Moms In The 80's Had It Easy Raising Kids. Kerri Pomarolli

[@hummingbirdhobo]

Girl. GIRL! You have spoken the language of Generation X, and I THANK YOU! Spectacular!🤣💙

[@languay1]

In the 70s, my friends and I would leave the house with 2 quarters. One quarter to get in the bus to get to the beach and the other quarter to get back. I was in middle school and early high school.

[@keetopuffs]

In the eighties my sister's and I were in New Orleans and would catch the ferry across the river go to City Park and when it got cold we'd catch the ferry back home. That was the WHOLE day. Perfection

[@Sydroo1969]

I wish I could just go back to the 80s. Best times ever.

[@2TMarie]

Being raised in an Italian family myself, we were basically on our own until dinnertime. Every night, at dinnertime, at my house, was considered a feast, and you were not allowed to "excuse yourself, until everyone was done eating and discussing the day! This took many hours! 😆😎

[@JoeMaxFpv]

I remember leaving the house on my bike in the 80’s and just being gone until dark. No cell phone, just gone. Would come home to “how was your day?” Like 9. Hours later. We had it made.

[@LN-Lifer]

You nailed it

[@juliafox52]

Street lights on = Go Home. Anything before that was Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

[@TheViolalove]

Same here. Mom would drop us at the mall or movie theater for hours. My friend & I watched The Lost Boys probably 5 times one day. I look back now and wonder what my mom did with her 8-12 hour breaks from us. I’d love to have that amount of me-time.

[@b.b.8955]

I remember those times as well. I miss it. I wish that today’s kids could experience the joys and freedoms we had back then. Music was so much better in the 80’s-90’s.

[@bayoubilly5176]

@@b.b.8955 Every generation says that about their music. I'm a child of the 80s... There is plenty of good music and pablum in every generation...

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I grew up in the 50s. I'd come home from school to an empty house (both parents and older brother working) and make a bunch of pancakes and put grape jelly on them. Talk about freedom.

[@hollypierce3076]

Growing up in the 80's was the best! No parental guidance and all the sugar snacks you could eat!!😂

[@patriciachamberlain1135]

50's too. We ate nothing but sugary stuff. Dentists were getting richer and richer.

[@cassiebrooke2490]

😂😂

[@avatara82]

No parental guidance was and is a bad thing.

[@Xassaw]

@@avatara82 Amen to that. WE had parental guidance but still much more freedom... because of our Parental Guidance

[@Ragnarok6664]

Must be an american thing with the sugar but otherwise correct, and I wonder if my kids will be ”allowed” to experience the same things

[@idhakarina9650]

I lived in Indonesia around 2000 (5yo) but i still can relate to her story. 😂😂😂 Biking for kms away and went back home when the city lights on. What a day!! Miss it

[@FyreHeartStudios]

Me, sitting in my house as she's saying "you made it out of your house!": "Am I a joke to you?"

[@dannyburleigh1]

That's pretty much the 70's too!

[@Primalxbeast]

I was born in 1970 and I heard of stories of the neighbors bringing me home as a toddler, but my mom only being 15 when I was born might have been a factor. Of course today CPS would probably be called.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

60's "Go outside and play until the streetlights come on."

[@beth-annrock237]

That was my life too! 😂

[@meekthegreek1623]

Yep, relate. No worries.

[@VivKittie32]

OMG! 😂 I remember back in the 80’s my mom leaving us in the car while she went to go find an outfit at JCPenney’s. It seemed like she was gone for a lifetime.

[@Sunshine-sr1hy]

So glad I got to grow up then. Easy times. Easy parents. .... But beware of teacher 😂😂

[@LindaMarlene7]

Love Kerri's presentation!!! Always makes me smile/ laugh!!

[@a.taylor8294]

HOORAY FOR SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS IN THE 80S!!!

[@aprilleerose]

I was born in 1979 and I feel like it was the best time to grow up.

[@EsotericOccultist]

Me too! 😁

[@whobitmyname]

I was 1980 and it was sooooo much better.

[@NeonTurtleVR]

for sure, back then you could live off of 30k a year with a family

[@michaelsclark]

Born in 80's today's kids don't have nothing on our childhood

[@a.taylor8294]

I feel ya - I'm a 1980 baby!! Hooray for being born when neighbors still hung with each other! If ya walked by a neighbor's house and saw the kids playing, it was cool to just go play with them!

[@franklyc4786]

Kerri You are SOOOOO funny and so right on point. Love to hear you reminisce. Keep it up!

[@irynpatience]

Some of you left children at home, you're gonna go home and the house looks like you're robbed and yet nobody took anything

[@rg.3842]

Anything sprinkled with "80's"...totally 😎🆒️...man!

