I grew up in the 60's and 70's and never realized how lucky I was until the last few years ...thank you mom and dad for giving me an exceptional life of "just being a kid" And to all my buddies ... I love you guys !!!
We born in the 60S were born at the best time, We got to experience the late 60s if born in the early 60s as i was. And all 70s ,80s and some of the 90s that's when it all started going downhill.
Things we did, fun we had, just can't do anymore, places are gone, over developed, rules, restrictions, not allowed. Times have changed alright, not for the better.
I was a 70s kid, but I need to relate a more-recent story. About 15 years ago when my son was 10, he rode his bike to a neighbor's to play. The mom said "didn't your dad teach you to wear a helmet when you ride your bike?" He replied "no, my dad taught me not to fall off my bike."
In my hometown the Lyons sisters went missing in 1975. Things changed a lot. I was still able to be out all day. But if I was a second late for 6 PM dinner HELL would rein upon me from Dad. A GREAT MAN!
I always say it's a good thing that we didn't have cell phones that our parents could track us with. They would have been stressed out if they knew half of the stuff we were up to.
The sad thing is, most children in the western world today, will never know what it is like to have a friend knock the door and ask if they coming out to play.
Kids having fun is the same, but the times were very different - ya kinda have to really research it. Ya godda look as as many photos as ya can, watch as many movies made then about then, listen to the music & talk with a lot of people who were around then. The times were truly different.
As someone who grew up in the 80's, I can confirm most of this applies to that era as well. The stuff that "seems rough" to the frail sensibilities of the newer generations, built a strong character foundation in kids back then...
@@borntoclimb7116 The world has always been "brutal", and people that rely on the 'news' for all of their knowledge are prone to allow themselves to be influenced by someone other than themselves... what did the internet tell you to think today?
@@Cautela in the internet you csn find more news instand and Real violence, gore footage today is nothing spechial and the algorytm are a big thing. Is funny, in the past the brutality of crimes, Terror and murdercases same like today but the instant news nowadays shock lot of peoples every day and the peoples start think " in the past, life was symple, safe and good" they lie to themselve.
You know what I remember from the seventies as being number five out of six siblings? Atomic wedgies. Literally being hung on a nail or a stair railing by your underwear. Miss everything else. Don't miss that.
I was 10 years old in 1975 we were poor and times were hard. It was a wonderful time to be alive. I thank God that I was able to experience a little bit of time before the internet. I can still feel the 70s in my being today. Nothing has that feeling since. I wish I was born 40 years earlier but I'll take what was given and I'm grateful.
In those days (I was a kid of the 60s and 70s) we used to play in the street in London. I've moved back with my family to the same area I grew up in and you don't see that now.
I was definitely a 70s kid…. It brought back some memories. We lived so free back then. Long hair, tube socks, walkmans and tank tops.(groovy) When I was 12, we used to go camping, load up or motorcycles and disappear the whole day. The only time we came back was for gas and a sandwich. At the end of the day we would come riding in at sunset caked with mud, sweat, bruises, cuts, sand ticks, chiggers, wood ticks, lots of chafing and about a half a pound of sand in our ass cheeks. Jump right in the lake to take a bath hang our clothes up by the fire, steal dad’s beer, and a hobo dinner, (lol)… talk about the day, tell a few jokes then pass out by the fire under the stars. As far as I’m concerned that was heaven for me…good vibes. My son looks through my memorabilia and asks a lot of questions. It’s funny to watch his face as he flips through the pictures. “Dad! Is that a shotgun in the background? You’re drinking beer at 14? “Son, today you call that “ dangerous” we called it “living”…. It was the 70s”.
Living in the Midwest most people had fruit trees. We could be gone all day and not get hungry because most people didn't mind if you helped yourself to a fruit snack. Sometimes we got run off. Same for water you could use anyone's hose to get a drink.
Looking back now i think it was a better way to raised children. It made me more autonomous and experience life more fully. I broke some bones and got hurt often but i am not afraid of it. We protect kids from every little risk now that they prefer going on the screen and watch other people living free. Not sure this is progress. The video made me smile and realise i was lucky.
My mother (in her 50s now) would always question me and my brother why we would sometimes do stupid stuff outside or act out and then tell us stories about her childhood in the 70s and how good it was back then
I grew up in the the 70's, and we actually had fun, no phones, no internet, no cable and no social media. Social was done in person. I'd go back to living like we did back then when life was simple, in a heart beat.
Awwww but there was the Atari 2600 that was the big booming start to the gaming consoles Pacman jaust digdug pitfall E.T. lol etc. We had so much fun in the 70's , 80's I miss those days but wouldn't want to go back. 😅
@@lindabolique72 absolutely! I was born in 66 and had the best childhood. I had an extremely strict father but I used to sneak out and meet up with my buddies and our girlfriends and go out to the woods to our massive fort we built to party in and fool around. We had 2 stories with a roof that would have outside access to with a ladders. We all had separate rooms to go to once we had partied enough and wanted to kiss our girlfriend in private. We all looked out for each other and everyone had fun. I can’t see that happening today because someone would tell on someone and the fort would have been torn down I bet!
