12 Things From The 1960s, That Get LOST On Today's Generation!

[@AmericanRewind]

Do you think kids today are missing valuable life lessons as kids had in the 1960s?

[@SMichaelDeHart]

In a word...YES!!

[@mercurysunlight5689]

They are taught entitlement instead of manners.

[@Number6_]

Yes that is obvious! Just look at the gen x. Never grew up. We learned independence. Not to rely on parents for every thing. How to get around by walking. How to Relate to others, financial responsibility, etc...

[@danielkover7157]

Yes and no. I think they're learning lessons about life, but there doesn't seem to be much that they can actually do with that experience. Finding work is harder, even out of higher education. I've met quite a few who want to work, but can't find anything. Even fast food jobs are difficult to get into. I'm a Gen Xer who grew up in a world that still held opportunities for me, but now, I'm also finding it difficult to find work that I can do. I've been at the same place for 10 years because of this, and my prospects are getting weaker and weaker by the year (and so am I; getting older sucks mothballs). My parents had some good life lessons when they grew up. I wish today's kids did. They need some hope.

[@georgevavoulis4758]

I remember everything in this video but never ever saw "JELLO-MEALS😮

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961, best times ever. Best music and movies, the fun that kids today will, sadly, never experience. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@tonycollazorappo]

I walked to school since age 6, with or without my friends. I was born in Brooklyn NY (Flatbush). It was a VERY different time back then.

[@Number6_]

At least you were in NY I was stuck In Mi age 6 with a mile to walk. no school just around the corner and 2ft of snow in the winter.

[@timetraveler2518]

I was born in 1958. I worked as a delivery newspaper boy for four years and at McDonald's and Gino's Hamburgers for three years. I ate TV dinners, and it was good. We had only three TV channels, and we played board games. No computers, no smartphone, and no 911 - we survived well. Today's young generation living in the 1960s would be a nightmare!

[@Colorado_Native]

At 5:40 just look at the price for a Big Mac. That 55 cents barely covers the tax for one now,

[@theresahilton400]

This channel is fantastic! Brings back so many memories. We were so much tougher than today's kids.

[@patriot4095]

As a person born in the early 70s I remember all of these things. But took it for granted like they were always there. Fascinating.

[@mkshffr4936]

Much of that survived into the 70s.

[@trampslikeus3575]

"You;ll shoot your eye out!'

[@roflmows]

when my mom first got pregnant in 1972, her doctor said "quitting drinking and smoking now might hurt more than help, since it can shock your body. and you might go back and forth on the quitting-withdrawal-going back to smoking and drinking-cycle, which can put your body through a lot of stress." my mom said he was full of crap. she quit both immediately....and found a new ob/gyn right away, too.

[@zsigzsag]

I never watched Westerns except for "Bonanza" only when "Hoss" was the focus of an episode ( RIP Dan Blocker). What about the great scifi series of that decade like Star Trek, The Outer Limits (my favorite) and Twilight Zone? There were some silly ones like, Lost in Space but were still very popular.

[@glennso47]

Way Out hosted by Roald Dahl. An anthology similar to twilight zone but was videotaped rather than filmed. It was a short lived show though.

[@eleanormay729]

I always carried my books to and from school all through school, I never had a backpack.

[@johnp139]

STUPID!

[@jenniferjones3408]

Times were much better back then than today. Wish we could go back to that. Kids today are unruly, nasty, protected too much from their helicopter parents and don’t learn how to survive dangers.

[@rabokarabekian409]

Yep, no race riots, no Kent State, no massive drug influx, no frequent fights at school, no smoking, no car racing, no kidnapped kids or runaway teens, no condemning homes and land for highways or anything else government wanted, no rampant pollution, no teen gangs, no social unrest, no Vietnam police action, no MAD, no Bay of Pigs, no CIA help with violent coups, no propaganda. Oy maybe being a kid then it was so easy to know nothing about the real world?

[@johnp139]

MO, THEY CERTAINLY WEREN’T!!!

[@1208bug]

Check out the price tags @2:22, looks like nearly everything is free lol.

[@EricCoop]

We were walking to school in first grade in 1985.

[@hillbillytrucker8347]

Even though I am a Gen Xer i used to walk to school and we had bb guns as a kid. You are right about the toys we had those that were dangerous but you learned how to be careful. You are right even though I am from a different generation we still learned about money, telling time by clocks and watches with actual hands instead of being digital. I miss the TV dinners when I was a kid i remember the old Morton tv dinner and the Swanson in a aluminum tray. My generation was closer to the 1960s than the generation after mine. Thank you for the videos and memories.

[@Number6_]

You were lucky your parents passed along there values! Many parents became fad crazed or just didn't care.

[@tonycollazorappo]

I still have a clock with hands, I can't stand the digital ones. The are hard to set, lol. I don't like cell, texting and apps, I use my cell phone only to make calls and receive them. I can't see those small apps or read the small print from a text message! I still have my landline phone!

[@damionlee7658]

5:40 - First jobs. I thought it was hilarious, and incredibly ironic, that earlier you talked about 60s kids knowing the value of a dollar; only to this state that today's first jobs offer "Much higher pay". $1 - $1.50 an hour in the middle of the 60s would be the equivalent of today's teenagers in their first job earning $10 - $15 an hour. Federal pay requirements for teenage employees: minimum wage of $4.25 an hour for the first 90 consecutive days, rising to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour (State minimum wages will obviously vary). "Today's jobs offering much higher pay" demonstrates a fundamental lack of knowing the value of a dollar.

