I didn’t think parents in the 70s and 80s could do many more illegal things than the photos I featured in “41 Photos that would Get Our Parents Arrested if They Were Taken Today“, but I was wrong. There are 57 more things. AT LEAST.
Thankfully, I got Munchkin to agree to let me do a Round Two. How could they not after the first post was liked and shared almost 3 million times?
Let’s hope this one doesn’t break my site too.
HERE ARE 57 MORE THINGS OUR PARENTS DID THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLY ILLEGAL:
1) They let us run down the road barefoot
2) They trapped us in playpens
3) They trapped us in playpens they put together without reading the instructions
4) They balanced our birthday cakes on a six pack of Coors
5) They sent us out in the lake by ourselves on a raft that wasn’t fully inflated
6) They fell asleep while trying to drink a beer and hold us at the same time
7) They thought burying us in sand was better than sunscreen
8) They thought serving three kids at a bar in their basement was a perfect way to spend a Saturday night
9) They thought smoking was fine as long as it was supervised
10) They helped us drink beer from a mug
11) They helped us drink beer from a can
12) They helped us drink beer straight from the bottle (presumably as a rite of passage at our first birthday party)
13) They congratulated themselves when we learned to drink beer all on our own
14) They thought it was safe to check underneath a tractor while leaving a toddler at the controls
15) They let us dive into one foot of water
16) They thought our older sister’s lap made an excellent carseat
17) They thought an empty PBR box made an excellent hat
18) They thought attaching a sled to a motorcycle by a long rope in a heavily wooded area was an acceptable winter activity
19) They turned our backs to us while we drank beer on the edge of a rocky cliff
20) They let us take a nap above the seat in the back car window
21) They let us take a nap in the front seat next to a shotgun and a dead bird
22) They let us have slumber parties in the trunk of the station wagon
23) They let us celebrate New Year’s EVE properly
24) They let us go paragliding in a parachute ten sizes too big
25) They trapped us in a glass house with a lion
26) They made us put our arms around a caged bear
27) They forced us to pet the ass of a full grown tiger
28) The let us ride on the back of a killer whale
29) They let us hang out in the ring during a thai kick boxing match
30) They let us unwind by ourselves after a rough day at school
31) They thought a middle hump and a seatbelt around the elbow was all the car safety we needed
32) They cut our hair with one hand while holding a baby in the other
33) They balanced our car seat on the back of a harley
34) They balanced our carseat on the back of a tractor and let our older sister drive it
35) They redesigned the basement to be the perfect watering hole for preschoolers
36) They taught us how to play poker
37) They let us build our own soapbox cars and ride in them without helmets
38) They got us drunk so they’d have free entertainment at their lawn parties
39) They thought three was old enough to shoot a gun
40) They put their liquor on the kitchen counter with a handy step stool to make sure it was easily accessible
41) They put us in bouncer seats very close to the edge of the table
42) They put us in bouncer seats on top of the stove
43) They started us on orange juice at four weeks
44) They let us use a pack of cigarettes as a teether
45) They took us rock climbing
46) They told us to “Smile for the Marijuana!”
47) They used a heineken box as a baby carrier
48) They put a garbage bag in a Miller box and used it as a kiddie pool
49) They thought the perfect place for their gun rack was hanging above the crib
50) They were not concerned about second hand smoke
51) They took us to parties at the Playboy Mansion
52) They thought medieval torture made for fun tourist attractions
53) They let us ride on a couch on top of a car
54) They let us cook while sitting on top of the stove barefoot without a potholder in sight
55) They forgot to babyproof the axe
56) They took us home from the hospital sitting in their laps in the front seat
57) They eased the pain of pregnancy with a stiff drink and a smoke
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Obviously, the rules and regulations that went into place since the 70s and 80s have been for very good reason and because of very real accidents, but hopefully the lesson here is that we can all relax a bit and our kids will probably still turn out okay.
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Although, a baby gate isn’t going to help a dad that thinks it’s okay to throw their kid inside a cage with a live bear. If the nine-year-old girl who submitted that photo has kids today, I seriously hope she accompanies grandpa to the zoo.
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THE Last THREE WINNERS are:
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And this kid who is really right at home with his cigarette, lighter and ashtray…
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Now I’m soooo super curious as to how many of these came form northern readers versus southern readers… Some of them are still happening today in my neck of the woods… just sayin’! 🙂
I almost had a heart attack just looking at # 45 !
Trying to get my hands on the Miracle 360 cup, here in Canada, and it is proving to be near impossible! Ugh!
I LOVE these. Just wanted to clarify though in number 34, while I love it, it’s not really a tractor, it’s a four-wheeler. My son has been riding one with my husband and I since he was about 10 mos old. He even fell asleep once in between us while on it. Also, my husband helped him shoot a pellet rifle when he was 3. Maybe it’s a southern thing. Out of all of these my fave was number 21. That IS a bit much. Even for a southern girl like myself. I LOVE these!!!
Oh snap! I look at these and wonder how I made it. Then again it is what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger!
Lawn darts! HECK YES!
@carly walmart now carries them, they only just started after Xmas. Check in the infants department in the baby feeding aisle.
Sorry meant to say in walmart canada
I can’t find the miracle 360 cups in Wal-Mart here in MO. It is driving me crazy because I love them.
Man, it makes me wonder how I survived my childhood in the 70’s and 80’s! (insert chuckle)
We actually bring our toddler for hikes and camping trips up the mountains! We have a backpack carrier though.
