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My Mother And Grandmother Demonstrating Safety Standards In The 1960s

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Biljana Malesevic 5 years ago

This makes me uncomfortable.

294points

If Your Mum Didn't Lay On The Ground Making Herself Into A Ramp For Your New BMX, Did She Even Love You? 1980's

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Slinkman 5 years ago

That's one strong mom

168points

California Marijuana Initiative Rally 1972. That’s Me In The Box And My Parents In The Picture

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Withnail 5 years ago

Groovy baby!

121points

Esther Evans 5 years ago

Far out !!

10points

bpanther 5 years ago

What a doll your mum is !!

4points

Sveta Smirnova 5 years ago

Reminded me of Family Ties

3points

Eugen Brodner 5 years ago

420 points 420-5d6857...4ab7f1.jpg

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Linda Robinett 5 years ago

I don't see a safety concern here. The crowd is peaceful. (They are all stoned and therefore, little violence will happen) I think my mother was in a dresser drawer after she was born.

2points

Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

I think the concern is a contact high for baby!

0points

Cassi Collins 5 years ago

Dammit, I got more tickets during that year than I ever did before and after, combined! Why? Because of my Prop 19 bumper sticker!

2points

Kim Mahood 5 years ago

Cartman would hate it there....

2points

Cihah Xtinggi 5 years ago

cool parent!

2points

Teri Patrick 5 years ago

And the final score is....😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

1point

Jon Varley 5 years ago

Please don't anyone else like this - it's perfect at 420 final score 😂😂

1point

Linda Robinett 5 years ago

Good point about a contact high

1point

okpkpkp 5 years ago (edited)

I was probably here. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco?

1point

cablecargal 5 years ago

I bet it is GGP!

0points

Michelle 5 years ago

The best one SO FAR

1point

Deanna Henderson 5 years ago

Hippy days,being creative

1point

Sara Nicole 5 years ago

love it heheh

1point

Milena 5 years ago

Coolest pick! And the initiative/debate is still actual World wide. ^-^

1point

Hugo Coles 2 years ago

Final score 420…

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Gaby Vargas Cespedes 5 years ago

It is 2019 now and I have seen people smoking weed while breastfeeding

0points

Ginny Foster-Cosby 5 years ago

Awwww.

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marnidarr 5 years ago

Nice job, folks. Little did you realize what would happen to this picture 47 years later!

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Linda Christian 5 years ago

Amazon crib they didn’t have porch pirates then.

0points

Alexa Sciarratta 5 years ago

Woodstock too '69

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Shannon Oliver 5 years ago

This is the best pic. Love the reason it was taken nd the setting. What a time in history!!

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Bonnie Condict 5 years ago

Could be me and mine :>}

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Beckita Moore 5 years ago

Nowt wrong with putting baby in a box as long as you don't put the lid on! 😉

0points

Sandy J Renfroe 5 years ago

The "love" generation

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Chikoo 4 life 5 years ago

Those are some groovy parents🎶🎶

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Amanda Sklepowich 5 years ago

“That’s me in the box” = best caption ever

0points

Reta Taylor 5 years ago

Cool parents!

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Juwita Rima 5 years ago

beautiful mama

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Ron McMillan 5 years ago

Apparently someone does put baby in a box!

0points

Melanie Gallegos 5 years ago

Dads having a gooood ol time!

0points

Kristin Malliet 5 years ago

Amazon Prime 2-day delivery...they always use boxes that are way bigger than they need to be.

0points

Gregg V 5 years ago

Looks like you enjoyed your pot brownie for lunch!

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Valereee 5 years ago

I remember those days !

0points

Valerie Wagner 5 years ago

A good cause and recycling...brilliant!

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Anja Schmidt 5 years ago

so coooool ... good reason for incarnating :D

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Wojciech Michałowski 5 years ago

I recommend "Woodstock Festival" in Poland. It is still the same 😉

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Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago

It looks like it could be either Marx Meadow or Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park.

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María B. Kaiser 5 years ago

"In the box" Hahhahaaa

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Oliver Casasola 5 years ago (edited)

And the child's name is Cannabis Junior?

