What was a rule in your childhood home that isnt one today?

[mjkacmom]

That’s nice - not the case here very sad - my kids when they went to school it was rare for a parent to be at the bus stop non it is normal for just about every child to have an adult at the bus stop
Our schools have never allowed walking or open lunch - highways in front of them to dangerous and we do not have public transportation

We don’t have school buses (we have city buses, but most use them to go out of town). Three square miles, mostly all sidewalked, neighborhood schools with middle and high schools in the middle of town, so everyone can walk. The town was built before cars (there used to be a trolley back in the day)

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Your town sounds so nice !! What’s your weather like ???

 

[mjkacmom]

Your town sounds so nice !! What’s your weather like ???

Four seasons, outside NYC. I do love living here except for the COL, which I really don’t like and pushes people out.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

If only it was a warm weather area I’d move in a heartbeat!!!

 

[RUDisney]

We couldn't take a drink after taking yucky-tasting medicine because it would dilute the effectiveness of the medicine. The stomach acids wouldn't... but a drink would. haha

 

[disneyseniors]

Not allowed to have Xmas tree up until about a week before Xmas. My birthday is the end of November and always wanted up for then but was told "No, and when you have your own house you can have the tree up then".
Well now I have my own house and guess what? The tree is always up before my birthday!

I think I have better! My parents wouldn't put the tree up til Christmas Eve, after we were in bed. They told us that Santa brought the tree and presents. But they kept the tree til New Years. I always put ours up 2 weeks before Christmas.
I always wondered how Santa had the time to put our tree up when he was flying all over the world, LOL.

 

[disneyseniors]

Don't sit too close to the TV.

Yes we were told it would ruin your eyes! I was afraid of that when I was little!

 

[disneyseniors]

Don't pause your video game or it will burn into the TV. I had Tetris burned into my bedroom TV. Now, the video games have save options (at least I think they do). I don't play games anymore, DH does. And, he never has to pause the game. Where I'd pause it for hours. Why I didn't think to turn off the TV, I don't know.

We had the very first "video" game of Pong. We were only allowed to play it for a few minutes at a time because it would mark the tv screen with lines if we did. I wonder if it really did do that?

 

[disneyseniors]

A big Thanks to the OP for starting this thread. It brings back a lot of memories and is a lot of Fun too

 

[BrianL]

We had the very first "video" game of Pong. We were only allowed to play it for a few minutes at a time because it would mark the tv screen with lines if we did. I wonder if it really did do that?

It could actually - but it would take a lot more than a few minutes. CRT televisions could get "burn in" if a static image was left in the same spot over time. If you look at old arcacde machines that pretty much always had something like the Pac-Man maze on them, you can see it perpetually there (but not the ghosts or Pac-Man because they move around). That said it takes many, many hours with an unchanging image to do that. This was the purpose of screen-savers on computers that were more likely to display static images for long periods (like the gridlines from a spreadsheet). Plasma TVs could get this too. Newer displays would combat this by subtly shifting the image a little bit all the time.