So one of the fun things about being a mom in the world today is the amazing knowledge available with just the click of a mouse. Now take this wonderful idea and add in sharing memories and flashbacks from being a kid with your kids and what do you get? A day spent watching old t.v. shows and cartoons with your kids realizing that it was/is almost a miracle your brain can function with all the crazy things we watched and your kids going……”I don’t get it!?” At least my three year old enjoys it.
So just for giggles I thought I would shake up some of those old brain cells and Flashback to a couple of my favorite programs as a child growing up in the 70’s & 80’s.
I loved this show but have to wonder, what kind of drugs were they taking?
My favorite of all time!! The Bugaloos!!
I could have and wanted to post hours of my favorite videos but these are enough for now. But what is really amazing is thinking back to being a kid. It’s cool reliving the childhood year but also thinking about my parents, and my friends parents compared to today’s parents and how I realize how paranoid today’s parents have become.
I remember being 7 or 8 years old and staying home alone from school if I were sick and my parents would call and check on me. I also remember going out to play with my friends and just having to be home by a certain time, not really knowing exactly where I was going or what I was going to do but just doing it. Of course my parents knew all my friends but as a child of the 70’s and 80’s I was free. Free to explore, free to be a kid and free to learn about my world.
Now it seems like my children will never know this freedom until they are old enough to move out. I don’t want to be paranoid but all the other parents around me are and if I don’t give in to the “keeping them safe” mentality then that makes me an uncaring and bad parents. After my little Flashback today I really did a lot of htinking about myself and my kids and lastly my childhood.
First I loved my childhood and all the learning I did by just being out in the world and I want my kids to create their own memories.
Second, there has to be a happy medium of being a safe parents but not a paranoid crazy women society has made todays parents become. Kids need to be kids and this means getting hurt and doing bad things at times. In order to function on their own you have to take chances.
Finally, all the adults when us 30 somethings were kids are crazy. Either that or they were on some serious drugs and if we turned out ok. With such crazy people raising us then maybe we should trust ourselves a little more and how our kids will turn out. This means that maybe we did ok with what we taught them and so we should let them go have fun with out breathing down their necks. And who knows they may be ok, I mean we made it home safe didn’t we?
Ok I am crawling down off my soap box now. Just reliving my past made me realize if I don’t ease up I may just screw up my children’s future and not allow them to create memories of their own.
I’m off to watch some Electric Company with my boys now, man I loved that show!
