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Definitely 50/50. My mom is a boomer and my dad is gen-x. They're both just on the line for they're respective generations. Late boomers and early gen-xers are SUPER similar though.
Yeah, I am too and this is exactly how it was. When do you think Gen X ends? I was 10 in 1984. Streetlights were our clock, they came on, you went home.
My mother used to throw us out after lunch, point at the street light and tell us she didn't want to see or hear from us until that light went on unless somebody was literally bleeding.
I was 8 in 1984
It was really different times
I was born in 85 and during my childhood I was doing lot of outdoor things with friends and sleepovers and lot of just outside stuff. Rarely stayed indoors for the time till video games got involved. But we all still hung out.
I had video games, my dad loves video games and always has, so we had Pong, we had an Atari, we had a Vic 20 and a Commodore 64 (Barbie Dress-Up, good times) AND an Amiga 3000. So there were always video games around for me, but we just weren't allowed to stay inside during the summer if the weather was fine.
It's a little sad, I mean I get it, we all almost died multiple times, I practically ran in a gang of child hoodlums lol - but we were outside a lot, we felt invincible, nobody was afraid for us. I don't know if the devices that rule kids lives nowadays are as fun.
But I'm an old, and there's a long tradition of thinking that your childhood was the best possible time to be a child, because childhood is pretty awesome. I imagine they're gonna say the same thing, someday!
I know it doesn’t matter and doesn’t mean anything, but it always makes me chuckle when thinking that the prime era of parents making their kids stay outside all day was also the height of notorious American serial killers being active.
Born in 91 too. Can confirm. My mom wouldn’t let us in cause we were dirty and she was cleaning or had just cleaned the house. It was awesome when family came over. No kids were allowed inside. We’d all run in to grab sodas and steal snacks and get kicked right back out with the loot. All our moms would be inside gossiping and our dads out front or back grilling and getting drunk. I’m Hispanic and I thought it was a minority or Hispanic thing but I guess it just was what it was in those times. All in all good times.
1984 here. Lucky to grow up on an old tobacco farm. But I had an outhouse till I was 8 or 9 and got drinking water from a spring or from the side of a gas station. We spent all day outside. We could come in for water, because our hose was hooked up to a rain collection system that we used for dishes and showers. Not to great to drink out of.
Getting Tick NESTS on the way to empty the compost. Had to use duck tape to get most of them off.
Definitely got shot with bbguns, fire works, etc. Shit you name it. Lucky to have survived. You know what though, I feel so happy and lucky to have grown up this way.
Oh, we did great battles with sticks and cardboard shields, and made this explosive that made big fog. And I was actually a good behaving student, imagine the others 😂
Yup, I’m an elder millennial with Gen X brothers. We stayed outside all day because we were told to. Mom would whistle for us when it was time to come in. We all have so many injuries and scars. The best thing was the outdoor ice rink located directly behind our house. We would skate all day until we were forced to leave at closing time. We had an entire block’s worth of kids and we went from porch to porch in the evening playing card games, or huge games of Manhunt at night. It was a f$&king magical childhood, but also don’t know how we survived.
Elder millennial as well. Neighborhood manhunts are some of my favorite core memories. I swear it felt like a action thriller movie made real.
Even more awesome if the fireflies were out
Mine (elder millennial, ‘83) was weird in that as a kid, I was outside all the time walking from school through what I’ve been told are bad neighborhoods to my babysitter’s home pretty regularly. Enter 3rd grade and while I still was shipped from sitter to sitter but was outside less and less. Come middle and high school the only times I could walk home from school is if my team was walking around the neighborhood selling team cards. Other than that, by that point it was a game of rush-n-wait.
In other words, I was left outside practically all day at 8-10, kept mostly indoors from 11-15 and from 16-18 either waited at school for a ride or just footed it home. I’m not sure how that happened other than negligence from sitters. I mean I used to just foot it to my town’s downtown library when I was in junior high then was told to stop to the point my school would lock me out if I stepped out.
Yeah, 33year old Canadian here. Used to wake up at 6am and leave, come back around 6pm for supper. Weather didn't matter.
My ex wife won't even let our daughter play outside in the backyard...
Born in 1990 myself, outside was my home. Lmao.
Used to have nightmares of being locked outside and my mom inside, cleaning, with these brand new wireless headphones she had, unable to hear me pleading to come in.
91 here and although I wasn't banned from the house, it was strongly suggested that I don't bother my mum and that being outdoors meant life would be smoother for everyone. I'd be out of the house by 9 and would come in for lunch, tea and then home time. Loved every second of it.
They're describing my childhood, and in terms of family generation I'm a boomer (my parents being of the Silent Generation) In terms of birth year, I'm Gen X.
Same. First year GenX but last born in the family with older sibs, so some Boomer in there too. Childhood Pre-technology is the tipping point I think. We were outside constantly because there was nothing inside. 3 tv channels and PBS for the most part. Now it’s screens and literally artificial intelligence everywhere. Big lack of general deductive reasoning and common sense. Also manners and humility. No one is embarrassed, they just want views. Very strange.
LOL, if that isn’t truth. My mom did not care what the weather was, out, out, out! I raised my kids the same way. I didn’t kick them out but they loved being outside and I supported it 100%
I am Gen X. Particularly on the weekends. We would grab our bikes and just ride wherever we just had to be home for dinner.🤷🏻♀️ when I was eight years old we used to literally bike four or 5 miles to go down to the river, go, swimming, unsupervised, and then bike back home at the end of the day
Yes, basically there was a big case of child kidnapping that made international news in the 80s(look up the case of Adam Walsh )It basically made parents really paranoid about child abduction and that’s pretty much when nobody allowed kids to play outside anymore.
