A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. I edited the name of his small town. If you are near my age of 70 you will appreciate the read.

I was raised in *******, ******** during a time when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group. We drank Kool-Aid made from water that came from our kitchen sink. We ate bologna sandwiches, or even tuna (which was in a can not a pouch), peanut butter and Jelly or grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, but mostly homemade meals consisting of mainly meat, potatoes, vegetable, bread & butter, and homemade dessert.
We grew up during a time when we mowed lawns, helped in the garden, pulled weeds, babysat, took care of our brothers and sisters for free, and helped our neighbors. We went outside a lot to play games, ride bikes, roller skate, run with our brothers and sisters and friends & played hide and seek, baseball, basketball even dodge ball. We drank tap water from the hose outside... bottled water was unheard of.
We watched TV shows like American Bandstand, Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, The Dukes of Hazzard, Andy Griffith, The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy. After school, we came home and did homework and chores before going outside or having friends over. We would ride our bikes for hours. We had to tell our parents where we were going, who we were going with, & what time we'd be back.
You LEARNED from your Mom instead of disrespecting her and treating her as if she knew absolutely nothing. What she said was LAW!! And you had better know it!!!
You had to be close enough to home to hear your Mom or Dad yelling to tell you it’s time to come home for dinner. We ate around the dinner table and talked to each other as a family unit. In grade school we learned and recited the Pledge of Allegiance and stood for the National Anthem and listened and obeyed our teachers, or we got our tail ends whooped.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew if we DISRESPECTED any grown-up we would get our behinds whipped, it wasn't called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries and gave up our seat for an older person without being asked.
You didn't hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth and had to stand in the corner. “Please, Thank you" were part of our daily vocabulary!
You grew up to respect the Nation, the flag, and the President, NO MATTER who it was.
Re-post if you're thankful for your childhood and will never forget where you came from & the time you came from! Wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to get back to this way of life?
If this is how you grew up...Copy and paste... just change the town.