Me too! Once when my tooth fell out I told my dad that I couldn’t put it under my pillow bcuz I couldn’t find it. He said, “Maybe you threw it away on accident- go check the trash.” I didn’t need to look far before I found a dollar in the trash can. That’s when I was convinced the tooth fairy had to be real. There was no way my dad could have known that I threw my tooth away. It never occurred to me that he planned the entire thing.
We all wanted to be Evel Knievel, being outdoors til dark running the woods, playing in creeks, exploring rivers, and the neighborhood, spending time with friends was the greatest adventure ever!
Same. We had a nice hilly forest behind our house , also with a creek running through it. Had 2 waterfalls and a massive 3 rd one in the spring time. We drank right from the creek that cows walked and ... in. Never had any stomach troubles. . We built forts and skated on the creek in the winter , jumping over the open water sections ( very shallow at those places) then we would make a fire and roast marshmallows and hot dogs over it while drinking hot chocolate from home Ski doo trails ran all through it in the winter and we loves sliding down the twisty hills on our steerable boggens It was heaven
You got that right! A bike trail in the woods near our house led right to the grocery store where we could buy one-scoop (square) ice cream cones for 25 cents.
@@druunderwood5602 I remember when the Atari came out and the Mattel handheld games just little lights with a football baseball hockey or basketball background we would do chores and homework done fast so we could play every body thought that they were cooli
Saturdays in the 70s for a kid was amazing. You go to school during the week. And at the end of the week you know Saturday morning would mean a big bowl of cereal, cartoons all morning, and then go outside and ride your bike and play all day. Saturdays to a kid in the 70s was like hitting the lottery, going on vacation, and retiring from the workforce all rolled up into one.
Summertime in the 70’s was the best time ever. Watching “Jaws” in a freezing movie theater. Riding bikes til 9 at night. Listening to your AM radio on the beach. Going away to camp. It was ideal
I was in boy scouts when we saw Jaws at the movies , and just recently i watched it again on Netflix, brought back a lot good memories > the 70s were great times !
I was born in '65. I got a little emotional reflecting on how life use to be. Going to the Drive-In with my family was major. Good manners and being nice and kind was in order. Music was clean. The world was a different place.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories. I definitely remember getting excited when my Dad said we were going to the drive in. It was a good way for us to clean his car and windex his windows.
I worked at a Drive-In, my first (serious) girlfriend worked at a movie theatre. We used to "brag" that we met while we were both in "show business", LOL. Now, back to business: Do you want a PEPSI with yer dog?👍😊👍
having good manners being respectful was a must my grandmother always told me she would box my ears if I didn't say yes ma'am or no ma'am yes sir or no sir and to help a neighbor whenever they were in need not like the kids of today
We had the best times of our life. Kids today don't have a clue to kick the can, throw Frisbee, and stay active all day. That's why most all of us from those days were skinny.
@@mikemancini3907Lol! I was just talking to my daughter about this a few days ago! About how when we were kids, there would only be like one fat kid in the whole school! Cause we walked and rode bikes everywhere!
So true! I was born in 1966, grew up in the UK in the 70's. When I was 5 on my first day at school my mum walked me there, 1.5 miles, to show me the way. After that I walked it on my own. And so did every other kid. What a sad world we live in now.
Did your mother ever secretly follow you home to see what was taking so long??! Mine did. I had strict instructions to come right home after school but could I follow directions? Heck no! There was a butterfly! So when I repeatedly failed to come home when expected, my mother walked to the school and followed me home once or twice. I actually thought I saw her jump behind a bush but it was years later that I realized I was right. It wasn't just my imagination. As I think back about it now, I'm torn between thinking about how much she cared and angry that she wanted to foster in me the sense that "MOM is ALWAYS WATCHING!!! YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING THAT I WONT KNOW ABOUT!!!!!!!" That might just explain a lot of my issues today.
@@ScreamingEagleFTW wow, you know this person so well, and their personal history. that you give unwarranted and unlicensed advice... and if you were a licensed professional, you would know better... sigh
80s myself, and yeh, life lessons,probably why there are so many snowflakes around these days,late 20s with the social skills of a spoilt 3year old. My scars have faded,but the lessons have not.
When was the last time, you saw kids together comparing wounds and scars😂. It was a really big deal to have such...or at least a set of thick callouses on your hands from the playground equipment...and MAYBE one would rip. The pain was excruciating, but we didn't cry and would show it off for a few days...oooh, and don't forget road rash.
Born in 1972, I had a good childhood no tablets no phones, just playing outside with friends and having fun. Inventing our own entertainment. Today's social media killed individualism and the creativity in kids. Today's kids have no childhood imho.
Being in the woods all day, exploring, looking for treasure, building forts. Everything you showed, and more, was my childhood. (born in the late 60's)
Kick the can at night Bike trails in woods Bottle rocket fights Jumping off houses into deep snow Walking railroad tracks Swimming in flooded quarry, jumping off cliffs into water Tackle football at recess Climbing insanely big trees Playing hide and seek in cornfields
I was a 70s kid, as well. It was a VASTLY superior time to be a kid, compared to now -- VASTLY superior. You cannot overstate how much that is the case. Kids today have, for the most part, never really lived. They have straightjackets, not childhoods.