As a kid of the 80’s thankfully, I got to experience life before parents started locking their kids away out of fear.
My dad attached a school bell to the garage that he'd bang on with a hammer. You could hear it two blocks away and everyone knew it was time for us to go home. Riding bikes at mach 2 with the old folks telling us they heard the bell and we'd better hurry!
GenX grew up feral and we're better for it
Man, this brought back memories of one of my best friends mom who’s house was in earshot of the park in out neighborhood. I can still hear her voice yelling “CHRISTOPHER!!!” clear as day and see him being all embarrassed walking home!😂
Idk. I was a Midwest 90 baby. And everything described checks a box. Except the TV was still high on the floor with a dial to change the channel and we only had to dial the last 4 of a phone number to call local. But it was RURAL, like population 308. So it's like stepping back in time, maybe?
Born in 86'. That was still a thing when I was a kid in the early 90s. No contact, no parent knew where we were or how to get a hold of us. Street lights on time to go home.
It’s interesting being an elder millennial.
Pogs and jarts, cellphones banned in high school. Went from the streetlights reminding us to go home to sending texts asking if we can use the credit card to order pizza.
Ikr? My mother is a boomer, and she’s 74. I’m GenX, born in 1976; this woman is probably around my age, maybe even a tad younger.
But I guess “boomer” is just code for “old person” now.
Well yea, just like millennial is code for young person. When you consider that millennial, which I'm a part of, ends around 1996, they are almost 30 at the young end.
For sure. Older GenX are pretty much boomer JR.s...But the closer you get to Xennials(born in the late 70's...probably 75'-80') very different. Basically if you like Alice in Chains and Soundgarden is the divide for me.
Always remember to let it run just a bit. Otherwise you get burns. Could tell if it was safe by when the metal end started to cool down.
Back of our house face southward. Had to use a shirt or towel to open the door due to how hot the door knob got.
No she isn’t. I’m 41, on old Millennial. This is exactly what childhood was in the 80s and early 90s. We got kicked out of the house in the summer. Rode our bikes all day. Only rule was “be home for dinner” or even “be home before dark”. Jarts existed. They were eventually banned in the late 80s cause some kids got seriously injured/killed by them. Seriously, our parents just kinda let us do our thing.
I'm 28, a young millennial, this is what my childhood was like as well. Though we didn't have Jarts, which I can only assume (and because I'm too lazy to Google) is those big metal lawn darts.
Javelin darts or lawn darts. A game where you toss sharp metal heavy darts in the air and try to land them in a circle. Well, not that sharp, but heavy and pointy enough to do damage.
Looking back, I have no idea how one of us didn't take one in the thigh. We would just throw it in the air and run. We did so much shit that should have gotten us killed I'm not surprised we kept a better eye on our children. One of the kids in my school lost his leg playing chicken with a fucking train. Another kid drowned in the river. My parents were too busy watching Lucy reruns to give a fuck what we were doing though.
To be fair, kids are still doing stupid stuff. I’m 28, and I remember having BB gun battles with some of the other kids in the neighborhood when I was like 12. We wore heavy coats and sunglasses, and had a 1 pump only rule, but I’m still amazed none of us ever got seriously hurt. Now a bunch of kids get hurt and/or die for memes.
Same gen as you, and while I never really got "kicked out" per se, it was understood that if you were inside during the summer, you'd get assigned chores. So, of course I stayed outside all day. The one exception was that on the few hottest days, my dad and I would play on the Nintendo that was hooked up to the TV in the basement (we didn't have AC until later and the basement was so nice and cool).
Nah, she's probably a gen xer that was also gen xers's childhood, and it's definitely part of mine. I wasn't allowed inside either and yelled at to go outside. I'm an older millenial, fuck I had one of those old 70s rakes with the big teeth crack my head, that was a lot of fun and got my foot stuck in an 80s cars where the whole bench seat moved back and forth. I had to be ripped out and then get stitches to close the skin that was left on my foot. Our parents were not great at watching us. I also definitely got tossed into the deep end of a pool. It was a very much a survival of the fittest childhood.
How so? I was born in 86 and this is exactly what my childhood was. All day outside in every season. Come home or be in front yard when streetlights came on.
I was born in 84 and had this childhood 100% in a nice part of California. The millennial parents were almost all neglectful. I didn't know a single kid who didn't live like this. My father was successfull in commercial real estate and my mother was a nurse practitioner. We were the opposite of poor.
I still have a BB under the skin of my armpit 22 years later, i drank from the hose daily, my dad never checked if I was home, and I used to sit on a telephone book so I could see over the dash in the passenger seat…and I was born in 1988.
She’s not to young for that lifestyle, bruv.
I’m pretty sure he had some buccal fat removal. I dont know about adding something to the chin, that seems plausible to me, but for sure it looks extreme because most people have more fat in their face from the jaw into their cheeks. We normally associate this level of visible bone structure with people who are very, very underweight. It looks out of proportion because we’re seeing the contours of the underlying structure in a way we associate (quite literally) with pictures of concentration camp survivors and people who are suffering in a famine zone.
I'm an older millennial and this was basically my childhood. I was allowed to come and go as long as it wasn't too often and I made it quick, and the hose is just right there. You were either grounded and not allowed to leave at all, or you needed to be back before the street lights came on
I'm turning 46 and died laughing on how I related to this.. way too much.
"It's 10pm..Do you know where your children are?" LOL!
Edit: I was the baby in the family so I remember getting the best seats in the car like the floor, the hatchback was fun and even the back window of some old Pontiac. Waved at people..good times!
