Posted by SweetFeet on August 16, 2012 at 18:52:05 from (70.35.110.213):
In Reply to: Next Generation posted by charlie n on August 16, 2012 at 15:25:23:
Was born in the 60's... the youngest of six kids. Only my dad worked outside the home.
Mom could make a meal for all 8 of us from one chicken. Everybody had a slice or two of bread to fill up.
Children were to be seen and NOT heard. (Took me until I had kids of my own to start talking much to anybody).
Kids all helped with chores, barn cleaning, dishes, mowing, laundry, housework and whatever needed to be done... NO such thing as allowance.
Mom did A LOT of canning vegetables, fruit, pickles, jelly and we froze a lot of corn. Everybody in the family helped.
Pre-electronics for the most part... played Pac Man as a teenager at some "town" kids house. Yet we were never bored with being free to roam the countryside within a mile or two from home. (Our parents did not have to worry we would be abducted.)
At meals we drank milk or water, and once in awhile Kool Aid.
Mom sewed a lot of clothes for us until we got older and wanted to look cool and fit in. We also wore hand-me-downs if possible.
6 kids had 2 bedrooms.... we 4 girls shared a large room, the 2 boys shared a room.
All 8 people in our family shared 1 bathroom.
We did not have air conditioning until I was a teenager... and then it was ONLY downstairs so the folks would be cool.p>Special treat was watching John Wayne movie on TV on Saturday night and having pop and popcorn... or maybe a rootbeer float.
All in all, I had a great childhood and have a lot of great memories!There is a good song by Bucky Covington called "Different World"... look it up on youtube. Very fitting song for my generation.
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