I was born in 1967. I feel like I had the best of both the 70's and the 80"s. Graduating in 1985 was the best year of all. The pictures of the boys jumping their bikes with the home made ramps was one of our favorite pastimes. I remember my bike for a while had worn out broken peddles and all that was left was the metal stud to peddle with. Somehow we just lived with it and didn't give it too much of a care. I remember getting a pair of tennis shoes at Christmas and wearing them completely out just in time for the next Christmas. If it wasn't for baseball season, and a new pair of cleats, church shoes and the Christmas tennis shoes would be it. i had no idea we were poor. Back then, a year seemed like a long time. Not anymore.
@@HisbeautifulTruth-nl1ch March 1966. man oh man. I had school shoes and those same pare of sneakers! Busted my chin on my handle bars and was jumping the next day. Hand me downs was a normal thing.
I'm an Aussie from the 70s too, and have the scars to prove it. Not only did we live in a house with asbestos walls, but we went on a school trip to see an asbestos mine. Banana seats and butterfly handle bars made it easy to get 3 or 4 kids on the same bike. We weren't worried about Brown snakes and tiger snakes. We'd go looking for them. And what ever happened to pogo sticks?
I'm an Aussie from the 70s too, and have the scars to prove it. Not only did we live in a house with asbestos walls, but we went on a school trip to see an asbestos mine. Banana seats and butterfly handle bars made it easy to get 3 or 4 kids on the same bike. We weren't worried about Brown snakes and tiger snakes. We'd go looking for them. And what ever happened to pogo sticks?
I grew up in the 70's and this video is so true. I can recall, at the age of 5, not having to come home until the street lights came on. It was great! Not like today where parents monitor every step their kids take. Also, in school my mom dressed up to see my teachers and volunteered to help out. She told my teachers that if I got in trouble to hit me and she'd do the same at home. Parents supported teachers back then. A teacher could discipline students who acted up and those students learned from their mistakes and did not repeat them. Today I am a teacher and it is horrible job. If a student acts up his/her parents make excuses and yell at me. Our administration, afraid of lawsuits, take the side of the student as well. (No wonder teachers are quitting in mass numbers.) The kids today are encouraged to disrespect adults and are raised to think that they are entitled. The sad part is, it is NOT their fault! We need the parents of the 70's back again, so that we aren't raising a generation of foulmouthed brats.
I grew up in the 70's as well. I see both sides of it and feel badly about your situation today as a teacher. There was far less accountability in those days though. I would get in trouble plenty at school since I was terribly abused by my older brother and acting out. Instead of help or sympathy I would get beaten with large wood paddles, usually out of sight in a large hallway closet. You never dared tell anyone else how bad you were hurt out of fear of being more targeted by bullies. You never told your parents or you would get beat at home more. As a parent of many years now with three small children today, I never even consider hitting my children and if someone else did I would beat the life out of them. I know this is not everyones experience but as a boy with an older brother growing up then it was extremely rough from every direction in life from family to teachers and more.
I picked up an added dimension when my dad hired on with the maintenance department of our county school system. I never knew when I would walk around the corner and run into him. Didn't take me long to figure out how much worse that was than even having the teacher or principal let him know what I was up to, so I made DAMN sure he always got good reports on me.
yeah it brought a tear to my eye...jumping ramps after watching ABC wide world of sports and trying to be like Evil....big wheels, sting-rays, we even would tie a rope and pull a wagon over the ramp (did not end well) but dang we had fun .....if these kids who grew up in the last 25 years only knew....really missed out they have
@@mikeydrookie351 I remember once we made a makshift ramp and we put a bunch of fireworks on it and lit them with the expectation that we'd get an epic pyrotechnic display. I rolled up on the rickety ramp and it collapsed right as all the firecrackers started exploding around me. I just had to sit there in shock until it ended. Ah, the perils of being a kid in the 70s!
Yes, we used to build ridiculously high ramps. 6 ft high at 45 degree angles placed in front of large ditches that we attempted to jump. We'd ride at those ramps at full speed without a care of what might happen. I had my bike 8-9 ft in the air over some of those ditches. If Mom only knew!
Me too my Hero was Evel and Eddie Kidd isn’t it ironic both of them had EK as initials ? I loved jumping over my Sisters or Friends on my BMX thinking I was Evel , I went to Wembley in 1975 to watch him jump 13 Double Decker Buses but he came off as he hit the Landing Ramp.
‘59 here! It was a fabulous time to be a kid, and a teen. I’m sure the 60s were even better to be a teen in, but it’s not like it had a choice. None of us did! Ohh. Those were the days!
I died laughing at the camp part where he says " Your parents didnt have to fill out 20 different forms and provide your full medical history" so true lol
No kidding; I was a boy scout; would tell my parents we're doing a campout for a few days, which we did all the time. My parents would drop me off at meeting pt. I don't remember my parents filling out paperwork. Now as a parent; so many forms; my wife would fill out the forms; u fill it out wrong, ur kid couldn't go.
This is absolutely true. I was born in 1959. We stayed outside all day. When the street light went on, all the neighborhood kids went home. We drank from a garden hose, rode in the back of a truck, if you got hurt, you sucked it up. If you got in trouble at school, you kept it to your self. I miss those days!
1959...that was a very good year... Wouldn't change a thing. So many friends,good times and memories. I remember me and my pals ( we were about 5 years old)set fire to a big pile of leaves at a county leaf collection site.attracted a couple of fire trucks(Big red ones with lights and horns)we watched in amazement as our heroes put that fire out!
