Back in the day

[CASH]

My curfew was the street lights, my mom didn't call my cell, she yelled my name, I played outside with friends, not online. If I didn't eat what my mom cooked, then I didn't eat. Sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap. I rode a bike without helmet, getting dirty was OK. I drank water from a garden hose & survived!

[Basser69]

Aint that the truth! Don't forget if you got in a fight it was with your fists not a gun or a knife

[redarrow]

and if you didn't hear what your momma said you didn't reply with "HUH' or "what" you said Ma'am.

[Hognutz]

If there were only two of you, you played catch. If there were three, you had a baseball game..

[barry]

There were no "Timeouts" back then, you got a Whippin'!
We had to...
hoe the garden
milk the cow
and slop the hogs

[stinkpickle]

...I could smoke on an airplane.   

[stinkpickle]

...I could wear my Superman Underoos without ridicule and mockery.

[wisconsinteacher]

You showed respect to those talking to you.

[guesswho]

If your britches were to big your Momma either fed you more or bought you some new britches, and if your hat was sideways on your head it was because one of your parents knocked it that way because of something you did. 

[Hognutz]

...I could wear my Superman Underoos without ridicule and mockery.

You are not right, StinkMeister..

[hookedspur]

  We even had to cut our own switchs, 2 at a time.

[BrowningGuy88]

You could go to school after turkey hunting with the gun in the gunrack in the backglass and not get put on the Interpol list!!!

You could also count on a slap in the face if even thought about telling Mama you was not doing something you were told!!!!

Daman

[rev]

But, Your Momma would make you wait 1/2 hour after eat to go swimming, afraid you would get a cramp and drown, but she would let you shot each other with a BB gun, go figure

[CB on the run]

  Went out early morning, home for lunch & dinner, my father whistled, walked or rode a bike everywhere we went.  I broke my hand early one summer in a play ground fight, when the cast was to be removed 6 weeks later I had wore a spot through the palm area from riding my 10 speed.  The TV never got turned on before 7pm except for the 6pm news, friends showed up at the door & never called on the phone.  My mother stills pays for a 'party line' on her phone bill even though we haven't heard anyone else since the late 1970's.  I still call my friends parents by Mr. or Mrs. even though I'm a grandfather(recently).
  My daughter shows up with my grandson and is glued to her cell phone text messages from her employees at work.  My son is more laid back.  Times have sure changed.

CB

[unclerick]

Around my house, us kids were to be seen not heard, speak when spoken to, there was no tv till after homework was done and supper dishes were put away and if we back talked momma or any of our elders, we got a mouthfull of momma's nuckles when she back handed us in the mouth, and it was ok to leave a 12yr old at home to watch his younger siblings, because he knew how to be responsible.

What ever happened to the good old days.