28th. September 2022
Which time period (past, present, or future) would you like to live in and why?
30-Day Writing Challenge #28
The 80s decade seemed like one of the best eras in which to feel safe and happy. It seems that life was simpler in many ways.
When life is simple, expectations are met more easily, and contentment follows.
Free-Range Parenting
Parenting two young children into their adolescence seemed very much easier back then, without the issues faced by families today.
The stories about ‘free-range kids’, dating back to the fifties and on through to the eighties, were both my own and my children’s experiences.
We lived opposite a playground. The neighbourhood kids, and mine, took their bikes, skateboards, and scooters and filled the space most afternoons. They climbed trees and played without ‘soft-fall’. Except in summer, when they flocked to anyone’s house with a backyard pool. Usually mine.
Some afternoons they wandered off to a nearby deserted strip of land that would eventually become part of a major highway. However, in the 80s, it was occupied only by horses, grass, and the piles of junk the kids took there to build forts and ‘ramps’.
