EphemeralTao
Elric Wolfsbruder ✡️♿🇺🇦We Gen Xers were so feral, there was a commercial to remind our parents that they had children.
Finnley Dolfin
IT'S 11 O'CLOCK. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?
Aviva Gary@wolfsbruder I remember these... 🤔
Brian LawsonHop on your bike at 8 am. Home when the street lights come on.
BlackDutchSnark@wolfsbruder
Feral Gen-Xer here🙋🏻
Feral Gen-Xer here🙋🏻
ink and yarn@wolfsbruder That PSA was often followed by mom's voice, with warning-tone enabled: "I'm pretty sure I know where my children are, and if they're not already in bed they'd better get there, quick!" 😅
Voline@wolfsbruder Sometime in the 1970s …
Me, wet from head to toe: Hi, Mom.
Mom: Hi, what have you been up to?
Me: I fell through the ice into the river again.
Mom: Okay, hang up that wet snowmobile suit by the fire. Dinner won’t be for another hour.
Hudson@wolfsbruder In my small town childhood they blasted the tornado siren at 10 pm every night to announce curfew.
costrike@wolfsbruder "outside"
Artsea@wolfsbruder I remember laughing at it because I started babysitting at 11. We had the streetlight rule generally and the coaches whistle rule. The coaches whistle meant "come home now" and every kid in the neighborhood used my stepmom's rule as I was the oldest kid. Evidently if I went home, they had to go home too.
I only found out as an adult, lol!
I only found out as an adult, lol!
Toni 
@wolfsbruder Yup. Some days in the summer I literally took off in the morning and came back in the dark.
Lintra@wolfsbruder It's not that we were feral, it was that they were crappy at keeping any kind of track of us. Anyway, I waited until my mom had been asleep a few hours before I snuck out my window...
Chris Helming 
@wolfsbruder me now-a-days with three kids: who tf has the energy to stay up until 10pm?!
Third spruce tree on the left@wolfsbruder we didn't come inside until the street lights came on. You could tell it was summer because Dallas or Dynasty would be on the TV when you did.
We Can Be Gyros@wolfsbruder good times. I'd yell Hi Ma! sometimes.
CodieneC@wolfsbruder Boomer kids were the first to get that PS message :p
@CodieneC not in the same degree, or even nationally or majority region, when it first was done, it was in a few minor VERY conservative locals that put curfew laws into place and it was only a locality PSA.
It wasn't until the 80s that there was a national campaign so that it was done everywhere and so became a national PSA. (I went looking this up after someone else mentioned something along the lines of what you have. Made for some interesting reading)
UPDATED to add that is was the Regan Administration that pushed through "Where are your kids" because, Nancy of course.
@wolfsbruder The PSA was put out when I was young and had nothing to do with curfews - in Canada it played across the country
@CodieneC Ahhh. See after getting out of eastern europe I grew up in the US (detroit).
Not quite the same thing. I only looked up details for the US.
I really appreciate learning more from its use in other countries
@wolfsbruder ... and I grew up about 73km from Detroit :)
@CodieneC I am asuming somehwere in Ontario further north than Windsor
@wolfsbruder Yeppers
@CodieneC of the 4 VHF channels I could get CBC was always the better one (the others being CBS, NBC, and ABC)
ms@wolfsbruder This PSA has always creeped me out. Just has a very sinister feel to it.
random thoughts@wolfsbruder As a young teenager I could go out at 6AM and come back at 10PM, although there's a massive male-privilege hidden in this message.
@hittitezombie Growing up in Detroit after making it to the West, I understand that it was a massive male privilege.
In Detroit, I also learned and watched that it was also white privilege there too :(
If one could pass as a WASP, one could get away with damn near anything :(
My accent was still noticeable at the time, so as long as I didn't speak...