PrincessMandy Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 AnyOne Remember What It Was Like... ... Before the Internet or the AIM Before You Had Ever Heard Of semi automatics and weed Before playstation2 or X-bOX, When You Could ONLY MOVE LEFT or RIGHT on the Screen!!! Before the 5 hours of homework you put off every night... Before You Got Your Heart Broken Way back... I'm talkin' bout "HIDE and GO SEEK" at dusk. Red light, Green light. Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on. Mother May I? Red Rover Four square, No Double Bounces, No Finger Tips PALMS ONLY!! Hula Hoops & Skip Its Running through the sprinkler Drinking out Of The Hose When You were THirsty and Not Being Judged About Doing It ... or Worried about Diseases!! Happy Meals... Better Yet ... The Happy Meal TOYS!!! Getting the privelage to sit in the front seat of the car Wait... Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons Remember Doug and all the cast of 'One Saturday Morning' Or what about legends of the hidden temple, global guts, double dare, Wild and Crazy Kids, ARE YOU AFFRAID OF THE DARK!?! Or Eureka's Castle, Alegra's Window, Under The Umbrella Tree, HeathCliff, or DAvid The Gnome!!!! Who could forget Snick??? Or the teenage mutant ninja turtles,and Power Rangers, Before They Became The Mighty Morphin European Space Turbo NInja Rangers Christmas morning... Or Better Yet ... Christmas Eve... and Trying to sleep that night!!! Your first day of school Bedtime Prayers (Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray The Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray The Lord my soul to take) and Goodnight Kisses Climbing trees And being too Afraid to climb back down!! Getting an ice cream off the ice cream truck A MILLION mosquito bites and StIcKy fingers Jumpin' down the steps .... and Sliding Down Them In Your Sleeping Bag!! Jumpin' on the bed Pillow fights Runnin' till you were out of breath Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt and you almost peed your pants Being tired from playing all day Your first crush... Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7-Up" in the classroom Remember that? I'm not finished yet... Kool-Aid and Squeeze-its were the drinks of the summer Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars or spokes Meant You Were Their Hero!!! Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school, and Trading Them in the Middle of the Day With Your Best Friend Class Field Trips ... where THE BOYS wanted to sit on the opposite side of the bus from the girls and THE GIRLS were perfectly FINE with it!! When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. When getting high was swinging on the swingset When $5 seemed like a million, and another dollar a Miracle. When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were so cool. When Toys r Us overuled the "mall" I want to go back to the time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe" (or "bubble gum, bubble gum") Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "DO OVER!!" "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly" Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. Being old, referred to anyone over 20. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was COOTIES. Nobody was prettier than Mom Nobody was cooler than Dad Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park. Getting an inch of snow was a dream come true. You were The Coolest kId on The Block if You had The Neighboorhood Slip 'N' SLide!!! Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare" Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. And done at Random ... Just Because You Felt Like It!!! If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!! a friend wrote this to me and it really hit home for me! i mean yeah im 19 now but its still i miss those days and everything! as a child we didn't care.....i mean it could be colder then cold and we wanted to be outside and now we look out the window see snow and are like hot cocoa and a movie! even kids these days are like that! its sad but true....people have no imaginations anymore and children are forced to grow up! I hope you all remember these days and treasure them or stil try to bring them back in some way! I know i miss these days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlena Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Originally posted by PrincessMandy@Oct 30 2005, 06:18 PMAnyOne Remember What It Was Like... ...Yes I remember and I too sometimes wish I could go back but soon after i remember how things that now seem simple were then hard and gave us pain and suffering.....Think about it!!!!!Before the Internet or the AIMBefore You Had Ever Heard Of semi automatics and weedBefore playstation2 or X-bOX, When You Could ONLY MOVE LEFT or RIGHT on the Screen!!!Before the 5 hours of homework you put off every night...Before You Got Your Heart BrokenWay back...I'm talkin' bout "HIDE and GO SEEK" at dusk.Red light, Green light.Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on.Mother May I?Red RoverFour square, No Double Bounces, No Finger Tips PALMS ONLY!!Hula Hoops & Skip ItsRunning through the sprinklerDrinking out Of The Hose When You were THirsty and Not Being Judged About Doing It ... or Worried about Diseases!!Happy Meals... Better Yet ... The Happy Meal TOYS!!!Getting the privelage to sit in the front seat of the carWait...Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoonsRemember Doug and all the cast of 'One Saturday Morning'Or what about legends of the hidden temple, global guts, double dare, Wild and Crazy Kids, ARE YOU AFFRAID OF THE DARK!?! Or Eureka's Castle, Alegra's Window, Under The Umbrella Tree, HeathCliff, or DAvid The Gnome!!!!Who could forget Snick???Or the teenage mutant ninja turtles,and Power Rangers, Before They Became The Mighty Morphin European Space Turbo NInja RangersChristmas morning... Or Better Yet ... Christmas Eve... and Trying to sleep that night!!!Your first day of schoolBedtime Prayers (Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray The Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray The Lord my soul to take) and Goodnight KissesClimbing trees And being too Afraid to climb back down!!Getting an ice cream off the ice cream truckA MILLION mosquito bites and StIcKy fingersJumpin' down the steps .... and Sliding Down Them In Your Sleeping Bag!!Jumpin' on the bedPillow fightsRunnin' till you were out of breathLaughing so hard that your stomach hurt and you almost peed your pantsBeing tired from playing all dayYour first crush...Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7-Up" in the classroomRemember that?I'm not finished yet...Kool-Aid and Squeeze-its were the drinks of the summerGiving your friends a ride on your handlebars or spokes Meant You Were Their Hero!!!Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school, and Trading Them in the Middle of the Day With Your Best FriendClass Field Trips ... where THE BOYS wanted to sit on the opposite side of the bus from the girls and THE GIRLS were perfectly FINE with it!!When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.When getting high was swinging on the swingsetWhen $5 seemed like a million, and another dollar a Miracle.When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were so cool.When Toys r Us overuled the "mall"I want to go back to the time when...Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe" (or "bubble gum, bubble gum")Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "DO OVER!!""Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire eveningIt wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.Being old, referred to anyone over 20.The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was COOTIES.Nobody was prettier than MomNobody was cooler than DadScrapes and bruises were kissed and made betterIt was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park.Getting an inch of snow was a dream come true.You were The Coolest kId on The Block if You had The Neighboorhood Slip 'N' SLide!!!Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. And done at Random ... Just Because You Felt Like It!!!If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!a friend wrote this to me and it really hit home for me! i mean yeah im 19 now but its still i miss those days and everything! as a child we didn't care.....i mean it could be colder then cold and we wanted to be outside and now we look out the window see snow and are like hot cocoa and a movie! even kids these days are like that! its sad but true....people have no imaginations anymore and children are forced to grow up!I hope you all remember these days and treasure them or stil try to bring them back in some way! I know i miss these days!← Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrawberryFields Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 I was with you on everything until you mentioned the cartoons. I have children your age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
begood2 Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 marlena, That was great! Thank you for sharing! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldsgurl_2002 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 yeah...i remember those days....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Member_Deleted Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 I love it... I remember most of the really old stuff... not so much the turtles and stuff like that... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsha Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Thanks for the memories.........I needed this today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanstress70 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 That was nice to read. However, I think there are lots of people who are trying to make sure their kids will have some of the same experiences they did as a child. You said that "even kids these days are like that", and that's true - there are a lot of kids like that, but they don't have to be. We live in a sizeable city, but my MIL and FIL have a farm out in the country. My mom and stepfather live out in the country in the mountains of NC, and have horses galore - probably next summer he will take his first horse ride! My 3 yr old loves to go to these places more than anything. Yesterday we were at my IL's farm and he was playing with his 4 cousins all day. They were walking in the woods, talking to the cows, jumping in mud puddles, and he and his male cousin were burying the rocks they found in the dirt before the "girls find them and try to take them away." We allow jumping on the bed (our big one!). We have a rule that we turn off the TV from 6:00 to bedtime each night, so that we can do other things as a family. Besides 2 or 3 shows, he could care less about TV anyway! And I was very pleased the other day when he came home from preschool singing "Ring around the rosie..." as he took my hands and started twirling with me. (I had totally forgotten about that one!) I didn't have such a great childhood, so I think I'm very aware of doing all I can to make my son's childhood wonderful! However, this doesn't mean spending lots of money and buying him the stuff I didn't have... it means making sure he gets to experience lots of different things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindy Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 