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nazan fidan 5 years ago

hippi parents

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Jo Ellen Washburn 5 years ago

Coolest. Parents. EVER!

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trix 5 years ago

Digging your dad's shades tho.

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Id row 5 years ago

I was born in '71. I wish my parents were that cool!

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debrina blackmoon 5 years ago

what exactly is wrong here?! the baby is not smoking or near smokers, and marijuana is not even dangerous on its own!

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Valerie Lessard 5 years ago

it's dangerous to a baby. nevermind the noise levels there affecting undeveloped ears. it's like when people bring their 2 day old newborns to a massive shopping centre with tons of noise and stimulation

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Erzuq 5 years ago

Yaour dad has a funky beard :D

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Curious Cat 5 years ago

crack baby

-2points

TwiceRice23 5 years ago

Yikes.

-3points

Lisa Hilyer 5 years ago

And only 36 years later...

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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

*47

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My Dad And His Veterinarian Mother, With Their Pet Lion Which They Raised For Two Years, 1959

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Aramis 5 years ago

your mum is cooler then i will ever be also cute lion

152points

Princess Yvonne And Prince Alexander In Germany, 1955

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tuzdayschild 5 years ago

If I was in Germany in 1955 I'd need a drink and a cigarette too.

265points

A Couple Ice Skating With Their Baby, 1937

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Slinkman 5 years ago

So many possibilities how this can go horrificly wrong..

225points

Infant Me, My Mother & Father At A Bar Because That's How Parents Rolled In The Early '80s

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Aaron W 5 years ago

I hung in bars too when I was little. Then they wouldn't let me back in until I was 20 - I must have been a rough toddler.

158points

The Pinnacle Of Parenting: 1930s Swimming Lesson

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Bobby's Girl 5 years ago

My father threw me into Tampa Bay. I was about 3 years old. I learned to swim in a hurry, because there were scary things swimming around in that water! Google "Horseshoe Crab" and you'll understand.

128points

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Car Seat Safety In 1958. Not Strapped In To Anything, These Seats Relied On The Mother To Put Her Arm Out And Stop The Baby From Falling Forward

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Aaron W 5 years ago

Before physics was invented.

285points

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My Hilarious Father (With The Magazine) And My Grandfather, Grandmother, And Uncle At His Bar Mitzvah In 1972

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Hans 5 years ago

Grandpa is not impressed, he has seen it all.

140points

#12

My Mother-In-Law Riding A Bear At 2 Years Old

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AloofFox 5 years ago

*internal screaming*

139points

#13

Harley With A Baby Seat, 1962

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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago

Safety first! Remember to properly attach the baby seat with the convenient succion cups to the gas tank before putting your baby in it.

164points

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A Photo Of Me Dressed Up As My Dad, With My Dad (1982)

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Hans 5 years ago

Bubblegum cigarettes still were a thing in the 80s. :)

103points

#15

My Dad Showing Off His Parenting Skills 1985

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karen snyder 5 years ago

And his Awesome fashion choices. Cut off tummy top, micro running shorts and Sears Roebuck velcro kicks was my go to in '85 too! but he tops it off with that cherry Tom Selleck stash. Your dad is a legend.

207points

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My Mom In The Hospital After Giving Birth To My Sister. Canada 1978. Smokes And Roasted Chicken

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Shelp 5 years ago

Excuse my ignorance, but ... What is wrong with chicken?

155points

Back In The Day. 1950s To Be Exact. Checkout That Car Seat

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Adele Maestranzi 5 years ago

We had one when we were kids. There was the button in the middle for the horn.

69points

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My Mom Showing Off Her Parenting Skills 1978

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

what no cigarette? well she tried..

126points

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Me, 1958, Relaxing After My Bath With Toby, I Was Never Again This Cool

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Diver Driver 5 years ago

Ha cigar is backwards!

54points

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13 Y/O Dad Having A Taste While The Grownups Are Busy Playing Cards; Upstate New York, August 1954

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago

Meh, we did this all the time when I was a kid and I turned out just fi– wait...

152points

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My Father And His Pet Lion Priscilla, California 1970's

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Kaisu 5 years ago

Poor lion : (

90points

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My Adorable (4 Year Old) Mother At A Zoo In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1970

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Armando Garcia 5 years ago

I'm scared for that bear, it's gonna fall.

