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[@GenXfrom75]

Gen X grew up self sufficient and sturdy… took life on the chin. The last generation of feral children, as they say.

[@misterkite]

.. and then sadly became helicopter parents.

[@suicyco4life666]

I was born in 1969. Who could of known that we would be the last generation to have it so good? Back then if you got in trouble there was a possibility that part of your punishment was not being able to leave the house. To a gen X kid being grounded to the house was like jail. It was absolute torture! I grew up in a rural mountainous area out west. We were going on some elaborate hunting and fishing trips on our own and without needing permission from our parents. We just went. From the time I was 10 years old I carried a 12 Guage shotgun in the woods. We didn't even bother with bb guns. The possibility of running into a bear or cougar was very real and not uncommon. Kids nowadays would not have any idea what to do. They would just be food.

[@chris5947]

I am so grateful I grew up in the 80's! Did all the things in this video and much more!

[@GenXfrom75]

@@suicyco4life666 💯%

[@GenXfrom75]

@@chris5947 same 💕

[@altones1952]

Gen x had more common sense. We didn't need warning labels 😂🤣

[@smftv]

Pain was our warning label. All I'll say is that as an adult... I have a literal TON of common sense!

[@elcaballeronyc]

We are the reason most of those labels exist 😂

[@altones1952]

@@elcaballeronyc 🤣🤣

[@darrengray1849]

I should be equipped with a warning label.

[@altones1952]

@@darrengray1849 🤣

[@Sonya73]

GenX took care of themselves, raised ourselves basically. We're a tough generation!!

[@Carfan678]

Every generation says that about themselves lmfao

[@danielpeters2282]

@@Carfan678not gen z lol

[@coolerking7427]

@@Carfan678 Nope not true. Gen Z bitches and complain all the time.

[@lusciousmayweather8385]

Exactly I was already staying at home by myself after school in the first grade. My parents worked & my older siblings were in middle school and highschool & All has after school activities. I got out of school at 2:15 in elementary & Being the youngest I always had the house to myself for about 3 to 4hrs 😂

[@user-Danswife]

​@@Carfan678 REALLY??? This latest generation can't even figure out which bathroom to use!😂😂

[@glennallen239]

I am 59 years old and was born in 1964 the last year of the Baby Boomers Gen X started in 1965. I grew up in the 70's and 80's and we had so much more freedom.We drank out of the Garden Hoses and rode our Bikes without Helmets or Pads. We did not wear seatbelts and rode in the back of Pick Up Trucks. We played outside and knew after Dinner you stayed outside to play until the Street Lights started coming on.

[@kevinbrown3075]

I was born in Sept. of ‘64 and totally consider myself a Gen-Exer. Growing up in the 70’s was very different than being born in the 70’s that’s for damn sure. Not to mention being a teenager in the ‘80s.😆

[@michelleortega1514]

​@kevinbrown3075 The 70s were great I was 12 in 1970 so my best kid years were the 70s

[@shadowkissed2370]

I am younger Gen X, 78, was a child in the 80's and a teen in the 90's. I think it is the best of both worlds still raised as a Gen X but also still went through the things older millennials went through.

[@arrobrewer2730]

I thought 63 was the last year of us boomers but i like your comment. Thing were differant back then. Strangely i work w/gen x and millennials too but some of them show real hope. Gen z on the other hand, god help us.

[@kevinbrown3075]

Douglas Copeland who coined the phrase Generation X with his book, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” was born in December of 1961. One would think his birth year would be the beginning of the Xer generation.

[@a7734999]

My father got off work one day and came to pick me up from my grandparents house. He asked grandma where i was, she said outside helping grandpa with something. He walked out back to find me sitting on top of the house 13 meters up handing shingles to Grandpa. I was 3.

[@jennifertarin4707]

When I was a toddler, my parents each thought the other was watching me. I apparently decided that I wanted to go swimming so I walked over to the creek and walked in. Mind you, this was winter in Vermont and there was snow on the ground.

[@gamingbrothers1890]

We had all night bonfires in the hood all night walked around at night

[@buckeyegirl16]

He left out playing street hockey, kick ball, or baseball in the street. Everyone remember yelling "game off" when a car approached then "game on" when the coast was clear

[@user-qv2ur2bw3z]

We used to just yell at the top of our lungs "CAR" then " GAME ON"

[@NathanCline12-21]

That was 90% of my childhood.

[@kurtsaxton823]

How many times did one of you break a window playing baseball in the street? It was almost expected, and the neighbors were all cool though. Block parties at 4th of July. And tons of kids trick-or-treating for Halloween.

[@oldtexastechman9144]

Remember racing down street in your big wheel or bikes

[@NathanCline12-21]

@@oldtexastechman9144 I remember those were the only races we cared about

[@garyi.1360]

We weren't left on the street. We were escaping. It was freedom and fun, man.

