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Can we get a shout out to the metal merry go round that went 30mph and threw kids everywhere 😂

Go outside and play, don’t come back until the streetlights come on !

From our point of view, it wasn’t neglect that we lived through. It was glorious freedom.

Gen X was the last of the strong and tough generations.

Safety? Heck, Evil Kneivel was our idol!

The stainless steel slides that were 30 feet long and 2000 degrees 😂😂😂

Water from the garden hose was THE BEST!!!!

I was a teen in the 70's. We did so much dumb, crazy stuff.. And there's not a digital record of it anywhere.

“Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about!”

Remember you could love John Denver, The Carpenters and Led Zeppelin at the same time?

"What are you doing inside!?? go play somewhere!

Those were the days! Born in 67 and the 70s, and 80s were the BEST!!!!!!!

Cops punishment for minors was "we are calling your parents" AND IT WORKED!

I was raised by parents who believed in benevolent neglect. "Oh good, you are still alive. Have dinner."

Born in '62, so I was a little kid in the '60s, a big kid/teenager in the '70s, and a young man in the '80s. I couldn't have timed it better myself! It was the perfect time to be young!

"It is not our job to entertain you."

Proud Gen-Xer here that grew up feral and wouldn't want it any other way.

"Gen-X ... raised on hose water and neglect". I just saw this on a t-shirt the other day and I was overcome with nostalgia.

Born in 1968. Don't forget that the media industry used child labor. Got my first paper route when I was 9 years old. Made about $1 a day delivering 50 newspapers in my neighborhood. Rain, snow, heat, whatever. And I was glad for that $1 because I didn't have to ask my single mom for money to go to the arcade to play Space Invaders and Pac-Man. Broke my arm in 1st grade on a totally unsafe skateboard. My mom told me to put ice on it. Took me to the doctor three days later. And she was a nurse!

And we’re all still alive and appreciated things in life !!

I grew up in the years when summer vacation for kids was really free time. You went outside as soon as you finished breakfast and you came back in for dinner. We roamed every single inch of the countryside around us and no one EVER worried about a neighbor shooting you because you walked through their yard.

Gen X, the best generation EVA!!!!!! Child of the 70's, Teens in the 80's, and in my 20's in the 90's, but forgotten in the 2000's and beyond....and I don't GAF!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

The good old days that we all need to go back to.

My first dirtbike was a Yamaha YZ125. I couldn’t touch the ground, used a hill to start and stop. Dad started it and said tear it up! I will forever respect him for the amount of confidence he had in me RIP Dad.

We’re the generation that survived Slip-N-Slides!

Who else is scrolling the comments to reminisce? What a fun, tough, and wild generation to grow up in!

True story! When I was about 9 years old I was “sword” fighting with a rusted lawn chair leg and filleted my hand wide open. Blood everywhere. Definitely needed stitches. Well we we going down to Myrtle Beach the next day and my mom and dad said I was fine, to suck it up. When we got to the beach my dad threw me in the ocean water and said that the salt water would heal my hand by the time we went home. I still have the biggest scar on my hand at 50 years old. lol

As a Gen Xer these were my "timeouts" - Mom would tell me go to your room and wait until your Father gets home. It was like being on death row, until the sheer terror of hearing the truck pull into the driveway, followed by - Son bring me my belt. Sometimes my Mother wouldn't tell my Father anything which was a suspended sentence requiring a probationary period of good behavior. This parental judiciary system of fear, discipline, and punishment builds character, I thank them for it to this day.

1969 baby here. Candy cigarettes and wax candy lips. Parents stayed up late in summer smoking and drinking and playing cards, while all the kids ran wild. Dancing the Bump and the Hustle. If we complained about being bored, Dad made us do pushups. We shoveled snow, scrubbed toilets, stacked firewood, cooked meals, drove several years before getting our licenses. Farm kids-we sometimes drove ourselves to school on tractors for the hell of it, and it was legal at any age. What a world. Checking the mail for a letter from the crush you met at church camp. Climbing trees. Watching soap operas with Grandma because there was only one tv and three channels. Dancing to American Bandstand on Saturday mornings. Sleeping in the unheated upstairs bedrooms while the adults got the comfy spots downstairs because we were kids and hadn’t earned the comfort privileges yet. Beautiful, beautiful life.

