The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂

But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul.  We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.

The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there.  If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.

The  belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad.  Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people.  Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.

Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.

What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.

Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later.  We can talk about that too.

Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.

The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...

So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂

So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."

[purple_haize]

The free milk was the pits at the school I went to & it was just plain milk.

Gill, at the primary school I went to the teachers had a very thin ruler/stick, they oly hit the boys, not the girls.

[green.fields]

Wish I could turn all your memories ( a lot are mine as well, lol) into picture form for my 3 1/2 yo grandson. We were having a talk a few weeks ago and I was trying to explain something to him and used the therm " the olden days".

Now he keeps asking what it was like in the olden days. I don't think at this stage he can grasp a world without all our technology. He asked me to email his great grandpop to come visit, couldn't grasp that grt grandpop didn't have the internet. He also told me to Google a pattern the other day. LOL.

At the very lesat this thread has jogged my memory, to be able to tell him more of the olden days.

[purple_haize]

My stepson when he was 12yr, told me that he wished he had been born, back in the era that I grew up in, instead of the one he is growing up in.

My grandson asked me when he was about 4yrs old, did I have a dinasaur as a pet..........I said I maybe old, but I am not that old.

I do scrapbooking and have made a book about *Me* has all the memories of my life starting back in 1947, he likes to get it out and look at the pics to see how things are so different today.

[green.fields]

That is a great idea. I do not have a lot of photos from when I was younger, I have no idea what my mother did with them. Might ask my  "older" siblings what they have, mind you not a lot of photos were taken back then as opposed to now, well not in my family.

[purple_haize]

That is a great idea. I do not have a lot of photos from when I was younger, I have no idea what my mother did with them. Might ask my  "older" siblings what they have, mind you not a lot of photos were taken back then as opposed to now, well not in my family.

I had quite a few pics as I have done the history of the family and where my ancestors came from, so in doing that other relatives supplied alot of photos.

As to how different things were back then, I googled alot and found pics of different things, even got pics of the shops how they use to be, the horse and carts etc.

It is a good way, of showing the children of today, how it was back then.

[serendipityricho]

Arvo seniors.

Can remember making a stink bomb and taking it to

high school.

Had it in my school bag at the back of the room.

Teacher came in-had a sniff and asked---whos got

the stink bomb.

Owned up and was told to take it to the

headmasters office and show him--no worries Miss.

Got to the door--unscrewed the lid-knocked on the door

and put it on his desk-lol.

Could not sit down for a few days!

The teacher was in trouble as well for sending

me with it................Richo.

[kengillard]

In about 1946, my stepfather bought a sedan car, and cut the back off and put a ute back on it....for obv. farm uses...not many smart cars around then.  I can't remember my mum ever having one of her own before then.

[kengillard]

LOL   Richo!

Reminds me of a young cousin of mine..real bugga...Used to take spiders to school and let them loose in the teachers desk.  He grew up to be rather odd, as you would imagine!

[serendipityricho]

The classic thing about the stink bomb was-

when i got it out of the school bag-the jar had heated up

and i offered to to chuck it out the window.

The teacher insisted i show the headmaster-so

we both ended up in trouble-lol.

Will not reveal the recipe-dont need any of you making one

and taking it to the -soup and sanga luncheon

at the local -senior citz!..................Richo.

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---------oldest teenager in town...............................................

[kengillard]

I wouldn't worry Richo.   I think most of us (not me of course) take our own stink bombs with us.....lol

Just watching the Schools spectacular on ABC..fantastic young talent.