If you could turn back time….

I miss my childhood summers....we watched tv for maybe an hour-remember, there were no 24 hour stations for adults-let alone kids...and the it was off for adventure....playing Kick the Can, swimming, going black berry picking and dreaming of the cobbler your mom would make...eating a slice of ice cold watermelon...making clothes and furniture for your Barbie (we weren't very good at it, but it kept us entertained for hours on end)....Whammo-playing with Silly Putty, and let's not forget Dunkin Yo Yos....reading, reading, and reading...

...and now we are surrounded by technology...we were in a restaurant the other day and I bore witness to a baby in diapers screaming for mom's IPad....

So, I guess it's not a tradition per se, but I miss the childhood of a simpler time, and it makes me sad that most children don't have those wonderful, simple times-and I'm probably wrong about this, but I don't think today's kids are as creative or imaginative as we were.

Poodlepet

I grew up in the 50's and 60's and I wish young people today were more respectful of authority and their elders. Some of things I've seen kids do today we wouldn't have dreamed of doing or saying. A little more respect for our fellow human beings would help this world a lot.

So, OP, you just want to toss a bomb into the crowd....and run....LOL

I miss the creditcardless society we once had where you only bought something until you had to money for it. I think they called it time payments or layaway in some stores. I also miss the slowness of society that once was instead of this fast paced society now where you get everything instantly.

I don't miss much from the past except long-gone relatives. I sure wouldn't go back to living like we did in the 1960s. If you lived in a small town or city you had little access to books, cameras, or other items that you can get easily today. A lot of food was out of a box and what was fresh was pretty bland. Food was maybe good, but dull.

Now the world is at my fingertips! And so are spices, fresh seafood, exotic fruits, technology, music, and lots of other wonderful things! I would be bored to pieces living like the 1960s again! LOL!!! Oh, I miss my horses!

On 7/28/2014 chrystaltree said:

So, OP, you just want to toss a bomb into the crowd....and run....LOL

Guilty, but I have a good reason. When I start a thread with my opinion, the entire thread winds up being about that. I wanted to see what you had to say first.

I agree with Poodlepet and could have written it myself. We have been pretty much t.v. free this summer and I don't miss it at all. I feel calmer and I'm much more active and productive. DH doesn't like missing his sports, but he's dealing with it. When I see the awful things that are on television, I really wonder about kids growing up these days. I think the world was better off before television.

I'm glad I grew up before video games. We played outside, rode our bicycles, climbed trees, caught crayfish in the stream.