[@stevenbeall9637]

We also didn't have cup holders in cars. The kids were the cupholders because Dad needed someone to hold his beer.

[@lauralee83]

💯 😂

[@kendo7964]

Hadn't thought of this but very accurate.

[@mrbeaverstate]

My dad would send me down to the store with a note to buy him a pack of cigarettes. 2nd grade.

[@Carfan678]

why u drinking beer in the car to begin with

[@syntheticsleep]

No cup holders because there were ashtrays all over the car 😂😂

[@GenXfrom75]

Gen X…. Never a better time to have one’s childhood!! It was an amazing time to be alive & growing up!!

[@xenialafleur]

One thing that never gets mentioned is the Chicken Pox Parties.

[@danusdragonfly6640]

We had one at our house when I caught the Chicken Pox. We had a kids pool party. All of the mothers hoped their kids would catch it during the summer so we didn't miss school.

[@susanlistman439]

We had one for the neighborhood in the mid 70’s, my sister and I were the only ones who didn’t catch it. We are 4 years apart in age and each got it when we were 20. That was our weird flex. We also had a neighbor who would whistle for his kids at supper time, that was when the neighborhood cleared of kids, no street light limit for us, if they had late supper, we all had late supper. I loved it and am happy that was my childhood!

[@tabanderson5148]

😂😂😂 I have 2 sisters and 1 of us got chicken pox. Our parents had us sit together touching until we all got it. Called it "1 and done"!😂😂😂

[@billmarshall5040]

Chicken Pox, mumps, measles. One summer and done! 😂😂😂

[@susanlistman439]

@@billmarshall5040 Dang, tough summer! My worst was June-September of being 16 I had mononucleosis. At least my pox were during college, exemptions galore!

[@jimmers123]

I was born in '72, and pretty much from the time I was 9 or so I'd just tell mom I was going out on my bike and about the only rule I had to follow was be home by dinner. It was an utterly carefree time.

[@NathanCline12-21]

I had similar rules, I also always thought rules are for suckers😂

[@jimmers123]

@@NathanCline12-21 I’m pretty sure that’s why I am the way I am :)

[@adlockhungry304]

Same here! Also ‘72.

[@jennifertarin4707]

As not great as some parts of my childhood were, I loved growing up when and how I did and wouldn't trade it for all the money in the world (well, maybe then)

[@michaelallen3894]

I'm Gen X, born in 1967 and it really wasn't that bad. More playing outside and less TV.

[@IggyStardust1967]

I'm another born in '67.... and it wasn't "that bad" to US. Compared to what's acceptable TODAY.... that's a whole different story. By today's standards, we were in unacceptable danger all day long. To us, it was just "normal".

[@leeloehr1]

I was born in "68 and growing up in the 70's & 80's I think kinda toughened me up. We had a ton of fun but we, at least I, wasn't coddled to the point of being "over protected". Live and learn by trial and error. I do think though that our society has become way more dangerous for kids because of the crime and drugs. This video brought back a lot of memories!!!

[@justaride1366]

Same here, born in '67. What they call dangerous, I called fun. We weren't taught, we learned! And we had loads of fun doing it.

[@drivers99]

I’m gen X and watched a crap-ton of TV.

[@IgobySensei]

Guess none of you had fun. We would jump from the roof to the trampoline, ride on top of cars, blow up sh!t, always on the look out to top our previous stunt. TV was not in our agenda. We always wanted to be outside doing stuff.

[@dharmaslife3361]

Lol. Sunbathing in baby oil and melted butter. Laying down in the back of the truck, holding onto the inner tubes as you fly down the freeway to go to the river. Jumping out of the second story window and off the neighbours shed, climbing trees…. Pop rocks with soda pop. Fake candy or bubblegum cigarettes and cigars. Latchkey kids.

[@GenXfrom75]

Baby oil and iodine here 😂

[@dharmaslife3361]

@@GenXfrom75 Ha! I forgot about the lemon juice in the hair

[@GenXfrom75]

@@dharmaslife3361 yes! And Sun In made it so much faster to fry our hair 🤣

[@kelleywooding8349]

Baby oli and iodine lathered by my mom in elementary school to get what she called a indian tan! Born in 71

[@joshsmith4512]

we didn't know it was dangerous, it was a great time to be a kid. we stayed outside. jumping our bikes, no helmet, stealing smokes from our parents. playing guns in the woods. you find your friends by where all the bikes were. what a time to be alive, sucks you gotta get old 😁 i had to come home when the street lights came on. if i wasnt, i got the belt.born 1974.

[@jamesgardner2101]

It wasn't dangerous. Most of us survived.

[@pommunist]

@@jamesgardner2101 it was a laugh

[@virginiapudelko6280]

Born in 1967 here and can tell you that we never had any trouble with all of the "dangers" that people worry about now. We were raised to live our lives doing everything in this video and so much more. if we got hurt we learned not to do something that way again! We learned caution, we learned how to think for ourselves. We looked out for each other and learned from our own mistakes. Today's kids are wimps!