I remember playing with my cousins all day until supper time when my mother or father could whistle so loud the entire neighborhood could hear it and you knew it was time to come home. Then we would still go outside for a few more hours until dark
Wandering all up and down our street and the streets on both sides of ours at Halloween with my friends. We got so much candy! And none of it was xrayed. Used to get other stuff sometimes too, one neighbor worked for a record company and gave out 45s at Halloween. Another lady made cookies. No adults with us.
Playing hockey on a frozen river. Then going to the open edge, chopping off a slab and riding it as far as you could. Before getting beached or jumping to shore. And getting wet in the process. We called it iceberging.
i grew up in the 70's in scotland ... it was an amazing time and we always had a great time breaking legs and so on , i'd go back anytime .. i feel really sorry for kids now .. i live in england now and families live all round me and it's very rare to see a kid out playing .. really sad
This video actually brought me to tears and and then overwhelmed with joy. Growing up in the 60's and 70's where some of my fondness memories I can remember. We had a limitless imagination, l am a better man for it today. Short story.. I was playing with my neices and nephews on 4th of July this last year and after fire works, I was able to encourage some kids in the neighborhood along with some teens, actually got them to put thier phones down and play night hide and go seek on the block like when I was a kid. Some of the parents thought I was crazy because it was dark..I swear it was some of the most fun these kids have ever had and it brought back so many memories of my of childhood. Thank you for making this video and God bless!
Born in 68, so this whole video equals my youth. We had such a great time being outside, on a Saturday after watching our fill of cartoons, leave the house and not come back until supper time, our parents usually had no idea where we were most of the day. We would be in the woods building forts, down at the lake fishing or swimming, trying to sneak a kiss with our girl at the playground, building ramps to jump with our BMX bikes, climbing giant trees, the list is endless. We would come home exhausted but happy as could be, wash our hands and sit to a nice supper with the family, then watch late night TV shows, especially looked forward to Disney.
Born in '67 and that's so relatable. Except we played a lot of backyard football and baseball on Saturday afternoons as well. We would start immediately after the cartoons of course. And on Sundays. Your comment brings back some great memories for me.
11-14-1963, the 60s & 70s were the best of times. Family vacations up by our relatives in far northern Wisconsin, fishing from my uncle's boat, getting a camping knife at age 10, from my Pa, riding the go carts in Hayward WI endlessly, shooting the pump action .22 with my uncle's & Dad, going on railroad tours from old RR stations, god I could go on and on... Great years, I miss everything about them, and all my people who have passed away. Here's to the memories!
@@paulbourgeois4491 Happy birthday Paul my Birthday is November 18 1963 . We lived out in the country and down a dirt road from School I would walk to and from school by myself when I was in Headstart I was only 5 things sure has changed.
@@waynek3366 Thank you for the birthday wishes, hard to believe 50 years got by since then. Happy birthday wishes right back at you! I'll hoist one in your honor! Cheers!
@@paulbourgeois4491 Thank you Paul and cheers to you on your B-day. I'm going to have two beers and I hope a nice dinner that's if my son gets back from Texas he's all I have for family either way I'm good.
April 1963 here, I miss the way summers lasted forever. Riding our bikes constantly and playing baseball in the vacant lot behind our house. Kids in the neighborhood today never come outside. There’s a few families close by and they stay in they’re houses all day all summer long. I just in no way understand it. So sad!
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and was a parent in the 70s, and at the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, I have to say, that what our society has done to children today oughta be a crime. We've denied them a childhood in the name of safety. We were a nation of explorers and Pioneers and Trailblazers. Now, look what we've become. Frightened little creatures who are so terrified that their children might get a scratch, and somebody will blame them for it. And they are right. Somebody will call the cops, and they just might end up in court. What the hell happened?!? More importantly how do we change it?
Respectfully, you are very wrong. I am a 50 year old and I know how easy it would be to downplay this new generation. They are different that we were, yes. That doesn't mean that they aren't wonderful and talented. I've at times been more jaded but have been proven wrong each time. Give them a chance. Give them your knowledge.
It depends on where the child was raised and whether the child had a father figure in the childs life. I blame the lack of discipline and the family unit. Parents are not allowed to spank their child when the child acts up and causes trouble and yes I do realise that some people shouldn't be parents and are abusive or selfish or even a danger to the child. Just because a person can reproduce doesn't mean they are good parents.
Try telling that to my daughter. I’m puzzled how they don’t play out. We lived in the country ten years ago and she’d climb the trees. We moved to the local neighbourhood so she could socialise and play outside … instead they choose to stay in. There’s very little tv on and she’s not into a phone - just reads and studies. What a wasted move.
(Born in 1970): I learned the hard way to never tell my parents I was bored. And, honestly, I rarely was. We lived just outside a small town, with 6-10 kids my age nearby, and surrounded by woods. I was always exploring the woods, whether by myself or with friends. I came home, barely making it back before dark, cut, bruised, muddy. We had bicycles (of course) and go-carts. We never wore helmets, even though we raced a lot, often through the woods. Someone was almost guaranteed to wreck, run into a tree maybe, or rammed off the path by another kid. We also lived by the elementary school. My friends and I would race a lot on the sidewalks just outside of the classrooms. Now that I think about it, we loved racing! There were these brick wall dividers surrounding the patteos outside each classroom, about 2 and 1/2 to 3 feet high. Once, when I was 11 or 12-years old, I took the turn around a corner too wide (so I wouldn't have to slow down), and hit that wall going full speed! I tumbled head over heels, over the handlebars, over the wall, and even lost consciousness! I still have a scar on my leg from that day. Danger was kind of the point for us kids.