When I claimed I was running away, Dad offered to pack my bags.

Growing up in the 70s was the best!!!! The times were great, and so was the music!!!👍

1970's was the best decade ever. What an era to be brought up in. We actually listened to am/radio and loved it. Bell bottoms, butterfly collars, and wallaby shoes. The best time to be alive!!! 😊✌🏻

Our generation had mosh pits, kids today have safe spaces. We are NOT the same!

Born in 1960. Spent most of my time alone or with friends running the woods and rivers. Snow skiing, skating and biking with no helmet or pads. Swimming in rivers and lakes with no floats. Riding in the back of the pick-up truck. Climbing trees as high as we could. The whole world's gone soft.

This is gold. Laughed my ass off while feeling nostalgic the whole time.

Born in 1962, grew up in the 70's............what a magical time to be a kid, and especially a teenager !

When my appendix burst, on the way to the ER, I was told there had better be something wrong with me.

Anyone remember “Click-Clacks”? Two hard plastic balls on a double string with a loop you held, and you had to make them hit together up and down. Fast. I can’t believe we never knocked our eyes out with them

Remember the public service announcement around 10pm asking you if you knew where your kids were? Thought it was normal, my daughter was absolutely horrified when she hear it saying "What was wrong with you people"😅

If the 70's weren't dangerous enough as a kid, they invented lawn darts.

Hahaha how many of us were left alone at home, and when our parent left, the only instructions were, don't answer the phone, don't go outside and don't burn down the house 😂😂😂

The "shut up or I'll give you something to cry about" generation. Those were the best days of our lives, and now we're on the downhill side picking up speed.

EXACTLY TRUE. It's not that our parents didn't care about us or love us. They were just busy, drunk or working.

"I don't want to do that." "You don't have to WANT to do it. You just have to do it."

Mastering the art of recording our favorite songs off the radio and clicking the record/stop buttons as soon as the DJ came on air.

I learned to never say "I'm bored!" Cause they would give you something to do, usually cleaning something.

I am gen x, 1971. I haven't thought about those things in decades. You are hilariously accurate!!

And a savory treat was that water from the garden hose when you’re outside all day. No smart phones, no internet, no social media. Just outside and actually using our imagination when playing with GI Joe or Evil Kanevil motorcycle. The excitement of waiting for those photographs to get developed so you can see what it looked like. Saturday morning cartoons, Atari 2600, and playing with He-Man action figures.

Being born in GENERATION X, I remember... - It took time to write a letter and excitedly check the mailbox every afternoon for a week for a reply. - Playing with other kids outside who we didn't know. - Sending text messages to friends in class written on a tiny piece of paper and passed down the line by classmates. - Making personalised mix-tapes by recording songs off the radio as gifts for our friend's birthdays. - When drinking beer dregs with cigarette butts in them after a party didn't send us to the emergency room. - Peanuts were a snack, not a death sentence. - The only “safe space” we knew was a bomb shelter. - Rewinding the mix-tapes on the end of a pencil to save battery power on our Walkman. - Watching Greatest American Hero every week to find out if he will ever learn to land. - Working summer jobs to earn money to buy what we wanted. - Asking a person out on a date in person. - Having to line up against the wall with our siblings so our mother could snap the last two photos so she can develop the roll of film. - Waiting until the next day for the roll of film to be developed. - Fast food was a treat, not a lifestyle. - A bag of chips was full. - Board games were fun. - Dial the radio station on a rotary phone to be the first caller with the correct answer to win pizza. - There was no redial on a rotary phone. - When left at home alone, parents would call home on the landline, hang up after two rings, then call again as a code to answer the phone. - Things would be repaired, not replaced. - A hiding was warranted for misbehaviour. - Kids learning basic survival skills. - Boy Scouts was a thing to envy. - Chores around the house was a requirement for living under your parent's roof. - Farting on your sibling's head was funny, not assault. - Parents telling kids to "Go play on the road" wasn't deemed as parental negligence. - Falling off the jungle gym was usually our own fault, not the fault of the manufacturer. - Music was music. - Getting a Penthouse magazine created instant friends. - "Snake" was the best video game ever! - "Aqua Rings" kept us entertained for hours. - Rolling down the car window was air conditioning. - The three things in a First-Aid kit were Band-aids, Mercurochrome, and Dettol. - Finding a book at a library to study was like searching for lost treasure. - Being on a phone call and stretching to reach for something but can't quite get it because the phone's curly cord wasn't quite long enough. - Bad actions had consequences. - Losing a competition meant no medal. - Constantly calling the video store to find out whether anyone has returned a copy of the latest release of the film that was completely rented out. - Browsing at the video store. - A dollar bought a full bag of candy. - The family ate dinner together in the same room. - Slamming down the phone was the most satisfying way to end an argument. - "Trick-or-Treating" with no fear. - MTV had music. The best time to grow up.