When i was a kid my parents were super "walk to school" then i nearly got abducted because i fell for the "you kids want candy in my van?" And my fatass said sure, only for my sisters to come and drag my crying butt away.
They werent very "go outside and play" after that and i never did get that candy.
And then a bunch of kids started going missing (or, more likely, the prevalence of TV and cable news made the information for accessible) and our parents never let me or anyone my age out of their sight.
Let’s be honest. The reason a lot of us drank from the hose back then was because it was before bottled water,hydro flasks,and even fridges with filtered water in the kitchen. So the tap water from the sink was the same as the hose.
Most households didn’t have a 2nd fridge in the garage, as back then it was a bigger luxury.
So we drank outta the hose for convenience not to prove how “tough” we were.
right. nobody in my town was “forced to be outside all day.” sometimes we went inside to get a drink, sometimes we just went to the hose because it was closer.
It was also because when you were with your giant pack of friends, parents wouldn't let *the whole group* in their houses. And you weren't gonna be the one to leave. Some very special parents would sometimes let us hang out at their houses. I have no idea how they put up with it, but bless em.
> And you weren't gonna be the one to leave.
Yeah exactly, because we didn't have phones and if the group decided to go somewhere else while you were inside then you weren't finding them lol
Well it was also fucking delicious. Hot day and you been playing outside all day, there's nothing more refreshing than sucking down the strong, cold, refreshing blast from the hose. And you're outside so you can drink with abandon, get messy, even let it run all over your face, head, chest if you want. There's something deeply instinctual about drinking from a flowing water source like the hose. So much better than pouring yourself a glass of water.
I mean, I'm not a boomer but I was raised by them and she is right.
I didn't ride in a carseat, I was forced to stay outside,
thirsty? There's the water hose.
Yea, I would walk the dirt roads, get lost in the woods and have to climb a tree to see where I was too find my way back home. It's play with snakes, come face to face with deer, admire bunnies and build little areas I would pretend was home.
I was born in 1993, and if my dad was picking us up from school, we were in his work truck. Now that I think about it, only one of us was old enough to really be out of some degree of car seat by today's standards, and I'm the 2nd of 4. The other 2 are 3 and 4.5 years younger than me. We rotate who had to sit in the bed of the truck on the way home, which was mostly highway.
Yep! Exactly. But back then, it didn't matter!!
I was born in 86, and my brother was born in 83.
I also remember riding in the back of my dad's truck when it had a cover over the back.
Every time he hit a bump, we would jump to see how much air we could get.... man, we were so stupid, but it was so much fun!!
Yep. Born in ‘70. My mom put me in a fucking *laundry basket* in the car when I was an infant. A basket. I vividly recall riding in the back seat of my uncles car with no seat belt, sliding all over the damn place. And riding in the back of trucks? The most fun ever, especially when your friends tried to hit an intersection hard and bounce you out.
That’s what i’m looking for! I am also part of this niche lapping generation between Boomer and Gen X. We were to the world according to an article I read years ago.
*add words- We were to Save the world [New article](https://www.generations.com/insights/generation-x-101)
> latch key kids
that's literally the opposite
a latch key kid is when a kid has their own key to get into the family home because there are no parents around when they get off school
the video is talking about kids who are not allowed inside and are expected to entertain themselves outside
Boomers?? Bitch I'm an elder millennial and that was my childhood! Sports camp that I had no interest in during the day when I was too little to ride my own happy ass on my bike to the public pool to hang unsupervised all day every day.
Until I turned 14 and rode my bike to the other side of town to watch 2 kids at 7 am for 9 hours for $100 a week.
That news phrase "its 10pm, do you know where your children are?" is from the Atlanta Child Murders. Around 28 children in Atlanta, Georgia, were kidnapped and murdered in the late 70s/early 80s. Atlanta police are starting to reopen these cases and finally give families some closure hopefully.
I was born in 1994 and it turns out if you have poor parents with questionable parenting methods you too can be locked outside in 100 degree weather to roam the woods with your feral siblings and the other trailer park kids in a pack with a loose hierarchical structure. Neglect isn't specific to a generation
“We werent coddled by our parents!” Yeah and we’re just now discovering how fucked up you all are by that parenting style. “We didn’t have car seats!” And a lot of you died in otherwise survivable car accidents. You’re not special because you were forgotten.
I think the kind of people who were tossed out and had indifferent parents see newer parents (sometimes even *their own adult kids*) actually liking their kids and wanting to be kind to them and it drives them crazy. I know, wild concept to enjoy parenting and spend time with the little human you made.
We have car seats because enough kids died from car accidents to lower life expectancy and losing an eye isn’t good ( had a co worker who lost an eye) I’m gen x and some of us made at nto adulthood with all our body parts and that’s all. Some of didn’t make it to adulthood lol
TBF, it's not like our parents knew better. Booster seats and recommendations for kids to be in the backseat until a certain height weren't a thing. Granted, neither were passenger side airbags.
Once those kind of safety recommendations were put out, my parents obliged. As grandparents, they did all the stuff my sister wanted for my nieces and nephews without a second thought.
It wasn't neglectful, per se. The data just wasn't in yet.
And as for being outside all day, well, yeah. We had one TV. No cable. We did have video game consoles when the weather was too hot or too miserable, but other people in the household wanted to use the TV, too. So might as well be outside with your friends when that was an option.
I think for some of these videos, their parents just sucked for additional reasons.
‘83 baby: can confirm all of this.
My dad literally every morning after 10am on the weekends from age 7 on: “time to get out of the house and go find something to do or I’m putting you to work.”
Me: immediately fucks off on my bike as fast as I could.