[@ScootrRichards]

Kids toys from 1960's and 70s that don't really get much attention. Thin sheet metal, cut cookie cutter style and then stamped into a shape like a car or monster. The edges were razor-sharp because they basically were stamped from razor blades. I had a zillion of them, and hundreds of tiny cuts from them. Table settings routinely included knives sharp enough to cut meat - including kids fingers. No one thought anything of it. Lawn darts only stand out because of the obviousness of the danger. Nuff said. There were toy guns in every toy box, in a wide variety of realistic or Sci fi designs, most of which fired caps or spring loaded bullets. Every boy had an armory. BB guns were the only ones that gave parents any concern, and were only given to kids who were "responsible " enough to not shoot someone's eye out. Every boy I knew from age 8 or years up had a tool set for fixing bikes or toys. Including hammers, screwdrivers and pocket knives. Scratch awls, wood and leather burning kits, chemistry sets with hazardous chemicals in small amounts were common. Kits to teach kids about electricity (wall voltages! Not feeble battery stuff) were less common but not at all rare. Train and slot car sets that used wall power and step down transformers were to be found in virtually every garage. On every block, there was probably at least one kid age 10 to 14 who had a gas powered go cart or minimize. Helmet? What's that? I could go on all day.

[@ScootrRichards]

"Minimize". Minibike isn't even in the autocorrect dictionaries any more, but every kid knew a kid who had one. And I wrecked a friend's go cart once in the local school parking lot.

[@Barbarra63297]

If the power grid ever goes completely down there will be a lot of people wondering what time it is. It's hard to believe how many young people have credit cards, they have absolutely no clue the value of money, I think if parents are going to allow their kids to have credit cards it should be in the form of debit cards, at least they would know how much they have in their account and it won't let them overspend.

[@ScootrRichards]

About TV dinners: they universally sucked. The only saving grace was the small portions. I was fortunate enough that I could fly on vacation a couple of times. Airline food still has a rep for being bad, but it was worse then than now. And TV dinners were worse than airline food ever was! So frozen food back then didn't have near the impact this video would have you believe. Then again, we benefited from an economy that allowed my mom to work only part time (dad worked full time) while raising us - and she was an able & willing cook.

[@sherrysmithrice1973]

My first job in 1976 was at Dairy Queen. I earned $1.14 an hour.

[@nadogrl]

In California, I earned minimum wage of $1.65 an hour in 1969, as a Denny’s hostess/cashier.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@stevevasta]

Not sure where you got your information about carrying books, but, at my urban school in the '60s, almost all of us had school bags and used them.

[@CrimsonSlytherin]

Most of my favorite musicians, tv series and movies are from the 60s since I was very young, despite being born in the late 80s. Still to this day seeing a 60s street with all the gorgeous cars makes me tear up. I miss what I wasn’t alive for.

[@josearellano203]

My parents were born in the 1960s. It's when modern astronauts began to be in space. I love history. I definitely love videos like this.

[@johnp139]

Modern astronauts just sit in a machine that automatically brings them wherever they are going. The ORIGINAL astronauts (starting in the 1960’s) ACTUALLY HAD TO ACTIVELY FLY THEIR SPACECRAFT!!!

[@rg1whiteywins598]

I loved Bonanza. I have a Bonanza coloring book from way back then. We all had to guns back then (girls and boys). None of us grew up to shoot anyone. Never thought about it.

[@jons.6216]

The whole thing about the 1960s draft got me to thinking back when I had to at least register and keep updating records for Selective Service when I turned 18. I forgot about when I didn't have to anymore - or maybe I didn't! It's been so long! But looking it up I wasn't required to anymore by age 26!

[@user-wv6rm9jo6s]

Born in 1960 a I would not trade my childhood for anything in the world!

[@kathywiseley4382]

I think toys are "safer" now only because insurance liability interest has made it that way. I remember book bags from the 60s. I had one but hated it. It was like a kid version of a briefcase. All of my books packed in the bag made it very heavy and awkward to carry very far. I ditched it quickly. I honestly do not ever remember anybody making the Jello dishes except the one with cabbage and pineapple. And that wasn't very often.

[@Number6_]

People knew about cigarettes etc.. it just wasn't discouraged. No fasion police in those days.

[@patriot4095]

That jello meal looked gross

[@tiggytheimpaler5483]

Was it knowing you had a future no matter what?

[@gogoyubari366]

Pretty girls too!

[@cheryl2962]

I Eas Born In 1960 Great Time To Grow Up In!

[@ddally8851]

Vastly more important is the fact that people in the 1960s did not have an iPhone in their hand.

[@johnp139]

So those times must have really SUCKED!

[@rickpollay9851]

Lots of the illustrations and examples actually date from the 1950s, but that's a small matter

[@lisawagner6076]

I often wonder if my mom smoking while pregnant with me is the reason I have so much trouble concentrating on things.

[@anthonykaiser974]

Lots of nonsmoker's kids have that, so not necessarily, but I wouldn't discount that it would possibly be a factor.

[@glennso47]

In the 1960s young men had to worry about Uncle Sam calling them to go to Vietnam to fight a meaningless war. I was one of them. I joined the navy to avoid the draft but I was ordered to Vietnam anyway.

[@cometblazt]

#1 lost: BRAIN