[@LN-Lifer]

There were probably 25-30 kids from our two neighborhoods(side by side) and one tradition I miss most- Post Easter🥚hunt egg fight! We painted the streets and each other pastel. It was all out war. And the parents didn't step in until they caught us stealing raw eggs from the fridge

[@dah8789]

My parents still don't understand healthy food vs non healthy food. To them feeding a skinny picky eater was just anything edible 🤣. Now that we're older and prefer to feed our children nutritious food, they think we starve the kids by refusing hotdogs, donuts and cookies 😂😅

[@workoutmom2b1g]

Sounds like my husbands Grandma. She will literally tell me I can't have a pop because I told the kids they can't have one until dinner. Like what?!!

[@LN-Lifer]

Sleeping in the back window of my dad's Delta 88 going down the road

[@FigaroHey]

In my Dad's powder blue Studebaker! Guess my age!

[@erlyne0]

Kerri is hysterical. Love her jokes about mom life!

[@nevermind501]

60’s, 70’s and 80’s were the BEST!

[@austenhead5303]

Even my helicopter mom wasn't as insane as most parents seem to be today. She insisted on knowing where I was and who I was with, and she WOULD call other parents and come look for me if I was late, but even I with my crazy overprotective mom was free to go off and be gone all day. I had a pocket knife. I climbed trees and made bows and arrows (I'm a girl, but so what) and tried to start fires with various outdoorsy tricks I read about or saw on tv, not in a pyromaniac way, just camp fire type stuff, I went to school by myself by age eight, bought my own lunch on the way, and rode the bus around town by ten. I chose my own friends. School was my own business as long as I had passing grades and I didn't do anything to get my parents called in, and I could watch whatever I wanted on tv, completely unrestricted. Except for curfew and school, I was free to do whatever I wanted, and the worst thing that ever happened to me was I got scared by a couple of scary movies I was way too young for. I never hurt myself or caused any significant damage, because I was unsupervised and knew that it was up to me to be careful. And now I look at the way my nephew is being raised and the poor kid is getting driven everywhere and scheduled and micromanaged into catatonia. Let the kid breathe!

[@freedomphilsgood2007]

Lol yeah in high school my lunch consisted of a mello yellow a bag of chips and a joint. Sometimes I would have a snickers instead of chips. That’s all the money my mom would give me so I made it work.

[@BFKAnthony817]

90's too lol.

[@b.b.8955]

Thank you for this. I started laughing immediately because I remember exactly what she was talking about. Oh that was a golden age for growing up. Then came the nineties for my teen years and that was even better. I wish that today’s children could experience what we lived through. 😂❤️

[@b.b.8955]

@@bonnie7898 I’m glad that you grew up when you did. My dad also grew up in that same time period. When I was talking about is that it was a golden age for me. Everyone who’s grown up thinks that they grew during a golden age because when we look at what life is like today it’s drastically different. So it’s natural to reminisce and look back on their youth with fondness. I wasn’t saying that the 80’s and 90’s were the superior decades, only that I enjoyed growing up when I did and wish that today’s youth could have that same sense of freedom, without the worries and dangers they face in today’s society.

[@hosgs14]

Kerri nails it!

[@suzieseabee]

I remember hearing go out and get the stink blown off, don't come back till dark. I was like 8 yo. But somehow mom knew what I was up to, out in the woods in the middle of nowhere.

[@resetsetmefree478]

Let's not forget the aunties either. My mom's older sister would have turned 103 this year and she was truly one of a kind for an auntie. She loved to go fishing and took me on quite a few times. And she could drive too 1969 Mercury maurauder hardtop coupe, purple on purple, 6 speed AM/FM "jensen" stereo, power everything Rest in peace, auntie Mary Ann. I miss u everyday 😪

[@dannyburleigh1]

I used to have other neighborhood kids jonesing for the Dino Flintstones Vitamins!! Yeah I was 9 years old and I was a Drug Pusher!,,,,,,,,,hee hee! 😃 ✌

[@grandmalovesmebest]

Hey. She is pretty good! You go girl.😊

[@nicolarollinson4381]

Ditto to everyone elses comments. My grandchildren have got tablets and i pads but have never known the freedom of not having some adult or other constantly hovering or breathing down their neck and yet, rarely seeing their parents. This, in itself, is a type of abuse. Maranatha!

[@meekthegreek1623]

Late 60's-early 70's, lived in a cup Dr sac, lots of kids to play with. Skates, bikes, hide and seek, create plays, etc etc. Was out alot, till dark. Never expected grown ups to "entertain" us.

[@beasefcik2469]

We had doughnuts and pop for breakfast like every morning😂

[@dah8789]

Reading the comments is a bonus show 😀🤣👍

[@brianbechtel3]

Check the lunchbox😂

[@trishmcbee3092]

I was an 80’s Mom! LOL spot on!