[@catgirl6803]

Well that's because obviously the dead can't speak up for themselves. I know 3 kids who got thrown from riding in the back of a pickup truck. One died and two ended up in wheelchairs. I also know a kid who got a brain injury from a skateboarding accident when he decided to ride the skateboard by holding onto a rope tied to the back of a car. Another friend who had a serious back injury from riding her bike and flipped over a car and landed on a windshield. And another friend who died of skin cancer at age 29. Some of these things are harmless- like drinking from a hose- but others I'm glad there are laws from now.

[@pvccannon1966]

@@catgirl6803 1966 Born here. Thats called natural selection, and accidents. Kids still get deleated in cars trucks bikes today. From the beging of time, making it to an adult is kind of his or miss process. But at least we got our vidimin D from the sun. Not our ceriall like today because the kids dont go outside enough.

[@Greg_Andrews]

Today's kids are not "wimps" , that word is so 70's ... they are snowflakes. hehehe (just kidding....I think)

[@catgirl6803]

@@pvccannon1966 wow what an asshole.

[@shag139]

Until the mid-late 70’s we only had 4 over the air channels: ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS (public broadcasting).

[@rodneygream5647]

When the president spoke you were screwed as a kid. It was on everwhere.

[@jennifertarin4707]

Well into the 90s, we were lucky to get the 3 basic networks with the sometimes added bonus of Fox or PBS if the wind blew just right and the leaves were off the trees

[@amanacatandhisdog8836]

I grew up in Houston and we had 4 vhf and 3 uhf stations in the 70’s. No remotes the kids changed the channel.

[@justdone1068]

Every night before playing the national anthem the tv would announce the time and ask parents if they knew where their kids were. "It's 10PM do you know where your children are?" 👀

[@mikecook8712]

Gen x here... If y'all knew some of the things we did that parents didn't find out about... It truly is amazing we lived... We literally had our older brothers and sister or our friends had them and they taught us all kinds of stuff and we idolized them... 😂

[@epa316]

We have cooler technology today, but in every other way, life was much better in the 80s.

[@coolerking7427]

Technology in the 80s and 90s was way better.

[@epa316]

@@coolerking7427Ok sure contrarian. BS

[@Texbec]

Born '67 here. Safety was first and foremost. Every bump, bruise or broken limb was a lesson. You either learned not to do that again or figured out another way to do it. It was also about freedom and figuring things out on you own. We pretty much raised our selves and life lessons came from experience. It was a fun time and we learned to be self-sufficient at a young age in the process.

[@lorigrimaldi194]

I was born in 1957, so I am considered a baby boomer. Growing up in the 60's and 70's was the best

[@cackleberrycottage2340]

Me too. So glad I grew up when I did and not today.

[@davidcosta2244]

Next to the 1980's.

[@DJTexan]

No you’re Gen X. The guy who created Gen X was from 57. They only moved it up to accommodate the older Millennials. It still should be 1955-1975.

[@cenewton3221]

I'm squarely in the middle of GenX. We used to have bottle rocket wars, shooting bottle rockets, lobbing firecrackers & booming Roman Candles at each other. Such a blast! (pun intended lol)

[@misterkite]

I literally had a crappy m80 go off in my hand.. the only reason I still have fingers is because we were trained to always hold fireworks in an open hand.

[@DustinHawke]

Not all Gen X was this r-worded. Just wanna throw that out there. These are the idiots that ended up on the news and the rest of us shook our heads and laughed at.

[@danielpeters2282]

That was awesome

[@smftv]

I still have a scar on my leg from a roman candle fight, and a scar from a crab apple fight. We threw everything at eat other back then. If someone could lift it, get ready to run!

[@hollyheikkinen4698]

The metal bike pedals were even more dangerous when you were going down a steep hill to the beach barefoot or with flip flops on! We used to bail off in the yard at the bottom of the hill & walk over to the beach. My neighborhood growing up was full of dangers & we were still out all day in the summer. Being 2 miles out of the main towns meant that we had wild critters nearby at all times. In Northeastern Minnesota, we have bears, wolves, coyotes, moose, white tail deer, foxes, beavers, fishers, etc & the lakes have various fish - not to mention boats. We don't really have insects that will hurt us & the snakes are Garter Snakes, so they won't hurt you. We also had multiple lakes & multiple water filled mine pits that are 300+ feet deep in places, there's a railroad track that runs through the neighborhood & trains came through every hour. We had sand pits & the water processing building by the lake had a muddy pit next to it that we called "Ice Cream Land" because the mud looked like chocolate ice cream - it was gross. We crossed the tracks at multiple places other than the road to take short cuts - you could walk through a neighbor's yard, cross the tracks, walk through another yard to get down to the lake boat landing & literally walk through the shallow water to the beach faster than taking the roads. We also explored empty pits that weren't water filled, walked down the tracks & over the highway bridge to the next town. There were empty & water filled pits & lakes on all but one side of the neighborhood. Winter was just as fun & we were outside then too regardless of the temperature. Our community skating rink was in our yard (the house was a school before my great grandparents bought it) & the sledding hill was next to my grandparents yard. Lots of fun all winter long!

