What’s something from your childhood you wish was still around for your kids?

[susansherry]

I saw a similar post and it took me on a trip down memory lane.

What childhood experience/game/food/place do you wish was still a thing?

Toys in cereals is one thing for me. They’ve apparently been banned because they were considered to be potential choking hazard

'Girl' and 'School Friend' comics
Annual Sunday School outing to the seaside
Rupert Bear annual for Christmas
Children's Hour
Looking around Woolworths
'Uncle Mac's' record programme with Tubby the Tuba, Sparky's Magic Piano, Danny Kaye's versions of The Ugly Duckling and the Emperor's New Clothes.
Coming back from the harvest field sitting on the wide mudguard of the tractor(!)

Smash Hits fortnightly.

Huge Roses chocolate tins before they shrunk them down.

White mice worth a penny

@usinon

And Tammy and Jinty and the ghosty one can't remember name. And equivalent ones for boys.

Misty

I loved Come Back Lucy too.

Schools that weren’t absolutely obsessed with every single element of uniform being worn to exact specifications. What is the bloody point?

It’s a wonder how any of us managed to get an education without branded everything being measured to the exact millimeter.

@SuspiciousHumanoid

Schools that weren’t absolutely obsessed with every single element of uniform being worn to exact specifications. What is the bloody point?

It’s a wonder how any of us managed to get an education without branded everything being measured to the exact millimeter.

That’s really interesting! I grew up in France and we never had to wear uniforms, so I don’t know the impact one has for students and parents. How come it became more strict?