With each decade kids experience less and less. Being born in 1971 I didn't experience some of the same things that my parents and grandparents did. While they didn't get put in a car seat as newborn I was. But as we got older none us really used seat-belts. Kids now a days are in a car seat or a booster seat until they are driving or some crazy age like 10. I think it's all based on height and weight. Hey, we survived and didn't grow up to be wimps.
The other thing was Easter eggs that were hidden the night before Easter. What? My parents were not getting up at 4 in morning to hide them because they never knew what time we were getting up. Of course there was the one year that we couldn't find one and they forgot where they hid them all. So we went on our merry lives and the egg started smelling. We found it in a chair a week or so later. Hey, we survived and didn't grow up to about food in the buffet.
Oh, did I mention helmets and padding when riding a bike or roller skating. Nope never owned any of it. Yes, my parents loved us and cared about us, but like my parents we survived. Heck I even had a broken wrist at 5. It healed just fine and now 43 years later there are no issues. Hey,we survived with no issues mentally or physically. OK, maybe a few if you have read a few of the posts in my blog. I'm a little weird and off. I call it being sparkly.
I'm sure there were a lot more things we survived that I an forgetting. But I was a teenager in the 1980's and it was the decade of excess. So I am sure the hair spray highs cause a memory issue. Yes, I'm going with the hairspray high excuse.
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