Children in 1979 vs 2011

[Eddie Teach]

Where does this fear come from ?

The terror of knowing what this world is about?

[Habsburg]

I blame it all on the i-thingys and blueberrys.

[DGuller]

I gave my daughter a puppy recently. When she is 12 years old she will be required to strangle that puppy to death to show her strength. If she cannot, then she will be put to death.

Can you do that legally?

[DGuller]

I blame it all on the i-thingys and blueberrys.

Don't mock blueberries, they can be quite dangerous. 

[HVC]

I was 9 in 1979.  I would take off my my bike and my friends and be gone all day with no way to get in touch with anyone or any way for them to find me. 

I get nervous when my high school aged daughters are home 10 minutes late and they both carry cell phones. 

Where does this fear come from ?

news channels.

[PDH]

I remember the rules in 1979, when I was 13.

1) Don't take candy from a hippie.
2) If the earthquake hits, your desk will protect you.
3) Bomb Iran.

I think that is about all.

[crazy canuck]

Are the terms "helicopter parent" and "curling parent" in general use btw?

I havent heard of a curling parent (insert obvious BB joke here) but helicopter parent will be entering the dictionary soon.

[jimmy olsen]

I gave my daughter a puppy recently. When she is 12 years old she will be required to strangle that puppy to death to show her strength. If she cannot, then she will be put to death.

Why hello there GRRM 

[crazy canuck]

I remember the rules in 1979, when I was 13.

1) Don't take candy from a hippie.
2) If the earthquake hits, your desk will protect you.
3) Bomb Iran.

I think that is about all.

You are forgetting the most important one.  Never ever be home late for supper.  Everything else is fine.

[mongers]

I remember the rules in 1979, when I was 13.

1) Don't take candy from a hippie.
2) If the earthquake hits, your desk will protect you.
3) Bomb Iran.

I think that is about all.

You are forgetting the most important one.  Never ever be home late for supper.  Everything else is fine.

There was only one rule in 1979 or at least the theme for the year we left school:

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

[CountDeMoney]

I was 9 in 1979.  I would take off my my bike and my friends and be gone all day with no way to get in touch with anyone or any way for them to find me. 

Me too; 9 in 1979.  Get on the bikes at 9 am, pack the backpacks with sammiches and Jugs, go exploring, and used tthe sun as a clock.  Home by dark.
Life was good.

I get nervous when my high school aged daughters are home 10 minutes late and they both carry cell phones. 

  One of the reasons I skipped that phase.

[Eddie Teach]

Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slipping dues down to see
That we don't even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it
To see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around

Even with the lyrics in front of me, this song doesn't make a whole lot of sense. 

[mongers]

I was 9 in 1979.  I would take off my my bike and my friends and be gone all day with no way to get in touch with anyone or any way for them to find me. 

Me too; 9 in 1979.  Get on the bikes at 9 am, pack the backpacks with sammiches and Jugs, go exploring, and used tthe sun as a clock.  Home by dark.
Life was good.

I get nervous when my high school aged daughters are home 10 minutes late and they both carry cell phones. 

  One of the reasons I skipped that phase.

Ironically I still do this occasionally. 

[CountDeMoney]

Ironically I still do this occasionally. 

I have much more important shit to do.  I'm an adult now.

[mongers]

Ironically I still do this occasionally. 

I have much more important shit to do.  I'm an adult now.

You have weekends, no ?