Well this current generation,..it's over.

Every generation thinks they are better than the previous and next generation. It's always been that way and I don't see that ever changing.

Also born in '60. Dang, there's a bunch of old dudes on here.

Played outside all day unless raining and sometimes even if it was. Fishing, shooting pellet gun, exploring, golfing, and playing football. Roger Staubach lived across the street from the park we played in. We never could talk him into to being our quarterback.

If so, you probably remember when kids played outside way more than inside and had to be home when the streetlights came on.

No one thought it was odd or improper for any adult in the neighborhood to correct bad behavior by any kid in the neighborhood.

You knew every kid in your age range within a quarter mile of your house.

Almost every yard in your neighborhood had one or more trees with editable fruit - apple, orange, fig, persimmon, peach, apricot, tangerine, etc. And many had pecan trees.

Every kid said, "yes sir", "no sir", "yes mam" or "no mam" when replying to adults.

There were hardly any overweight kids.

The F-word was hardly ever heard.

There were ads like, "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette".

And so, so much more.

I remember my parents and my grandparents actually sitting and talking to other people. Someone would say something and the other people would be silent and listen. Then someone else would say something and the others would listen. It would go on for over an hour.

I am a gen x’er and I can tell you with absolute certainty that this is true of our generation.

We drank out of the garden hose.

Summers shorts were winters jeans.

Buuing huge packages of Blackcat firecrackers, and unrolling to get the powder and fuses out to build our own munitions. It is a real miracle i have all my fingers.

Born in 42. Polio came along in about 47. I caught it but had a mild case.

We learned about firm handshakes and to look a man in the eye at an early age.

Fist fights came pretty easily but hard feelings didn’t last long.

Damn sure learned the difference in perspiration and sweat.

Creek has it right about our generation and his comments on our predecessors. Never ever considered ourselves to be greater than the "Greatest Generation". That ended up putting us in a tough spot as we in our generation failed with the next one. Bobo and Hogslayer comments about being GenXers and better than the previous generation (us), speaks volumes. I would never, even jokingly, say that about my parents' generation. That may well be a huge issue. We, yes we, created a monster and now get to deal with it. What's worse is parenting appears to have gotten even more out of whack.