Some of the things our moms let us do in the ’80s would be considered downright negligent by today’s standards
We like to look back to the 1980s as the halcyon days of child-rearing. Moms sat around drinking Tab and smoking Pall-Malls together, watchingNowadays, we moms often lament the loss of those days — maybe not the Tab and the Pall Malls, but the chance to have mom-time, if only linked via spiral-corded phones, while our kids ran loose outside. Back in those days, you could leave a kid in the car and go grocery shopping for ten minutes.
But that doesn’t mean our moms didn’t know where we were. “You mostly played on the porch,” my mom says. “You liked to play on the porch a lot. I always knew where you were.” By the time I was seven, and my brother five, we were trusted to walk together at least two blocks to our grandparents’ house. That radius included two streets , with a park in between that included swing sets, slides, and monkey bars.
And moms struggled too. Trixie Hatfield, whose kids were born in the ’70s, says, looking back, she was dealing with what would have later been called depression and she often kicked her kids out of the house. By eight, I was allowed to walk a block, cross a road, walk another block to a gas station, and buy whatever my money could purchase.
But both my mother and Peterson were careful to point out a very important reason they didn’t worry about their kids: they knew almost every one of their neighbors. “We knew no one was going to let our kids bleed on the side of the road,” Peterson says. “We knew everyone who lived there.” My mother says she knew literally everyone up and down our street. They really embraced and trusted their village.
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