[@nicelittlesundaypodcast1380]

You had me cracking up!

[@coryshook7648]

It must’ve been nice to have had parents growing up

[@lilamoi5971]

Depends what kind of parents they were

[@rubysparrow2975]

It was the Ding Dongs at my house that was healthy not the roasted home chicken and potatoes with spinach, lol. I still to the embarrassment of my children cook at home instead of eating out or getting fast food. Guess I'm just not cool enough, 😎 😎 😎.....

[@christalmorrison482]

Ding Dongs were ALWAYS in our pantry. We had them for breakfast!! Have you had one lately? Not even close in taste or size, but still quite delicious, even frozen. Remember they were called King Dons, too! Wrapped in aluminum foil.

[@rubysparrow2975]

@@christalmorrison482 Lol, yes I remember and I also remember trying to peel the foil away without ripping it. Good times, lol. Hope you have a great day, take care.

[@rondanew9916]

Both parents had to work back then just to feed them. I came home at 5 and had to make dinner do laundry and clean up the house. It all started agine at 6.

[@marymesk577]

the street lamps coming on was your time go inside

[@larrylane9872]

Funny & cute!!😀

[@cnic7903]

I havent watched it yet but I will say, they also had limited technology. It's totally different today in good and bad ways :) Props to all the decent parents who are giving it a go in the time that they have been given.

[@smallisbeautiful2808]

You 80s kids were the last ones to be raised "mid-century" style... I grew up in the 60s and 70s and it was exactly the same for us... What's truly amazing is that ALL children back in those days DIDN'T go missing

[@jennifermurnan5505]

Totally relate!!!

[@lizclegg7556]

So right about being left for hours in the car with nothing but a horrible younger brother and having a fight about not going over to each other's sides. How I remember that.

[@BreaRose]

I’d really like to see more of her show.

[@ah5721]

I'm a 90s kid. we rolled on bikes & skates we went everywhere until it got dark or the neighborhood gang of kids went in. Now I don't see any kids out .. took my kids to the local park and no one was there :/ .

[@megb9700]

So true!

[@Yotrek]

My mom had to save in order to buy toilet paper for her and my brother.

[@HA-oo5gs]

There is a big difference between comedy and just talking because you have silly things to say.

[@TD-nf1qo]

I'm not typically a fan of female comedians because they are SO whiny. This woman is absolutely hilarious!

[@marciawhite692]

Oh my she's funny and spot on

[@debramadden2038]

This explains our generation so well lol

[@RC_Cola2020]

Sounds like my diet growing up, too

[@BethCampbell-b9c]

My kids were born and raised in the ‘80’s and they had car seats and i did not leave them in the car.

[@VaLonFrandsen]

Why did that end... I want more....

[@anniesue4456]

Wasn't just the 80s honey by the time your parents were 12 to 13 they were expected to get a job

[@IDAHOJAKE]

Is everyone at dry bar Mormons?

[@ShadyOakMinistries]

Almost. Fortunately Utah isn't as overrun as it used to be.

[@misse2013]

Almost everyone is

[@IDAHOJAKE]

Mormons like to laugh?

[@Emily_070]

@@ShadyOakMinistriesIf you live in Utah and don't like us, why did you move here? It'd be like me moving to an Amish area and then complaining that there's too many Amish.

[@Alan74_ynwa]

I was born in the 70s & was physically and mentally abused by my adoptive dad through out the 80s......yeahhhh great times.

[@lilamoi5971]

That's very sad 😥 I hope you're doing better now ❤

[@Victoria-dh9vb]

Sorry fam. Sugar doesn't actually make kids hyper. We just associate it with events that make kids excited (like birthdays and holidays). You probably just have ADHD. No sweat though, plenty of us out and about doing fine

[@annarichardson3944]

Man, parents in the 80's sound straight up neglectful. I feel so grateful now that I was born in the late 2000's.

[@annarichardson3944]

@@pamliles5425 That's not super nice, but yeah. I'm sure that being a kid in the 80's was great too though!

[@llamasugar5478]

We may have been slightly neglected (according to today’s standard), but we *felt* free. We were/are resilient-“Life isn’t fair; deal with it”-and fairly resourceful. I didn’t get a lot of junk food, which I resented at the time. We were poor, and needed cheap, filling food like cornbread and beans.

[@circleofstone3114]

This lady on drugs? If so where can I get em!?!? 🤫

[@CorySands]

Ask young white guys

[@theresaa9789]

My mom used to give us potato chips and Pepsi before bed every night. That was before caffeine was widely known. That might be a 70s thing, though.

[@S.E.C-R]

She’s funny but she has her decades a little mixed up…

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

What would be the proper decade?

[@gangstamum]

@@clownphabetstrongwoman7305 70s. Definitely not the 80s

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

@@gangstamum maybe it depends from state to state? Some states being a bit behind times?