As for car seats, well I’m not sure if any family has one here in the Philippines. It’s totally normal to have the babies/toddlers/small kids sitting on the laps (when getting out of the hospital after delivery or when going anywhere at all!) of parents/relatives/older siblings. We don’t have a car yet but when we do, I think we will be getting a car seat since only one of us parents will be driving the car (with the toddler) to fetch the other parent.
these are funny but most of them aren’t ‘arrestable’ by any means. I know it’s just a joke but I don’t want to live in a country that would lock up my parents for giving me a sip of beer or pulling a sled on a rope tied to the dirt bike…I did that as a kid and I’m fine, and I would do it again today.
I’m assuming most of these pictures are American, and old school America seems way better than today’s paranoid politically correct pussy-factory.
amen. Most of these pics were staged as a joke. I’ve done things like this as a kid, and I’m still here, undamaged. We had our imagination to get us through everyday life. Jolly says it perfectly. Today’s world is a ‘paranoid politically correct pussy-factory’.
Exactly
These are great I’ve done almost all of the stuff on here when I was little but there are 2 things on here that even I didn’t do then and wouldn’t do now 1 strap a baby carrier to the back of a Harley 2 get in a cage with a lion tiger or bear!!!!! They’re nuts!!! And I wouldn’t give a child beer or smokes either even though I did both as a child…
Hilarious photos! While we don’t leave our ax out for the kid to find, we do have the fireplace poker within reach. Hey the kid has to learn “NO” sometime!
And here’s a shout-out for the Munchkin 360 cups – they. are. awesome. Everywhere we go with them, people want to know A. How they work, and B. Where to buy them because they are so amazing.
I don’t think there were accidents. I don’t remember any accidents at all. I just think people started growing sticks up their butt and it’s sad. Just let kids be kids! Of course, don’t smoke in front of them and put them in a car seat but it’s ok to skin a knee now and then.
Omg soo true!
Loved this!! Do you happen to know the original person who submitted the picture from #9? She could be my identical older twin! Our photos side by side are so alike it’s actually scary! I’d be curious to see what she looks like now.
This was so funny. I haven’t had a chance to look at the original post, but I was literally laughing out loud at some of these. I don’t think there are any pictures, but when I was 3 months old, my parents drove from Massachusetts to California with me on their laps!
Thanks for the belly laughs. 🙂
I found most of them amusing…. In the early 70’s I remember driving down the freeway with the top down on my car, car seat just hooked over the top of the split seat and the seat didn’t have a latch on it. When I braked to slow down I had to put my arm out In front of the car seat to keep it from falling forward! Oh yeah, I put a headscarf on my SON to prevent him from getting an earache, for which his dad was non too pleased.
When you know better, you do better…. Right?
Picture # 57…Back in the 50’s & 60’s there was no such thing as a car seat, we had to hold our babies on our laps….
#21 is one of my fav memories!!! I always slept in the back window!!! Thought everyone did! LOL
We used to sleep in the back window. Sometimes we just crawedl up into it as far as you could go. When we got older it was to get away from Mom when she reached for you.. Picture 31 is my favorite!! We used to fight to sit on the hump in back & front. Our cars didn’t have seatbelts back then.
There is no photographic evidence, but I clearly remember being taken to see “Jaws” and “The Towering Inferno” while sitting on the hood of our enormous ’70-something Pontiac at the drive-in movies. I was way under 10 years old at the time! Omg.
I still see a lot of this in Michigan and in North Carolina, so I don’t think it’s a north vs south thing.
I don’t have a photo but my dad ran our cars on propane I remember sitting in the back seat with my brother while dad filled the tank from one as big as a house while he smoked a cigarette.
is she smoking?
And we all died?
#28 reminds me of when my mom took me to Sea World and let me volunteer to have a killer whale “kiss” me! (Lick the side of my face) Glad I wasn’t swallowed whole! LOL
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Smoking and drinking at that young age breeds alcohol and smoking problems. People were stupid back then. And I think it’s sad people think it’s funny to give babies and young children these things.
Don’t be a party pooper Melissa, this is hysterical because we’re still here and remember doing all of these things. Our children are entirely too sheltered now, sad.
And yet you all survived. As did my generation before you when there were NO carseats–even bad ones. I stood in the back of our Studebaker when my mother drove, I tried her unfiltered cigarettes as well as my father’s stinky cigars and decided for myself that they were gross. I walked six blocks to school crossing two major intersections–before the walk/dont walk signs–alone! During weekends and summers I left the house after breakfast and rode my bike all day, sometimes didn’t get home till dark.
And yet I survived. As did my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents; each generation back managing to thrive through harder and more difficult challeges. We were experience, strong kids with the survival instincts of a warf rat.
I feel sorry for this generation. They have no opportunity to learn for themselves what is dangerous and what is not. I feart they are losing their survival instincts.
I miss riding in the back of a truck most
I had a boyfriend whose mother told me she took him on her motorcycle when he was a little baby. She said she put him in her hard bag and cut a hole in the front of it so he could see out.
Omg I’m dying!!
OMG, the kid in the stocks. I’m dying.
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OMG!! Hysterical, I can’t stop laughing. My first 2 daughters were born in 1978 & 1980. So I can relate to a lot of these pics. They both turned out fine. Lots of common sense. College degrees, & happily married with kids of their own. My Third daughter born 1995, with a lot of conscientious care & safety features. The jury is still out!! BTW my older daughters sent me this site. I’m still laughing!!
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I love these My kids came up in the 70s and 80s and they are fine Kids today not so much!!!! My Grandaughter loves riding on the Harley She is 20 now but when she was little she wopuld hear it start and run to the door with only her helmet and a diaper on One day she was butt naked and only the helmet. Then another time she remembered what I told her “That shirt is wet take it off” She was outside helping her uncle wash the truck and she was butt naked I asked her why and she said “Cause my bathingsuit got wet so I took it off” All she had on was her whiote rubber “shrimp” boots.LOL
Haha! This is too funny!
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