Tribute to Kids Raised in the 60's and 70's

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

ah, yes...so fun to slide-or attempt to slide-down those. there was always the dreaded screeching halt where skin just wouldn't slide easily. youch!

my kids had pine cone battles. hubby said should they be throwing those? i said it beat the dirt clods we used to throw at each other. the bigger the better.

My brother had a friend that threw a ski pole at him when he was age 5 or so. Hit him in the face. A few millimeters more in one direction and he'd have lost his eye. And my dad still has a scar on his chest from when his brother threw a jar full of cold water at him and it smashed open on impact. Brotherly love, my ass.

This thread makes me remember this kids' book I found at my grandparents', called Follow My Leader. It had belonged to my dad or one of my uncles or aunt, so it had to have come out in the 1950's at the latest. Heartwarming story of a boy who lost his eyesight when playing with a firecracker and then got a seeing-eye dog. I found the book thoroughly traumatizing.