Barneyhill
New Member
I remember when neighbors looked out for each other and they helped discipling each other's kids. That's right I was born and spent my childhood on a street named Jefferson street in in my old hometown of South Bend Indiana. I was raised with my grandparents. They knew and befriended everyone on the block. Those were the days neighbors talked and got along with each other very well and they also served as extended families they helped to watch out for each other's children and yes they had permission to spank us if we were caught doing bad things. If your neighbor spanked you did your mom or dad get mad? Hell no! in fact if you got whipped by a neighbor he or she would step over to your house and tell your parents you got a spanking and explain why they had to do it.
Sometimes if what you did to get a whipping from your neighbor was bad enough your parents would give you another spanking. Did it hurt us kids no in long run it helped to build us into better people in our later years. I remember summer nights neighbors gathering around on our porch laughing and talking while we kids ran across lawns down dark alleys without fear because way back then crime was very low and as a child you felt safe. And we would be so happy to see grown folks getting along so well.
I suffered from occasional bouts of acute bronchitis'
One summer's night a neighbor couple came to sit with my grandmother and they prayed over me because my attack was more severe than usual I will never forget that they spent most the night with us in prayer.
It's amazing how well many American city neighborhoods were similar to ours. How well people related to each other. No matter what race they were they took time to share and communicate with each other on a positive and effective way.
All of us kids respected the older people around us. If they angered us we didn't talk back to them in a disrespectful manner. In our later years when we grew up, we remembered and praised the adult neighbors who watched over us yes and spanked us when it was needed, We knew they helped to make us better people.
Those days have long passed. Neighborhoods are different now.
My daughter called me 3 years ago and told me on her street two young boys got into a fight. A mother of one of the boys angrily walked down the block and threatened to shoot the mother of the boy her son was fighting.
Later I went to visit her she walked me outside to her next door neighbor's house and showed me how the kids on her street stuffed rags into her neighbor's down spout and had knocked down one side of her back yard wooden fence. And she showed me video she took on her cell phone showing two young neighbor boys picking up and smashing her neighbors flower planters.
Oh lord have things changed!!!!!!
Now you can understand why I praise the days of the early 1960's I am thankful to have had the privilege to live in a time when Americans practiced the fine art of living in harmony with their neighbors.
Sometimes if what you did to get a whipping from your neighbor was bad enough your parents would give you another spanking. Did it hurt us kids no in long run it helped to build us into better people in our later years. I remember summer nights neighbors gathering around on our porch laughing and talking while we kids ran across lawns down dark alleys without fear because way back then crime was very low and as a child you felt safe. And we would be so happy to see grown folks getting along so well.
I suffered from occasional bouts of acute bronchitis'
One summer's night a neighbor couple came to sit with my grandmother and they prayed over me because my attack was more severe than usual I will never forget that they spent most the night with us in prayer.
It's amazing how well many American city neighborhoods were similar to ours. How well people related to each other. No matter what race they were they took time to share and communicate with each other on a positive and effective way.
All of us kids respected the older people around us. If they angered us we didn't talk back to them in a disrespectful manner. In our later years when we grew up, we remembered and praised the adult neighbors who watched over us yes and spanked us when it was needed, We knew they helped to make us better people.
Those days have long passed. Neighborhoods are different now.
My daughter called me 3 years ago and told me on her street two young boys got into a fight. A mother of one of the boys angrily walked down the block and threatened to shoot the mother of the boy her son was fighting.
Later I went to visit her she walked me outside to her next door neighbor's house and showed me how the kids on her street stuffed rags into her neighbor's down spout and had knocked down one side of her back yard wooden fence. And she showed me video she took on her cell phone showing two young neighbor boys picking up and smashing her neighbors flower planters.
Oh lord have things changed!!!!!!
Now you can understand why I praise the days of the early 1960's I am thankful to have had the privilege to live in a time when Americans practiced the fine art of living in harmony with their neighbors.
