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there was a lot more respect for parents and others I nor my friends ever back-talked our parents we were too afraid and respectful to disobay (or get caught ) there was alot more respect for people and others, you could leave your bike out on the porch and it would be there the next day you could leave your doors open or windows and people didn t rob you. you helped out your neighbor when he was out doing work and visa versa. it was a lot simpler and calmer in many ways. (even though we were trying to be hippies and yuippies and heads, heck my mom actually bought me my 1st pair of bell-bottoms) but we thought we were rebbels.
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Nobody worried about being "PC". Kids could go out trick-or-treating and actually eat everything they collected. You could say the word "family" without saying "dysfunctional" first. Kids weren't always being medicated or in therapy for some kind of "disorder". Basically, people weren't over-analysing everything (including themselves) and trying to fix problems that didn't really exist.
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i am more of an 80's child. i would say nowadays kids seem to have an overload of information and no one to talk about it with. we have lost contact with our communities, something i felt a bit more growing up in turn now we have become highly individualistic to the point where we don't trust anyone. also kids seem to have many more responsibilities and seem to become sexual at a much younger age which is quite alarming. there is also the inheritance issue, unfortunately thanks to the "older" generations kids are being forced to cope with issues which were unknown to us and seem to have no easy solution if any at all.
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I think it would be kinda hard for anyone to have that sort of perspective. I mean, if you grew up in the Sixties and Seventies, you know very little about what it's like growing up in today's world unless you have kids that tell you everything, and even then there are plenty of things that will be missed.
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Times were just a lot more innocent and kids could do things and go places unaccompanied that they wouldn't be allowed to now. And don't believe anybody that tells you there were loads of drugs - there were some, but not on the virtually generation-wide scale that seems to be the case now.
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I was born in 69, grew up in the 70's and could remember being able to ride my bike away from home at 8 or 9 years old without any issue. I remember kids being much more active in playing, whether it was getting muddy with tonka trucks or playing Army with plastic mahcine guns that didn't make us want to shoot up our schools! Now video and "simulated" activities are much bigger, games, fantasy stuff, and less actual hands on doing things. We used to build forts out of wood we scavanged, ask teenagers today if they ever built a tree house or played "smear the queer", hell, you can't even say it now let alone play it. Times were less politically correct back then for sure also.
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The 60's were much better for the hippies existed.Peace,love,long hair,drugs,music,meditation, and hanging out.It was one of the best social experiments of the century.Society needed a shake up and it came with the dawning of the hippie.It is too bad it is gone,for we are way to conservative and stuffy these days.
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Smear the Queer was merely a group of kids with a ball, usually a football, and who ever had the ball had to run for their life while everyone else chased them down and tackled them. Then, who ever got the ball next was the next "queer" to be tackled. SImple game, but burned a lot of calories as well. We weren't very rambuncious after recess ended, that was for sure.
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I was born in 1961 and grew up through these years. I think whether you think it was a good time or not would greatly depend on the kind of family life you had. Mine was not a good one and so those times are not what I would consider better than the times my son had growing up as a child of the 80's, because I tried to make his life a whole lot different to my own. Just a different view point.
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To be brief....our parents had enough time and care to teach us to respect ourselves and others...when the power went out, we still had lots to do to entertain ourselves.
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Generation X is a term used to describe generations in many countries around the world which were born between 1965 and 1980. http://www.search.com/search?q=generation+x The term Generation Y first appeared in an August 1993 magazine AD Age editorial to describe those children born between 1981–1995. http://www.search.com/search?q=generation+y Each generation has its own merits and limitations.
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I was born in 1949. When I grew up the world seemed a safer place. Whether it actually was or not I don't know..But I was never told not to talk to strangers--there were no strangers where I lived...I could go to anyone's home for help..We never locked our doors or windows (many people in Canada still don't)..but it was a slower paced time..and more value was placed on relationships.
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Let me count the ways!: ~ There was hope that we could make the world a better place. ~ You can't beat Motown for dance music! ~ Everything was cheaper. ~ Civility was still common. ~ Race relations seemed to be getting better. ~ College was affordable. ~ '67 Mustang, '68 GTO, and the '69 Camaro ~ More people were willing to speak out and stand up to the government. ~ We were still shocked by murder and child molestation. ~ The best sitcoms ever: All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, and The Andy Griffith Show. (There were actually older people on tv back then. ~ Teenagers mostly worked for what they got, and it was a safer place for children. ~ It was pre-glam and pre-techno. ~ Public education was better. ~ Medical treatments were affordable, as was housing. ~ Stable neighborhoods still existed. ~ The United States was still globally respected (despite Vietnam) ~ And .. I was young and oh, so cute!!!
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ahh, jumpers for goalposts, out 'til dark, Blackjacks and muddy knees... We were out from first thing in the morning till last thing in the evening, but our parent never worried because we were always with our mates in one of our usual haunts - the park, the fair, the beach - and we were were out of touch all day! We'd heard about 'perverts', but they were dark, shadowy creatures that only came out at night, and wouldn't hurt you if didn't take sweeties from them. Innocence. BC - Before Computers... It was the age before The Internet! When we knew how to entertain ourselves, and we had real friends, not virtual ones! Ever since the net was born, we've become more afraid, the kids are fatter, lazier, more cynical and demanding than we would have ever dreamed of being. And rude! I would never have talked to my parents the way they talk to theirs. That makes me cringe - and I don't think it's a generation thing. I think it's due to commercialism, the 'mememe', instant gratification mindset that's come about since Pong! Oh dear Lord... I wish I was 8 again!
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