We were so lucky as kids,, and I cannot deny basically having an idyllic middle class upbringing in the 70s, where blue skies meant out and about on bikes with baskets (of course someone had to have the same one). Must've been a good year for the Redskins too! I wish sometimes that I could have raised my children in a single family home so that they could have some things that they couldn't in a townhouse...a swing set, lots of room of their own to run, log piles to turn into stagecoaches. I guess the good thing is they learned early to get along with others, take turns and be considerate of those around you, especially the littler kids. It was just a different time even then; the generation out on the playground now is unsupervised (I am talking kids 3 years old with no parent except the occasional yell out the door) who are rude to each other and to other neighbors (you had better watch out if you are unloading groceries and some of them want to come thorough on their bikes...there are three with some manners and a dozen with none); I don't at all understand sending your kids outside at that age unsupervised. Oh, and it is illegal. Police have been called but it doesn't change anything. Next call will be CPS, so that these kids maybe stay safe enough to have their own idyllic childhood with blue skies.
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