Just for the Parents & the Teacher! :)

Do you remember this?

Close your eyes and go back...

: : Before the Internet, PC or MAC : :

: : Before semi-automatics and crack : :

: : Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari : :

: : Before cell phones, CDs, DVDs, voicemail and email (and blogs) : :

... way back ...

... way way way back ....

~ I'm talkin' about hide 'n seek at dusk

~ Red Light, Green Light

~ Red Rover, Red Rover....

~ Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first... no second... no third street light came on

~ Ring Around the Rosie

~ London Bridge

~ Hot Potato

~ Hop Scotch

~ Jump Rope

~ Duck Duck Goose!!

~ YOU'RE IT!!

~ Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home - no pagers or cell phones

~ Mother May I?

~ Hula Hoops

~ Seeing shapes in the clouds

~ Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open

~ The sound of crickets

~ Running thru the sprinkler

~ Happy Meals

~ Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom

~ Cracker Jacks with the same thing

~ Ice pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend

... but wait, there's more! ...

~ Watchin' Saturday morning cartoons

~ Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man

~ Schoolhouse Rock

~ Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)

~ Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos

~ Fonzie - - AYYYYY

~ Playing Dukes of Hazard

~ Catchin' Lightning Bugs in a jar

~ Christmas morning

~ Your first day of school

~ Bedtime prayers and Goodnight kisses

~ Climbing trees

~ Swinging as high as you could to try to reach the sky

~ Getting an ice cream off of the Good Humor truck

~ A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers

~ Jumpin' down the steps

~ Jumpin' on the bed

~ Pillow fights

~ Sleep overs

~ A 13" black and white TV in your room meant you were RICH

~ Runnin' til you were out of breath

~ Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt

~ Being tired from PLAYING

~ WORK meant taking out the garbage or doing the dishes

~ Your first crush

~ Your first kiss (I mean the one that kept your mouth closed and your eyes open)

~ Rainy days at school meant "Heads Up 7Up" or "Hangman") in the classroom, remember that?

~ Oh, I'm not finished yet...

~ Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer

~ So was a swig from the hose

~ Giving your friends a ride on the handlebars

~ Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school

~ Class field trips with soggy sandwiches

~ When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there

~ When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance; and another quarter was a miracle

~ When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed them, or use them to carry groceries.... and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

~ When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were COOL

~ When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate you awaited at home.

~ Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.

~ Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of us are still afraid of 'em!

Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say "Yeah, I remember that!"

Well, let's keep going!

Let's go back to the time when....

~ Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-MO"

~ Mistakes were corrected by simply exclamining "Do Over!"

~ "Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest

~ Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"

~ Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening

~ It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends

~ Being old, referred to anyone over 20. (Guess that means I'm officially old!)

~ The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties!

~ Nobody was prettier than Mom!

~ Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made better

~ It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park

~ Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true!

~ Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"

~ Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles

~ The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team

~ Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon

~ Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protector

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!

Now, I just hope this made you smile for a while!! Have a great day!! :)