98points

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Just A Photo Of Yours Truly (At 11 Years) Petting A Full Grown Tiger. My Mom Calls It Her "Bad Parenting Moment"

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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago

From the infamous Thai temple tiger farm. https://www.traffic.org/news/thai-seizure-of-a-dozen-captive-tigers-resurrects-farming-threat/

81points

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Elizabeth 5 years ago

There's something to be said for letting your children live freely, yes it's a much more dangerous way to grow up but it has it's benefits for those who survive. I'm not saying we should roll all of our safety norms back, but the super insulated lives some kids have today is too restrictive. Personal opinion from someone who grew up getting kicked out of the house until the street lights came back on.

44points

QueenOlive 5 years ago

Totally agree. I'm almost 15 and some of my friends aren't allowed/are too scared to spend the night at a friends house. I told my friend's mom I get dropped off at the mall and SixFlags alone/with a friend and she gave me the most shocked look.

23points

Sam Mitchell 5 years ago

I think you have a point. Resilience is the child of experience. If children are sheltered too much they miss out on a lot of character building moments. When I was 7 I went to weekly boarding school to join my brother. I was asked if I wanted to and I said, yes, I'd like to go. Wept horribly on return each Monday morning but learned to self-soothe and appreciate that pain is transient. At 11 I full-boarded at a new school and was better prepared for the situation than many of my peers. When we were home my brother and I had the run of the village and beyond. We put our canoes in the river at 3 am and poached rainbow trout from a thoughtful, (albeit doughty old matron), who kindly stocked her section of the river with excellent fish. We breakfasted like kings. When I was 12 and my brother 15 we were permitted by our parents to go on holiday overseas for two weeks together. It was an unaccompanied ski-trip. (Yes we were spoiled. And yes we had a blast). I am in awe of my parents.

3points

Jon Cross 5 years ago

Spot on. It may seem weird to us that they did some of these things, but we have gone too far with molly coddling our kids today. Kids learn by mistakes, or we hope they do!, but over protecting them as we do now is too much. As kids, we went out in the morning and came back at teatime when it was dark. We didn't commit crimes, rob or attack people or property, we just had fun. we have all that to look back on, we have a history. Kids today have nothing like that. Most of them spend their time in their rooms watching tv, pushing buttons on a pc, never letting their mobiles out of their hands! What a horrible life!

3points

Aramis 5 years ago

i am with and against you as the restictions are to harsh but at the same time my family is perfecly okay with me leaving whenever i want but maybe that is just my family also i am 15 so i may not understand the rules fully

1point

Angel Smith 5 years ago

those who survive?? wow

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Samhhain Cat 5 years ago

Leslie Mahaffy was also kicked out one night for showing up late and missing curfew, then she was murdered by Canada's most infamous serial killer. Don't do this, it's cruel. Otherwise I support what you've said. Just don't lock them out :(

0points

Master Markus 5 years ago

Agreed, and I'm glad you're reasonable about it and not just all "kids these days don't get to have fun anymore!"

0points

Stille20 5 years ago

So we might be better about car seats, but we have people not vaccinating their children, people allowing their children unlimited screen time, schools don't provide enough time for physical activity..there are plenty of things the next generation will be horrified about.

27points

Hans 5 years ago

This is a somewhat curious, yet weird series. On the one hand, this seems like the ideal to counter helicopter parenting and the over-caring we witness today. On the other hand, we must be thankful fot better safety (improper restraints must have killed thousanda of children in car accidents) and carelessness (for example regarding smoke).

27points

Uwe Theiss 5 years ago

It is not only carelessness. They just didn't know. Like with radioactive material. At some point people used it as medicine until they realized it will kill them.

23points

Monika Soffronow 5 years ago

We will leave the same impression. Diesel vehicles still permitted on the roads anyone? Single use plastic used absolutely everywhere? The non-safety issues from the 1950ies could have terrible consequences for that one person but we have scaled the game up so much that we are now risking our whole species.

