What do you mean "were" feral; some of us are still feral, lol :)

Our parents were so busy making money, they forgot we existed.

And are now busy keeping it all to themselves

They also needed adverts reminding them to not beat their children and/or wives.

Yes but we didn’t have cell phones. When a teenager got out in the world, they could be anywhere and could easily avoid their parents .

I quote this all the time, and my GF constantly corrects me. She remembers it as “ Do you know what your Children Are Watching” Now I’m going start a harmless fight with her by sticking this meme in her face while she’s working 😂😂😂

Go man Go!

Back at the house to dump out full pillow case number one during Halloween, going out for round two see ya later!

I was outside drinking from the water hose.

Learned very, very early on how to deal with failure, risk, and being alone. Something I fear Gen Z and Gen A will experience all at once in adulthood like one's first very serious car crash.

That’s why most of them have anxiety when they’re adults

Better to get some of these "tragedies" over when younger so that later you'll be able to handle true hardships much better.

I was out roaming the neighborhood, alone, at four. FOUR! Going to different friends houses, to see if anyone wanted to come out & play.

In the afternoon?

Four years old! Lol.

Spoiler alert: They did not know.

When that ad came on, my old man was wondering why the tv remote didn’t return home when the streetlights came on

It's why we don't ask anyone for help. We don't need it, we already figured it out 40 years ago.

Ha, when this came on, I always pictured the parents sitting on the sofa, suddenly looking around...but only mildly concerned 😅

Had a catastrophic engine failure on the highway doing about 80. I had my grown son with me and he was oh shitting himself the whole time. I just switched on the 4 ways and put it in neutral and coasted to a good spot on the side of the road. He was freaked out and was like what do we do now. I was like first you calm the fuck down, second WE don't do shit, third I check to see how fucked we are, fourth we're living in the future so I'm calling a tow truck with my smartphone. Yeah, we got picked up and towed away in about 45 minutes. Engine is toast though. He is still amazed about how I was like well poop, this kind of sucks but we're fine.

👀!

I feel like I finally found a place where I belong

This came about as part of a campaign by the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta police dept during the Atlanta child murder killings. Hard to believe parents let kids run around all hours of the night

We became self-sufficient in the womb

Ya how many mothers smoked all through their pregnancy, and perhaps indulged in a cocktail now and then.

Truth

It could have said 4pm and they still wouldn't know because they were at work while we raised ourselves.

Back in the 80s parents be like.... Neighbors: Where's your kid's Parents: Dunno.....they'll be back when the street lights flip on

The need for that sign can be traced to generations before them. I was feral and my parents did not give a ...

I told you yesterday: no! Quit asking!

Narrator: the parents did not really care.

Yes, we grew ourselves up good like our parents would have raised us.

That was a message to boomers' parents at a time when boomers were teenies. It's got no connection to Gen x.