[@crystalh450]

I am gen X. I do remember there used to be a lot more trust in communities, but in the 1980s, there was a lot less "cultural diversity" in neighborhoods and most parents in the neighborhood had similar values, so it was less dangerous to run wild, at least until that Adam Walsh kid got taken. Then parents were more cautious and there was a lot of awareness to not go anywhere with strangers "even if they had candy." I do remember riding in the back of a pickup truck. It wasn't against the law then, but now it is. I think we have given up a lot of freedom and traded it for "safety" and honestly it hasn't all been a good trade. I would give anything to go back and live in that decade again.

[@west-Co_exploration]

When I was 9-11, the neighborhood boys would borrow every trash can from every neighbor on the street line them up and jump them with huge ramps we built in our garage. And all the parents would come out and watch. The neighborhood record was 17 trash cans which my friend and I both jumped. We had no idea what a bicycle helmet was. We had BB wars, drank out of garden hoses and even the creek. We even bought enough bottle rockets to last all summer and used plastic baseball bats with the end cut off to launch them at each other (And don't forget the Roman candles). To avoid sunburn, we spent as much time in the sun in the spring to get a nice dark tan and then we didn't have to worry about it all summer. The skin cancer explosion correlates to the chemicals in sun-block when it became widely used

[@cinnyterry2019]

Gen Xer. We would leave the house in the morning and we had to be home when the street lights came on. I feel sorry for kids today. They'll never know that kind of freedom. 😊

[@RobWenzel84]

Oh I remember those days, and miss them greatly

[@SAPPERJASON1]

I was born in 73 and growing up in the 70’s-80’s was awesome. My brother and friends went camping at our swimming hole at the ages of 6-7 all alone. We started our own fires and cooked our own dinner.

[@cynthiaalver]

My brother and I and the other kids in the neighborhood used to have races with as many kids as possible crammed into a shopping cart in the empty parking lot of the store. It was a real adventure with one kid pushing 3 or 4 in the cart and the cart's wheels forever spinning and braking during the race. Most of us kids wiped out at least twice and went home happily sporting a couple of bruises and scrapes.

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

10:00. When I was 7 years old in 1980, my grandmother would send me to the corner convenient store with $2.00 and a signed note. The note basically said that her grandson (me) was authorized to buy 2 packs of cigarettes and a candy/chocolate bar of his choice--hahaha. Oh how times have changed!!

[@camillemayers103]

Corporal punishment was different back then. People would be jailed today for things that were "normal" back then.

[@christineschutten248]

I was born in the '70's. We had a freedom that children nowadays will never know which is kind of sad. In the summer mom would give us a decent breakfast and then tell us to go play. She didn't want to see us until dinnertime. If we were thirsty there's the hose outside!😅

[@RyanWitalison]

Born at the end of 79 so technically Gen X, growing up in the 80's were also a bit like the 70s and did many of those things, though Lawn Darts were not a thing by then, I will say this about cars though, those cars could take a pounding unlike cars today which aren't as tank-like.

[@hellhound1389]

Born the summer of 79. I was playing with lawn darts as a kid and still have a set given to me by my grandparents for my kids to play with. When I was a kid I was hit by an 83 celebrity. My father yelled at me from the drivers seat for not getting out of the way even though we were still in the long driveway by the house and he could see me the whole length. It had solid chrome bumpers and left huge bruises on my legs. He was pissed because I cracked the fiberglass nose as I rolled up over the car

[@Danimalpm1]

Growing up without any security cameras and tracking devices was a blessing. We could convert the entire house into a giant play fort during the summer days, jump off the roof, walk to an ice cream shop for lunch with stolen change, have the house put back to normal before mom came home and then go roam the streets with friends until dark.

[@bernicearthur8655]

I was born in 1955, my daughter in 1989. She loved climbing the huge evergreen tree that was at least 14 feet tall in our backyard. One day she fell out of the tree, when she was about 6 feet up. She made a dent in the ground where she landed. Our dog came and got me and I took her to the ER. She was fine. She wanted to get back in the tree as soon as she got home. I didn't let her. She was back in it the next day.

[@mistinarodriguez6570]

I grew up in the 70’s and this video only gets it about half right. It exaggerates the danger and the lack of parental supervision. Parents did care where you were. Often it was whose house are you going to be at? And then those parents would keep an eye on all the kids, just not hovering like parents do now.

