Why 'Some' Parents Should Not be Parents - Page 3

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@sidsmom wrote:
At least they have seats.

In my time, we would be flying back & forth in the back of the pickup.
So many stories of a Farm Kid, circa 60-70’s.
What are seatbelts?

Pffffht...kids have it soft these days.

@sidsmom I had to laugh when I read your post, that was us too. I remember when we were really little, my 3 year old sister was standing up in the back seat of my parents car, she opened the car door and fell out. Thank goodness we were driving up hill and Dad was going slow. If you can believe it , she didn't have a scratch on her. I believe this may have been 1955.

september · ‎03-09-2010

I’ve never ridden in the back of a pickup, but this post brought back many memories of riding in the back compartment of many station wagons. The small kids always got “stashed” back there!

I loved it...always got carsick in the back seat, but never while in that back compartment.

And I do think what those parents did with their kids in this case is wrong...just comparing what we know today in terms of safety, vs what we used to do.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

@blackhole99 wrote:
@sidsmom wrote:
At least they have seats.

In my time, we would be flying back & forth in the back of the pickup.
So many stories of a Farm Kid, circa 60-70’s.
What are seatbelts?

Pffffht...kids have it soft these days.

@sidsmom I had to laugh when I read your post, that was us too. I remember when we were really little, my 3 year old sister was standing up in the back seat of my parents car, she opened the car door and fell out. Thank goodness we were driving up hill and Dad was going slow. If you can believe it , she didn't have a scratch on her. I believe this may have been 1955.

@blackhole99

😲I’m glad she was OK!

I wanted to add to my story...Dad chewed, as well....so anyone sitting

on the left hand side in back of the pickup usually got hit when

he spit out the window. Only the newbies sat on that side going forward!

Gosh, that’s so hillbilly...😄

iwrite · ‎01-11-2019

giving birth to a child or fathering a child does not make you a parent.

skatting44 · ‎07-26-2019

Agree, it is endangerment to children to let them ride in the back of this truck on the highway.

I too remember sitting in the back cargo compartment of my parents old chevrolet station wagon . my siblings and I used to side around and bump heads with one another if my parents made a sharp turn . We were lucky we didn't have severe head injuries .

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

Obviously the seats were secured to the truck, otherwise they wouldn't have stayed close to the cab. How different was it from the back of a top down convertible or topless Jeep? At least they wouldn't have died forgotten in a closed/locked car whose temperature reached well over 100 degrees.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

@sidsmom

Kids today are pampered Wimps for sure, lol. We used to sleep in back car window. It had a flat place back of seat where rear window was. Sometimes we got sunburned, or a little nauseous from the fumes. Either that or on long trips I would fall asleep on back floor, which was over some hot fuel lines. Man did it get hot. In the 60's when my kids were born the babies slept flat on the back of the vw squareback. We tucked pillows around them. Sometimes they would roll around on sharp corners and we had to pull over and rearrange them. In the 70's we transported them as teens with several friends to Santa Cruz, they all piled in back of truck. They were all dancing in back of truck. Then came seat belts. I shutter to think of the old days. But that is what people did. Thats why cars had a cord to hang onto in back seat. Lol. What idiots we were. But thats what everyone did

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

We did a lot of things when we were young because we didn't know better. We used to pile as many people as would fit in a car and head off to a drive-in movie. Kids used to sit on a parent's lap in the car, both front and backseat. There were even times the person driving had a child or baby on their lap. I remember seeing an old episode of the Brady Bunch and they were going camping. They all piled in the station wagon, none of them with seatbelts on and Cindy climbed on Carol's lap in the front seat and off they went. I had to laugh seeing that.

I remember people being in the bed of a pick-up truck and driving up the road and I remember small kids standing in the front or backseat and laying in the back window.

A couple of months ago there were a number of us camping. Many wanted to go canoeing so 2 of us got in 2 different trucks and drove everyone to the livery to get canoes. Each of these trucks was totally full, both inside and in the bed, with grown adults and teens. It was about a 10 minute drive to drop them off. There were tons of trucks doing the same thing.

While that is extremely dangerous and stupid, I think in different areas of the country, the way of life is different and people do things differently without even giving it another thought.