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<blockquote data-quote="Pink Elephant" data-source="post: 734262" data-attributes="member: 21572"><p>So true about the gum-rub remedy today. Sore of like spanking, it's so frowned upon and taboo. As for playing freely from morning until night, how I remember that from my own childhood days. No yard was out of bounds, and our play area encompasses blocks around, yet we were never overly far from a call to come home. Oh, and there were few fences back then as well.</p><p></p><p>Yep, making regular treks to the corner store for candy/treats. We did that as kids for sure. I remember running to the store to buy cigarettes for my mom starting at age 7. Never was there a question asked when I'd ask the store owner for the brand of cigarettes that mom smoked. Buying cigarettes for your mom was all in a kids daily routine.</p><p></p><p>Yes, I remember both babysitting and paper routes. Boys did papers, girls did diapers. Having grown up helping with the care of baby siblings, I was a hot commodity among all of the neighbourhood mothers looking for a sitter. I landed many-a babysitting job thanks to my mom getting the word out that I fed and changed and did all of the baby things with my siblings. Not only was I well-experienced when it came to preparing a baby's bottle (from scratch)... that's right, homemade baby formula and all, I was well familiar with changing the diapers of old, where folding and pinning was part-and-parcel to the changing process. Maryjane, a next door neighbour of ours when I was in grade 7, was one of my first babysitting jobs. She had three kids, two in diapers, and I folded and changed many-a cloth diaper at her house... complete with old-fashioned white rubber pants and all, just like it was in our home with my baby sibs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pink Elephant, post: 734262, member: 21572"] So true about the gum-rub remedy today. Sore of like spanking, it's so frowned upon and taboo. As for playing freely from morning until night, how I remember that from my own childhood days. No yard was out of bounds, and our play area encompasses blocks around, yet we were never overly far from a call to come home. Oh, and there were few fences back then as well. Yep, making regular treks to the corner store for candy/treats. We did that as kids for sure. I remember running to the store to buy cigarettes for my mom starting at age 7. Never was there a question asked when I'd ask the store owner for the brand of cigarettes that mom smoked. Buying cigarettes for your mom was all in a kids daily routine. Yes, I remember both babysitting and paper routes. Boys did papers, girls did diapers. Having grown up helping with the care of baby siblings, I was a hot commodity among all of the neighbourhood mothers looking for a sitter. I landed many-a babysitting job thanks to my mom getting the word out that I fed and changed and did all of the baby things with my siblings. Not only was I well-experienced when it came to preparing a baby's bottle (from scratch)... that's right, homemade baby formula and all, I was well familiar with changing the diapers of old, where folding and pinning was part-and-parcel to the changing process. Maryjane, a next door neighbour of ours when I was in grade 7, was one of my first babysitting jobs. She had three kids, two in diapers, and I folded and changed many-a cloth diaper at her house... complete with old-fashioned white rubber pants and all, just like it was in our home with my baby sibs. [/QUOTE]
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