children having been through years 60 and 70 ……

children having been through years 60 and 70 ……

I picked up on the web by other bloggers like myself, comments on when we were kids through years 60/70, adding my contributions, in order to paint what was the society of that time, more just and equitable, less fiscalizzata, where the prevailing bureaucratic common sense, and a human child, to my recollection of the ’62 and followers who are born and raised in Milan Lambrate ……..

– As children, we were driving (those who were fortunate enough to have it) with no seatbelts and no airbags!
– The bottles of medicine were not of special closures.
– We drank water from the garden hose, not from a bottle. What a horror!
– We went bike riding without a helmet.
– We spent the afternoons to build our “toy cars”.
– There lanciavamo slopes and forgot not to have the brakes until we sfracellavamo against a tree or a sidewalk, and after several incidents, we learned to solve the problem … we alone!
– We left from home in the morning and played all day and our parents did not know exactly where we were, nevertheless knew that we were not in danger. Then there was the social control degl’adulti, not like today that the check without our knowledge and relegated to spies and educators degl’Assistenti Social!
– There procuravamo abrasions, we would break the bones and teeth … and there were never any complaints, they were just accidents: no one was to blame.
– We had fights, sometimes bruising.
– And even if we were hurting and sometimes crying, soon passed, and most of the time without our parents ever knew.
– If we went home to report that the teacher slapped c’aveva and wrote a note of demerit, we pigliavamo a slap on the other cheek, not like now that the parent, the teacher lawsuit
– Free kindergarten did drawings of our inner worlds and no one judged looking monsters sex
– We ate cakes, bread and butter with lots of drinks full of sugar … but none of us were obese.
– We shared a Fanta with other four friends, from the same bottle, and no one ever died because of germs. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo nor, nor the video game.
– We had it with cable TV, videotape it, neither the PC nor internet, nor the phone, we were just friends. We left home and found them.
– We went, by bike or on foot, at home, playing at the bell and we walked and talked with them.
Imagine: without asking permission! Alone! In the cold, cruel world! Without control! How do we survive?!
– We did incredible racing bike without having to slalom between parked cars, parks and wild … up exhaust gases had to be careful of the ditch beside the road and on the same hole.
– We’d make up games with sticks and stones.
– We played with worms and other animals, and despite the warnings of parents, nobody took a blind eye to another with a branch and not our stomachs were full of worms.
– The best technology is reached to “makeup” crown caps of drinks with which raced, hitting them with your fingers, on streets and sidewalks incredible championships doravano whole days and ended because you had run out of fingers healthy …
– The streets, at least that country (even those of Milan) were still a football field: 4 bricks were enough .. and few cars were restrained and careful not to crush …
– Some students were not as smart as the others and had to repeat second grade. What a horror!
– You changed the votes, for any reason.
– The worst delays were problems at school or if someone was chewing a cigarette butt in the classroom.
– Our actions were our own. (And not guided by educators indoctrinated) The consequences, as well. No one was hiding behind another. The idea that our parents would defend such a law if there trasgredivamo touched, they were always on the side of the law.
– If you behaved badly your parents put you in the corner and no one put them in jail for it.
– We knew that when parents said “NO” meant just NO.
– The new toys were receiving them for birthday and Christmas, not every time you went to the supermarket.
– Our parents made us with gifts of love, not guilt. And our lives were not ruined because they gave us everything we wanted.
– We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we have learned to manage them.
– As children we went to the car that had no seat belts or air bags …
– Traveling in the back of a van was opened and still had a special walk we retain the memory
– Our cribs were painted with bright colors, with lead-based paint.
– We went out to play with the sole obligation to return before sunset.
– The school lasted until noon, we came home for lunch.
– We had one teacher who taught us all subjects.
– We had no backpacks but folders containing two books and two books. A pencil and a pen. No more.
– We had no phones … so no one could track us. Unthinkable.
