Who loves the 80s?!

[oszkar07]

1980's was the era of latch key kids.
I was a 80's latchkey kid, this was common thing for Gen Xer's.
Both my parents worked so at young ages from around 8yo I came home after school to an empty house made myself a chocolate milk drink and watched TV untill my folks turned up.


A latchkey kid, or latchkey child, is a child who returns to an empty home after school (or other activities) or a child who is often left at home with no supervision because their parents are away at work. Such a child can be any age, alone or with siblings who are also under the age of maturity for their community.

History of the term
The term refers to the latchkey of a door to a house or apartment. The key is often strung around the child's neck or left hidden under a mat (or some other object) at the rear door to the property.

The term latchkey kid became commonplace in the 1970s and 1980s to describe members of Generation X who, according to a 2004 marketing study, "went through its all-important, formative years as one of the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history." Latchkey kids were prevalent during this time, a result of increased divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce at a time before childcare options outside the home were widely available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid


How the world has changed.
I was a really independent kid with my scallywag friends by the time we were 10/11, we had traversed and explored all the local neighbourhoods and into the downtown city areas whilst most kids of that age these days have barely been a few streets away from there parents home without adult supervision.

[~Elizabeth~]

1980's was the era of latch key kids.
I was a 80's latchkey kid, this was common thing for Gen Xer's.
Both my parents worked so at young ages from around 8yo I came home after school to an empty house made myself a chocolate milk drink and watched TV untill my folks turned up.


A latchkey kid, or latchkey child, is a child who returns to an empty home after school (or other activities) or a child who is often left at home with no supervision because their parents are away at work. Such a child can be any age, alone or with siblings who are also under the age of maturity for their community.

History of the term
The term refers to the latchkey of a door to a house or apartment. The key is often strung around the child's neck or left hidden under a mat (or some other object) at the rear door to the property.

The term latchkey kid became commonplace in the 1970s and 1980s to describe members of Generation X who, according to a 2004 marketing study, "went through its all-important, formative years as one of the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history." Latchkey kids were prevalent during this time, a result of increased divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce at a time before childcare options outside the home were widely available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid


How the world has changed.
I was a really independent kid with my scallywag friends by the time we were 10/11, we had traversed and explored all the local neighbourhoods and into the downtown city areas whilst most kids of that age these days have barely been a few streets away from there parents home without adult supervision.

I was a latchkey kid in the 1970's and 1980's.

[Anglo-Celtic]

1980's was the era of latch key kids.
I was a 80's latchkey kid, this was common thing for Gen Xer's.
Both my parents worked so at young ages from around 8yo I came home after school to an empty house made myself a chocolate milk drink and watched
TV untill my folks turned up.
I had the house key around my neck for few years and then at another house the key would be hidden under a box compartment that was used for milk delivery ... when milk was home delivered in glass bottles.



A latchkey kid, or latchkey child, is a child who returns to an empty home after school (or other activities) or a child who is often left at home with no supervision because their parents are away at work. Such a child can be any age, alone or with siblings who are also under the age of maturity for their community.

History of the term
The term refers to the latchkey of a door to a house or apartment. The key is often strung around the child's neck or left hidden under a mat (or some other object) at the rear door to the property.

The term latchkey kid became commonplace in the 1970s and 1980s to describe members of Generation X who, according to a 2004 marketing study, "went through its all-important, formative years as one of the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history." Latchkey kids were prevalent during this time, a result of increased divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce at a time before childcare options outside the home were widely available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid


How the world has changed.
I was a really independent kid with my scallywag friends by the time we were 10/11, we had traversed and explored all the local neighbourhoods and into the downtown city areas whilst most kids of that age these days have barely been a few streets away from there parents home without adult supervision.

Oh, man. We lived in a Bowery like neighborhood when I was five and six, and my friend and I roamed the neighborhood in ways that would get CPS called these days. I would take off when my babysitter was on the phone with her boyfriend, and I would explore the alleys behind our duplex and smell the barrels of burning leaves in the chill Fall air, and I can still place myself there. One time, my friend walked across the field, and the high school boys tackled him! They could be mean to us. They set up boxing matches between me and other kids in grade school on our porch, coaching us between rounds. I got in trouble with my friend's mom after I punched him in the stomach, and he bawled like a siren. When I got older, I realized how messed up it was to have human cockfights with us.

[Duarte]

I remember the Jif commercials.





I buy Peter Pan peanut butter.

That's a classic that proves that you're an '80s kid. In mom's defense, Skippy is just too salty (like many Apricity members).

Get your skis shined up, grab a stick of Juicy Fruit, the taste is gonna move ya. Take a sniff, pull it out, the taste is gonna move ya when you pop it in your mouth. Juicy Fruit, it's gonna move ya, it chews so soft, it gets right to ya. Juicy Fruit. The taste, the taste, the taste is gonna move ya.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Oszkar, I blame our generation for messing up the younger generation. Some of us engaged in a form of compensation by turning into helicopter parents to make up for our isolation as latchkey kids. The pendulum swung too far in that direction. It's like how my dad and my mom bought toys for me as compensation for their impoverished childhoods.

[~Elizabeth~]

Get your skis shined up, grab a stick of Juicy Fruit, the taste is gonna move ya. Take a sniff, pull it out, the taste is gonna move ya when you pop it in your mouth. Juicy Fruit, it's gonna move ya, it chews so soft, it gets right to ya. Juicy Fruit. The taste, the taste, the taste is gonna move ya.

I loved Juicy Fruit chewing gum

[Duarte]

I loved Juicy Fruit chewing gum

I don’t wanna grow up, I’m a Toys R Us kid. There’s a million toys at Toys R Us that I can play with

[Duarte]

Give me a mountain and nothing to do
Give me the sunshine give me a Dew
Give me something simple and true
All I need is sunshine and true refreshing Mountain Dew yeah
Give me a river, give me a Dew
Give me my good friends, give me a Dew
Give me the sunshine, give me a Dew

[~Elizabeth~]

Give me a mountain and nothing to do
Give me the sunshine give me a Dew
Give me something simple and true
All I need is sunshine and true refreshing Mountain Dew yeah
Give me a river, give me a Dew
Give me my good friends, give me a Dew
Give me the sunshine, give me a Dew

I have diet Mountain Dew soda in the fridge.

[oszkar07]

Oszkar, I blame our generation for messing up the younger generation. Some of us engaged in a form of compensation by turning into helicopter parents to make up for our isolation as latchkey kids. The pendulum swung too far in that direction. It's like how my dad and my mom bought toys for me as compensation for their impoverished childhoods.

I think you are right.
To a degree my wife and I are a little helicopter ish as parents, it is also because these days society is overly aware and also paranoid of
the "bad people out there".

I don't recall hearing about "stranger danger', in my childhood, in fact if you went out exploring and you got lost you would ask
an adult to help you , if they offered you a boiled lolly it was a bonus.

They set up boxing matches between me and other kids in grade school on our porch, coaching us between rounds. I got in trouble with my friend's mom after I punched him in the stomach, and he bawled like a siren. When I got older, I realized how messed up it was to have human cockfights with us.

Man, I would invite friends after school into my parent free house and we literally had knife fights.
I would go to the kitchen drawers and select the longest sharpest knives then me and one my scallywag friends would blade up and dual it out on the kitchen floor.

I dont wanna remember the time I stabbed my friend Sasha in the balls, lucky my Mum came home early and was able to rush him to the hospital which fortunatly was only 5 minutes away.
He survived but never came back to my house, I honestly hope the guy was able to have kids, Man "mea culpa"!