[@jasa9707]

Yep, you had rules you had to follow and if you broke them you were punished. Our parents prepared us for the road ahead, unlike today when they try to prepare the road for their kids and wonder why they are all pathetic and their fee-fees are so easily hurt. That said, we did get to grow in a really great time. Don't forget Creators need to sensationalise to bait for the clicks and views.

[@davidc1450]

My parents had a 1959 Plymouth station wagon. You would hope in the back and there was a mattress incase us kids got tired on a long trip. It was also used to slid on when dad would take those hard left and right turns. You would go slamming into one side or the other. Short stops and sudden acceleration would cause you to slide forward or backward pretty violently. If the back seat was put down, you would have longer way to slide. On thing they did not mention was the hot coil cigarette lighter: Push it in and when it popped out the coil was red hot.

[@brkemm25]

Did the same in my parents station wagon put down the seats and slide all over the place same with the mattress.

[@eruvanna]

When it comes to sun, the idea was to burn once at the beginning of the season to start a "base" and form there you'd mostly just tan

[@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944]

I'm a boomer, born in the 1950s, and we thought Gen Xers were coddled. I grew up in Manhattan, and one of our fun activities was to put on old-fashioned roller skates, and then grab the bumper of a bus or truck and take a ride. incredibly dangerous! However, there was a great neighborhood feel. In good weather the street was our playground. We would take trash barrels and block off one end of the street so that we could play street hockey. We had no umpires, so most of our time was taken up in arguing about whether something was out of bounds or not. Most of the brownstones on the block were run as rooming houses, and the landladies would sit on their stoops and keep an eye on everybody.

[@Kelly-ml5tl]

Anywhere I go, the best people were born in the 60's.

[@southfloridafromabove8445]

From '65, I cruised the entire generation and saw everything

[@JIMBEARRI]

Oh yeah, I got up on the roof many times to turn the antenna. Then we got a rotary antenna system. You would have a control box on top of the TV with a dial to turn. It would activate a motor on the antenna to point it at broadcasting towers in different directions. Oh yeah, everybody drank from the garden hose. If you didn't have a pool in you backyard, then the lawn sprinkler would keep you cool. Oh yeah, I would go to the corner store to buy cigarettes for my grandfather. The elderly couple who ran the store knew all their customers by name and they knew that it was okay. Nowadays, they be heavily fined and probably lose their retail sales license.

[@katherinebritt5672]

I'm a gen xer (born in 1970) and I remember riding in my dad's truck. standing on the seat behind his right shoulder while he was driving lol

[@stevenruvolo499]

im a gen xer never heard of the kite thing.we use to shoot bottle rockets at each other lol fun times

[@piratetv1]

I feel like he made up a bunch of things. My friends and i were never dumb enough to jump our bikes over people. Definitely other stuff though

[@QWERTY-ov9tm]

The "dangers" no way. It was so fun. I miss the 80's so much.

[@Nimbus1701]

Born in 1973, and I remember every one of these. It really was the absolute best time to grow up, even in a fairly large community. All the scars and memories are things I would not change for anything.

[@dawnsoger6729]

In High School, it was common to see several pickup trucks parked in the school parking lot, with a rifle rack in the back window and anywhere from 1 - 3 rifles in the rack. The guns & trucks were often unlocked and if the weather was warm, the windows might be down, too! (And these were often driven to school by the students! Never had a school shooting.)

[@simongilchrist3329]

Those old wooden ramps are the reason I am a woodworker today. A few 2x4s, a wide board, a hammer, and some nails result in a weekend of fun. When we discovered that the ramp, when placed right on the far side of a ditch, could mean some real air-time we were set for a whole summer.

[@FFTEX55]

I was born in 1984. I drank out of hoses, rode bikes without pads and helmets, was gone all day. It was good times. Pretty sure I still have scars from those metal pedals

[@PatrickMersinger]

Technically GEN X’ers began January 1st 1965 and ended December 31st 1979. We did stuff that would make the helicopter parents today faint.

[@brandymorrison2607]

I’m a Gen X’er. 47. Born at the end of 76. Kid in the 80’s. Teenager in the 90’s. Yep. This is all true.

[@sassymess7111]

GenX 1968. Was anyone else a Latch-key kid?

[@badopcode]

The dread when you remember you forgot your key. I got really good at breaking and entering into my own house.

[@user-ni1hj2ht2g]

Our door was unlocked so we didn't need keys, both my parents worked so we were home at lunch and after school with no adults.

[@Joeybagadonuts104]

Usually every parent in the neighborhood was allowed to discipline any child doing wrong and our parents were fine with that.

[@suefitton5184]

GenX here! We were feral & Loved it!!! Good Times!!! Wish i could go back!

[@user-qv2ur2bw3z]

Born in 67 so I was a kid in 70s and teen in the 80s I want to go back for just one weekend lets say 1986, Our bikes were our freedom we would be gone all day fishing or just out riding and exploring. The old man used to send us to the store for his smokes all the time no note ever needed. How did we get it so wrong raising our kids and we turned them to be afraid of their shadows I am talking to us, Gen-Xers out there

[@BeagleBellow]

What would Blow peoples mind today is that we kids could buy cigarettes from the Vending machine at the pool hall or bowling ally!

