Crazy Hip Blog Mamas #29
This weeks topic is:
"What do you wish you were taught growing up?"
My parents were great parents, they taught us every thing they thought we should know for that time.
It was a different time when I grew up though. Kids played outside all day long until the sun went down, there was no internet to play on or get in trouble on.
"Stranger Danger", while it was happening, it wasn't as prevalent as it is now.
You know, I honestly don't know what I should have been taught.
I do know that the time I'm raising my kids in is totally different, that I have taught, and still have to teach them very different things than what my folks taught me.
I have to teach them net safety, and had to warn them about strangers far more than my folks had to teach me.
I have had to talk to them about drugs and alcohol a lot more, sex is a huge topic. Not just to abstain till they really love someone, or are married, to use condoms, but the health risks involved, pregnancy, AIDS. AIDS had really only just begun being heard about. I think we're on the 25th year of when AIDS first started happening. People still weren't entirely sure how you got it, how it spread etc. Now we know.
When I was growing up, my family paid cash. You didn't buy what you couldn't afford.
I think if any of us back then had known about identity theft and credit scores, we would have guarded our personal information a bit more.
It just wasn't an issue 19 years ago when I was 18.
If people were stealing your identity, it certainly wasn't being talked about on the news.
If credit scores were that important, it wasn't being talked about either.
So trying to figure out what I should have been taught, is kind of difficult.
The times have changed drastically.
Comments
How uncanny that you posted this just moments after I had a conversation with my son. He said he wished he'd grown up in the 70s and 80s, when we snorted coke and had unprotected sex. (lol) He said "I was born too late for my time."
Posted by: lattegirl | May 2, 2007 6:23 PM
Isn't that all so true. It's sad to think what the world will be like for our *grand* children.
Posted by: amaras_mom | May 2, 2007 8:59 PM
I've never even thought of many of the things you mentioned, but yes....the world is a totally different place now.
Posted by: Belle | May 2, 2007 11:33 PM
You bring up something I often think about; what a different world it is than when I was growing up! There are so many things that I was allowed to do that I would never, in a million years, allow my daughter to do. As you said, it was a different time.
Posted by: Mama Zen | May 3, 2007 11:06 AM