I played in the dirt and drank from the water hose. I got cuts and scrapes and put nothing on them. So I'm immune to a lot. Nowadays, if I get a cut or scrape, I just wipe the blood away with a kleenex and keep going.
Agreed! I grew up in the 70s. Always helped my grandfather in his huge garden. When the potatoes were ready all the grandkids dug them up by hand. Ran through garden irrigation to get clean, from an old pond. Sometimes when I was older I’d wash my hair outside with the water hose. I’m glad many parents are beginning to get back to that life & raising the kids in dirt.
I was raised in the 50s and 60s, back before there were any infant shots, TV was black and white with just two channels, and radio exposed people to all kinds of music instead of being restricted to narrow genres like today.
We always had a big garden, and I had to help. I also helped my mother can vegetables and also helped in cooking.
That’s wonderful! I’m from a very rural community & I think that made a big difference with me & others raised like it. I grew up a few houses down from my grandparents & great grandma. I was I still live where I was raised.
My grandma canned anything she could. She always made homemade biscuits every night & on Sunday twice. Every Sunday we had grits, country ham & biscuits before church. Biscuits again for Sunday lunch. She was born in 1926 & knew what hard living was about.
My mother made homemade biscuits twice a day. Until she discovered canned biscuits and started cooking those for breakfast and just making homemade for supper.
Mama didn't cook on Sunday morning. We always had cereal. But we had eggs and bacon or sausage every other morning.
I chewed my finger nails age 5-15, most of the time I had NO CLUE what I had touched before sticking my nails in my mouth..
I’m pretty sure that’s why I never get sick LOL
I played in the dirt and drank from the water hose. I got cuts and scrapes and put nothing on them. So I'm immune to a lot. Nowadays, if I get a cut or scrape, I just wipe the blood away with a kleenex and keep going.
People are treating some things way too much.
Agreed! I grew up in the 70s. Always helped my grandfather in his huge garden. When the potatoes were ready all the grandkids dug them up by hand. Ran through garden irrigation to get clean, from an old pond. Sometimes when I was older I’d wash my hair outside with the water hose. I’m glad many parents are beginning to get back to that life & raising the kids in dirt.
I was raised in the 50s and 60s, back before there were any infant shots, TV was black and white with just two channels, and radio exposed people to all kinds of music instead of being restricted to narrow genres like today.
We always had a big garden, and I had to help. I also helped my mother can vegetables and also helped in cooking.
That’s wonderful! I’m from a very rural community & I think that made a big difference with me & others raised like it. I grew up a few houses down from my grandparents & great grandma. I was I still live where I was raised. My grandma canned anything she could. She always made homemade biscuits every night & on Sunday twice. Every Sunday we had grits, country ham & biscuits before church. Biscuits again for Sunday lunch. She was born in 1926 & knew what hard living was about.
My mother made homemade biscuits twice a day. Until she discovered canned biscuits and started cooking those for breakfast and just making homemade for supper.
Mama didn't cook on Sunday morning. We always had cereal. But we had eggs and bacon or sausage every other morning.
I chewed my finger nails age 5-15, most of the time I had NO CLUE what I had touched before sticking my nails in my mouth.. I’m pretty sure that’s why I never get sick LOL