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If you could turn back time….

house_cat — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:27:53 GMT

What is one way of life from the past, or one tradition that you wish was still around today?

I'll wait a while to add my own thoughts, as I don't want to steer this thread in any particular direction.

Thank you for sharing.

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Poodlepet2 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:34:54 GMT

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

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Kardi — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:36:03 GMT

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.

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chrystaltree — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:39:01 GMT

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

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silver Goldie — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:50:47 GMT

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.

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Sooner — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:54:51 GMT

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!

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house_cat — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:15:54 GMT

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.

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brewhaha — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:22:23 GMT

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

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Azcowgirl — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:23:43 GMT

I miss the days when you could go on vacation or anywhere, and there wasn't horrendous traffic and congestion , whether it be a beach, a campground, a theme park, a resort area, even movie theaters and restaurants......everything seems crowded anymore.

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Tissyanne — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:32:14 GMT

When I was growing up we played outside, most mom's were at home, my mom made my clothes, she cooked, on snowy days she took home movies of my brother, dad, and I. We had very little tv time, and I think we were better off for it. I also miss the vacations in the mountains, seeing my dad drink a soda in a glass bottle and put peanuts in it. I miss my mom's laugh, and my dad turning our ice cream freezer by hand on our patio.

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:42:07 GMT

The days when not only were stores closed on the holidays for families to be together but hardly any retailers were open on Sundays. It did have its down side but it made more folks spent Sunday afternoon visiting in the backyard playing Crouquet and drinking sweet tea.

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expatgal — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:59:45 GMT

I guess I would say I just wish there wasn't so much pressure on women today. To BE a certain way, to LOOK a certain way, or to THINK a certain way. No longer are you "allowed" to decide to stay at home, raise a family, cook meals, etc. Having it all seems to be the norm now with young women and at age 60, I know in my heart it simply isn't possible. Women are only "accepted" in today's society if they have careers outside the home, look perfect at all times, and have a wonderful, well adjusted family. It even sounds impossible when you type it!

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kittymomNC — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:06:24 GMT

I'm in agreement with others here - living in a much simpler time. Technology is wonderful, but sometimes I think we can have way too much of a good thing. This question has really got my mind going, so if I write too much, just skip it and go on to the next post.

I wish all kids could experience the kind of childhoods a lot of us did, at least for a while so they could know what it was like. Who knows, some of them might even like it! When I was very small, we lived in the country and my brother and sister went to a one-room schoolhouse, pot bellied stove and all. There was a swinging bridge over the creek behind the school. We moved away from there right before I started school and I was mad because I wouldn't get to go to the one-room school. My mom made my older brother take me one day - I had a great time but he hated it!

As young kids, we played volleyball over the back fence with our neighbors, played marbles in the dirt, kick the can at night when no one was afraid to allow their kids outside at night, climbed the china berry trees and talked to each other from the trees! We laid out in the grass and stared up at the stars at night, and in the daytime stared up at the clouds to decide what they looked like. We used our imaginations (fancy that!) to figure out fun things to do. We had an old shed, and I used to get up on top of it on cloudy days and read books - I loved to read, and still do.

Since we didn't have A/C we slept on the floor in the living room sometimes with the doors open so the breeze would come through -- no one ever bothered locking their doors at night or when they left the house. When we were older, we sat on the porch and watched the cars go by and played a game of naming the cars. Back then we pretty much knew the make, model and year of every car that passed - that was before all cars started looking so much alike. They had character!

As teenagers, we had dances at the community center, dancing to that "dreadful" rock and roll music! I was a high school cheerleader, and our sponsor threatened to ban the records when we started dancing the "Twist" at our dances we held after home games. We "went steady" and that was a big deal! We didn't drink (ok, there were a few who did), but some of us thought it was a REALLY big deal to have a drink at our graduation parties. We didn't really know about "pot", "weed", "grass", etc. We heard rumors, but weren't sure about it. And those great cars - drag racing where we shouldn't -- what a blast! But maybe I shouldn't go there......

