How did we survive our childhood?
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How did we survive our childhood?
If you were a kid in the 50's, 60's, 70's or even early 80's ..how did you survive your childhood?
1.- When we were growing up we never wore seatbelts in the car, cars didn't have airbags...
2.- Riding on the back of a pick up truck was an adventure that we still remember!
3.- Our cribs were painted with bright colors (paint which was full of lead)
4.- We didn't have childproof medicine bottles, nor did our parents ever childproof our house
5.- When we rode our bikes we never wore a helmet.
6.- We would drink water from the faucet or from a hose in the backyard (not bottled water).
7.- We didn't have cell phones , so our parents were never able to reach us (awesome) .
10.- We would get scrapes, bruises, brake bones , lose teeth, but we would never sue for these accidents. ,
11.- We would eat cake, , bread and butter, , drink sugary drinks, and we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing
12.- Four of us would share a drink, we would all drink from the same bottle and that wasn't gross nor would anyone get sick.
13.- We didn't have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X boxes, video games
, cable TV with over 100 channels, VCR's, surround sound , cellular phones , computers
, online chatrooms , instead we would have tons of
FRIENDS (i'd like to add that we have tons of real friends we can talk to, play with, etc... coz i have hundreds of people in friendster but very few knew where i live...hehe)..
16.- Some of us weren't as bright as others but when one would get left back that was no big deal. They would not get taken to a psychologist, nor did they ever suffer from dyslexia, hyperactivity, ADHD, ADD, etc, they would simply repeat the grade until they passed.
17.- We had freedom , mishaps,
, successes, , responsibilities,
and we would learn to deal with them. The question is...How did we survive? and above all, to become the GREAT people that we are today? . Are you from one of these generations
If you are, then send this message to others from your same generation or to others who are younger so that they can see how we survived
They will probably say that we were very boring, but I believe that we were VERY HAPPY CHILDREN -
We didn't have $6 pocket money to eat delifrance for lunch.
I was lucky to even have 80 cents. -
and drinks in sch canteens cost 10cents
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My friends had sega sets, I had to make do with an atari.
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i had nintendo
when the game cartridge fails to work, just blow hard into the metallic contact (minus the saliva) -
Same goes with the atari, no such thing call game genie to go with it.Originally posted by thoreldan:i had nintendo
when the game cartridge fails to work, just blow hard into the metallic contact (minus the saliva) -
"How did we survive our childhood in the 90's?"
We had tons of school work, exams plus high expectation from children of the 50's, 60's, 70's.
Yet we survived, up to 2005, hope to able to take more shits....
Children born later have to face more and more shits wahahah, Farking crazy man...... my nephew had to take social studies in primary 2. MOE is introducing more uneeded sh1t for people to study.
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Indeed,children of the past seem happier and more well-behaved than the children of now.
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social studies , imo, is crap and useless.
Local history @ pri 2 ?
No thanks.
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i remember i hated health education in primary school because the teacher is scary
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LOL! this doesn't look like something Honeybunz will go type out herself. it look so e-mailish and friendsterish. u copy and paste from your e-mail or friendster right?
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wow.Originally posted by ditzy:My friends had sega sets, I had to make do with an atari.
i had none, i had to go to my friend house which is 2 blocks away from mine to play his nintendo. -
sounds funOriginally posted by Honeybunz:How did we survive our childhood?
If you were a kid in the 50's, 60's, 70's or even early 80's ..how did you survive your childhood?
1.- When we were growing up we never wore seatbelts in the car, cars didn't have airbags...
2.- Riding on the back of a pick up truck was an adventure that we still remember!
3.- Our cribs were painted with bright colors (paint which was full of lead)
4.- We didn't have childproof medicine bottles, nor did our parents ever childproof our house
5.- When we rode our bikes we never wore a helmet.
6.- We would drink water from the faucet or from a hose in the backyard (not bottled water).
7.- We didn't have cell phones , so our parents were never able to reach us (awesome) .
10.- We would get scrapes, bruises, brake bones , lose teeth, but we would never sue for these accidents. ,
11.- We would eat cake, , bread and butter, , drink sugary drinks, and we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing
12.- Four of us would share a drink, we would all drink from the same bottle and that wasn't gross nor would anyone get sick.
13.- We didn't have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X boxes, video games
, cable TV with over 100 channels, VCR's, surround sound , cellular phones , computers
, online chatrooms , instead we would have tons of
FRIENDS (i'd like to add that we have tons of real friends we can talk to, play with, etc... coz i have hundreds of people in friendster but very few knew where i live...hehe)..
16.- Some of us weren't as bright as others but when one would get left back that was no big deal. They would not get taken to a psychologist, nor did they ever suffer from dyslexia, hyperactivity, ADHD, ADD, etc, they would simply repeat the grade until they passed.
17.- We had freedom , mishaps,
, successes, , responsibilities,
and we would learn to deal with them. The question is...How did we survive? and above all, to become the GREAT people that we are today? . Are you from one of these generations
If you are, then send this message to others from your same generation or to others who are younger so that they can see how we survived
They will probably say that we were very boring, but I believe that we were VERY HAPPY CHILDREN
the children nowadays are growing up the wrg way -
I didn't even have a single Transformers toy. I seriously wondered how I survived without one...
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I had 4, but didn't have the last one to make it a superbot.Originally posted by m0rby:I didn't even have a single Transformers toy. I seriously wondered how I survived without one... -
I only got $0.50/day during Primary school.Originally posted by ditzy:We didn't have $6 pocket money to eat delifrance for lunch. I was lucky to even have 80 cents. 
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TRANSFORMERS~ HE-MAN~ STARCOM~ THUNDERCATS~ SILVERHAWKS~ NINJA TURTLES~ ULTRAMAN~ GODZILLA~ VOLTRON~ THUNDERBIRDS~ CARE BEARS~ ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS~ CENTURIONS~ VISIONARIES~ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS~ M.A.S.K.~ THE WUZZLES~ FRAGGLE ROCK~ SESAME STREET~ ELECTRIC COMPANY~ BRAVESTARR~ GHOSTBUSTERS~
I think there's more, but there were my preferred shows... there could be more. -
my teenagehood was robbed away...
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I remember for $1, u get to play computer games for 1/2 hr, $2 for an hr.
When I just started by computer game addiction, the hottest game was Street Fighter 2. Everyone use Ryu, Ken or Guile.
Other hot fighting games at that time was Fatal Fury & Art of Fighting. -
i remember catching spiders and dragonflies and frolicking and fishing in farm ponds till i was around 7 .... that place's where's the kranji race course stands now ......
glad i wasn't a HDB kid right away .... -
haha x2Originally posted by thoreldan:i had nintendo
when the game cartridge fails to work, just blow hard into the metallic contact (minus the saliva) -
i can make airplane n robots from those cloth gripsOriginally posted by m0rby:I didn't even have a single Transformers toy. I seriously wondered how I survived without one... -
me also....Originally posted by ne0matrix:I only got $0.50/day during Primary school.
some more no wallet. -
Primary School allowance, $0.50
30cents to buy curry rice with no chicken.
20cents to buy soya bean drink -
ya i remember this too.Originally posted by RaTtY81:i can make airplane n robots from those cloth grips
simplest is to just clip 2 together.
or can make big big complicated 1.