Reply #11: Funny you should talk of after school [View All]

[izzie]

You know we in my age (70) just spent hours playing outside after school. Do not see that now. Then every one knew you in the small town I grew up in and they also knew if you did a thing wrong and you knew your parents would hear of it. It did take a village to raise a kid. I know a friend who grew up in NYC and she said it was the same. Someone would yell at you from a window. But I think the news was different. We knew the nuts in town and the men girls should not go around and had been in jail but most really bad stuff was not on the radio or papers that came into your home. That was in police papers. Sort of underground so I think we felt safer than mother's do with their children now.