[@fasttruckman]

I'm 56 yrs old. What was left out was the amount of phone numbers we had memorized. You had your home number memorized, your family phone numbers, girl/boyfriend number, and your parents work phone number memorized. How many phone numbers do you have memorized?

[@badopcode]

Asking a business to use their phone because you didn't have money for the pay phone. Getting the evil eye and the question "is it a local call?" We had expensive long distance charges which in some places could be across the street.

[@dukeravenshadow5532]

Loved laying in the back window of our neighbors car when they took us places, plus there was speakers back there from the radio :D

[@theresapike4065]

Born in 1960 - grew up climbing trees, riding bikes, playing football with my brothers, cousins and neighbor kids. We ran wild playing hide and seek and tag. We had a ball!!!

[@scottleeper5467]

Boomer here, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis and John Kennedy, really missed😢😢❤

[@jamiepuente481]

Everything from our childhoods wanted to kill us. Lol. And the questionable parenting actually worked in our favor. We grew up self sufficient, reliable, hard working, and damn durable.

[@JJAmes-mb4du]

We used to grind up glass bottles with a couple of bricks. Then we would spread glue on the top few feet of our kite strings and dip them in the glass. That's how we did out kite fights. My neighbor's dad told us about that trick. We were also big into building model rockets. The black powder rocket engines we could buy were great, but the electric igniters were crap. My dad bought me about a hundred feet of fuse for a ceremonial cannon or something. We just cut off a few inches with our pocketknives and jammed it in. We then lit it with kitchen matches and ran. No adult was anywhere around us, ever, while we did all this.

[@dedbytes2041]

My shins are covered in scars from those bike pedals. Depending on the size we called them cat traps and bear traps. It was a great era when growing up. Me and my friends would drag a bed mattress out of the house and set it up below a tree, then proceed to jump from the tree and fall onto the mattress trying to imitate stunts from a stuntman series that was popular at the time. We also had an motorbike with no engine. We would light the tires on fire and ride it downhill and over a jump.

[@karenbartlett4968]

We used to hook the hose on the top of our metal slide to cool it off and make a water slide.

[@toddt4941]

Im Gen X and remember doing all of that. On Halloween, we would wait until it got dark out before we went trick or treating! 😀

[@kendo7964]

Yeah till all the lights went off now they trick or treat at noon. 😂😂

[@bookwoman53]

I remember sitting in the front seat of my dad’s car as a little kid and one day we were driving home from his sister Pauline’s house. The car in front of us stopped short at the traffic light. I wasn’t wearing a seat belt and hit the glove compartment cutting my lip open. It could have been worse. My dad was worried about what my mother would say.

[@SteveCoronado2]

Born in 1969 here and it was great growing up in the ‘80s

[@hollyheikkinen4698]

There were actually cigarette vending machines in restaurants in the 1970s & 1980s & nobody paid attention to who was putting quarters in them. My mom literally still put her arm out when I was driving as an adult 😂 carseats & seatbelts were not mandatory until the later 1980s. My parents had a booster seat that just sat over the back of the seat without anything really securing it. They also had a bassinet that went on the floor in the back seat - it was over the hump in the middle - nothing to secure the baby at all. I remember the bench seat was big enough that my siblings could ride laying down. I actually remember riding in the back of a truck many times - including driving the 35 mile or so trip to the county fair every year for my friend's birthday. Her parents didn't have a vehicle big enough for the 8 of us to fit in, so we laid down in the bed if the truck.

[@motivatetocreateyou]

I do believe mine and my friends parents most spoken statement was "Go outside and find something to do." We would be gone from sunrise to sunset and as long as we got home before official dark it was fine.

[@AnaCVazquez]

At the age of 10 I would help my dad shovel the snow off the roof. I remember my mom coming home from the store and I was up on the roof. She screamed at my dad his response was to say "it's safe I tied her to the chimney" LOL He had tied a rope around my waste and the other end was tied to the chimney. That made it "safe". 🤣🤣🤣🤣. It's a miracle I'm still alive

[@tomyoung9049]

Born 1965 here. Seems most are starting rhat way 😜 Not many mention dodge ball or scatterball as I remember it. The sting of getting hit on the side of your face. 😮 🔴 Also our capguns with a few grain of gunpowder it each cap. Your ears would ring after you smashed whole roll with a brick.

[@laurat1720]

Generation X is people born between 1965-1980, so we grew up in the 70s and 80s

[@mcm0324]

Born in 1970. We were never in danger. We had a BLAST! We had chores in the morning and out on our bikes for the day until it was time for dinner. It was so much fun growing up in the 70s and 80s. Kids today are overprotected. Parents need to lighten up. Most of us are grandparents now and enjoy the time with our grandchildren breaking our kids' overprotective rules. They didn't grow up like that - they have Gen X parents!