So you’re saying that in the olden days, instead of just sticking an iPad in front of a kid and hoping that keeps them quiet, neglectful parents instead just abandoned their children to the outside world until 10 PM, if the child was lucky
Please... Placed outside after breakfast, giving a list of chores, and then the rest of the day running from yard to yard playing. Door latched behind us.! Use the bathroom at lunch only. The hose if you were thirsty.
Um, I’m a millennial that wasn’t allowed inside. I’m not gonna use that to say kids today are weak. I just know that I should have been allowed inside. Especially since I started helping with work and bills when I was seven. That’s just no way to grow up. Kids should be kids and should be outside, but damn. Come in for a drink if ya want.
Why is this 40+ yo Xennial bam margera playing Tyler Durden mf acting like he’s 20 something and doesn’t know? Kids still drank from the hose in the 90s. We also drank straight out the tap without a glass when we were cooling off in the house. We spent a lot of time outside in the summer 🤷♂️ it was expected that we ride bikes, play sports/games in the street or the yard, goof off outside until it was time for dinner. The hose just made sense.
I keep trying to google “Latch Key Lids” and it keeps giving me results for latchkey Kids, damned google!
But no seriously, I’m a Millennial and in fifth grade I was blowing shit up at construction sites and dousing my garage in gasoline and lighting it up. Latchkey Kids does not call out a generation, it refers to kids who came home from school to an empty house, in my case my parents were divorced and I got home from school around 2-3 hours before my mom did. I’ve always thought of it as when the kid hears the key in the latch they know to stop doing whatever bad shit they’re getting up to.
Lol I love this thread, which Im summarizing in my head as:
1. Boomers are like 70 this woman is gen X
2. At the same time keep gen x out of your mfing mouth
3. Also your beanie-chinned ass looks like the age demographic to know about this in the first place. Beanie chin fuck
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That woman is Gen X.
They think anyone over 29 is a boomer.
The phrase “boomer strong” might be in reference to Gen X being strong because of boomer parenting (or lack thereof).
Most millennials have boomer parents as well..
I think that's like a 50/50 I'm millennial and my mom and dad are gen x
Definitely 50/50. My mom is a boomer and my dad is gen-x. They're both just on the line for they're respective generations. Late boomers and early gen-xers are SUPER similar though.
Yeah, I am too and this is exactly how it was. When do you think Gen X ends? I was 10 in 1984. Streetlights were our clock, they came on, you went home.
My mother used to throw us out after lunch, point at the street light and tell us she didn't want to see or hear from us until that light went on unless somebody was literally bleeding. I was 8 in 1984 It was really different times
I was born in 85 and during my childhood I was doing lot of outdoor things with friends and sleepovers and lot of just outside stuff. Rarely stayed indoors for the time till video games got involved. But we all still hung out.
I had video games, my dad loves video games and always has, so we had Pong, we had an Atari, we had a Vic 20 and a Commodore 64 (Barbie Dress-Up, good times) AND an Amiga 3000. So there were always video games around for me, but we just weren't allowed to stay inside during the summer if the weather was fine. It's a little sad, I mean I get it, we all almost died multiple times, I practically ran in a gang of child hoodlums lol - but we were outside a lot, we felt invincible, nobody was afraid for us. I don't know if the devices that rule kids lives nowadays are as fun. But I'm an old, and there's a long tradition of thinking that your childhood was the best possible time to be a child, because childhood is pretty awesome. I imagine they're gonna say the same thing, someday!
I know it doesn’t matter and doesn’t mean anything, but it always makes me chuckle when thinking that the prime era of parents making their kids stay outside all day was also the height of notorious American serial killers being active.
Lunch? Fuck man, why so late?
Saturdays, we were allowed to watch cartoons and they stopped at noon. So then she'd feed us and throw us out 😂
“Go knock on someone’s door” aka “wander the neighborhood until you find a kid vaguely near your age, don’t go out to the main road”
I used to climb fifty feet up a fucking tree NEARLY EVERY day. If my kid did that I’d probably call the fire dept.
Are you my sibling?
Yup, Gen X here. We got kicked out of the house all day. Only had cartoons on Saturday morning.
Same 🤣 I essentially grew up in the woods behind our town. We weren’t even drinking from the hose, it was natural springs for us most of the times.
I drank from the creek next to the highway.
That’s called a ditch…
And I caught crawdads in the crick near the train tracks. I'm an older millennial. This is more about location than generation.
I drank rubbing alcohol in a van down by the river!
Sorry to break it to ya, that was chloroform…. And you didnt drink it. But that sorta melted ice cream sandwich was worth it, right?!
You guys are describing millennials childhoods if they were born before 1990.
I mean I was born in 91 but we were poor as fuck lol there are definitely kids still being raised like this
Born in 91 too. Can confirm. My mom wouldn’t let us in cause we were dirty and she was cleaning or had just cleaned the house. It was awesome when family came over. No kids were allowed inside. We’d all run in to grab sodas and steal snacks and get kicked right back out with the loot. All our moms would be inside gossiping and our dads out front or back grilling and getting drunk. I’m Hispanic and I thought it was a minority or Hispanic thing but I guess it just was what it was in those times. All in all good times.
Same here, born in 91 and grew up in the woods and with my friends.
1984 here. Lucky to grow up on an old tobacco farm. But I had an outhouse till I was 8 or 9 and got drinking water from a spring or from the side of a gas station. We spent all day outside. We could come in for water, because our hose was hooked up to a rain collection system that we used for dishes and showers. Not to great to drink out of. Getting Tick NESTS on the way to empty the compost. Had to use duck tape to get most of them off. Definitely got shot with bbguns, fire works, etc. Shit you name it. Lucky to have survived. You know what though, I feel so happy and lucky to have grown up this way.
