Wish I could have raised my kids in the 80's.

yep and REAGAN
a Republican President made that decade great too

I was born in 77 so didn't pay much attention to Reagan then, nut dang he made some great speeches, not to mention bringing down the Iron Curtain.

"but dang". Oops.

cool blog post, bro

That's what you got? Really?

You mean raise your kids in a non-virtualized hell hole where people existed outside screens and real melodies existed in pop music and real characters existed in movies and half the population wasn't 60 pounds overweight and people had some autonomy of happiness?

fix: not in a "virtualized hell hole"

We raised ourselves.

80s sucked. 60s were much better childhood was amazing then.

Race relations were so much better then also. Not anywhere near the hate going on like it is right now.

Don't forget anal sex Ed..time to put people back in the closet and back in chain's!

Cartoons and cereal raised the kids if the 80’s

The shitstorm hit when all those 80's babies were teens. So instead of the vampires getting to them in elementary school they got to them as teens or late teens. Even before tech the vampires have always been out there nabbing your kid's minds it's just that tech has made it much easier for them to do so.

The 90's and the divisive Clintons. They worked for China and that was the agenda, divide. How often have you heard "Diversity is our strength." The constant focus on diversity. Yet all the fucking tards fall for it. They are all too stupid they are being played and divided by color/ethnicity etc.

I was born in 73 and grew up in 80s.

It was glorious time once you accepted the inevitability of the imminent nuclear holocaust. You learnt to accept it and live with it. Other than that 80s was the greatest time to be alive.

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Yep, the 80s were a paradise compared to now. The funny thing is, most people in the 80s longed for the happier days of the 50s & 60s. We got to grow up with the veterans of WWII, Korea, & Vietnam - hardasses who never whined, never complained. If things needed doin, they did it. And women were classy & lady-like. People had hearts of gold, & wouldn't think twice about helping you out. There was still plenty of that in the 80s, but certainly not as plentiful as in those older generations.

And yeah, if you wanted to have fun, groups of people got together & interacted, did physical things, shared life together. There wasn't racism either. I hear the crazy-talk coming out of the mouths of these young people describing how awful whites were & I know what a lie it is. I had a lifelong black friend I made in HS who had his own garage. We'd tinker around under the hoods of cars & there was none of this modern rage from many black people. He passed away a few years ago, & at the rate things are going, when the rest of us die, the truth dies with us.

That pretty much sums it up.

Rage defines the world today. Everyone's raging at something or someone. Every strata of society, from schoolkids to statesmen, seems to be driven by high-octane anger. The pressure's been building up for almost 40 years and the pressure cooker is about to explode. The cracks (e.g. insane SJWs) are already beginning to show.

Hear your heart there.

Omg it was THE BEST!!!

Except for some of the ladies hair styles

For crissakes you're the parent... tell the 17yr old to put down the phone and tell the 7yr old no to a phone.

Pretty simple really, unless your kids are running the show.

It was great in the 80's. Sure, it wasn't perfect but it was mostly happy and upbeat. It was not this nightmarish hellhole we have today and not even fathomable compared to what is coming next. The dystopia in the next decade alone will be the worst the entire history of humanity has ever seen.

^THIS.

My 8 yo does have a cellphone - just not a smartphone - and a prepaid subscription. It's like late 90s cellphones and water, dust and impact proof. It doesn't have a touch screen but a physical keyboard. That way I don't have to buy a new phone every six months or replace the smashed-up glass screen.

She needs a phone for making and receiving calls from us and her friends, nothing else. I am sure as hell not going to buy her an internet-enabled phone.

She keeps telling me to buy her a "real phone", but the only argument she can come up with is that all her friends have a smartphone, so she should have one too.

whatever tension existed of potential nuclear war , alarmingly pushed in movies like THE DAY AFTER ,

was diffused with STINGS song RUSSIANS

in which we figured out that Russians love their children too, so no bombing

of course SLY STALLONE then brought down the wall with his performance in ROCKY 4

Being a kid in the 80s was friggin awesome. I feel bad for the kids today too.

The '80s weren't that great. There was an AIDs epidemic and a Flock of Seagulls. That's about it.

We grew up learning about the power of propaganda for sure. That song did sooth my 12-year-old mind though after years of being terrified.

AIDS? Unless you were gay or a junkie, you had no worries back then. By the 90s the bisexuals and women sleeping with junkies made it everybody's concern.

You forgot BMX

....and all the cool music

This is why you have kids and you tell them the truth, and you tell them the way life used to be, so they hold that kernel of vision inside of their memory, so when the world goes to shit like the evil ones want it, the kids who had good parents can remember their parents vision and hold onto hope to restore things the way it used to be.

I raised my kids in the 80's.

Home computers were very, very rare.

Parents and schools worked together, the community and not the teachers had a LOT of say on curriculum but it was mostly readin', writin', and 'rithmetic which worked out fine.

On the downside it was the start of a lot of publicity about child abductions so there was the whole "stranger danger" thing to deal with.

Any sort of drug use was pretty uncommon in most communities.

Kids didn't mind the hot lunch at school the way they do now; and most of us packed a lunch we knew the kids would eat; no school ever looked in a kid's lunch bag.

"T-ball", soccer, swimming lessons, Cub Scouts and Brownie Girl Scouts were the most common activities.

There was political negotiation, not demonization.

Kids were in better physical condition.

Yeah, they got "the blues" now and then and they'd sweat exams at school but we didn't call it "anxiety" and medicate them for it, it was just the process of learning how to survive and thrive in the real world.

If you lost, you lost, there were no ribbons for participation but they started a few years later.

You could disagree with someone's political views but not hate them. If your neighbor voted for Carter and you were for Reagan, it was no big deal. We didn't have the big red state/blue state-liberal/conservative divide.

I started high school in 1980 and graduated college in 1988. Good music, fun movies, good time to be a teenager. Cocaine was big but I stayed away, even at the NYC clubs. I took the bus from NJ to the city every chance I got. I had a fake ID because the clubs had the best music. I went to the Limelight underage but never had any problems.