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We were taught to hunt, fish, cook, grow food, build stuff, clean house, tend to yard&bushes, simple car repairs, check on elderly/help when needed, obtain "kid like" jobs for money, do required chores or get your butt beat (pick your own switch from tree---ouch) and celebrate true meaning of 4rth of July.
We played hard outside all day. Built forts&tree houses from scrap.
Ate wholesome food from gardens-rarely sick/overweight.
Rode our bikes/jogged miles to get to the beach for swimming.
Played tennis in the road. Hockey during winter at school parking lot where we also did donuts with our cars when older. 4 wheeling thru fields. Floated down the river on intertubes. Skated.
Jumped off the house roof just because. Drank from garden hose and ran thru sprinklers. Remember hot summer days when Fire Dept unleashed the water from hydrants. Found mud puddles to lay in after storms. Played sports.
Street light=Get home
What's Meth?
1 town cop.
TV=No
NEVER TALKED BACK
POOR BUT H

You shared my childhood, and yes we really did jump from the roofs and were more reckless, who didn't want to be a stunt person at some point and most of us had fathers who were Hunters and shooting Rifles was in there as well and our parents let us drive cars on country roads before we were 12 and many of our grandfathers gave us beer and whiskey shots before we were 6.😂 All the bike stunts without helmets and no one ever hurt their head in my sphere.

My favorite to reflect back on was pulling food from the garden while playing outside. We had so much growing, berry bushes, grape vines, fruit trees and yes, the garden hose, like you said high energy, healthy and slim fit from all the outdoor play.

Now and Then