I did a lot in my childhood Shan~ but a lot of different things than my kids ever got to do...I think what you are doing for your son is the greatest! I'm sure that he will have fond memories of growing up with a mom like you! :) I grew up a lot WITH my children, so I can remember a lot of things on that list I didn't do as a kid. I still love teenage mutant ninja turtles! Jumpin' down the steps .... and Sliding Down Them In Your Sleeping Bag!! YEP Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt and you almost peed your pants~ HEY! I STILL do that! Thanks for the smiles Princesss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrawberryFields Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Originally posted by Lindy@Oct 31 2005, 07:58 AMI did a lot in my childhood Shan~ but a lot of different things than my kids ever got to do...I think what you are doing for your son is the greatest! I'm sure that he will have fond memories of growing up with a mom like you! :)I grew up a lot WITH my children, so I can remember a lot of things on that list I didn't do as a kid.I still love teenage mutant ninja turtles!Jumpin' down the steps .... and Sliding Down Them In Your Sleeping Bag!! YEP Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt and you almost peed your pants~ HEY! I STILL do that! Thanks for the smiles Princesss!←Hey Lindy Ol Buddy Ol Pal! You can see a doctor about that ya know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnie G Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 I was waiting to see if. Do you remeber when TV went color? Or how we had to turn the antenna poll out side the back door to tune in the three channels by your brother yelling at you to let you know when the channel came in clear. I remeber when a neighbor family bought a colored TV! and we all ran over to watch after shcool TV show. Allycat and Pansy Show (Landsing MI) I remeber concerned parents fighting over the Bugs bunny Roadrunner show because it was toooo violent. Yup I show my age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Originally posted by PrincessMandy@Oct 30 2005, 09:18 AMBedtime Prayers (Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray The Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray The Lord my soul to take) and Goodnight KissesI remember many of those things and this was my goodnight prayer with a goodnight kiss except, I never much liked the prayer. I remember thinking after reciting it that "I'm only 6, why would I die in my sleep!". I've never taught this prayer to my kids. But the prayer we would say for grace is a favorite:Come Lord JesusBe our guestLet these gifts to us be blessedAmenM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pushka Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 LOL...those are great memories, and yes I remember them all..plus lots more from the 60's and 70's when I was a youngster...watching Wacky races, Top Cat, Pink Panther, The Banana Splits (might have got that one wrong!), and Sesame Street...Champion the Wonder Horse, Casie Jones...and more... My memories of days out with my family were those of walking over fields and moors, passing the coal 'slag heaps' and fishing in the streams, with our pet dog...and playing in the woods around Towneley Hall in Burnley, imagining all the ghosts that lived there and spooking myself about them...feeding the horses in the field at the top of our council estate, playing street games such as Hop Scotch and Queeni O Co-Co, who's got the ball? and such...wonderful, innocent days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanstress70 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Sorry if this double-posts... it didn't look like it worked the first time. As I read my earlier post, I thought it sounded rather boastful... I didn't mean to come across that way at all. I just wanted to make the point that just because it is 2005, that doesn't mean that kids can't enjoy anything besides computers, videogames, and TV. My son is probably going to be an only child, so we are very mindful about not spoiling him with material things. Luckily, I find that he would rather dig in the dirt rather than watch TV! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindy Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Originally posted by shanstress70@Oct 31 2005, 12:23 PMSorry if this double-posts... it didn't look like it worked the first time.As I read my earlier post, I thought it sounded rather boastful... I didn't mean to come across that way at all. I just wanted to make the point that just because it is 2005, that doesn't mean that kids can't enjoy anything besides computers, videogames, and TV. My son is probably going to be an only child, so we are very mindful about not spoiling him with material things. Luckily, I find that he would rather dig in the dirt rather than watch TV!←Hey Shan~ I never saw anything boastful about your earlier post.... just saw a fun loving mom who loves her child. I think you are great! and I'm sure that your son thinks the same! Keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzysmiles Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 my cartoons were my lil poneys, thundercats, punky bruster, today's special, I thought Doug was still farley new. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john doe Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Originally posted by dizzysmiles@Oct 31 2005, 02:06 PMmy cartoons were my lil poneys, thundercats, punky bruster, today's special, I thought Doug was still farley new. lol←You poor, poor child! Nobody deserves to have to grow up with Punky Brewster. Bugs Bunny was and still is the best all-time cartoon show, bar none, with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote a distant second. The Mel Blanc-voiced shows were almost all enjoyable to watch. Flintstones were okay until they got cheesy with the kids and the alien. Yogi Bear was sometimes tolerable but the sugary aspect was too much at times and ultimately killed the fun for me. I didn't much care for the superhero ones either, they were all too serious to enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 When I was a kid there was a kids after school program called Popcorn Playhouse. They would air cartoons and kids would attend for birthday parties and just to be on TV. The cartoons that I enjoyed most were: Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Magilla Gorilla, Batfink (which would include Karate and Hugo-a-Go-Go). There were more, it's just hard to remember them all. And of course the Pink Panther was also a favorite. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 ha ha....My childhood right there yo!!!! lol... I remember skip-its!!! SO MUCH FUN!! I have a pink one!!.... Do you remember the ghetto skips-its... you go into your mums drawer get some pantyhose cut the legs off and put a tennis ball in the end... then tie a loop in the other end!!! But then your brothers would scam them and use them as a weapon to beat you up.. then they would get in trouble for beating you up but then you would get in trouble for cutting up your mums pantyhose!!! LOL... Ahhh the good ole days!!!..... I think I remember Under the umbrella tree.... MAYBE... I would have to see it again.. I remember My Pet Monster though.... ANYONE else?.... Rainbow Bright, all those fun shows!!! Mr. Dressup, Sesame Street... I wish they had cool cartoons like that these days!!!... but NO... they have CRAZY cartoons these days!!... but I have to admit that Dora is pretty darn cool!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Originally posted by Amy@Oct 31 2005, 08:50 PM...Mr. Dressup....Was and/or is Mr. Dressup aired in the States?...or is Amy Canadian?M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Member_Deleted Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Does anyone remember Poka dot door? It was from Canada... but my kids loved it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 I am a CANUCK!!!! Born bred and raised!!!!.... I am not sure if Mr. Dressup was aired in the states maybe not I think it was on CBC but he is dead now.. That was a SAD SAD day when we found out Mr. Dressup had died. Very sad indeed! but you really should find a way to watch him!! He was a COOL man!! and Casey and Finnagan back in the day were WAY cool too!!! So I suggest to anyone who has not seen it.. to get your hands on a copy any way you can!!!! Keep Mr. Dressups memory alive!!!!! you RIP Mr. D!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Originally posted by Amy@Nov 1 2005, 01:00 PMI am a CANUCK!!!! Born bred and raised!!!!.... I am not sure if Mr. Dressup was aired in the states maybe not I think it was on CBC but he is dead now.. That was a SAD SAD day when we found out Mr. Dressup had died. Very sad indeed! but you really should find a way to watch him!! He was a COOL man!! and Casey and Finnagan back in the day were WAY cool too!!!...Welcome Amy!I am also Canadian, so I am very familiar with Mr. Dressup and back in the day, Casey and Finnegan. Mr. Dressup, also known as Ernie Coombs was a talented artist and made childhood quite memorable.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnie G Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Oh, Mr. Dressup I cried when the news said he had died, my children loved him. Now when Mr. Rogers died my collage boy left the dinner table in a huff, telling off his sibling and storming out of the room. He was my Mr. Roger’s child. As an American, I loved Captain Kangaroo the dancing bear. I moved to Canada when I was small so I had the best of children's entertainers and TV educators. I could not belive I married a man who does not know who Gumby and Poky are? I could not believe that, I finely found an old comic book and on the back was Gumby and Poky and showed it to him he just shrugged his shoulders and reminded me he was born and raised in Newfoundland in a fishing village. He also reminded me that is why he joined the army to see the world and some how Gumby and Poky never crossed his path in 25 years of living on the mainland or off the rock as it is called. Were all mainlanders to them and once cable TV hit his father has not left Newfoundland since. He thinks the world has gone nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Taoist_Saint Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Well I remember alot of that stuff too, but like many others I would have to customize the list a little around the TV shows and toys... He-Man and the Masters of the Universe...mainly the toys, not the cartoon Transformers toys and cartoons Star Wars - Return of the Jedi action figures from 1983 (was it?) Space Lego!!! E.T. Superfriends Spiderman (the 60's cartoon) The Incredible Hulk (80's series) Dukes of Hazzard (Fridays, right after the Hulk!) Watching The Dark Crystal and The Secret of Nimh in theaters for the first time (I still rent them regularly every few years) Classic Loony Toons (Tunes?) And of course...The Atari 2600...wishing there were more multi-player games available because I had seen 4-Player games (a miracle of science!) such as "Gauntlet" at the arcades...and all I could play was two-player Mario Bros. or Combat. Which reminds me of another memory...going to Chuck E. Cheese and having FUN. Now its just annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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