How times have changed....

[rasmus]

After talking to some younger people recently and looking at my own life,i think things are totally different from when my mum was my age(42).I go out regularly with the girls,get drunk,have a laugh etc.When my mum was 42 she wouldnt have even gone up to the bar let alone out without my Dad.Any thoughts on thie Abers?

[Mr.Nose II]

children wnt out mor i think, now parents are more worried about pedos nd kidnappers n all tht crap.

[spudqueen]

Goodness yes, I'm 45 and have just been to a 40th birthday party. I've been to quite a few over the last couple of years, aswell as a couple of 50th birthday parties. My parents, or indeed anyone from their generation, wouldn't have dreamt of having a party to celebrate their 40th!
I too go out regularly with the girls, we've been away a couple of times aswell (Barcelona and New York). I dye my hair and wear trendish clothes. My Mum at my age had a perm and wore a tweed skirt! The only times she went out socially were to a Church social (they used to have hotpot evenings - I bet they were a right laugh!), for a meal a couple of times a year with some of her friends (and then straight home afterwards, none of this knocking back the wine!) and to a dance a couple of times a year with my Dad.
I think that my Mums generation thought themselves older than they were. I think that our generation think of ourselves as younger people rather than old, which our parents did. I bet we have more fun!

[twaflooers]

hi rasmus
Funnily enough I was just thinking the same kind of thing, for example; I am now 37 and the same age as my hubby's mum was when I met him. She was then (and still is) a very conservative dresser wearing button down belted dresses, american tan tights and uber sensible flat shoes. I on the other hand am wearing trainers, jeans and an Iron Maiden t-shirt.
My bookcase is full of fantasy and historical fiction - all blood, guts and medieval warfare. She used to get excited about her 'Peoples Friend' magazine and she wasn't really into music then either other than breaking out her Billie-Joe Spears album whilst ironing. Me? I'm never without my mp3 player full of Metallica, Foo Fighters, Apocolyptica, Korn, The Chilli's etc. etc. etc.

How times change huh? Lol !!!

[rasmus]

Oh,American tan tights,fantastic.My Mum always wore those too.And she was never without her Ponds face cream.I`m having memories of coming home from school to the smell of home perms and tripe & onions.lol.