..In the olden days 😂
When I grew up I walked to school and our tea time was at 6pm after kid's TV had finished. Sunday lunch was chicken and all the trimmings, we all sat down at a table and used our knives and forks correctly with no elbows on the table.
We only received a toy on birthdays and at Christmas 🙂
Fast food was fish and chips for tea on a Friday and having a bottle of pop from the shop was a treat.
You took your school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your "playing clothes" - kids looked like kids, we didn't pout, wear makeup.
There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you walked or rode your bike if you had one, and you bunked off school occasionally. If you wanted to see your mates you'd walk to their house and knock on the door. There was no such things as private conversations or mobile phones, even the landline was attached to the wall.
We didn’t have Now TV, Sky or Netflix, we had only 3 channels to watch. We had to watch all the adverts unless you switched to BBC by pressing a button on the TV.
We played British bulldog, hide & seek, tag, football, and rode our bikes over home made jumps.
Staying in the house was a PUNISHMENT and the only thing we knew about "bored" was --- "You better find something to do before I find it for you!"
We ate mum`s tea, If we rushed our tea we weren't allowed to go back out and if we didn't eat it we weren't allowed back out either.
Bottled water was not a thing; we drank from the tap.
We watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, and rode our bikes for hours and ran around.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark... streetlights were our alarm.
We watched our mouths around our elders because all of our aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandma's, and our parents' best friends were all extensions of our parents and you didn't want them telling your parents if you misbehaved! Or they would give you something to cry about. Everyone had respect. I still don't argue with older people and always give up my seat
I did my research reading a book. There was no internet and no Google!
These were the good old days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid
I loved my childhood and all the mates I hung around with. Good Times.