A Different World...

This song is very true, the world changes at a rapid pace each and every day. Some of the cnages are for the better and some of them for the worse. Either way, we have to learn to live with the changes. I think the reason this song has done so well is because we all can identify with it. Great post...

Hello biwaski, That sounds like a good song. I grew up in those days, and I have thought about it. My children and grandchildren will really not know those simpler times. To me it seems like we were more relaxed, (but we were kids:)
I remember my mother was thin, and had a tiny waist, with dresses that had a full skirt, gathered or pleated, and she always wore red lipstick. Long pants were uncommon, but she wear them gardening.
We were either playing or working outside, we only went in the house for meals, after it got dark, or when Mama called. We even had an outside bathroom until I was about 10, as we lived in the country.

i can relate. i remember when i was young and though about people who grew up without television, cars, stuff like that. i thought that i would never "outgrow" anything that was happening in my life. as i look back, i can remember the computer when it took up a whole room and when you programmed it and printed it the printout was little dots. you had to feed the paper in to rerun the program. kind of like a reel to reel tape player. you remember those, don't you? or 35mm movie projectors. now i sit here on my laptop. amazing. it really does make me wonder what the next generation will "outgrow". cool topic. thanks for the trip back in time.

Yes things have definitely changed a lot from when we were kids. I just got done doing a discussion on how things have changed as far as letting kids play outside. It's sad but I guess there are somethings we just can not controle.

Aint that the TRUTH?!?

I have been reflecting a lot this lately about the different childhoods and teenage years, my children, grandchildren, myself, my mothers and my grandmothers and indeed my great grandmothers have experienced.

Do you know I think WE had the best!

So much so that I am actually writing a Social History type of book for my Grand children and hopefully THEIR grandchildren to go alongside the Geneology CD that I am completing. I thought a social history would be far more interesting then a load of dusty crusty names and dates, and faces of people they have not got a clue about. I know I would love to have had that done for me. So as I said before on reflection and as its turning out, yep, WE GOT THE BEST!!!

Except for the part about the mother who smoked and drank, I would say that pretty much summed up my life. And while I've tried to keep my children's lives as simple as possible, as well, it's not that easy when they think that they have to keep up with the rest of the world.

Oh biwasaki that is soooooo true!
Personally I think it was better in our time/ our world then it is now.
Yes there are a lot of really cool and good things now but at what cost is it to are kids?
We are all so busy all the time we have no time for each other.
Kids are left to the tv, computers and video games and hardly outside to play.
Finding friends playing outside can be quite hard now and pretty rare at least where I live anyways.
I always remember going out side and you could find a friend to play with pretty much instantly.
No phone calls to say can we make a play date... it was just a knock on the door and can "so and so come out to play"
I like tht lyrics to that song they are very true we do live in a different world and time then our kids do now. For better or worse who really knows only time will tell I guess.

You are so right. We could probably add about 50 more verses to that poem! I wonder, though, if all "older" people always kind of long for "the good old days" no matter when those days were? There are many things I do like about these days--the computer being one. (Well--I do have a love/hate relationship with my computer, but most of the time I enjoy it.) On the other hand, I am glad I am my age. I would not want to be young and just starting out now.

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I miss the good old days. Life was simplier and you didn't have to worry as much. I would love to be able to take my children back to the good old days.

I remember doing most of those things. My son ran up to me today and asked if he could go inside to get a drink. I looked over at him and said " When I was your age we didn't go inside to get a drink. We would turn on the water hose and grab a drink." He looked at me as if I asked him to commit murder.

I sure do miss those good old days.