It wouldn’t happen now..

Galaxy it's clear to me ,and I think to my elderly sons too, that mobile phones would have intruded on their boyhood
freedoms to roam and to create their own extensive pursuits.

I think a childhood that is enhanced by continual mobile phone use is an already impoverished childhood.

In charge of a 7 year old ( aged ) going to an Olympic sized swimming pool alone.

Playing unsupervised on a building site, running along the joists.

Not knowing where the toilets were at Secondary school and having an accident.

Kate1949

Aged 7 (me) being called out of class, put in a large, white van alone. Van drove off. Stopped after about 20 minutes, doors opened. A woman in a white coat told me to get out of the van, took me into a building where I was, what I now know to be deloused, put back in the van and taken back to class. No explanation. Parents never told. Not that they would be interested.

Terrible times.
We had a girl in our class that had that done.😥

Barbaric petra.

That's absolutely awful.

On a lighter note, in amongst the long division and copying we did at Primary School, we also had a flower arranging class! Hilarious.

Well now we have all different ideas of Woke ? Where did that word come from ? Rainbow Road Crossings , Brixton Carnival all people dressing up as Pink Alligayors with their Bum out hanging out , the make up on the awful ugly faces desperately trying to be one above the next Wierdo .. Yea I know Im awful .. but I pine for a normal life ...