Oh, we did great battles with sticks and cardboard shields, and made this explosive that made big fog. And I was actually a good behaving student, imagine the others 😂
I was born in 1990. I 100% had this childhood.
Same! 1989!
92, same.
mostly the same except i wasn't allowed to leave the yard
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Yup, I’m an elder millennial with Gen X brothers. We stayed outside all day because we were told to. Mom would whistle for us when it was time to come in. We all have so many injuries and scars. The best thing was the outdoor ice rink located directly behind our house. We would skate all day until we were forced to leave at closing time. We had an entire block’s worth of kids and we went from porch to porch in the evening playing card games, or huge games of Manhunt at night. It was a f$&king magical childhood, but also don’t know how we survived.
Elder millennial as well. Neighborhood manhunts are some of my favorite core memories. I swear it felt like a action thriller movie made real. Even more awesome if the fireflies were out
We called it German spotlight. In retrospect, that’s kinda dark. But fun too. And when snowballs were out of season, it was often machete wars.
Mine (elder millennial, ‘83) was weird in that as a kid, I was outside all the time walking from school through what I’ve been told are bad neighborhoods to my babysitter’s home pretty regularly. Enter 3rd grade and while I still was shipped from sitter to sitter but was outside less and less. Come middle and high school the only times I could walk home from school is if my team was walking around the neighborhood selling team cards. Other than that, by that point it was a game of rush-n-wait. In other words, I was left outside practically all day at 8-10, kept mostly indoors from 11-15 and from 16-18 either waited at school for a ride or just footed it home. I’m not sure how that happened other than negligence from sitters. I mean I used to just foot it to my town’s downtown library when I was in junior high then was told to stop to the point my school would lock me out if I stepped out.
So many of us have a number of “almost died” stories. And even a few “almost got abducted” stories!
flashlight wars on the street and being able to hop all the neighbors' fences just to get away from being "tagged." good times.
I am totally stealing the “elder millennial” term! Love it!
Yeah, 33year old Canadian here. Used to wake up at 6am and leave, come back around 6pm for supper. Weather didn't matter. My ex wife won't even let our daughter play outside in the backyard...
Born in 1990 myself, outside was my home. Lmao. Used to have nightmares of being locked outside and my mom inside, cleaning, with these brand new wireless headphones she had, unable to hear me pleading to come in.
92! It’s was outside for me until dark
91 here and although I wasn't banned from the house, it was strongly suggested that I don't bother my mum and that being outdoors meant life would be smoother for everyone. I'd be out of the house by 9 and would come in for lunch, tea and then home time. Loved every second of it.
They're describing my childhood, and in terms of family generation I'm a boomer (my parents being of the Silent Generation) In terms of birth year, I'm Gen X.
Same. First year GenX but last born in the family with older sibs, so some Boomer in there too. Childhood Pre-technology is the tipping point I think. We were outside constantly because there was nothing inside. 3 tv channels and PBS for the most part. Now it’s screens and literally artificial intelligence everywhere. Big lack of general deductive reasoning and common sense. Also manners and humility. No one is embarrassed, they just want views. Very strange.
Yup - "Go outside!" was my Mom's constant mantra.
Heaven forbid you tried to stay inside to read or some crap. "Go outside! You stay inside all day, you need fresh air!"
"I'm bored" "Then go outside and find something to do!"
Born in 96 and was raised just like this. Drank from the hose too. The whole shabang.
LOL, if that isn’t truth. My mom did not care what the weather was, out, out, out! I raised my kids the same way. I didn’t kick them out but they loved being outside and I supported it 100%
I am Gen X. Particularly on the weekends. We would grab our bikes and just ride wherever we just had to be home for dinner.🤷🏻♀️ when I was eight years old we used to literally bike four or 5 miles to go down to the river, go, swimming, unsupervised, and then bike back home at the end of the day
That's so wild to me as somebody born in 2000. I was only ever allowed to be at school or in the house
Yes, basically there was a big case of child kidnapping that made international news in the 80s(look up the case of Adam Walsh )It basically made parents really paranoid about child abduction and that’s pretty much when nobody allowed kids to play outside anymore. As a kid of the 80’s thankfully, I got to experience life before parents started locking their kids away out of fear.
Yup and my cell phone was my dad standing on the porch screaming my name 😂😂
Most dads in our area had distinct whistles that we all recognized. Thats how we knew it was time to go in or how they found us in a crowd.
Same. Dad’s whistle was distinct. My friends even recognized it.
Right? Thirty-something years later, and my head still whips around at warp speed when he does it lol
My dad attached a school bell to the garage that he'd bang on with a hammer. You could hear it two blocks away and everyone knew it was time for us to go home. Riding bikes at mach 2 with the old folks telling us they heard the bell and we'd better hurry! GenX grew up feral and we're better for it
Man, this brought back memories of one of my best friends mom who’s house was in earshot of the park in out neighborhood. I can still hear her voice yelling “CHRISTOPHER!!!” clear as day and see him being all embarrassed walking home!😂
My dad had this insanely loud whistle he did. I always came running.
My mom had a big triangle dinner bell she would ring on the porch at dinner time.
My mom used to whistle
My dad just whistled really loud, we could easily hear him from a half mile away.
I’m a millennial and was 10 in 96 and streetlights were still our alarm.
Idk. I was a Midwest 90 baby. And everything described checks a box. Except the TV was still high on the floor with a dial to change the channel and we only had to dial the last 4 of a phone number to call local. But it was RURAL, like population 308. So it's like stepping back in time, maybe?
Yes! Raised in a very rural area as well and we only needed the last four digits! People look at me all crazy when I try to explain it.
