I walked to school from the first day I started in 1972. I didn’t hear about stranger danger until probably the 1990’s.

We also didn’t lock any doors or cars, us kids slept on the front lawn on hot nights as a treat, and most of us went to the local public school, so we knew lots of other kids in our neighbourhood to play with on weekends and after school. We had to walk to friends houses and hope they were home, if not, we would walk to the next friend’s house.

I walked and rode my bike everywhere. I never got dropped off anywhere by car but I didn’t mind at all, it was normal.

I miss the simplicity, freedom and feeling of safety and belonging of the 70’s and 80’s, it is like a different planet now. We didn’t have the mental health epidemic of today….it was so much easier to be happy.

We also wasted nothing, didn’t have many toys, no disposable wrapping of veggies, no packaged junk, no plastic bags (grocery bags were brown paper….without handles.

My age group gets blamed for climate change and a whole lot of things that actually started in the 2000’s and are still getting worse. In the 70’s we had a light in each room, a fridge, a tv and a radio….that is all the power we used. One car, so it wasn’t us…..perhaps if young people would go back to living as we did in the 70-80’s, we could solve climate change?

❤shanks pony is what we called it

"MOMS" walked to the shops. This is supposed to be Australia mate.

It was magic we lived in the country had bikes rode up 25 km to catch up with friends then go fishing 😂❤😂😂leave Friday back Sunday 😀

Young people now complain about having no money yet they spend it all eating and drinking out, they don't want to cook

Also: no GM food shit!

I walk everywhere

5am the whole family loaded in to the Kingswood to get dad to work, mum took the car to the Dairy to get fresh milk that had come from the Cow the night before as the morning milking was filing in then to the Bakery for Fresh Bread, then home to start getting ready for Kindi, once you hit Primary School it was On Your Bike unless it was bucketing down.

Food wise making it from scratch you are describing the 40's & 50's. In the 70's it was a bit of both now & then. But still a lot better than the instant gratification food that is considered normal these days. McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut & other fast food was a once a month treat. Not a normal daily dietary requirement.

Our f arm was 13 hundred acres and mum would lock us out side ...these where 6 kids.my mum had a car so she could do shopping i remember metting  Linal Rose and Indigenous Australian who was a boxer
He was at our shoe store in mooney ponds  I dont remember getting breakfast
But a sandwich for lunch and then dinner ...

It's INTENTIONAL these Days we are being FATTENED LIKE LAMBS FOR THE SLAUGHTER!!!???.

1970.... also there was no fast food franchisees.

This is so true

Only 3 channels? Did you forget channel 10? I know it's crap now and deserves to be forgotten but in the 70s it was actually pretty good.
Shops are open 3 times the hours now, pretty much everything used to shut by 6PM. A few hours on Saturday morning then everything was shut by noon for the weekend. Nothing was open Sundays or public holidays and there were no convenience stores. If you ran out of milk you had to use the powdered milk. There was the corner store back then, there were many, we had maybe 5 within a few blocks walk, but they were shut by about 7:30PM. There were all night petrol stations but they didn't sell much other than cans of drink, cigarettes and chewing gum. School tuckshops were basically just lolly shops, I spent my lunch money on chips, icecreams and lollies, and of course the most popular item, the cream bun. Since we were always active those extra calories were quickly burned off, if not in the playground then in the 20 minute walk home and 2-3 hours in the backyard or riding my bike. McDonalds and KFC opened 2 shifts per day back then and even well into the 80s, starting with 10AM to 2PM then they closed after the lunch crowd left, and reopened about 5PM to 9PM, so you couldn't drop in after school, it was considered inconceivable that anybody would want to buy takeaway before 10AM or between 2PM and 5PM

Loads of women had shopping jeeps!!

It was only in the 1970s that they started putting female hormones in much of our food and water to fatten the pork, chicken and beef. The fattening of a nation.

Can I suggest, stop using American photos

Many good (although obvious) points raised, but this is overlong and repetitive. You don't have to make the same point five times!
Or use the same images over and over again. e.g. The still from the film 'Walkabout'.
And there are many exaggerations and inaccuracies.
e.g.
"Snacking was not a thing in the 70s" - I was a teenager in the 70s and we often made ourselves snacks or bought them.
"...no packet mixes, no frozen meals" - yes, there were, not as common as today, but they were available.
"no prepackaged anything" - no, potato chips and many other snack foods were available in the 70s.
"There were no screens to keep you inside" - wrong again - most Australians had TVs in the 70s.

Also, news to me we had bears in Australia:  23:19!

I gave up about halfway through - just the same stuff repeated ad nauseum and I got bored.

One Thing was Stranger Danger 3:10

So nobody rode a push bike in the 70’s? Very selective memory.