9points

Uwe Theiss 5 years ago

Why should a Diesel engine be restricted and petrol ones not? They have different emmissions but both are equaly dangerous.

2points

Tamerah Long 5 years ago

I was a 1969 Australian baby. I believe the 70's and 80's were the best decades to grow up in. Yeah things were a little unsafe but that just made us more aware of our surroundings. We learnt to be independent at an early age. My siblings and I got our bikes for our 8th birthdays. Once we had that we were allow to take off in the morning, after chores, with a packed sandwich and we'd come home when mum rang the cow bell, which is odd cause we didn't live on a farm :). I wouldn't want to be a kid these days. The fear taught by their parents, the pressures at school, the bullying, the cost of living in the future and the environmental issues. Poor little blighters.

6points

John Montgomery 5 years ago

To be fair, on all the drinking ones my dad let me try beer when I was really young. I was probably seven or younger. He called it "Colorado Kool ade". We were vacationing in Colorado at the time. It's probably the reason I don't like beer to this day and I'll be 38 in June.

6points

Little Wonder 5 years ago

I was allowed a rum and coke in a pub in the Northern Territory when I was 7, because as the barman said "Why the **** not?". Unlike a lot of my friends, I never got black out drunk on weekends because i never had to sneak booze. My parents made some very bad choices in some things they did, but I think they got that absolutely right. I've never been a big drinker.

9points

STress the Terrible 5 years ago

Not only we went 5 miles on foot sub-zero, but we also went uphill in BOTH directions!!!

4points

Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 5 years ago

and we liked it!

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Isabelle 5 years ago

Well, it seems we have a very different appreciation of danger... It's so disturbing to see how confident they all look.

4points

Full Name 5 years ago

You must be under 35 then. Us older folks don't get nervous in any way when looking at any of these. Don't ask again why call you all a bunch of coddled pussies, haha. ;-P

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Full Name 5 years ago

Seatbelts are good, non smoking businesses and hospitals are good, but so is letting your kids go free range. Let them explore and be alone and learn about life. Let them scrape their knee. Skin grows back, bones heal, and they'll be stronger for it.

3points

A J 5 years ago

Maybe these photos show why parents were much less stressed out back at that time and having children did not mean one had to change his or her whole lifestyle. Children were just part of life, like having a job or a place to live. And because children were not treated as a holy cow, they were also much more independent and chill. Just saying

3points

Full Name 5 years ago

javascript:void(0);Bingo. They were part of life, they weren't life itself. I've seen too many people I know cease to exist after the kids were born. They became sustenance givers and nothing more.

3points

David Redman 5 years ago

At 78, I survived somehow. No helmets either riding bicycles. So much more not told in these pics.

3points

Stina Kolling 5 years ago

The people who died aren't posting. It's called 'survivor bias'.

1point

Bill 5 years ago

Why no pictures of the 80s playground full of steel deathtraps. Steel Merry go round with crushed rock at the base and the see saws

3points

Just JoLynn 5 years ago

Chalk it up to perspective, personally I mis those playgrounds. I also don't think the plastic ones are any safer. On a side note, the last time BP posted one of these articles there was a picture of an older teen/young adult that was using his rear motorcycle wheel to power the merry-go-rounds spin, and that looked pretty dangerous.

1point

B 5 years ago

Not really sure how the human race evolved with all this sort of crazy around. Maybe our ancestors made duvets and just sat wrapped in them instead of hunting for food.

3points

Coco 5 years ago

I don't know how kids of today will survive with zero survival skills, mind.

1point

Happiness is Hippo 5 years ago

When I was 6 or 7 I was allowed to sit on the nose of a speedboat while zooming around on the local canal system - with no life jacket or restraints. Totally irresponsible and it could so easily have been a disaster, but it's still one of my favourite memories!

2points

Han 5 years ago

The same will be said of our era come enough time.

2points

YaYaBooBoo 5 years ago

My daughter can't even be told to wash the dishes without a nervous breakdown. Sometimes I just wanna give her a beer.

2points

Laura White 5 years ago

And that's the way we liked it. Did you kids die? No. Lol

2points

jamie1707 5 years ago

It's a wonder that so many of us survived to adulthood.