[@sharleneandrews227]

LoL 😆 my brother used to climb the roof... Yep, we drank out of the garden hose. CAUSE we weren't allowed inside

[@deanbrunner261]

Boomer here. We grew up with parents from the depression. We learned to make do and be creative to get things we wanted

[@albertpeugh9367]

They’re not kidding about being exposed to the sun. We went motorbike riding in the woods (forest) in tank tops. I burnt, blistered, peeled, then burnt again, blistered again and was just starting to peel for the second time. When riding in the high desert, we’re king sleeves, they also prevent lots of cuts from tree branches, but we bled, burnt and rode on.

[@jerryransdell3450]

I'm gen-x,born in 1966. The world was much safer as far as Crime goes. To us the 70s and 80s wasn't a dangerous time. It was just the real world. What younger generation sees as dangers, we saw as challenges. We learned from it and had fun doing so.

[@censorshipsucks9493]

We could bike to the movie theater, leave our bikes out unlocked, get out of the movie, get on our bikes, and head home. Society has turned children into a bunch of neurotic wimps.

[@VisceralMonkey]

Those can opener chains were sharp AF. We got so many cuts making them 😂

[@froggy5935]

I remember jumping our bikes off a culvert into the creek below - about a 10-12 foot drop. So dangerous but so much fun! Parents had no clue...they thought we were just out riding bikes!

[@dukeravenshadow5532]

I moved the antenna on our trailer house I don't know how many times as a kid lol.

[@chaseychaseum5366]

He never mentioned playing outside all day until dark. Which, in middle Tennessee, was nearly 9pm in the summer time! Or diving boards, or trampolines with exposed springs and no safety netting, or sitting on dad's lap driving the car, or building tree forts, or your first go cart or mini bike (which you would remove any and all governors), or push mowing the yard as a kid, usually in shorts with no protective gear or supervision, or taking apart that lawn mower engine and attempting to put it back together. So much fun and education!

[@chrisester2910]

Born in 1967, one of my best memories is when I climbed to the top of a 30-40 foot tall Norway Spruce. It was taller than our 2 story apartment building. I was about 6 or 7. The top was swaying and bending under my weight, but the view of the city was amazing!

[@fragiisback]

from sunup till sundown outside building forts in the woods riding bakes on dirt trails and eating the fruit and berries found on the bushes to quench our thirst. life was good and would never change a thing.

[@indianamom6081]

GenX here. Born 1971. Child of the 70s and teenager of the 80s.

[@hollyheikkinen4698]

I was born in 1972 & my older siblings are 9 & 6 years older than me. My dad was a teacher & he had a home business while mom was a stay at home mom once she had kids. My grandparents lived across the road (we were in my grandma's parents house) & my dad's sister lived in our yard until I was about 10. I'm in Northeastern Minnesota in a small iron ore mining location that my great grandparents immigrated to 100+ years ago from Finland. When I was a kid, I was thr 4th generation of my family to live there - today, there's been 6 generations of my family that have been in the two main family houses! Our family wasn't alone in having multiple generations - almost all of my friends had grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, etc in the neighborhood. We left the house in the morning & came home when it eas getting dark - or if we were hungry & couldn't eat at whoever's house we were at. My mom told me that she usually knew where we were most of the time - even though we didn't know where we were going to end up in the morning when we left the house - she knew because the moms' who didn't work talked to each other throughout the day 😂 When my dad was young, the ladies were all home all day & grandma said that you knew what house everyone was at because they would put the broom in front if the door outside when they left the house, so they were at the house without the broom 😂 kinda like how we knew where our friends were in the 1970s & 1980s because all of the bikes were in the yard. Most houses in my neighborhood had the big tv antennas on the roof - we are 60 miles north of Duluth Minnesota & the tv stations are in Duluth. We got 4 tv stations when I was young. I remember the day we got cable tv in the late 1970s - it was a very exciting day! We didn't get very many extra channels at first, but I do remember when my friend's parents got HBO - we watched a lot of daytime HBO in the 80s. I had a hard time shutting off cable in 2016 - it still holds a special place in my heart 😂 I can honestly say that I never went on my parents or grandparents house roof - they are both very high & steep - but my brother has been up there many times. It wasn't considered a "girl thing". Same with other tasks men were responsible for back in the day. Girls weren't allowed to enter the home welding shop at all when I was really young - I got to be in the office when my dad was welding if my mom was with my siblings & my grandparents weren't home. He let me pain steps/railings one summer as a teenager, but he refused to teach me how to weld. He was the Welding Instructor at the local vocational school, so I spent time in his office there too. My dad did teach me a lot about household repairs & how to do various jobs as a teenager & adult - my sister doesn't know how to do most of it - because I was basically an only child at home from the time I was 13 since my siblings moved out of our parents house by then. I was home alone at times, so dad showed me how to shut everything off if there was a problem before I called my grandpa to come help. Once grandpa wasn't able to help & I had my own house, dad taught me the rest of the procedures.

