[Blackmirror]

Our tv used to go off at midnight and it was black and white .. no colour

[bill.aam]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

Our tv used to go off at midnight and it was black and white .. no colour

Remember the playing of the National Anthem with the Flag waving in the back ground when the stations went off the air for the night..

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by bill.aam

Remember the playing of the National Anthem with the Flag waving in the back ground when the stations went off the air for the night..

there was a test card with a little girl when we got our colour TV

i also remember a little white dot that stayed on the television for ages before it died for the night .. might have been after the anthem

[Couriant]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

there was a test card with a little girl when we got our colour TV

i also remember a little white dot that stayed on the television for ages before it died for the night .. might have been after the anthem

Man, I remember that... doesn't the BBC still use that one?

[Wiskycoo]

Originally Posted by AKA Arizona

Absolutely our kids grew up in the 90's and 00's different times, I tried to raise my kids in a similar fashion as my parents raised me but the day my son came home from his 4th grade class asking me to take one of my guns to school so the boy with the knife would quite picking on him was the day everything changed.

I think that says it all. We grew up in a time when the worst kind of violence we 'usually' saw or got was a fist fight. Kids today have access to so much more....long before they even have the wisdom to use it for right or wrong.

I realize just from working in the schools at how little todays kids are taught about what they do see on TV or from other children that, IF they had a parent at home to teach them, would know that knives or guns or any sort of violence is just plain wrong.

I can remember not being allowed to watch more than one hour of TV in one day and certainly NO TV on Sundays. The rest of the time we were out side playing. My back garden was the local schools hang out, were we would build tree forts and, as mentioned, make mud pies. The laughs we had from falling out of trees or seeing who could get the dirties was priceless...our kids today have just video games and IF they do play outside then usually you'll here after about an hour, "I'm bored, can I go and watch TV or play whatever video game." That's usually when I send those kids home. My own son is given limits on technology but no limits on how long he wants to play outside, and usually, thank goodness, he choses to be outside, either on his bike or in the pool during the warmer months or making snow forts in the winter

But, you can't blame what we didn't have VS what they have,...you can only blame yourself as the parent and what you allow your children to be like. I think parenting has changed, not the amount of 'toys' one has. I think people don't spend as much time being there for their kids any more.

One more thing.... what was missing in that first post:
We sat at the dinner table every night, together, as a family; Todays kids grab a plate of food and then plant themselves in front of their own TV with their door closed while mum and dad do the same with their TV.

Families are a rare thing these days because we have made excuses as to why we 'can't be THAT way. " OH but I work," oh but my butt ...so did our parents and they still had time to set limits for us.

...in the mean time...

* throws a mud pie at Dave*

[AKA Arizona]

Originally Posted by Wiskycoo

...in the mean time...

* throws a mud pie at Dave*

Hey GF you can throw a mud pie at me anytime, where have you been? stop by for some role play I am outa school for a few months lets play

[Bush Lady]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

Our tv used to go off at midnight and it was black and white .. no colour

And our TV was always with those old vacuum tubs. You must remember them? Well we never had a new TV, my dad always went somewhere to a guy that was fixing TV and would buy a cheap one. It would work for a while, and then he would go get the vacuum tubs tested. Buy a new one were needed.

I remember when our cattle decided to take a trip to the neighbors property. It was about a mile walk through the bush. The cattle broke through the fence behind the creak. And there is about 100 acres of bush that we never used. We woudl walk, and walk. We just had to make sure that we were not going in circles, but walking straight. We then finally found the cattle eating on some grass in an open field. We didn't have to worry about were the cattle were going on the way back. They know their way home. We would just fallow them.

[wacor]

anybody think about when they were a kid and what they thought of things 20 years before that?

Like a 50 year old today when 10 which would be 1967 would have thought of things in the 1940's

Now kids today think the same thing of the 1980's

[Bush Lady]

Originally Posted by wacor

anybody think about when they were a kid and what they thought of things 20 years before that?

I remember my parents saying that when they came home after school, they had watch the cows, graze. There were no fences between the farms. They cows could go on the neighbors property. They cows were brought in for the night.

They were taking water directly from the well. Making bread every week. Milking cows by hand. No milking machines there. They slathered a big pig in the fall when it got cold. Put the meat in salt water, so it would keep. They had no freezers. And by the time the next it got hot the next summer the meat was gone.

So in the summer they made do without. If there was a chicken that wanted to sit on the eggs. My grandmother, would put some eggs under her. Then when there were some roasters. My grandmother would kill and pluck the feathers. They had a treat, chicken soup. Some meat again.

[wacor]

Originally Posted by Bush Lady

I remember my parents saying that when they came home after school, they had watch the cows, graze. There were no fences between the farms. They cows could go on the neighbors property. They cows were brought in for the night.

They were taking water directly from the well. Making bread every week. Milking cows by hand. No milking machines there. They slathered a big pig in the fall when it got cold. Put the meat in salt water, so it would keep. They had no freezers. And by the time the next it got hot the next summer the meat was gone.

So in the summer they made do without. If there was a chicken that wanted to sit on the eggs. My grandmother, would put some eggs under her. Then when there were some roasters. My grandmother would kill and pluck the feathers. They had a treat, chicken soup. Some meat again.

I have pictures of my grandparents place which would be in somewhat of the heart of Detroit circa 1915-1920. There is one house in view and all open field with cows and other animals. hard to believe.

[SIR****TMG]

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