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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: Netflix's Stranger Things
« on: July 21, 2016, 09:48:26 PM »we had so much freedom then. kids weren't coddled and overprotected. you just got on your bike and took off for the day until mom called you home for dinner. it was a different world they captured perfectly.
It was also that way in the '60s and '70s. I thought nothing of taking a bus or even walking 10 miles across town, both with friends and by myself. I'd just tell my mom where I was going, she'd say to be careful, I'd go, and then either come home for dinner or eat over a friend's house. And I remember the Halloween when I was 12 and my friends and I must have walked 20 miles all around town just for the fun of it, not for the candy, particularly, with no fears whatsoever. Nowadays, kids are lucky if they get to walk their own block alone or even with friends...