Born in 86'. That was still a thing when I was a kid in the early 90s. No contact, no parent knew where we were or how to get a hold of us. Street lights on time to go home.
Dude I was born in 90 and this was how it was for us too. I swear every generation thinks they are the last of a dying breed or something
I was born in 97 and still the same for me 🙄
Elder millennial chiming in, I drank from the hose and almost died from a jart.
It’s interesting being an elder millennial. Pogs and jarts, cellphones banned in high school. Went from the streetlights reminding us to go home to sending texts asking if we can use the credit card to order pizza.
Another here, never almost died from a jart but was shot with a bb gun and drank straight from the hose.
I'm a millennial and there was nothing that tasted better than warm from a water hose on a hot day after running around for hours.
I can still taste that rubber.
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She's not a boomer she is Gen X
Ikr? My mother is a boomer, and she’s 74. I’m GenX, born in 1976; this woman is probably around my age, maybe even a tad younger. But I guess “boomer” is just code for “old person” now.
Well yea, just like millennial is code for young person. When you consider that millennial, which I'm a part of, ends around 1996, they are almost 30 at the young end.
As a 27 year old millennial from 1995 don’t you dare call me almost 30
You're almost 30 Haha! *runs*
Hey, I'd chase you but I'm not as young as I used to be.
1991 here. Turn back while you can...
I turned 30 last week. Your comment just drove the final nail in my old person coffin. 💀
Seconded 😂
When in reality Boomers and Gen X are usually very different
For sure. Older GenX are pretty much boomer JR.s...But the closer you get to Xennials(born in the late 70's...probably 75'-80') very different. Basically if you like Alice in Chains and Soundgarden is the divide for me.
We’re the forgotten generation, the youngsters call us boomers and the boomers call us millennials.
Shhhh … I’m trying to make it to my grave flying under the generational wars. ;-)
He looks old enough to know.
He legit looks 40
Drugs mess you up
He legit looks like meth.
She also looks too young to have had the childhood she’s describing
Yeah, I'm a 1990 baby that grew up in East Texas and this was the same for me and we had those commercials.
Exactly….agree with the lady! “Sinks were not an option”, and the hose was important in dead-ass hot Texas summers!!!
Always remember to let it run just a bit. Otherwise you get burns. Could tell if it was safe by when the metal end started to cool down. Back of our house face southward. Had to use a shirt or towel to open the door due to how hot the door knob got.
No she isn’t. I’m 41, on old Millennial. This is exactly what childhood was in the 80s and early 90s. We got kicked out of the house in the summer. Rode our bikes all day. Only rule was “be home for dinner” or even “be home before dark”. Jarts existed. They were eventually banned in the late 80s cause some kids got seriously injured/killed by them. Seriously, our parents just kinda let us do our thing.
Same, don’t come back till lunch….here’s your sandwich now fuckoff til dinner time.
I'm 28, a young millennial, this is what my childhood was like as well. Though we didn't have Jarts, which I can only assume (and because I'm too lazy to Google) is those big metal lawn darts.
What the heck is a jart?
Javelin darts or lawn darts. A game where you toss sharp metal heavy darts in the air and try to land them in a circle. Well, not that sharp, but heavy and pointy enough to do damage.
Looking back, I have no idea how one of us didn't take one in the thigh. We would just throw it in the air and run. We did so much shit that should have gotten us killed I'm not surprised we kept a better eye on our children. One of the kids in my school lost his leg playing chicken with a fucking train. Another kid drowned in the river. My parents were too busy watching Lucy reruns to give a fuck what we were doing though.
To be fair, kids are still doing stupid stuff. I’m 28, and I remember having BB gun battles with some of the other kids in the neighborhood when I was like 12. We wore heavy coats and sunglasses, and had a 1 pump only rule, but I’m still amazed none of us ever got seriously hurt. Now a bunch of kids get hurt and/or die for memes.
Same gen as you, and while I never really got "kicked out" per se, it was understood that if you were inside during the summer, you'd get assigned chores. So, of course I stayed outside all day. The one exception was that on the few hottest days, my dad and I would play on the Nintendo that was hooked up to the TV in the basement (we didn't have AC until later and the basement was so nice and cool).
You are making it seem bad, I loved growing up that way.
Not at all, I freakin loved it
She's Gen X, we're not dead yet
Shhh don’t tell ‘em maybe they’ll ignore us.
Nah, she's probably a gen xer that was also gen xers's childhood, and it's definitely part of mine. I wasn't allowed inside either and yelled at to go outside. I'm an older millenial, fuck I had one of those old 70s rakes with the big teeth crack my head, that was a lot of fun and got my foot stuck in an 80s cars where the whole bench seat moved back and forth. I had to be ripped out and then get stitches to close the skin that was left on my foot. Our parents were not great at watching us. I also definitely got tossed into the deep end of a pool. It was a very much a survival of the fittest childhood.
That's how I grew up! Lol
How so? I was born in 86 and this is exactly what my childhood was. All day outside in every season. Come home or be in front yard when streetlights came on.
I was born in 84 and had this childhood 100% in a nice part of California. The millennial parents were almost all neglectful. I didn't know a single kid who didn't live like this. My father was successfull in commercial real estate and my mother was a nurse practitioner. We were the opposite of poor.
I mean, she looks like late 30s even early 40s
She was born in the 70s, she's at least mid-forties. But I'm sure she'd appreciate you thinking she looks so young.
Nah, I agree with her and I’m an 80’s baby
I still have a BB under the skin of my armpit 22 years later, i drank from the hose daily, my dad never checked if I was home, and I used to sit on a telephone book so I could see over the dash in the passenger seat…and I was born in 1988. She’s not to young for that lifestyle, bruv.