2points

Full Name 5 years ago

No, no it's not. It's proof that not everything little thing is worth freaking out about. We all were raised like this so statistically it's proven to be much safer than people fear.

2points

Imaginer 31415 (Imaginer31415) 5 years ago

Spoiled? Sometimes. Alive? Yes.

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Robert Pacl 5 years ago

I'm from before the vintages shown here, back to the Great Depression when we used to see hobos every day riding the rails to Chicago, looking for work. I worked in factories. I cleaned electrotypes with a solvent that made my predecessor pass out. I biked everywhere and only got hit by a car once. Walking to school in deep snow in the winter, a given, Only 1 1/4 mile though. When Churchill was asked what the ideal family size was, 4. 2 to replace the parents, 1 to add to the world and the 4th would die early. A much different world. When I think of some of my dangerous experiences, I realize I'm here because I was lucky, even though I recognized a lot of the dangers.

1point

Tiny Dancer 5 years ago

We didn't have pet lions (what was that all about, eh?), and didn't take pictures, but I spent many blissful childhood years in the '70s rolling around the back of our station wagon totally unrestrained. Long road trips spent flat on my back, head on a pillow, reading book in hand., no seat belts in sight I survived as will today's kids survive all the rules and regs we're drowning them in.

1point

William Teach 5 years ago

There was a time we would sit on dad's lap when really young and pretend to drive. We'd hang in the trunk area of the family station wagon. We'd ride off into the woods on our bikes and be gone for hours, parents would have no idea where we were. And it was mostly zero problem.

1point

Whawhawhatsis 5 years ago

When I was 11, my friend's parents let us sit on the open tailgate of their station wagon, dangling our feet, while driving down the freeway. I think that was probably their finest parenting moment. (But damn, it was fun!)

1point

KCN 5 years ago

Sweet sweet heavenly day. I'm not a helicopter Mom, don't think so anyway. But the lack of safety restraints? The smoking? the alcohol? Good grief/

1point

Bored Moogle 5 years ago

My parents let me and my brother drink at 11. My stepdad also tried to get me to smoke marijuana at around that age but I had a bad asthma attack when I tried and I decided I was never going to do any smoking. First time an asthma attack was ever good for something.

1point

Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

Hate to break it to you but giving your 11 year old kid weed is just bad parenting in any decade.

0points

Christina Sersif 5 years ago

A lot of these were done for me as a kid and I turned out fine.

1point

Ben Smith 5 years ago

And that’s why those kids are stronger and better equipped for the world than today’s generation will ever be.

1point

An Honest Merchant 5 years ago

Its also why the life expectancy is 20 years higher

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Gracie Mae 5 years ago

i think a lot of our resilience and the ability to enjoy/appreciate certain freedoms comes from being born pre-80s-90s. Seems like so much changed, and not necessarily for the best as far as parenting attitudes. Helicopter parenting took away so many freedoms & learning to deal with life. I realize that crime has a lot to do with it & you can't leave your kids to run the neighborhood until the streetlights came on (like we did) because of kidnappings, drive-byes, and such--I just find it so sad...

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Uwe Theiss 5 years ago

I don't think so. I live in Germany and things like drive-byes or kidnappings are non-existing here. Still we have helicopter parents too. There is no need for real danger for some parents to be freaks.

6points

Just JoLynn 5 years ago

Whenever my mom tried to pull the "world is more dangerous" card I would respond with the fact that she grew up while serial killers were rampant (at least in the US) and she would hitchhike at the time.

2points

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

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Paul Hutton 5 years ago (edited)

I still remember when I was around 7, so 1994, and my sisters car seat moving forward against the front seat where I was when my mom braked. She told me to get out and buckle your sister in as she pulled onto the highway. lol, good times.

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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago

I have thought, and said aloud , that I would like to turn the clock back for many reasons, my main point being little ,or no family time, modern technology in many aspects are negative, a few positives but not enough, the children in day care, or sitters,no time for parents, to be parents, at least in part as the teens of today are not happy, they have no direction in their life. !!!

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Lakasha Latoia 5 years ago

I honestly don't see anything wrong with these photos...none of them makes me question parenting choices. I feel badly for the animals in captivity. I think people in general are waaay too concerned with what other people do with their lives nowadays.

