I'm so old I Remember when:

[EmmaDonovan]

What if it burst open?

I think that was the idea... you were supposed to swaddle it and be very gentle so it didn't break open. Kids took turns taking it home for the night and so on.

I never heard of this in any of the high schools in our area but apparently others did this.

 

[Sally PB]

In my high school, you could take a parenting class. Part of the curriculum was carrying around a doll -- any doll -- for a week. If you went to the game, went shopping, to a friend's house, you took the doll with you. Since it was such a small school, everyone knew everyone and everyone knew who was in the class and had to have their doll with them.

One year, a boy took the class. He told everyone, hey, I'm going to be a dad someday, and I need to know this stuff too! His doll was a GI Joe.

 

[tripletfeb]

I remember something about that in high school. It was some sort of thing where the girls had to take the(fake) baby with them wherever they went.

Our school did that. My two sisters(I'm a triplet) took the class. One had to carry a 5# bag of flour, the other triplet got the new doll, that would cry and need fed and changed. You stopped the crying by opening the back and putting in a key. The doll actually recorded how long it cried for before you stopped the crying. I remember waking up every night to that damn doll crying. Then that sister got pregnant when we were 15 and her real baby kept us all up every night. No key stopped that crying!

 

[McChooky]

I was NOT allowed to wear these. My mom called them "hooker shoes." Her friend was an ER doc and said the number of broken ankles in the ER always skyrocketed when wedges were popular, so I was also not allowed to wear them because I'd end up breaking an ankle. She was probably right about that, I have terrible ankles!

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These shoes are designed by the same people who sell crutches

 

[Love Donkeys]

I remember being taught the Hokey Pokey in the 4th grade....

My boyfriend (Hubby) and I did it on roller-skates at our local skating rink.

 

[Love Donkeys]

Oh how many splinters I got from those wooden see saws

I would try to jump off the Seesaw when the other kid was up in the air. Boy, they would come down to earth in a hurry!

 

[2 Acres]

I remember that.

What if it burst open?

Oh the carnage

 

[BigBlueHen53]

What if it burst open?

Traumatizing.