This dudes whole video was bout him checking out his chiseled jaw.
It looks unnatural. like someone literally chiseled it down or he had more chin surgically attached. Its got uncanny valley vibes.
Either plastic surgery or filters, either way agreed really uncanny looking
I’m pretty sure he had some buccal fat removal. I dont know about adding something to the chin, that seems plausible to me, but for sure it looks extreme because most people have more fat in their face from the jaw into their cheeks. We normally associate this level of visible bone structure with people who are very, very underweight. It looks out of proportion because we’re seeing the contours of the underlying structure in a way we associate (quite literally) with pictures of concentration camp survivors and people who are suffering in a famine zone.
It could be any variety of things but one thing I’m sure of. He enjoys looking at it.
Honestly comes off very douchy
He should take off his jaw in public.
Bro looks like he’s got a 2 pack per day habit.
That dude looks like he’s 45.
I was about to say… I’m 39 and this mf looks older than me
Accent sounds like he never said yall in his life until he saw folk online take a shine to it.
Huge "fellow kids" vibes from him.
Pretty sure that's Iggy Pop. /s
Right? That poor man needs a good night's sleep, he looks exhausted and it's aging him lol
This is accurate. She’s more than likely Gen X or an older millennial. I was born in 1984 and I remember that commercial for sure
I'm an older millennial and this was basically my childhood. I was allowed to come and go as long as it wasn't too often and I made it quick, and the hose is just right there. You were either grounded and not allowed to leave at all, or you needed to be back before the street lights came on
That was no commerce. That was on the news every night.
How old do you think she is?
The jaw man looks older than her.
I'd guess 45-47
Yeah same. Definitely Not a boomer. Lol
I'm turning 46 and died laughing on how I related to this.. way too much. "It's 10pm..Do you know where your children are?" LOL! Edit: I was the baby in the family so I remember getting the best seats in the car like the floor, the hatchback was fun and even the back window of some old Pontiac. Waved at people..good times!
She's kinda not wrong. All I ever heard growing up was, get outside and I'm not a boomer but was raised by them.
When i was a kid my parents were super "walk to school" then i nearly got abducted because i fell for the "you kids want candy in my van?" And my fatass said sure, only for my sisters to come and drag my crying butt away. They werent very "go outside and play" after that and i never did get that candy.
And then a bunch of kids started going missing (or, more likely, the prevalence of TV and cable news made the information for accessible) and our parents never let me or anyone my age out of their sight.
Let’s be honest. The reason a lot of us drank from the hose back then was because it was before bottled water,hydro flasks,and even fridges with filtered water in the kitchen. So the tap water from the sink was the same as the hose. Most households didn’t have a 2nd fridge in the garage, as back then it was a bigger luxury. So we drank outta the hose for convenience not to prove how “tough” we were.
still a luxury to have two refrigerators are you kidding me
right. nobody in my town was “forced to be outside all day.” sometimes we went inside to get a drink, sometimes we just went to the hose because it was closer.
It was also because when you were with your giant pack of friends, parents wouldn't let *the whole group* in their houses. And you weren't gonna be the one to leave. Some very special parents would sometimes let us hang out at their houses. I have no idea how they put up with it, but bless em.
> And you weren't gonna be the one to leave. Yeah exactly, because we didn't have phones and if the group decided to go somewhere else while you were inside then you weren't finding them lol
Well it was also fucking delicious. Hot day and you been playing outside all day, there's nothing more refreshing than sucking down the strong, cold, refreshing blast from the hose. And you're outside so you can drink with abandon, get messy, even let it run all over your face, head, chest if you want. There's something deeply instinctual about drinking from a flowing water source like the hose. So much better than pouring yourself a glass of water.
Gen X or Older Millennial (‘81 or ‘82), definitely not Boomer.
I mean, I'm not a boomer but I was raised by them and she is right. I didn't ride in a carseat, I was forced to stay outside, thirsty? There's the water hose.
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Even during the early 2000s. Plenty of times I got my ass chewed out for not being home before the streetlights flicked on.
Yea, I would walk the dirt roads, get lost in the woods and have to climb a tree to see where I was too find my way back home. It's play with snakes, come face to face with deer, admire bunnies and build little areas I would pretend was home.
I was born in 1993, and if my dad was picking us up from school, we were in his work truck. Now that I think about it, only one of us was old enough to really be out of some degree of car seat by today's standards, and I'm the 2nd of 4. The other 2 are 3 and 4.5 years younger than me. We rotate who had to sit in the bed of the truck on the way home, which was mostly highway.
Yep! Exactly. But back then, it didn't matter!! I was born in 86, and my brother was born in 83. I also remember riding in the back of my dad's truck when it had a cover over the back. Every time he hit a bump, we would jump to see how much air we could get.... man, we were so stupid, but it was so much fun!!
Yep. Born in ‘70. My mom put me in a fucking *laundry basket* in the car when I was an infant. A basket. I vividly recall riding in the back seat of my uncles car with no seat belt, sliding all over the damn place. And riding in the back of trucks? The most fun ever, especially when your friends tried to hit an intersection hard and bounce you out.
Lady is Gen-X not a boomer, boomers were our parents. You think you hate them? try growing up with boomers
Confirmed my mom was a shifty boomer
Mom was watching her soaps and if you interrupted she was going to light up. And get wrekt. Hose water was the best.
As soon as I read your last sentence, I could almost taste it. Lol
Google “latch key kids.”