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ERIN W. 5 years ago

My Mother would do the same thing evenas we got to be teenagers out of sheer habit! SHE LOVED US!

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Susie 5 years ago (edited)

While there are those parents who go overboard in a helicopter parent sense, a lot of today's rules are there precisely because of what happened in the past. Namely rampant child abduction and unnecessary injury and death. Sure, you made it and turned out just fine, but A LOT of kids weren't as lucky. Generations after you learned from mistakes of the past. It's how humanity grows and evolves.

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Susie 5 years ago

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Terry Jensen 5 years ago

this is GREAT...think of all the people that LIVED thru these horrible times...wait they are still a live!!! Just shocking!!!!

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Kathleen Barlow 5 years ago

My favourite photo of my mother is from 1975. Tight top, high shoes, mini skirt, my big brother (9 months at the time) in one arm...and cigarette in the other. haha. She insists that smoking wasn't bad for you in the 70's.

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Lyone Fein 5 years ago

I think folks are too freaked out about all this stuff. None of this stuff was dangerous. Stop being such worry warts. Go outside to play once in a while.

0points

Ana M 5 years ago

Is so good that I'm 47. My grandfather give us whisky when we where little when our teeth came out. Great times.

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Jenny Gordon 5 years ago

If I could, I would share the photo of 2 year old me with a tobacco pipe in my mouth and a can of beer in my pudgy little baby hands!! I LOVE that pic of me, it makes me laugh way too much!!

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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

Were you actually drinking though, or was it a joke picture?

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Valereee 5 years ago

Awww...those were the days 😖😱🤔❗

0points

Trash Panda 5 years ago

I grew up on the beach. I remember coming home from school and immediately heading out into the Gulf. My mom and/or dad would come get us when they got home from work or it started getting dark.

0points

Mascha Claessens 5 years ago (edited)

- When I was 4 y/o, my dad and I used to watched the 8 O'clock news together. He drank an espresso with a touch of grappa (strong Italian spirit), and I always got to drink 7 spoons of that from his saucer. - My best friend and I used to make 'witch potions' around that same age, 4/5/6/7/8/... years old. It usually contained all sorts of cleaning products we could find. And we found them. Always. Used the stuff to kill mosquito larvae in buckets filled with still water. It worked. We may or may not have cause some small scale environmental disasters in our parents' gardens. - That same friend and I used to roam the streets in the middle of the night, whenever we had sleepovers. And we had those often. Our parents never notices. This went on from around the age of 6 to... well... basically when we left highschool. - etc. XD (I must add that I'm 28 now, so this all happened in the mid to late 90s... not that long ago)

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Omar A 5 years ago

When I first read the notification, thought it said old-school protesting, not parenting. LMAO

0points

Michelle 5 years ago

What's with all the tigers??? Most of the pics with tigers in them look fake to me.

0points

Isa 5 years ago

While ago I was checking some old pics from my parents...we had an car accident , the car turned out like 7 times , in the middle of the desert at night(we were in Africa), no seat belts, and we all survived... I am amazed that we(ppl my age) could survived without any safety or warness in about everything....

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Bored Phoenix 5 years ago

Oh dear

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Elizabeth 5 years ago

44points

QueenOlive 5 years ago

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Sam Mitchell 5 years ago

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Jon Cross 5 years ago

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Aramis 5 years ago

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Angel Smith 5 years ago

those who survive?? wow

0points

Samhhain Cat 5 years ago

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Master Markus 5 years ago

Agreed, and I'm glad you're reasonable about it and not just all "kids these days don't get to have fun anymore!"

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Stille20 5 years ago

27points

Hans 5 years ago

27points

Uwe Theiss 5 years ago

It is not only carelessness. They just didn't know. Like with radioactive material. At some point people used it as medicine until they realized it will kill them.

23points

Monika Soffronow 5 years ago

9points

Uwe Theiss 5 years ago

Why should a Diesel engine be restricted and petrol ones not? They have different emmissions but both are equaly dangerous.