[@misse2013]

Yeah sounds a bit more like 70's in some aspects but some of this did trickle into the 80's. The age of the parents might play a role too.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

@@clownphabetstrongwoman7305 yeah varies with the area

[@isaborg8353]

😳😳😳

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

In the desc below, might want to capitalize the 1st letter of Kerri's name. Love you!

[@TiptonMama]

@@grumpyoldguy584 Someone pee in your cheerios? Dentures attacked by a dust bunny, and now you've got cotton mouth? It's a sign of respect to get someone's name correct. Even if you don't care, the performer just might. Now, deary, see about getting your 💩 Depends changed before it gives you a diaper rash on your bitty bits, and makes you really grumpy.

[@constanceskalecki4928]

@@TiptonMama , you apparently don’t know very much about this woman. Grumpy has every right to say something about her, she took on the persona of a normal decent logical human being, she isn’t, so you do can defend her as much as you want, but seriously, she is a witch and a crazy one at that. She was called out for her witchy ways more than once, so now she tried developing a new persona, she is terrible human being in actuality.

[@TiptonMama]

@@constanceskalecki4928 You're right, I'm not familiar with either of these people, so, look how ridiculous it looks to be rotten for no apparent reason. It may be the case as you explain it, but calling someone out for their bad behavior is one thing, when there is a directconnectionto it. Otherwise, just harassing them for anything and everything they say is ludicrous. There's a time and place for everything, this wasn't it.

[@constanceskalecki4928]

@@TiptonMama , I agree with you and we all get bored and put our two cents in when we know nothing about the backstory. He is grumpy, but he’s honest and consistent and truer than that other person will ever be. I disagree with many people in my head, but she really is the only person who has irritated the crap out of me for a couple years, because she truly is obnoxious and annoying, but even worse, she’s an arrogant, condescending grammar nazi. I have pointed out spelling mistakes to her, because though she has punctuation and structure down better than I do, I spell better than her, but I don’t have a juvenile urge to correct every teeny, tiny mistake. I know I said way more than I should have, but you’re correct that you didn’t know the backstory. There shouldn’t even be a backstory to be honest and I have better things to do than let that witch irritate me, so it’s not good on my part, but Grumpy is by far a better person than that nut job.

[@TiptonMama]

@@constanceskalecki4928 I don't know that you said too much. Honestly, that's subjective, tho, and might be true for how you feel, however, I appreciate the info. My name first name is somewhat common, but you'd be surprised how many people mispronounce and misspell it. My maiden name, well, that's a whole big kettle of worms if we're talking pronunciation and spelling. Both are my petpeeves (mispronounced and misspelled names). I take pride in honoring others' names. This is where I'm coming from. I'm also quite a bit snarky in my humor, so, naturally it seems a bit harsher, at times, than intended. I don't generally mind that. You seem to be pretty chill if she's the only one who really pushes your buttons. That's admirable, and I encourage you to hold on tightly to that. It's so very worth it. Something that gives me some solace at times when I encounter people as petty as those who point out every typo or misplaced comma, is to think about how miserable it must be to be them. They have such small minds that appear to have no way to expand, and it must be terribly uncomfortable. It's no wonder they're petty-minded; big expansive thoughts can't fit in their heads.

[@robertschwartz4810]

Everybody has the same act. Some are good with it and some are not. Screaming at the audience doesn't make it funny.

[@saltrock9642]

“And ah”. Way too over used by comedians. The funny comedians never say “and ah”. 👎

[@benb7727]

Yeah. I’ve been saying this for years. It’s the uncomfortable way of saying “that was the joke, time to laugh”.

[@misse2013]

Yeah I cringe a little every time 😖

[@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y]

Or they're trying to remember the next joke.

[@TiptonMama]

Not that they're not funny, but they just haven't had better examples, even tho there are many to choose from. It's much tge same with the word 'like.' A person may be brilliant, with Mensa level intelligence, and speaking on a topic I find interesting, but if it's littered with filler words it's distracting. The more they're used, the more I have to work to hear the message.

[@earlemorgan5068]

She is not funny.

[@melissat9193]

Not too funny

[@shazam6274]

Glad 4 her some others enjoyed this. Annoying and Obnoxious 4 me.

[@alleycatalog]

Yeah that window joke wasn't funny.

[@EricDraven-qd9pu]

Total crap

[@LN-Lifer]

My Bike BB gun Fishing pole Survival Knife and my buddies

[@LANCEtheBOIL]

Where do you get a bike bb gun fishing pole survival knife, I want one

[@LN-Lifer]

@@LANCEtheBOIL lol there is a store in my town that sells everything...Except commas

[@athena7042]

1:21 Not funny yet. Bye.

[@run4funorgo4dough]

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