I grew up in a very small town. As a kid we would roam from backyard to backyard. We knew every dog by name. We would eat fruits & vegetables straight from the garden by washing them off with the nearest garden hose. If we did get in trouble for some reason you better believe our parents knew even before we got home & we faced the consequences. In the summer time curfew was when the street lights came on.
Your comment about knowing ever dog's name made me laugh. But it was true. I also knew every family's name on our street and the adjacent street. Unfortunately, they also knew my name and our phone number. I remember causing some trouble on the walk home from school and my mother knowing about it before I even walked in the door.
I remember walking around the adjacent neighborhoods in the city where I lived starting in 1970 as a 7 year old kid. When I was 9 my best friend lived about 12 blocks from me and I'd walk from her house on a regular basis. Picking an apple off of a tree or a tomato out of the garden and wiping it off on my shirt before eating it was the norm. Life was great!
Born in 1965, i was a kid ALL through the 1970's. Start to finish. SOO many things from this video i can still vividly remember, and fondly miss. We grew up in a time when we were problem solvers, inventors...we had to use our own creative minds to come up with things. We learned how to fall down, and how to NOT fall down again. How it felt to be really free from school AND parents on a Saturday, riding my bike with my friends around town, being kids WITH kids. NO adults hovering over us at all times. Building forts in the backyard, or in the bush not far from where we all lived. Going to the park or store on our own, and no one called police or child welfare. We ate LOADS of sugar treats and NONE of us had a weight issue. We wore it off being outside! Running, playing, going on adventures, planning invasions, conquoring enemies., seeing who could jump the highest ramp. But no matter what we did as kids in the 1970's, every one of us respected our parents, teachers, police.
What an amazing reply!!! Born in 65 myself… We created mayhem and mischief but never broke the law or really hurt anyone. Not on purpose…. It’s sad to see the world move on to this new one. Parents have to all but wrap their kids in bubble wrap and duct tape so they won’t fall down or get a bump…. Anyway, thanks for sharing!!!!
Times when you can walk into a radio shack buy a soldering iron to fix a lead on a toy and nobody will ask questions even when you were just 10yo you just pay with your coins and take it home.
Agree. I was born in '66. I have a 16 year old step-son and he couldn't problem solve his way out of a wet paper bag. He road a bike for a couple times with a loose handlebar. Never once did he figure out to get an Allen wrench to tighten it. *facepalm* They keep saying playing video games improve hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills. It's.not.working on him.
@@steelersnation1622 yea….and what about all these people writing posts on You Tube - They should get out more and talk to “real people” shouldn’t they?
@@steelersnation1622 I live in a new development and see kids out in the street playing and on the community basketball and volleyball courts. There is one street that is chock full of kids OUT IN THE STREET playing some type of ball whenever I drive by. Like 70% of the time I make the drive. Maybe not like the 70's though.
There was Pong and later Atari but they were rainy day or blizzard things and it was seen as a punishment not to be able to go out (after cartoons on a Saturday morning of course).
I was an 80s kid, we still got to do a lot of the stuff you mentioned in this video. Im going to share this with my kid, videos like this are a golden archive of history. Thank you for sharing this.
As a 70s child I can say, kids not only did more dangerous things back then, we also had a hell of a lot more fun than today's children. That's for sure !
@@Music-tk5oq yeaa but we can take photos and videos of the good times we have friends and keep those memories on our phones boomers go on about phone but don’t say anything about your generations smoking addiction and face book
Born in June of ‘59 so I was right there with you! What a magical time to be a kid!! It was incredible! I miss those old days…and especially my folks and 2 sisters. Thank God I have 2 good kids.
@@Nan-59 Me, too, the good days. We had woods just right outside. We called it Little Africa. I always told Dad Harrisonville, MO was the best place ever to grow up.
I was born in the 70s and grew up in the '80s but all of this stuff definitely still applied. I wish I could give this thing multiple thumbs up because you nailed so many truths of my childhood. Thank you!
I was born in “67”…So I grew up in the 70’s. And I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. The memories I have will last a lifetime. I feel so BLESSED to have been raised during that time!! ❤️
I was born in 1967 as well. Growing up in the 70s and 80s was amazing we are the last generation of free-range kids or close to it. A big scab where cast was a badge of honor. We needed one ball for 10 kids everybody played. No racism not even awareness of differences we just played with each other because that's what kids are supposed to do Kick the Can, Capture the Flag, wire ball, step ball, wiffle ball, stickball and probably another 10 games that we could play with a ball. Good times man good times
A lot of this can be said for 80's kids too. You forgot mention how fun it was to take pics with a Polaroid, two liter soda bottles were glass, packaging inside of cereal boxes & other food boxes were waxed paper instead of plastic & kids would put things on the bike wheel spokes to make noise when they rode.
Usually sports cards affixed with a clothes pin. You'd ride for a bit and the card would get all bent and stop working and then you'd put another in the spokes.
