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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the 70s and 80s with a hippie mom who thought tv was evil. We didn’t even own one for many years.

We read tons of books, played board games, hot wheels/ barbies/ paper dolls/ action figures; we built dollhouses out of cardboard boxes and glued on pictures of furniture cut from the Sears catalog to decorate them. We made up dances to albums like Grease, and we played elaborate games of pretend like “restaurant,” or tried to find mysteries to solve.

I can remember spending entire afternoons just setting up a pretend scenario—who was who, what their clothes and hair and house looked like, which rooms would stand in for what place, and how it would all work. Friends who did watch a lot of TV would tell us about a show, or we’d pick a book we’d all read, and we’d play Love Boat or Charlie’s Angels or Trixie Belden.

We were pretty limited in our range, much more so than many of our friends, but we did play in all the adjoining yards a lot. Kick the can, hide and seek, etc.

We had basic chores like cleaning our rooms, setting the table, unloading the dishwasher, and just generally cleaning up after ourselves, but we’d certainly weren’t pressed into indentured servitude or anything. [/quote]

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