our youth groups, scouts, guides, schools and mainstream TV.
We are so preoccupied with keeping our children safe from stranger danger which only ever affected a tiny minority of children that we forget the far bigger danger is, and always has been, family and friends. Worse still we ignore the unseen and un-noticed consequences of raising children who never get to experience independence, the mild panic and then relief when they've gone a bit further than intended and got lost and had to figure out their own way home, or climbed a bit too high and frightened themselves. We ignore the fact that the young of all mamals use play as a way of preparing themselves for adulthood and that taking away the types of play children have enjoyed for countless centuries and sticking them in front of an X box cannot possibly leave them unaffected. We wrap our children up so they don't have to face anything difficult or hard and then wonder why, when they finally leave home, we have an ever growing population of young people with stress and anxiety disorders when they suddenly get faced with the realities of a life they've been studiously sheltered from since birth. We wonder why so many need counselling to teach them "coping strategies". Worse still, as the generation responsible for failing to parent our children in ways that give them a healthy start in life, we take no responsibility and instead bemoan the lack of manners, abilities, common sense and all the other complaints that routinely get levelled at millenials and gen z youngsters.
So my last contribution to the thread is that what we had as children that children today need more of is parents that let them experience challenging circumstances, that encourage them to deal with difficulties and that instead of rushing off to solve all their problems tell them life isn't fair, suck it up.
Mr"
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By *licecdTV/TS
over a year ago
Hatfield |
Discipline and respect of others and their property |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Playing outside. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Money |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Woolworths free pick n mix. |
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"Woolworths free pick n mix."
There's not an adult alive that didn't pinch a pick and mix sweet in Woolworths .....good times |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Parents that taught respect |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
A misplaced sense of safety |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Life! I am sure they going to miss a lot of it.. because of imaginary world they live through playstations, mobiles, iwatches, ipads and so on
I personally believe this is a serious issue for future generation |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Common sense and to take responsibility for their actions |
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A sense of imagination and Adventure. Not face planted on the phone |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
Freedom to hang out in parks without fear of being stabbed or taken into a county line gang.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Eurotash on channel 4 |
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Headlice poor bugger's are getting extinct
#savetheheadlice |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Manners
A clip round the ear
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100% and the local bobby was also very well respected. |
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Relatively effective and accessible public services... |
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Topless Darts on Super Channel  |
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"Fields that you could play cricket/football on. Schools & Councils have sold them off.
I played cricket & football in all weathers. I was always playing sport, swimming in open Lido's. They don't exist now? My parents always knew where I was. You can't do the same nowadays... for obvious reasons!
Kids have all the technologies we didn't have. I find it amusing when some kids say they are bored! So much to research. Bored???? When I was younger there was only Karate or Kung Fu.
Present day there are so many martial arts that exist. Seriously, how can you be bored? Really?
YouTube can sometimes be better than a teacher. You can make things & get advice & info for the things you are interested in...
What are these obvious reasons? I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're talking about peado's?
If not, ignore the following rant.
I always think it strange when a generation of people that grew up with the likes of Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Max Clifford, Gary Glitter and Stuart Hall as celebrities make claims about how unsafe the world has become for children now. The reality is our parks and playgrounds have never been as safe as they are now - not to mention our youth groups, scouts, guides, schools and mainstream TV.
We are so preoccupied with keeping our children safe from stranger danger which only ever affected a tiny minority of children that we forget the far bigger danger is, and always has been, family and friends. Worse still we ignore the unseen and un-noticed consequences of raising children who never get to experience independence, the mild panic and then relief when they've gone a bit further than intended and got lost and had to figure out their own way home, or climbed a bit too high and frightened themselves. We ignore the fact that the young of all mamals use play as a way of preparing themselves for adulthood and that taking away the types of play children have enjoyed for countless centuries and sticking them in front of an X box cannot possibly leave them unaffected. We wrap our children up so they don't have to face anything difficult or hard and then wonder why, when they finally leave home, we have an ever growing population of young people with stress and anxiety disorders when they suddenly get faced with the realities of a life they've been studiously sheltered from since birth. We wonder why so many need counselling to teach them "coping strategies". Worse still, as the generation responsible for failing to parent our children in ways that give them a healthy start in life, we take no responsibility and instead bemoan the lack of manners, abilities, common sense and all the other complaints that routinely get levelled at millenials and gen z youngsters.
