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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you kidding b?  You think our childhoods are similar because there is My Little Pony?

I was left to my owns devices every day from the age of 5.   I don’t care that my kid can watch the Flintstones and so did I: our lives are NOTHING alike.

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Ummm no that was just an example.   Another example:  the emphasis on organized sports and extracurriculara in school.  I don’t think that was a thing in the 1950s?   But definitely a thing in the 1980s[/quote]

Let me add/.  It definitely wasn’t a thing for girls in the 1950s!   So my parents being faced with all that for me, a girl, in the 1980s, faced a new type of childhood.  [/quote]

My parents were born in 1946, so literally first year of the baby boom. Between the two of them, they participated in scouts, took piano lessons, hung out at the pool, rode bikes around town, were safety patrols and played on the local little league team. Their suburban Silver Spring upbringing wasn't a ton different from my own Rockville upbringing. There were definitely more organized sports for both my brother and I (born early 1970s) but we were still frequently left to our own devices for several hours of the day to do what we pleased. 
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