Ah yes, the freedom of childhood in the 70s and 80s. One of my fondest memories was all of us neighborhood kids running around the neighborhood during rain storms barefooted. Listening to the radio on sunny days while hanging out on our friend's front steps and lawn. Neighborhood war games and snowball fights. Ripping around other neighborhoods on our bmx bikes. And no parents to be seen, until supper.
I wasn't born here, but I'm curious, what happened? Why everything changed so much? Even here in Florida were I live I see no kids playing outside... kids just stay insde each house. Is that a cultural phenomenom, or that parents are worried about trouble and lawsuits, or that the suburbs created this kind of life?
@@kuba2ve It’s all about the safety of the children if they play outside without a parent/adult nearby. Assaults on children have increased over time. Lawsuits were not such a common thing if a kid got hurt on someone else’s property. People settled arguments with a few names, some laughs, and going their own way. You didn’t have people using guns, knives, or groups of kids against only one child. We were taught what to do and held responsible if we did something wrong. We didn’t have cell phones to text each other. Instead we had to call, or actually go to their house. Neighbors talked to each other, so it was like having multiple sets of parents keeping an eye on you. Neighborhoods weren’t as large, and there were undeveloped areas all around where you had trails to ride your bike without having as many cars as you have now. People weren’t so sensitive to being spanked, spoken sternly to by an adult, or freaking out over a kid getting some cuts, scrapes, bruises, and maybe a broken bone from accidents when they were playing outside. Society has changed in many areas. Smaller towns still have much of the culture of the 70s and it is a great thing.
That was before Xbox and Playstation. I grew up way out in the country. Just me and my 4 year younger little brother for the most part. We had our bikes, later on mini bikes and bb guns. Be gone until we got hungry and then gone till dark. Good times!!! Rip little brother, miss you
I bet that, statistically, it was actually SAFER to grow up in the 1970s than it is in the 2020s. Kids also learned to be more self-reliant, creative and resilient in the 1970s than now.
No resiliency today. They have no toughness about them as in they look for the easy way to everything or want someone to bail them out of their problems. No perseverance either.
Being a '70s kid, all we needed was a stick or a can. It's really horrible today that kids can't really be kids. They grow up WAY too fast and the social media influence has really ruined their childhood but the sad thing is ... they don't even realize it.
They grow up way too fast? Are you kidding? We are doing our best in this country to extend childhood out until death. The reason that things are as bad as they are is because we have a bunch of overgrown children that are having children and then those overgrown children who were raised by overgrown children have children of their own. Now there are no more adults in the room and the country is on its way to Hell along with the rest of the world. People that were legitimate adults in the 50s and 60s were the people who grew up in a timely manner and were usually married with a couple of kids and well engrossed in their career by their mid-20s. Today's mid 20 year olds are moving back in with Mom and Dad after they realize their underwater lesbian basket weaving degree isn't going to pay them six figures a year.
I graduated HS in 1980. I don't remember much of my later childhood and teenage years with much fondness, but that's not really a reflection of that time in general. Overall I think it was a much better time for kids to grow up than nowadays. They had much more unstructured play and socialization time, and they had a lot more physical freedom, got much more exercise, and spent much more time outdoors, so were definitely healthier and more physically fit. I find it shocking how many kids are overweight and even morbidly obese these days. And they certainly don't seem to be any happier than kids were in the 70s. Interesting thing; in the early 2000s I went to Japan to teach English for a few years. Life for children in Japan reminded me in many ways of the childhood I remembered in Canada in the 1970s but no longer existed there. Kids there had a lot more independence; the first time I saw a little girl of about 8 in a school uniform standing alone on a train platform I thought she was lost. But no; it was very common for kids that young to travel to and from school on commuter trains and subways by themselves or with their friends. These were kids who attended private schools which were often far from where they lived; if kids attended public schools they were nearly always in their immediate neighbourhood, so most kids walked or biked to school, just like I had done. Even though most mothers in Japan then were stay-at-home moms, you didn't see them clustered at the school gates waiting for their kids when school was out, at least not any kids over the age of 6. Moms had better things to do than shepherding perfectly capable kids to and from school. I taught at a private language academy that taught both adults and kids; all but the very youngest the kids who came for weekly after-school lessons would usually travel from school to our centre by themselves, then go home by themselves afterward.
@@KathyPrendergast-cu5ci Well said, er, written. I graduated in 1979 from HS. I posted a comment a few minutes ago expressing my horror at what has become of parenting. I don't consider this to be progress, although it's a complex issue.
@@michelemichele5204 Another 82' here. The 60's, 70's, and EARLY 80's were great for me also. Our family had our share of problems and occasional heartbreak, like any other period of history, but we were truly blessed overall.
the 70s were a golden age to be a child. We were ALL free-range. I can't imagine how I would have grown up if I hadn't had all that freedom. Thank you for this video!
Freedom still exist today, in a sense even more so with far more things to do and ways to get in trouble. Lol Plenty of parents these days still allow their kids to do whatever they want whenever they want
All I can say is in the 70s most kids were not overweight, unlike all of the obese kids of today. And we all had plenty of sugar too! This video literally made me laugh out loud. I think the way the narrator’s voice tells the story. Love it! Thanks for taking me back down memory lane. Seems like most of the parents were on the same page about raising kids too!