[@throneborn]

I was born in 1982. If I had one wish, it would be to live forever during the 80s or 90s

[@rich_t]

70s were even better.👍

[@3DJapan]

When I was 10 (1987) my cousins had a slip and slide called Crocodile Mile that had an inflated pool at the end. The problem was that you'd hit the bump where the pool started and bounce right over the pool onto the grass.

[@catherinesearles1194]

I'm Gen X no one I knew was ever hurt. There was always a group pointing out what wasn't safe. Like in the classroom and 9 year Olds are using a jig.saw with no less than 5 kids holding the board.

[@jefflittleton2777]

Born in '63, so glad I grew up then. If you didn't stub a toe or didn't have a new scar when you returned to school, you didn't have an exciting summer vacation. I'm surprised that they didn't mention playing "Bloody Knuckles" with a metal Afro comb. Loved hearing the little Coos throughout the video

[@danielpeters2282]

Remember when the ramp bricks slipped and went over the handlebars. 😂😂😂

[@rice3y]

Born in 1972 so 52 now and it was a wild ride, drinking from the hose was a no brainer. We weren’t allowed back in the house unless we were dying or the street lights were on

[@VinsPol247]

I am gen "X". In the 90's I got to see Nirvana, Pearl Jam, System of a Down, and Korn live in Concert. Each one a different concert of coarse. Best time of my life. You young people will sadly never get to experience great rock concerts like that. They encouraged people to stage dive back then. And all the musicians were talented. No auto tune. They were just awesome. Concerts were dangerously fun. They wouldn't even search us going into concerts. People would bring in all kinds of things. We had fun and life was magical. It seemed like anything was possible. I wish I was back there now. Ten feet away from Kurt Cobain in a mosh pit...Those were the days my friend.

[@adlockhungry304]

14:09 The good old Crossman 760. I got one of my little bros a 10 shot, pellet gun revolver with a CO2 cartridge that looked exactly like a 357 Magnum. No orange tip or anything. We had some wars. 😆

[@nyxxcreationz2951]

1965 Gen X. We had no fear, we figured things out for ourselves, we stood our ground, feral is one way to describe this generation and yes if you had an issue with us, we'd help you sort it out. I personally had 5 boomer generation military uncles that taught me how to defend myself, drive and shoot firearms by the age of 12. We are built to survive this chaotic world we currently live in. Get yourself a Gen X friend!

[@jeffashley5512]

I was born in 1968 as the Gen X'ers were reving up as it were. All these things mentioned I remember vividly. The toys still come to mind. The Big Wheel, Sit-n-Spin and Tonka. I also remember discovering KISS in 1976....Destroyer was my first album which I still have in my collection. 🤟

[@dsboyce1977]

I was born in 1977. Depending on who you ask, I was at the tail end of Gen X or I was a Xennial. The narrator says pickup trucks weren’t as common then, but in rural areas they absolutely were. I remember riding in the back of the truck on the highway.

[@ogrehaslayers605]

I was sent to the liquor store with a note, to pick up vodka and smokes. I did this several times as a child. 😂

[@susanpeters5392]

From England ..born 1960 the best time ! pack up and go gone all day without supervision we all looked after each other

[@CurlieGrl]

Seat belts: You have to keep in mind that the cars were much more heavy and built a lot stronger than they are today. They didn't crumple as easily. Some would be considered as tough as a tank nowadays.

[@shag139]

Grandpa’s house had the large outdoor TV antenna mounted on a 35-40 foot 3 pole truss that was concreted into the ground and attached to side of garage. It had a motor that allowed you to adjust the direction from in the house. I used to climb that thing all the time to get in the roof of garage and rest of house.

[@mobus1471]

I remember piling up in the back of a station wagon on top of each other, no seatbelts. 😊

[@justinbardsley4328]

Thought I'd share this: Kite Fighting was still popular in San Antonio, Texas in 1993. I've since moved from there but, it's probably still an underground sport in many places: thing is the kites they were using were not ordinary kites, the were nearly 1/4 the size of a glider that can carry a person, and one had to tie oneself to the bumper of a vehicle so, as not to be dragged across the field where the competition took place; and the winner got to keep the kite of the loser, most of which were hand made and cost around $250.00 US at the time (again, this was 1993. I miss my friend who made, and fought kites. He was a Punk Rocker who used an industrial sewing machine to make these kites from parachute material, as well as a Semiprecious Gem Hunter or, "Rock Hound" who later went to school to learn to make "maxillofacial prosthetics" (hand painted silicone ears, noses, and even acrylic eyes for people who had lost them). I REALLY miss that guy. He was a lot of fun.