So my last contribution to the thread is that what we had as children that children today need more of is parents that let them experience challenging circumstances, that encourage them to deal with difficulties and that instead of rushing off to solve all their problems tell them life isn't fair, suck it up.
Mr"
I allways say this! The world is no more dangerous than it ever was from undesirables! In fact would say its safer! We just see more of it because of news/Internet! I experienced my share of undesirables! In fact I remember once when I was on my way home I saw and told my brother there was a man with his willy out waving it ! He said if mum hears u saying that u b in trouble for being rude! So I didn't tell her! Stuff was hushed up back then! X |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Riding bikes, spin the bottle and innocent snogging |
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By *eachcplCouple
over a year ago
blackpool/preston/normandy france |
Respect for others |
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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
A more relaxed attitude to the future. Far to much pressure on them to plan for a career before they are ready to decide what they want to do. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Friends that played out together, lots of fresh air and exercise, not stuck indoors on their phone or computer all day |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Respect |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Manners
Respect
Politeness
Kindness |
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"common sense
appreciation that things have to be paid for by someone who has to earn the money
ability to chat and disagree face to face without tantrums
tolerance of things they dislike
First they need parents and grandparents to teach them those things!"
Absolutely right, but peer pressure can undo good traits and reduce many to the lowest common denominator.
We thought we brought our kids up as good as we could, using common sense, manners and encouraging two way respect.
We think we did OK but our sons seemed to resent some aspects of their childhood and it was only when they became parents themselves that they began to realise what was involved and how treading a tightrope meant a few dodgy moments.
Our grandchildren too are polite and confident but subject to those evolved peer pressures meaning they are smart phone obsessed and do not communicate so well face to face.
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Putting a needle on a black plastic thing that cost about £3 - £4 and listening to a whole 20 mins before having to get up and turn it over (first time was always a thrill - not having heard before).
Hang on a minute. Think they're making a comeback, only £25 - £30 ! |
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Respect
In person social interaction |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
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"Patience"
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All card games |
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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago
taunton |
Metal work and woodwork classes at school, highlight of the week for some of the boys. |
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By *essie.Woman
over a year ago
Serendipity |
Able to read maps and follow road signs. Sat navs are a double edged sword in my view. |
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Freedom to knock about with their mates without their parents tracking their every move. |
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I allways say this! The world is no more dangerous than it ever was from undesirables! In fact would say its safer! We just see more of it because of news/Internet! I experienced my share of undesirables! In fact I remember once when I was on my way home I saw and told my brother there was a man with his willy out waving it ! He said if mum hears u saying that u b in trouble for being rude! So I didn't tell her! Stuff was hushed up back then! X"
Exactly. For some reason we view being out in public where there are any number of decent people around to keep an eye as more dangerous than letting them be shut away in their rooms with no idea if they're chatting to their mates or Brian, 57 from Luton.
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"Patience.
All card games "
We played strip poker, all male and mixed, oudoors in the sun and went skinny dipping in the local river, and jolly good fun it all was too!
Good ways to learn what other's bits look like and lose your own shyness! |
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Yamaha Rd350 and Samantha Fox on page 3 |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Seeing white dog poo in the street?
Why was it white? I got dared to pick one up with my bare hands as a child! Of course I did!
I have no idea, but you never see it anymore."
I saw some the other day. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
formation films..."The Green Cross Code guy, always stops looking at his phone before crossing the road" |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Shoe lace tying lessons, how to put their arses in their jeans. |
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By *elkieWoman
over a year ago
Durham |
The only thing I had which my children lack is curiosity about new technology. My younger three have never not had computers and they don’t seem to think they’re anything special.
Oh. And all of my kids free range, climb trees, come home covered in mud, etc. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Decent Saturday morning telly. |
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over a year ago
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"Decent Saturday morning telly."
No kid needs that today
Mine barely even know how to use the TV! |
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Space away from each other. There seems to be a lot of issues caused by kids now having 24/7 ability to contact each other. When I was a kid I had to wait until we were in school together again unless we arranged to meet outside of school. I think having that space from each other was healthier. |
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Youth Clubs.