For sure. Back in the day we didn't need a cell phone. Someone's mother , father could just whistle and kids would go running knowing that wad the signal to get home. Or if the street lights came on and you weren't home you were late. We were so creative in making up games to play outside , riding our bikes. Roller skating building things Climbing trees eating black berries all day. Or peaches etc. So much fun and no we never worried about danger. In those days. We were always having some kind of fun
I agree, Anna. The one thing I will say is that, unfortunately, I feel 70s kids turned out to be the poor parents of the 00s. We are the generation who is responsible for the current crop we bemoan so much, for right or wrong. Kids generally turn out how you let them, and where we were left to the school of hard knocks, independence, creativity and adventure, we have produced a generation fearful of most things, seemingly beset with rampant allergies and intolerances, emotionally flaky and glued to various screens and devices. We had woefully short memories of the glory of OUR childhood, and didn't appreciate just how lucky we were. You rarely realise at the time that you are living the good old days. Staring down the barrel of the big 5-0 is making me reflect on a lot of things!
@@rogerwredford Paraphrasing a quote here: ‘Tough times create strong people. Strong people create easy times. Easy times create weak people. Weak people create tough times.’ It’s an inescapable cycle.
The 70’s were definitely good, kids showed respect for adults and we created our own fun and adventure,times were simpler and you were always ready when your favorite show came on or you missed it, the 70’s were good, thanks for posting 👍
In our neighborhood about a dozen of us got together and put on a play for our families. It was probably really lame but it was fun working together and doing something from scratch. The parents would hang out on the weekends and take turns babysitting the kids. We climbed trees in each others backyards, played dodgeball in the driveway and on heavy snow days the neighborhood street became our sleigh track. So many great memories!!
Sure do miss my childhood. The 70's were the best. This is one of the reasons children are so unhealthy today being restricted from experiencing life like it was in the 70's.
They are restricted from experiencing life like it was in the 70's to a large part because of people, who experienced life like it was in the 70's, though... (Speaking out of personal experience. My mother grew up in the 60s and early 70s and, well, let's say she was a bit overprotective. Like many of her generation that I met...)
I loved growing up in the 70's and all the experiences that went with it! Riding bicycles over makeshift ramps, drinking water from the garden hose, putting mercurochrome on scrapes, Saturday morning cartoons, playing with Tonka trucks in the sandbox, taking a crushed-up St. Joseph's aspirin in a teaspoon with orange juice and/or mom putting Vic's vapor rub on my chest when I was sick, listening to vinyl records and cassette tapes, Halloween trick-or-treating before all those bullshit safety standards for costumes and masks, playing with my Star Wars and Shogun Warriors toys and not worrying about "taking an eye out", reading comic books, playing little league baseball, Monday night pasta dinners at my grandmother's house, riding these dangerously low-to-the-ground go-carts through my uncle's apple orchard, riding the school bus before they had things like safety belts on every seat and automatic transmissions, watching the crop duster planes spray the blueberry fields and not worrying about getting sick from the chemicals, etc. This list could conceivably go on and on, and it saddens me how kids today are too plugged into their electronic gadgets to realize how awesome it was way back when. Nothing could compare to that visceral feeling of being a 70's kid and getting out there and living life to the fullest! There was a certain magic to it that can't be re-captured, and quite honestly, can't be understood by kids today with their stunted capacity for imagination. It was a time unlike any other before or since, and I feel blessed to have lived through it and acquired so many awesome memories of it that sustain me to this very day!
I presume 72 is your year of birth, so I'm older by some years, but close enough that we both remember much the same things, it seems. I couldn't have said it better myself. "stunted capacity for imagination" that is for darned sure.
@@loganpenrose4262 truth is, you would have to be there then to understand. but bottom line is as the video says we actually physically played and our interactions were in person without electronics.
I used to go swimming at a big park in Atlanta called Piedmont Park. From 1967-72 it was a major hippie hang out and some band was playing for free out there every Sunday. I would go swimming, look at the hippies and listen to the bands, usually by myself or with one or two buddies. We were from 8-10 years old, and nobody gave a second thought to us walking 3-4 miles to the park and staying out there all day. We saw the Allman Brothers, ZZ Top, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, B.B. King, and lots of others. One week we didn't go, and we missed Jimi Hendrix. We were building a tree fort in the woods. Today's kids don't get any of this stuff, and it's sad. It's also no wonder so many of them are nuts.
@@scottdoesntmatter4409 You mean the gas "shortage"? Watergate? The humiliating withdrawal from Saigon? John Wayne Gacy? Son of Sam? Jones town? Patty Hearst? We could go on all day. But in spite of all that, we still had some kind of freedom, the stress level was nothing like it is now, the money was worth a lot more, people treated each other better, and there were nowhere near as many clipboard nazis on your case and in your face about every tiny detail of your life. You could also say whatever was on your mind, and even tell jokes. I remember having a lot more breathing room. The world has never been perfect and it never will be. But in those days the cultural rot and the communism had not set in so deeply. The Karens had not yet conquered the world and turned it into a global HOA.