I could go on forever, but this is too long already. It just really got me thinking about the way things used to be. We didn't have much money, but back then, it just didn't seem to matter that much. Now it's like if you don't have a big house, a new car, all the newest tech gadgets, and have your face buried in a phone, you're missing out on something. Funny thing is, I don't have all those, and I don't feel like I'm missing a thing.

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vabreeze — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:07:46 GMT

I miss the family outings to the drive-in theater and eating the snacks there. I miss watching/listening to TV and radio when words like dammn, as$, a-hole, helll yes/no, etc. were forbidden and when adult TV programming was not in your face before children's bedtimes. I miss the safety that existed when I was a young kid that allowed me to walk to another neighborhood child's house, go rollerskating or bike riding through the neighborhood without being accompanied by a parent as is the case today for fear of being abducted or molested. I miss knowing my neighbors.

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house_cat — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:15:20 GMT

I agree with every thing that has been mentioned here. I'm not a reactionary person. I like progress and I love technology. However, somewhere along the way we lost something really important. I work with 12 year olds for a living. I get to know hundreds of them in a year and I truly believe that if left alone for an hour, with no technology, they wouldn't have a clue what to do.

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kittymomNC — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:17:37 GMT

I also think a great deal of our advancements in technology, manufacturing, etc. are due in part to the fact that the people who have contributed so much started out as young kids who were FORCED to use their imaginations because they didn't have much else to do. They could imagine, and dream, and a lot of those dreams became our reality. What are future generations going to do as a result of being so caught up in the current technology, that they never exercise the parts of their brains that have produced all the wonderful things we have now?

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IamMrsG — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:24:54 GMT

I'm probably bringing 'the bomb' into the room; but the OP asked, and here's my honest answer:

I'd bring prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance back to the classroom.

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:41:40 GMT

On 7/28/2014 IamMrsG said:
I'm probably bringing 'the bomb' into the room; but the OP asked, and here's my honest answer:

I'd bring prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance back to the classroom.

Amen and God Bless America. So agree with you Mrs.G!!

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house_cat — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:44:55 GMT

On 7/28/2014 beckyb1012 said:
On 7/28/2014 IamMrsG said:
I'm probably bringing 'the bomb' into the room; but the OP asked, and here's my honest answer:

I'd bring prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance back to the classroom.

Amen and God Bless America. So agree with you Mrs.G!!

When did it leave the classroom? My school says it every day, as do all the schools in our district and my teacher friends back east still say it every day.

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Poodlepet2 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:53:28 GMT

Housecat, this summer we bought a weekend getaway on Pine Island Fl...It is wonderful in that we have gorgeous views and cooling breezes at night, but what we love most about it is what we chose NOT to put there. We bought one tv because we do live in "Hurricane Land" and in this volatile world, we want to keep abreast of the news. Radio reception is poor, and we saw no need for satellite.

Every weekend that we go there, we always have this conversation about how much it reminds us of our childhood and simpler times....I've noticed I am so much more relaxed without all the technology. Yes, I have my Kindle with me, but I engage in reading.

...and I don't know what it is about this place-but I am on a complete "cooking from scratch" jag. Well, I cook reasonably well at home, and there are days where I will avail myself to the use of canned, frozen or pre-prepared. I have some nasty osteoarthritis and sometimes the pain can be unbearable, so maybe I won't be too hard on myself. All that being said, when I cook on the weekends, it has got to be from scratch-just like my mother cooked. It's all a part of the desire to live in that simpler, less complicated time, and your topic has made me realize that.

It's funny because I am working on a cotton sweater that I know would be cheaper for me to buy than to make, but intrinsically, the making of it raises my spirit....It is not mass made or disposable-and I think that not only is technology a problem, but there is so much waste now and so much disposability.

One thing DH and I are discovering is that the older we get, the less we really need.

Poodlepet