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Tamerah Long 5 years ago

6points

John Montgomery 5 years ago

6points

Little Wonder 5 years ago

9points

STress the Terrible 5 years ago

Not only we went 5 miles on foot sub-zero, but we also went uphill in BOTH directions!!!

4points

Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 5 years ago

and we liked it!

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Isabelle 5 years ago

Well, it seems we have a very different appreciation of danger... It's so disturbing to see how confident they all look.

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Full Name 5 years ago

You must be under 35 then. Us older folks don't get nervous in any way when looking at any of these. Don't ask again why call you all a bunch of coddled pussies, haha. ;-P

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Full Name 5 years ago

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A J 5 years ago

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Full Name 5 years ago

javascript:void(0);Bingo. They were part of life, they weren't life itself. I've seen too many people I know cease to exist after the kids were born. They became sustenance givers and nothing more.

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David Redman 5 years ago

At 78, I survived somehow. No helmets either riding bicycles. So much more not told in these pics.

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Stina Kolling 5 years ago

The people who died aren't posting. It's called 'survivor bias'.

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Bill 5 years ago

Why no pictures of the 80s playground full of steel deathtraps. Steel Merry go round with crushed rock at the base and the see saws

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Just JoLynn 5 years ago

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B 5 years ago

Not really sure how the human race evolved with all this sort of crazy around. Maybe our ancestors made duvets and just sat wrapped in them instead of hunting for food.

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Coco 5 years ago

I don't know how kids of today will survive with zero survival skills, mind.

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Happiness is Hippo 5 years ago

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Han 5 years ago

The same will be said of our era come enough time.

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YaYaBooBoo 5 years ago

My daughter can't even be told to wash the dishes without a nervous breakdown. Sometimes I just wanna give her a beer.

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Laura White 5 years ago

And that's the way we liked it. Did you kids die? No. Lol

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jamie1707 5 years ago

It's a wonder that so many of us survived to adulthood.

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Full Name 5 years ago

No, no it's not. It's proof that not everything little thing is worth freaking out about. We all were raised like this so statistically it's proven to be much safer than people fear.

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Imaginer 31415 (Imaginer31415) 5 years ago

Spoiled? Sometimes. Alive? Yes.

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Robert Pacl 5 years ago

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Tiny Dancer 5 years ago

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William Teach 5 years ago

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Whawhawhatsis 5 years ago

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KCN 5 years ago

Sweet sweet heavenly day. I'm not a helicopter Mom, don't think so anyway. But the lack of safety restraints? The smoking? the alcohol? Good grief/

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Bored Moogle 5 years ago

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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

Hate to break it to you but giving your 11 year old kid weed is just bad parenting in any decade.

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Christina Sersif 5 years ago

A lot of these were done for me as a kid and I turned out fine.

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Ben Smith 5 years ago

And that’s why those kids are stronger and better equipped for the world than today’s generation will ever be.

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An Honest Merchant 5 years ago

Its also why the life expectancy is 20 years higher

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Gracie Mae 5 years ago

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Uwe Theiss 5 years ago

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Just JoLynn 5 years ago

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Martha Meyer 5 years ago

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Paul Hutton 5 years ago (edited)

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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago

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Lakasha Latoia 5 years ago

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ERIN W. 5 years ago

My Mother would do the same thing evenas we got to be teenagers out of sheer habit! SHE LOVED US!

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Susie 5 years ago (edited)

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Susie 5 years ago

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Terry Jensen 5 years ago

this is GREAT...think of all the people that LIVED thru these horrible times...wait they are still a live!!! Just shocking!!!!

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Kathleen Barlow 5 years ago

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Lyone Fein 5 years ago

I think folks are too freaked out about all this stuff. None of this stuff was dangerous. Stop being such worry warts. Go outside to play once in a while.

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Ana M 5 years ago

Is so good that I'm 47. My grandfather give us whisky when we where little when our teeth came out. Great times.

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Jenny Gordon 5 years ago

If I could, I would share the photo of 2 year old me with a tobacco pipe in my mouth and a can of beer in my pudgy little baby hands!! I LOVE that pic of me, it makes me laugh way too much!!

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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

Were you actually drinking though, or was it a joke picture?

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