Born in 1971, remember the second half of the decade fondly. Every pair of jeans I had were blown out at the knees, scabs were just a small price to pay for all the crazy outdoor fun. I feel so bad for kids growing up today, they really missed out. Our pursuit of "safety" has sadly sucked all the fun out of childhood. I can name the year and month that I realized the freedoms of childhood were going to be over...July 1984, at summer camp. We were divided in teams and competed in sports like softball, volleyball and boat racing. My team won first place and each team member was awarded a silver plated trophy? Why silver? Because the gold trophies were awarded to the team that tried hardest. Really. It was insulting. How can you honestly say that the team that won weren't the ones who tried hardest? After all, we won, so isn't that proof of that? Telling lies to kids just to make them feel better doesn't do them any favors and cheats ALL kids.
And people try blaming my generation for participation trophies but it was the boomers the made participation trophies a thing then started bitching about them.
Remember when the knees of your jeans got holey and you turned them into cut offs because your parents wouldn't let you out of the house with holes in your clothes? Now you pay extra for those holes!
I’m from England but so much of this video rings true. I’m so glad I was a kid of the 70s , thank goodness the kids of today don’t realise just what they’re missing out on! 😊👌
This is a great compilation. I was born in 1977 in Germany and still remember most of the things you added to your list. I am lucky to have a 17 year old daughter that is not obsessive checking her smartphone, she listens to punk and rock music and is just different to most of the kids of her age. Being different has never been better than now.
I was born 1960. Thanks for this video, it triggered a lot of great memories. We didn't know we were living during a great decade. We were just living in the moment and having a good time.
This was great! Born in '62 and all of this is so true. There was a lot more common sense and personal responsibility then. Our classrooms often had 30-31 students and one teacher. Class field trips "might" include one other adult, but usually then they combined 2 classrooms to go. The control and micro managing these days is sad.
We were wild free and happy. Simple life not complicated or stressful. It's fascinating how we all lived in different homes but we had the same experience. Saying your bored led to more chores so true. Going outside to play all day and parents that let you be independent was awesome 👍
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s… the greatest era in my opinion. You played, you competed in every way, you shared, you didn’t wine or cry over scraped knees or a splinter under a fingernail, parents ACTUALLY taught their kids love and respect as well. Boys actually hunted dove, quail, and squirrel with BB and pellet guns, carried a cane pole and a bucket of worms a couple miles to fish and didn’t care if they caught fish or not… teachers, principals, moms, dads… sometimes even strangers would blister your a**es if you got caught in wrong doings… it was great!!!
Born in 1961 and this was very accurate of my childhood. I told a friend the other day that the 70s was the best decade during my lifetime to grow up in.
@@lacylavender5678 Hey wait a dam minute, this is MY year!!!.........Howdy mates!! Y'all remember watching the Apollo11 landing on the moon? One of my great memories!!
@doesntmatter3068 Yeah, that still makes me angry thinking about the Fact that they lied and staged it all! My little brother and I spent a lot of time in my closet pretending we were on a spaceship to the moon. Our whole childhood was just full of Lies! I was born on the 10th day of the year in 1961. I was supposed to be born in December 1960 but I was late. It still sucked in January having a birthday so close to Christmas because I always got cheated on gifts, as most of us do that are born near December 25th. Some of us decided to celebrate in July so we could have a birthday that wasn't blurred into a holiday! 😃
I love this. As a kid of the 70's, it brought back so many memories. I would like to add a few things that maybe some others remember, too. I remember banging "caps" between rocks or on the sidewalk, because loading the cap gun too too long. How about lawn games such as Red Light, Green Light 1,2,3 and Mother May I? Who could forget our records? You bought albums which played on 33 or 72, while singles were 45's. How much fun we had purposefully playing those records on the wrong speeds! Last, but not least, I remember the sidewalk games such as Marbles, Jacks, Hop Scotch, Chinese jumprope, Double Dutch jumprope, the Pogo Stick, stilts, and hula hoops. There were also street games such as whiffle ball, stick ball, kick ball, street hockey which you could ride around on your bike until you found other kids playing and join their game. Wow, we had so many fun things to last all day.
LOL! Yes, playing the records at the wrong speed!! And we played the same games. We banged caps with guns too. And around the 4th of July had firecrackers. We slept outside in the summer because it was too hot in the house and we didn't have AC. Sometimes we had a cot and would throw a firecracker under someone's cot when they were sleeping!
It's funny you said stilts I have a scar from when I hit a hole walking on stilts that actually could have gone through my heart .... sooo many times I should have died......
I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. Well I remember all of the above, plus sleeping out under the stars with no adult supervision. If we wimped out, we just went inside whosever house we were at and camped in the living room. And sparklers on the 4th of July!!
I remember metal thermoses with GLASS on the inside - which I broke more than once at school. And my friend then shared his drink with me - Coke out of a glass bottle!
Born in 65',the 70s was a great era to be a kid. Things seemed more wholesome, definitely had more freedom and had way much more fun. It was groovy and I miss it.
I’m so thankful I was born in ‘65 and got to experience so many of these things. If it was possible to go back in time, I’d willingly go through the 70s & 80s all over again!
same. food was poison tho,. look at what its done for us, sugar in darn near everything, obesity and cancer running er aa moving rampant alongside Diabetes and tied for first place, Heart Disease. but hey, I had a blast.. 🥳🥳☮☮☯☯
@@petethetaper Hey we had Tang and those Astronaut chewy things plus all those Hungry Jack frozen dinners. We ate like kings. Plus we had Jello with chunks of fruit in it!