– Yes, we were out there! Out there! In the cruel world! Without a keeper! How did we do? We used to play with sticks and tennis balls, the teams were formed to play a game and not all were selected to play and discarded were not subject to any disappointment that turned into trauma.
– Some students were not as bright as others, and when they lost a year they repeated. Nobody went to a psychologist, by psicopedagogo, none suffered from dyslexia or attention problems or hyperactivity, and had simply repeated a second chance.
– But above all, after finally entered the homes had a television solemnly, looked just a little ‘TV of the boys (which was suitable for kids) and then to bed after Carousel. A little ‘bigger maybe we were given once a week a drama that made us know the Odyssey and the Betrothed, or a quiz to learn something. The rest was LEISURE and freedom combined with few resources sparked the imagination and creativity, curiosity and ingenuity.
– In those days I enjoyed the city (and city!) Because it was much more livable and humane. The school, which I returned to teaching, there was still a parking lot or trivial experiments, but a place of comparison (and sometimes battle) politics and culture.
– If anyone did casino called the Police. At best, we threw a bucket of water. And we enjoyed it so much!
– A bit ‘of chalk, a bag of crown caps (balls with photos of the cyclists were a luxury), maybe a little’ wax to go faster and more exciting Grand Prix Formula One afternoon filled courtyards.
– We climbed on the trams. There was the conductor. The information asked. “Peaceful” told us “when it’s time to get you notice.” Now it is forbidden to speak with the driver.
– I was little but I remember going with my grandfather at the level crossing to see the trains … without written various punk or dirt … faster and were less noisy shone on track … then I went to the gardens where you could then give feed the swans and the ducks … even remember an old lady who sold us a few cents on food for them! Now it ‘s all FORBIDDEN!!
– When I cough, did not give me the syrup: My grandmother gave me the “warm”, ie anointed with tallow, strofinandoci a candle, a sheet of sugar paper, warmed on the stove and he applied it on my chest and back .
– The same as during the holidays, eating “too many sweet things” and then we had the nausea: no Biochetasi, but since you said they were “worms that moved,” a beautiful necklace of garlic around your neck , whose smell is thought to send back the blessed worms.
– For pain in the muscles or joints, there was the cream or gel, but it was warm on the stove and a bag of bran was held on the painful area. If not, then, the tonic, but it was not a syrup of cod liver oil, and the laxative that was rather a nice spoon of castor oil. The stiff neck, finally, you cared rolling a stick of sulfur, which downloaded the power (and voltage) and cracked.
Not everything worked, but some things (like the remedy for torticollis) the successful use today …
– And the milk that we were going to take a bottle, the neighbor, who still had the cows (in my house there was nobody to look after the animals, because my father and my uncles were doing another job, but before the We also had the beasts, the pig, oxen, cows, geese)?
The taste was very different from that of any package today, although super advertised.
– And then, in my opinion the most important thing, we had a future or at least thought of it. Today the future is hazy to say the least, and this is reduced to a pile of rubble, there remains that the past, not surprisingly, as shown by these thoughts of bloggers, we’re all looking back. And what if people like me who has taken the road to the sunset can be comforting for those who live on the side of adolescence or youth is very sad and disheartening.
– We had the yellow mangiadischi, who swallowed the 45 laps in the tales of the lyre and song-Fonit Sbirulino.
– And the tales sound! We were listening to the tales from the 45 laps – the penny – not always had happy endings, there were goblins, witches and bad parents, but no one cared if it could procure nightmares or trauma insurmountable. Now there are psychologists who seek to re-invent fairy tales too “gory” …
– If you gave an innocent kiss on the cheek to a girl you do not denounced as a pedophile and sexual predator
– Ball with the laces being careful not graffiarci forehead. Figurine Pizzaballa unavailable. Football games and … not to the playstation. On Wednesday the Champions League and the Champions … no. Political platform with Jader Jacobelli without insults.
– That we spent hours at the window staring at the outside, the joy we felt when, because of the snow, the coach of the school was not able to fulfill his collection rounds, and there was double joy … no school and all day playing in the snow!

and so forth. Basically we survived well without psicopedagoghi, though not without rules education and compliance, without limits and impositions, …..

Feel free to lengthen the list of survival rules of that time!