I remember as I got into my twenties, the council came along and knocked down my youth club and library to build flats.
The youth club and library were never rebuilt, and afterwards there was nowhere for kids to meet and socialise. I met some of my for life friends at that youth club |
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over a year ago
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Discipline! |
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Respect and manners |
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Respect for other peoples property |
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Thicker skin - too many snowflakes and woke kids. You can’t say anything in front of them but they’re offended! |
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"Thicker skin - too many snowflakes and woke kids. You can’t say anything in front of them but they’re offended!"
I'd argue being "woke" requires thicker skin than you realise. I look back at my old self and wish I'd had the confidence to speak out at things I found awful at the time, but went along with purely out of fear. At least kids today aren't afraid to challenge the attitudes of old and speak up in a way I couldn't x |
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I work in a school so I have 1500 examples of what happens when kids don’t have consequences at home, and who are taught that respect has to come to them first before they respect back.
I could go in to a huge rant about this as it is discussed at length in work, but parents who think that they are best friends with their kids…. Just stop! You kid has enough best friends, be a parent. They need that more. |
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A clout round the back of the head worked when I was a lil shit |
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over a year ago
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Once an adult twice a baby. Respect the kids as you won't be a wipe your own arse soon |
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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago
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They need to be face to face with friends playing outside in the fresh air. Interacting in person. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Thicker skin - too many snowflakes and woke kids. You can’t say anything in front of them but they’re offended!
I'd argue being "woke" requires thicker skin than you realise. I look back at my old self and wish I'd had the confidence to speak out at things I found awful at the time, but went along with purely out of fear. At least kids today aren't afraid to challenge the attitudes of old and speak up in a way I couldn't x"
This in spades |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Exposure to the Oxford/Cambridge English Dictionary and not Miriam Webster's edition! |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
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"45 and in
British Bulldog
Playing war! With your mates.
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British bulldog got banned from most schools didn't it..?
...now I think even playing conkers is frowned on |
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A dam good thrashing with the belt....x |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
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British bulldog/murder ball...I was the victim of murder ball, couldn't breath but was never happier, |
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Much more exercise and physical activity. Including no car to get to school. More play outdoors
Healthier food
Things bought to last and kept |
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over a year ago
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Respect for others |
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over a year ago
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Parents who had no issue with telling them they were being entitled wee fannies and to get a fucking grip. |
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over a year ago
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...and to experience the terror of being chased by someone with a shite on a stick. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nothing, but we should now have the knowledge to realise that everyone makes mistakes and it’s important, so we learn |
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over a year ago
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Personal responsibility. |
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By *andy 1Couple
over a year ago
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we walked about mile and half to school we played out side more people say they have nothing they have cars phones tv they saythey carnt aford to eat out they just have to have a take away i feel so sorry for them |
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By *_Mr.K_xMan
over a year ago
Somewhere between Hades and Narnia |
* Respect
* Sometimes shit happens, deal with it and don't be offended
* Allsports / Lilywhites sports shop
* Woolworths
* MiniDisc players
* No mobile phones
* 4 kids huddled around the smallest TV in the house playing Goldeneye on an N64
* playing tag or bulldog in the summer holidays
* building homemade go karts
* super soaker water guns
* 10p pick and mix and getting a full bag of sweets
* Sunday morning cartoons on TV
* getting bullied in school and having to deal with it
* seeing Alton Towers for the first time in the 1990's and appreciating it for what it was back then
* hearing "SSSEEEEGGGGAAAAAA" for the very first time when switching on a Sega Mega Drive
* hanging out with friends rather than having their noses buried in their phones or iPads
* having respect for their parents and if they talked back, there were consequences
Phew..... that was quite a list, I enjoyed that
(Not showing my age at all either)
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The excitement of going to the video store and tbe video you want actually being in and then spending 30 minutes browsing anyway"
I worked in Blockbusters for 8 years! I was a manager back in the early 1990's - 2000's... Which means I was there when it was vhs
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"Shit haircuts.
Oh,they still have those.
Not as bad as the late 80’s/early 90’s"
70's were even worse, my long hair was shaped and curled under!! |
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