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Wyatt's avatar

Perhaps the common thread of people who read Gato is that we all grew up this way and became self-governing.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

All y'all who were 'latch key kids' rise your paws! * raises mine*

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Dr Jen | Syringa Wellness's avatar

Babysat 3 kids under age 5 (unrelated to me) for a week, including overnight, when I was 17 then did it again when I was 18. Excellent birth control.

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Tonetta's avatar

Oh too funny. My experience too! Babysat my nephew at 14 and no sooner had mom and dad left or he started crying! 4 months old. Not to be stopped. Cured me once and for all.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

had a stay at home mom

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

My mom worked for a few years on and off in the 60's but mostly stayed at home too. She and my dad agreed on that, 1. to raise me the way they wanted 2. my dad worked hard and long hours and someone had to do everything at home.

We were truly blessed.

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Masqueesha's avatar

I grew up in the latch key generation, but I worked for the family business 6 days a week and worked our farm on Sundays. Throw school on top of that. I bitched about it 24/7, but I wouldn't change a thing.

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MyCovidBubble's avatar

Paws up. Everyone I grew up with was a latch key, too.

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

My parents 1st house, built in the early 1900's, had a milk box. This was basically a window big enough for a gallon of milk and maybe eggs. There was a small, not too thick wooden door on both inside and outside.

On a few occasions, when we all left the house without a key and since I was a small skinny kid, it was me who was always hoisted up to crawl in to the house via the milk box and open the door.

Gee, I could have grown up to be a cat burglar!

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Blue Electric Storm's avatar

So sad!!

I was asking around the cul-de-sac of families for someone to be guardian of my eight year old ..(.daughter, boys, calm down, females know they aren't full grown at eight....) for two hours after school.

That's when a real dingbat woman said to me: "Oh, just leave her the key. Don't you know? That's how we raise kids now, it's called "latchkey kids".

Thirty-five years later and I'm still.....??????? WTF?

Yep. The "tell a vision" had propagandized that as a ...wait for it... a"trend".

And that's all they had to do to make it real. Fucking Disneyland unreality. At least I know why near every kid now is so familiar with sexual abuse.........as well as every other kind of trash

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yup. And I had two younger brothers to take care off. And laundry and meals.

I was well prepared for college...lol...

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John Tancsik's avatar

I was left home unsupervised for 8-10 hours per day from the time I was 9 years old. With my sister who was 18 months younger.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Exactly. Not sure when you grew up, but for me it was the 70's and I can't think of a better way to have lived life as a kid.

FREE RANGE to learn basic skills of life.

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MyCovidBubble's avatar

70s kid here. The best times of my life. Riding bikes all day, walking a mile to school with all the neighborhood kids, playing in the creeks, playing tag outside after dinner in the summer. I even had a hippie teacher that would let me bring my dog with me to school. He stayed in the classroom all day every day and everyone loved it!

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Renee Marie's avatar

Me too!

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Steghorn21's avatar

I had both arms ripped off by a combine-harvester at the age of 7. Hey, but in those days, we just walked that kind of thing off. :)

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Randy Anchikoski's avatar

Darned rights! You just gritted your teeth when you went through the threshing drum : )

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Steghorn21's avatar

Yep. And if we didn't cry, we got a cup of gravel for breakfast as a reward! :)

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Blue Electric Storm's avatar

thanks for taking it to the limit.....yuk yuk yuk....I wish every dumb insecure male could watch a 24 hr. rerun of himself drooling, pissing and shitting himself, and completely crying and dependent on his creator.

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Steghorn21's avatar

I've had hangovers like that too, Blue! :)

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Muh Momma...:)

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Tricky Dicky's avatar

Our Little League umpire actually did have both arms ripped off at the elbow by industrial rollers. He was beloved and returned to call balls and strikes with his new hooks.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

Omg. I'm so sorry.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Don't worry, I and K, I was just joking! I totally agree with everyone here about how we were a bit tougher in those days. However, when people start bringing up these "Back in my day!" stories, I can't help thinking of that old Monty Python sketch were the old geezers are trying to out do each stories about how terrible their childhoods were.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

Ps- in elementary school we lived just within the mile for which one was made to walk to school where I grew up backing the 70s. Yes...I really did have to walk to school in the snow, uphill both ways. ЁЯШВЁЯдг . ( honest! But...they weren't huge hills...)

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Steghorn21's avatar

I used to do about 3 miles but it was pretty flat. Kept me nice and fit!

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

Oh....whew! ...I also award you bo us points for using one of the more obscure MP skits as a referent.

( my husband thinks Monty Python is ' low-brow humor'... is it no wonder we're permanently separated? ЁЯдг)

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Benj's avatar

He didn't deserve you.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

Thank,Benj.! I appreciate that. Better to be rid of him than to dunk on MP or Firefly the series.

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Steghorn21's avatar

MP wasn't to everyone's tastes, but they sure nailed a lot of the craziness of our world. And it's only gotten worse since.

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

Yeah like in my day I walked 5 miles uphill both ways in my pyjamas.........

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Steghorn21's avatar

You wore pyjamas? Jeez, no wonder the nation went downhilll. We had to carry a ten-ton weight and our parents strewed broken glass along the path! :))

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

Lmao.....forgot about that one.

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Patrick Quaine's avatar

тАЬI lived in a cardboard box in the middle of the roadтАжтАЭ. I just used that line on my kid last night. That is one of my favorite Monty Python bits.

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Steghorn21's avatar

We used to get up before we went to bed!

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

ЁЯШВЁЯдг

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

Raise you children with Monty Python. It is the way.

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Felix's avatar

... and evidently, our numbers grow ever so statistically fewer compared to the rest of the herd.

Where does it end?

Don't know.

But the survivors will be the ones who "walk it off".

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Steghorn21's avatar

I get depressed too about the sheepish majority. When the heck do they wake up? What do the globalists have to do to them before they get it? However, it's important to remember that it's always a bloody-minded minority who change things in society. Maybe the French Revolution isn't a positive example, but in 1789, there were 27m French people - yet it only took 1000 of them to overthrow the Bastille.

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Felix's avatar

I think it's always, universally the pattern - a "bloody-minded" minority that change the status quo.

As for the sheeple - more than a few are simply cowards. Exhibiting that most detestable trait of hoping someone else bears the brunt while they escape special notice. Not lifting a finger to right a wrong lest they too be targeted for "special treatment" (like our J6ers). IOWs, they value "security" more than freedom, calculating relative risk/reward.

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Steghorn21's avatar

True, and afterwards they'll say, "Of course I never believed in the vaccines/Putin was Hitler/Trump was a Russian asset....."

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Polly Styrene's avatar

You may have something there

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