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70’s and 80’s was a great time to be a kid.
Had great parents/family, nice home, good food, electric heat and lived in the greatest nation on earth. What more could you ask for.

Same experience during the same timeframe...except we had wood heat.

God rescue America from the left.

Same. I was a first-grader in 1976 and grew up believing in the USA and everything red white and blue. It was a positive and powerful influence on me and I wouldn't change it.

Same for me growing up on the Sacramento Delta in Norcal 60's - 80's. Sad to see...

Chair's getting close to the wall

+1!!!

I’d dial it back to the 50’s-65’ish if I was Dr. Strange.

I grew up in the 70's and 80's too. We had wood heat growing up. Later my Mother got an electric heat pump with a/c. Lots better than what the kids have to look forward to now.

I find myself reminiscing more & more. Some of those times were hard, but yet seemed better.

Some of us are lucky we grew up in the greatest time in history .

Its really almost mind boggling how much the world has changed since the 70's-80's.

Wood heat.
Folks worked us all the time.
For us, it wasn't always great, the early 70's were tragic.
The late 70's early 80's were lean times. Lotta people struggling.
I well remember the frequent fear mongering about nuclear war.
And global cooling and the coming ice age. Overpopulation...

But we lived in the best nation, had enough, and I don't think our parents
were as gloomy about our future as I am for my kids.

God was still important, leaders professed faith. Even if it was BS.
Right was Right, Wrong was Wrong, even most Democrats agreed.

I'll borrow from Jerry Clower, "All For America, Stand Up, Up and Holler!

+ 1000

Funny that the OP’s topic came up today.

I was just talking to my sister and BIL about an hour ago, and we all said the same thing. They were born in the mid 1950’s, while I was born in the early 1960’s.

I remember my Dad saying the same thing to us growing up. He said he felt sorry that we didn’t have it is good as he did growing up. He was born in 1929.

I therefore see a trend: every generation had it better than the later generation.

Sad.

Reagan won the Cold War and ended our fear of nuclear destruction with one speech. Brought down a superpower with four little words.
Hard to forget the images of the Berlin Wall coming down. We were the greatest civilization that ever existed on this rock.

I took my wife to the Dr. a few years ago and can remember this old lady talking to another older lady. She was talking about when she was a kid. she said her father worked on their farm and their mother was home all day too. She said when she wasn't in school, she saw them all the time. Her point was kids today don't have that option. Most of the time both parents work and are gone most of the day. It changes everything and everybody.

I do too jack, I do too.

Me too. None of the kids I knew were confused about their gender and we all knew what bathroom to use