Yes, I drank water from a green garden hose, and I waited for it to cool down, too. Still here.

My car seat was the city phone book with no seat belt. The simple times 😅

Free Range kids! I was one too... No curfew, no bike helmets, baby oil laying out at the beach all summer! Great times❤

I played with lawn darts.

LOL man I remember pounding each other with dodge balls. The teachers didnt care they were out in the smoking area tending to their hangovers. Class of 84

I am a Gen Xer and proud of it! Loved growing up in the 70's and 80's had a blast! Miss it!

My friends mom used to tow us around hanging off the back of her car on our skateboards😅

Gen X is okay being forgotten. Happened all the time growing up and that made us tough and resilient.

“Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”

As a kid, I can't count how many times my brother and I knocked our breath out climbing trees and falling , then climbing back up the tree. We didn't tell our parents, we didn't CRY, they thought it was fine anyway.

"ITS 10PM,DO YOU KNOW WERE YOUR KIDS ARE??"

Our parents were helicopter parents. They flew us in dropped us off and flew away. Kinda like Special Forces team in the jungle

Our grade school playground and monkey bars were on CONCRETE!! It was great !

Remember riding a “Big Wheel”? There was this lever on the right or left side you would pull on to make it stop or spin depending on how fast we would go. I also remember the “Hoppity Hop” big rubber balls we would sit on and bounce as we held on tight? I often played with a kaleidoscope, played with metal Jacks, and I also had Mexican jumping beans!!! (Just to name a few)

I remember recording top ten hit songs with my sister on her new cassette recorder off the radio. Mum would occasionally let the budgerigars out of their cage to fly around the house and if they flew into our room, their singing would be taped too.

Who remembers "Clackers"? That defines 70's kids. You could be playing alone with them and knock yourself out!

1975 here, Poland. When I was 9 years old, I walked 5 km to school through a secret hole in the fence through a Russian military base. When a large road was being built near my city near the lake, I built a raft from construction boards and sailed out on it, and 100 meters from the shore it fell apart. But I was already a great swimmer then. I made fireworks from scratch when I was 12. Today, my parents would probably go to prison for what I did and not taking care of me. I had a wonderful, adventurous childhood and today I am happy and I don't know what stress is.

I know 4 women born in 1971. They always leave me in awe of their street smarts, book smarts, quick thinking, business acumen and multitasking abilities.

Our parents neighbors watched out for you, but were ready to squeal on you to keep you safe! Lol 😂

I was born in 1972 and grew up as a feral child in a semi-rural town in southern Illinois. We were allowed to run free with no way to contact our parents. Just me, my bike, and some loose change in my pocket in case I found a vending machine somewhere The number of situations I found myself in - and never told my parents about - would have sent them to an early grave.

