The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd

[Jadler]

No one has mentioned tag. Do kids even know what that is anymore? Line tag and kick the can were always a couple of my favorites.

 

There was always squirt gun and water balloon fights too. And there used to be so much variety with squirt guns. Now all you see is super soakers. I remember having battery operated fully automatic squirt guns, a pump action shotgun with neon yellow and blue camouflage print on it, squirt guns that looked like real guns. Oh good times.

 

I'm 22 and we played tag all the time at country school. First recess was usually always a form of tag.

[Enhance]

Lol this was good.

 

When I'm over 30, my kids are probably going to be like "You had to get on the internet to find out information? That's crazy! I just up-link to my brain-net and find out the answer in my mind!"

[huKSer]

I don't know. I'm pretty young, but I remember one time was I was somewhere around 6, my mom bent me over her knee, pulled down my pants in church, and gave me some pretty solid swats on the butt. No one said anything. I think that still goes on in some places.

Leave the Catholic Church out of this!!

[T_O_Bull]

You over 30 crowd has it easy! When you were young, a long, long time ago, when you joined the Army you didn't have The War of Terrorism going on. A hard day for you was if they air conditioning went out!

I'm sure the vets of Desert Storm, Vietnam, and Korea would beg to differ.

 

[T_O_Bull]

When I was a kid, I was the remote control...and the self propelled lawn mower...and the snow thrower...

 

Now I know why my parents had kids. Lazy son-of-a-......

 

LOL

 

Same thing here.

 

Me 2. My kid hasn't shoveled as much snow in his life time as I did in 1960.

T_O_B

[jnkyrdoff6]

I don't know. I'm pretty young, but I remember one time was I was somewhere around 6, my mom bent me over her knee, pulled down my pants in church, and gave me some pretty solid swats on the butt. No one said anything. I think that still goes on in some places.

Leave the Catholic Church out of this!!

Ha, it sounds worse than it was. My family is Methodist. I was being a brat, my mom threatened me, and I said she'd never do it.

[T_O_Bull]

My mom was fairly short, barely 5 foot when she had her shoes on. She used to make me get the foot stool, she'd step up on it and pop me one, usually because I said a curse word.

T_O_B

[Touchdown Tommie]

I am 29 and I grew up playing atari and had this monster microwave...I can still picture that thing...it was huge, loud, and it lasted forever!!!

 

My mom and dad say they wish they would have invested in wooden spoons before I was born since they broke so many on me growing up....I knew I was in trouble when the metal spoon made an appearance.

[T_O_Bull]

If your family was like mine TT you deserved it and they were just tryingto make you a better person.

T_O_B

[rawhide]

I remember belts and my grandpa had a razor strap that was great for it's deterrent effect.

 

 

GBR

[ohiohusker]

I am 29 and I grew up playing atari and had this monster microwave...I can still picture that thing...it was huge, loud, and it lasted forever!!!

 

My mom and dad say they wish they would have invested in wooden spoons before I was born since they broke so many on me growing up....I knew I was in trouble when the metal spoon made an appearance.

 

My Mom used a flyswatter, a yardstick, or does anybody remember the paddle with the elastic/ball at the end of it?

[T_O_Bull]

I remember getting a black eye when I missed the ball and got hit in the eye.

T_O_B

[Bradr]

I am 29 and I grew up playing atari and had this monster microwave...I can still picture that thing...it was huge, loud, and it lasted forever!!!

 

My mom and dad say they wish they would have invested in wooden spoons before I was born since they broke so many on me growing up....I knew I was in trouble when the metal spoon made an appearance.

 

Evil devices!!! I had forgotten all about those. My mom used to chase my sister and I through the house. Would usually catch us on a set of stairs and get us right there...

[T_O_Bull]

My Mom never chased, she was very short and simply said, "Go get the foot stool." I knew better than to not go get it, and then she stepped up and poped me. Every kid under 12 could use a littel of this.

T_O_B

[jnkyrdoff6]

My mom was fairly short, barely 5 foot when she had her shoes on. She used to make me get the foot stool, she'd step up on it and pop me one, usually because I said a curse word.

T_O_B

Ha, never had that one. My mom would rub dish soap in my mouth and wait for me to swallow it.

 

To rawhide, there were a few times I took the belt when I went up to my grandpa's house.