Why 70s Kids Are The Strongest Generation

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

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

Remember how exciting it was when the wall phone rang and we had no idea who was calling?

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

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

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

We’re the last ones who could beat the tar out of each other without going to jail.

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

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

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

I remember walking to the corner store and buying a pack of cigs for Mom. As long as I had a note from Mom, it was legal.

We were neglected but not coddled. That is the key. We had to entertain ourselves, and we better NOT do anything that made the teacher call home. I could run wild all Saturday and summer, but I better be in the door at 5pm sharp for supper or I would not get any. My friend’s father would whistle so the whole neighborhood could hear and all the children would stop talking mid sentence and all the kids and dogs would start running home.

Safety? Heck, Evil Kneivel was our idol!

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

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

Generation X latchkey child of divorce here, born in Canada in ‘74. Prank calls were my specialty. 😂 Man we had fun with those. I even recorded the calls. I was a pro at recording radio music onto cassette tapes too. Backyard tent sleepovers, running through the sprinkler and slumber parties, tobogganing, snow forts and ice skating on frozen ponds, dewberry perfume from the body shop, watching MuchMusic videos on the tube, ghetto blasters, rollerskating and watching breakdancing, tretorn sneakers and parachute pants (lol) big 80’s hair with enough hairspray for 12 people, atari and calico vision, miss pacman and donkey kong, wagon wheel cookies and fizz candy, running the streets all day and night until the streetlights came on, road hockey, backyard water slides, swimming and fun beach trips, amusement parks, halloween nights where you filled an entire pillowcase and nobody was offended by blackface. 😂 Home for hours alone after school before the parents came home, going to the mall every week with my allowance to buy the latest vinyl record or cassette tape, roaming through cornfields and eating cow corn, drinking water from the hose, bikes with banana seats, ring suckers, the beginnings of lifelong friendships, egg shampoo, cabbage patch dolls, forest forts, nicky-nicky-nine-doors, tag and apartment-building-hide-and-seek, rock concerts and hot preppy boys. Man, those were the days, weren’t they? Wish I could go back and just live there forever. Maybe that’s what heaven will be like someday. I pity the kids today who are living second-rate childhoods. I feel so blessed to have experienced it all. Proud generation X-er forever. ✌️

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

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

GenX here. You're not wrong. We used "Sun In" and aluminum foil to get blonde hair and more tan. We used Binaca breath spray, wore L'eggs that were in the plastic eggs, and our restrooms smelled like Aquanet. We could cook by the time we were out of elementary school, because we were told to use the stove. We got jobs to afford the things we wanted, including paper delivery, which meant going into stranger's houses weekly to collect money and nobody thought that was strange. We hung out in arcades and the students with the most quarters were cool. We watched real-time action and understand, "Wizard needs food badly!" meant feed the arcade game more quarters. So many more things. OMG the sea monkeys! That was a lemon law lesson! Disappointment was real! lol