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.
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.
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.
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.
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
All y'all who were 'latch key kids' rise your paws! * raises mine*
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.
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.
had a stay at home mom
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.
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.
Paws up. Everyone I grew up with was a latch key, too.
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!
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
Yup. And I had two younger brothers to take care off. And laundry and meals.
I was well prepared for college...lol...
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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