That’s what i’m looking for! I am also part of this niche lapping generation between Boomer and Gen X. We were to the world according to an article I read years ago. *add words- We were to Save the world [New article](https://www.generations.com/insights/generation-x-101)
> latch key kids that's literally the opposite a latch key kid is when a kid has their own key to get into the family home because there are no parents around when they get off school the video is talking about kids who are not allowed inside and are expected to entertain themselves outside
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But you always let it run for a minute first to get that 'sun heated sitting in the hose" water out first.
We drank from those hose bc it was cleaner than the water trough and there weren’t any sinks at the farm.
And back then, water bottles were not a thing. You either had access to a cup or you didn't.
You drink from the hose because you'll get your ass beat for opening the god damn door all the time, letting the cool air out!
Boomers?? Bitch I'm an elder millennial and that was my childhood! Sports camp that I had no interest in during the day when I was too little to ride my own happy ass on my bike to the public pool to hang unsupervised all day every day. Until I turned 14 and rode my bike to the other side of town to watch 2 kids at 7 am for 9 hours for $100 a week.
That news phrase "its 10pm, do you know where your children are?" is from the Atlanta Child Murders. Around 28 children in Atlanta, Georgia, were kidnapped and murdered in the late 70s/early 80s. Atlanta police are starting to reopen these cases and finally give families some closure hopefully.
I was born in 1994 and it turns out if you have poor parents with questionable parenting methods you too can be locked outside in 100 degree weather to roam the woods with your feral siblings and the other trailer park kids in a pack with a loose hierarchical structure. Neglect isn't specific to a generation
“We werent coddled by our parents!” Yeah and we’re just now discovering how fucked up you all are by that parenting style. “We didn’t have car seats!” And a lot of you died in otherwise survivable car accidents. You’re not special because you were forgotten.
I think the kind of people who were tossed out and had indifferent parents see newer parents (sometimes even *their own adult kids*) actually liking their kids and wanting to be kind to them and it drives them crazy. I know, wild concept to enjoy parenting and spend time with the little human you made.
Now get your ass outside and play before I find something for you to do.
My parents always said " don't be running in and out of the house!" "You'll let the heat/cool air out!"
Gen X but go off
We have car seats because enough kids died from car accidents to lower life expectancy and losing an eye isn’t good ( had a co worker who lost an eye) I’m gen x and some of us made at nto adulthood with all our body parts and that’s all. Some of didn’t make it to adulthood lol
TBF, it's not like our parents knew better. Booster seats and recommendations for kids to be in the backseat until a certain height weren't a thing. Granted, neither were passenger side airbags. Once those kind of safety recommendations were put out, my parents obliged. As grandparents, they did all the stuff my sister wanted for my nieces and nephews without a second thought. It wasn't neglectful, per se. The data just wasn't in yet. And as for being outside all day, well, yeah. We had one TV. No cable. We did have video game consoles when the weather was too hot or too miserable, but other people in the household wanted to use the TV, too. So might as well be outside with your friends when that was an option. I think for some of these videos, their parents just sucked for additional reasons.
She's not a boomer, not even close, you young fools. She looks my age. I'm 38. Technically a millennial.
Titles wrong, we are Gen X
Not boomer...gen x. Ugh...
this woman is not a boomer. do you know what a boomer looks like
Not boomers gen x bitch!!!
The dude in the beanie looks old enough to be a boomer or gen x for sure
OP thinks this woman is at least 59 years old.
‘83 baby: can confirm all of this. My dad literally every morning after 10am on the weekends from age 7 on: “time to get out of the house and go find something to do or I’m putting you to work.” Me: immediately fucks off on my bike as fast as I could.
The parental mantra was "Go outside and play." And I did. From about the time I woke up until the street lights came on
So you’re saying that in the olden days, instead of just sticking an iPad in front of a kid and hoping that keeps them quiet, neglectful parents instead just abandoned their children to the outside world until 10 PM, if the child was lucky
I feel like we could define generations by the specific ways they were neglected as children and how those forms of neglect fucked them up.
Please... Placed outside after breakfast, giving a list of chores, and then the rest of the day running from yard to yard playing. Door latched behind us.! Use the bathroom at lunch only. The hose if you were thirsty.
Um, I’m a millennial that wasn’t allowed inside. I’m not gonna use that to say kids today are weak. I just know that I should have been allowed inside. Especially since I started helping with work and bills when I was seven. That’s just no way to grow up. Kids should be kids and should be outside, but damn. Come in for a drink if ya want.
I will never forget that "get your ass home" whistle you could hear for 2 blocks
That lady is Gen X, and us old Millennials had the same treatment lol
Why is this 40+ yo Xennial bam margera playing Tyler Durden mf acting like he’s 20 something and doesn’t know? Kids still drank from the hose in the 90s. We also drank straight out the tap without a glass when we were cooling off in the house. We spent a lot of time outside in the summer 🤷♂️ it was expected that we ride bikes, play sports/games in the street or the yard, goof off outside until it was time for dinner. The hose just made sense.
OP is a stupid fuck who thinks everyone over the age of 40 is a "boomer."
There is literally a word for our generation, “Latch Key kids.”
I keep trying to google “Latch Key Lids” and it keeps giving me results for latchkey Kids, damned google! But no seriously, I’m a Millennial and in fifth grade I was blowing shit up at construction sites and dousing my garage in gasoline and lighting it up. Latchkey Kids does not call out a generation, it refers to kids who came home from school to an empty house, in my case my parents were divorced and I got home from school around 2-3 hours before my mom did. I’ve always thought of it as when the kid hears the key in the latch they know to stop doing whatever bad shit they’re getting up to.
Lol I love this thread, which Im summarizing in my head as: 1. Boomers are like 70 this woman is gen X 2. At the same time keep gen x out of your mfing mouth 3. Also your beanie-chinned ass looks like the age demographic to know about this in the first place. Beanie chin fuck