13 Things from the 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand!

Your call getting radiation poisoning or lead poisoning fun you can have it baby boomer!

Bullsh$t # 2 kids today know as much about money as did baby boomer ok might have trouble making change but baby boomer can't set their voice-mail

Bull sh%t school still have clocks with hands on them!!

I was born in 74 so the 80 is more my time but yes I remember riding bikes skating skateboarding playing with mud dirt cars BB guns rolling down hills playing all summer with kids going camping

The 60's (before hippies) were an extension of the 50's in most people's minds.

And yet, we only recall the good of that very period in time.

Most of the 1960’s were continued traditions that had been around for decades. Somethings were new or different, of course. Movies changed, TV Dinners, began n the late 1950’s, BB Guns were around prior to the 60’s. I don’t know about any coonskin hats still being around in the 60’s. I think they belonged to 1950’s.
Sometimes, when a new decade begins, somethings will still exist from the previous decade for a year, or two, and maybe for only a few months, but they are not worth mentioning to be included into the new decade. ✌️

Segregation. The good old days were not. A woman had to have a male co-signer to open a checking account. If you were a little kid you avoided teenagers in my neighborhood.

No mass shootings

I was born in 1966 and grew up in the 1970’s and 80’s. We never wore helmets when riding bikes, we rode in the bed of my dad’s truck, played until nightfall during school nights and swam in rivers and lakes without issues. Today’s kids know nothing of fun. They want eleconics, phones or iPads, we played tackle football, no pads, broke bones, got patched up and healed. In other words, we survived.

You pretty much covered it. Now days the losers are running things. America has died.

I think the writer just assumed that everyone watching this video is from the US 😅

Born in 51. The 50's and 60's was the greatest era to grow up in. We actually had friends we talked to and played with unlike today

Ok boomer

Born in 1954. The rotary phone, building your own play house out of wood, having to help clean up the house. Life was good. There were no electronic distractions. Merry Christmas

Yeah, all true. But, Remember this...

The kids today, are a product of the kids of the 60's. The bad attitudes, laziness, sloth and irresponsibility of todays kids...were taught to them by yesterdays kids. Yesterday's kids trying to re-live their own youth. Trying to be "friends" with their children, instead of the adults they should have been. We've all seen it.

So, when you criticize todays youth...look in the mirror. That's who's responsible for any criticisms you have. The Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll generation did this country no favors.

They are wanting to phase out Roman numerals.
NOT ON MY WATCH!

Forgot about Charlie Manson grown up in the 60s I was born in 1961 June 9th

Put down the Koolaid and remind me again whose "Freedom" America was "defending" in Vietnam?

Funny, these kids grew up to create the world we have now.... Weird how they talk shit.

You can thank most of this going away due to the democratic run cities . Crime and degeneracy run rampant. However you thank the war mongering to the Neo cons and hawks. Vietnam was not to die for your country but to die for money and power for the deepstate

And folks thats why America was great. We ruined our children trying to make their lives better than ours. Yup, I did it too.

You got a bit of the Sunday night line up, but you missed “the Wonderful World of Disney”.

I was born in the 50s and have fond memories of all these things, btw I did not change any of my eating or smoking habits when I was pregnant with either of my sons (still haven't) and they are and always were healthy and 50 years later still are, we rarely got sick, not even the flu, take no medications .so much for the dangers of smoking or diet, and no one had peanut allergies or gluten or lactose intolerant, don't believe people who make money off the sick when they tell you how to avoid illness.

You forgot how boys were boys and knew it, and girls were girls, and knew it.

something else uncomprehensible to today’s kids is there’s only one phone in the house and we used to run to be the one who answered it and you were lucky if you had a long enough cord to take it into your room.

Born in “58” … raised on eastern shore of Maryland. I remember my Dad giving me $1 and I was about 11 or 12 and I would ride my bike to the local store and buy him a quart of Natty Bo (beer) …. no problem. What a great time to be alive. 😊✌🏻

I know a lady who intentionally smoked durring pregnancy in the 2010's because she heard that it made a smaller fetus and she wanted an easier birth. 😐 Glad she is not MY mom.

absolutely nailed it on today's dining out experience.

Love your comment about McDonalds!

Funny how your images of life in the 60's excluded Black people and other people of color. Particularly when mentioning the draft which included many Black men. Try and reflect why this is so. I can assure you that there are many readily available images from that era which could have better reflected the people back then.

Born in 1980. The only one that surprised me was the backpacks. Airplanes had luggage by then. How was that not adapted?

Drafted to " defend" their country?

Trust me I've seen the stupid lines of cars in front of schools in my area, they are 90% rich people dropping off 1 kid (god forbid they'd try to carpool a few kids). This is why there is a thing now where traffic is 50% worse when school is on because of those dumb generation of parents that can afford to take time off and drop their kids in front of the school. Some don't have a choice I'm sure, but those who do, and still chose this ridiculous alternative, are the problem with almost everything the new generations of useless NPCs is blamed for.

Born in 1952. This brings back fond memories. I’m glad I grew up then. I walked everywhere and played sandlot baseball. Good times.

The kids today will never know or understand the simple pleasures and magic of the 60s. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

There is only a handfull of drive in theaters today.

Correction: Vietnam had absolutely nothing to do with "defending our country."

Sitting in the back of the family station wagon in the fold up rumble seat facing backwards.

I remember looking forward to seeing the original 101 Dalmatians but when it came time to go I had the mumps ( something else today’s kids shouldn’t know about) so I didn’t see it. If you missed it, you missed it. No dvd of it to buy, no On Demand showing at home. It was decades before I finally saw it on tv.

You should have mentioned Saturday morning cartoons.

other kids parents also watched out for other kids...moms often didn't need to work.

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Kids today are wimps

Growing up on Long Island in the 60's meant having a milk box where the milk was delivered to your house as needed. Buying your potato chips from the Charles Chips delivery truck. The potato chips came in a tin can. Later they added pretzels and freeze pops. Waiting after school for the ice cream truck, whether it was Good Humor, Bungalow Bar or Mister Softee. Every once in a while in the spring and summer they had trucks with amusement park rides mounted on them. Ride the whip for 5 cents. But most of all the parents in the neighborhood looked after everyone's kids and would tell your parents if you messed up.

Now America is just about gone. We have one more year before it’s completely gone

Women never looked better , loved the styles back then.

I'm 13, and I actually really want to go to one of the penny candy stores and a drive-in theatre, but those aren't around anymore :(
Well, there is only a couple drive-in theatres, what they are extremely far away from where I live.


Some edits:
1. I don't even have a card, so if I want to get something I wait til the following month to get chore money
2. I also still go outside and really want to go camping, but everyone keeps telling me it's boring (not true)

You were spot on for the 1960s - however, there are many of us who are lots older than the 60s - try the 1940s and 50s