Nostalgia.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
This is where I grew up.  It's quite changed from the days when a 5 year old could go play outside with nothing but mom on the porch.

If you zoom in on Nichols rd, at the corner of Montauk Hyw, You'll see the apartments I grew up in.  Most of us knew each other, visited each other, sat outside and socialized.

I just did an entire page on how it was either our parents, or theirs, that forgot how to teach respect.  I'd have been terrified to send my kids out the way I did when I was a kid.  And that has entirely to do with the fact that somewhere along the way, too many people forgot to teach their kids to respect others, and themselves.

  Thankfully we moved out halfway to the back of beyond, and I feel a bit better.  They have nowhere to go unless they get a ride into town which gives me so much more control over what happens to them.

I wonder, if someone had told my mom, when I was out playing somewhere (in her sight) at 6 or 7 years old, that her grandchildren would never have the kinds of freedom I had at that moment, what she would have said to them.

Share your favorite childhood memory?

 And as usual,
Thanks for Noticing me!

UPDATE;  Apparently the link takes you to your own personal google maps page.  *sigh*  It was supposed to take you to Bayport NY..........