Born in 62. Stood on the back of my Grandfather’s truck going 65 down the highway. Loved it

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time! All of this was spot on with my childhood 😂 still here at 67. lol. Rock on ✌️

Gen-X here: Never had time for homework, felt ashamed when caught by teacher, promised myself to start doing homework. When the last bell rang, everything was forgotten, and freedom until dark left no time for homework. Had nightmares until my mid-50s about being late for school and not being able to "find my class" when I was late.

Gen X here ......we got the last of the good old days .....mom n pop shops , businesses closed on sunday / holidays, community closeness ......sure miss it all !!!

For those not born in the ‘70s, and not experiencing the ‘80s, I truly hate that you missed out.

I'm a latch-key kid here and Gen-X. And boy do I remember those hard rubber balls at school.

"Bleed over the sink," that hit close to home.

We mowed the lawn in flip flops, we played with lawn darts, our fireworks were basically dynomite, flares, and crappy fuses, they were unsafe and insane. We spent our free time riding horses, dirt bikes, and jumping off a three story house onto a trampoline to see who could get the farthest bounce. We would get in literal physical fights with each other but nobody better mess with any of us, and if the parents asked no one would say anything. We were farm kids so we did our work but the rest of our time was floating rivers, plinking with guns, building things and blowing things up.

I’m still amazed that so many of us survived. I had at least 5 near death experiences a week and just brushed it off and went on with my day. 😂😂😂

1963 kid here. 70's teenager. Looking back I wouldn't change a thing. I'd love to put a kid today in Sherman and Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine and watch him try to function. Would be VERY entertaining.

I was born in '62. As a kid we would have our lucky charms in the morning, get on our bikes and be back by 5 for dinner. Always outside and loving it. Kids in my neighborhood don't play together - always on their devices.

I wouldn't change any of this for a minute. Kids today don't know what they have missed. Having your own cell phone is not the answer.

I’m sick of you kids being underfoot - get outside and don’t come back until dinner time!

I was born in the late 70s in Southern California. The one thing I remember like it was yesterday was if there was no school you won’t be aloud to be inside the house…unless it was to clean or something like that. Going out in your neighborhood to make friends was essential. We moved around a lot as kids so I had to constantly make new friends. Thirsty while out there in the wild? Drink from a hose of course! I’m certain that kids don’t grow up like that anymore. Also essential things were skateboards, bicycles, or scooters. You don’t want to be the kid having to walk when everyone else had wheels.

Omg! In tears 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's 10 PM, do you know where your children are?

If I was complaining about something hurting, my Dad would always say "do you want me to cut it off?"

We sat up ramps for our bikes to jump with no helmets or any protective gear👍😄💫✌️

I remember riding 50 miles in the back of a El Camino, along with 6 other siblings to watch a Friday night football game 😂😂😂 no seatbelts, nothing just huddling to stay warm. It rained on the way back home 😂😂😂😂...good times!!🤘🏾

If we weren't in the yard when the streetlights came on, the wooden spoon would be the greeting.

I describe it as a time before the word "parent" became a verb.

Remember buying Levi jeans & they were so dark & thick, took 3 years to break them in. Then cut them off for shorts.

We made a zipline in the woods with a rope, a pulley, and a chain swing from a swingset between two trees on a steep slope. After crashing into the downhill tree a couple of times, we "borrowed" a garden hose and tied it to the uphill tree and the pulley... Just enough stretch to slow down enough to dive off before the tree. Good times!

I'm a boomer and everything here is my experience too. Loved it all, then and hearing it now!

Playground injuries were badges of honor.

Everyone forgets Gen X. But we like it that way.

My parent's said this, "don't burn the house down!" Then out the door they went, we were our own babysitter. No blood, no pain was my father mantra. Coddling? Not a chance, suck it up buttercup, nobody cared.🤕😂🤗

This isn’t comedy, it’s history. She’s just talking facts about our childhood. We laugh because it’s all true.

In truth, we were as feral as children could be without someone going to jail because of it.

The street lights were our universal sign that when they turned on at night, it was time to go home.

Metal lawn darts, straight up in the air, in the middle of your friends. Everyone RUN!! 😂