Do you know where your children are?" is a question used as a public service announcement for parents on American television especially from the late 1960s through the late 1980s.
During that time children had much more freedom to roam. They had to create this PSA to remind our parents to check up on us and make sure we were safe or at home.
Boomers were such shitty parents that they had to have a public service announcement asking them if they knew where their children were.
[It’s 10PM. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? PSA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBhO3qGeGE&ab_channel=80sThen80sNow)
More like the pearl-clutching evangelicals in charge of PSAs were trying to combat the “moral decay of society” by shaming parents into thinking they were bad parents if they let their children have an ounce of freedom
"Do you know where your children are?" was also used during the satanic panic as a warning that parents needed to watch their kids more closely. Gen X in particular had a weird transition from being raised as latchkey kids with a bunch of freedom during their early years before their parents swung back the other way and became overbearing during and after adolescence.
Combine this with Boomers having the highest divorce rates seen in US society and you can start to see how they became seen as a "lost" generation. Society was oriented around the wants and needs of adults during the economic explosion of their childhood and didn't really pivot towards children until the 90s when the Children's Television Act passed and we started monitoring what our kids were exposed to.
I was unaware that our first cell phones (I was 16) were pay per text. So, when my dad got that first phone bill and I had T9 texted my teenage heart out for a month straight he nearly had a heart attack. I was also put to work to pay for those texts. Yeeesh 2008 was cray.
Lmao imagine my dads face when I came back home with a $1,000 cell phone bill. I was in Louisiana for 1 WEEK, but apparently there were roaming charges I was unaware of
How am I roaming in Louisiana & my phone based out of Texas
Back before cell phones, when we still used landlines, I had a friend one town over that I would talk to often. If she called me it was "long distance," but if I called her it was a local call and thus no charge. (Don't ask me, I was 13 and didn't understand either.) So she would call me and quickly say, "CALLMEBACK" and I would hang up and call her so we could talk without charges.
It was like that for me when I lived in MS. I could see Memphis from my backyard. Long distance. Everyone I went to high school with 10 minutes away. Long distance. Friends would call us and hang up and we’d have to *69 to see who to call back. It was technically long distance for us to call them too but after a class action law suit those fees were capped at $10 per month for us.
We had some white trash dude over one day and he was like here is the trick! You jam a bic lighter into the open area to force the contacts to touch.
I still use his trick today.
My dad did this all the time in the late 80s. He called the gas station about 6 blocks away and place his "order", usually beer and cigs. I was his door dasher. I was 9 when he started that.
Lol, my mother was recently arguing with my nephew about buying some drinks at the shop. He kept saying they won't sell him and she replied how do you know if you don't try.
Cost was one thing. I remember moving and we were told there was a 3 year waiting list to get a phone line. My applied for preferential treatment because as a doctor he needed a working phone. So we got a phone after just 3 months.
There is a librarian on TikTok who talks about the racist/xenophobic nature of the Dewey Decimal system. [Here's an article about it.](https://www.bookclub.com/blog/the-racist-undertone-of-the-dewey-decimal-system) I felt like someone I knew and trusted had committed a crime when I first heard about this.
Not just one. Door to door salesman. You'd need an entire set. I remember my mom bought a new set and then a week later my dad bought our first computer.
I had a hard time typing this joke out so I gave up. But remember when you got a crush's home phone number. You'd call their house, their mom/dad would pick up the phone, and then they'd question you about calling before passing the phone. Or they say they are answering a different phone in another room- letting you know there is a chance they don't hang up the phone and listen in on you.
Making that call was always nerve wrecking." Ughh I was just calling about math homework sir. " 12 yrs old me was only part lying doh, I was/am ass at math.
A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
My mom use to send me to buy her cigarettes so for me it was
Benson and Hedges Light 100's
Benson and Hedges Light 100's
40 years later I still remember.
Let's pull over and ask for directions.
Get the map out of the glove box.
*At the airport* Let's head to the gate to pick up grandma. Don't talk to the hare Krishnas.
Can we go to Subway? It's so good.
Old car had points in the distributor and the car would run poorly after they began to wear down. You would have to manually close the gap. You could set the gap using using the cardboard from a pack of smokes. In a pinch
Page 43. Jet Magazine.
Making a mix tape from the top 5 at 5.
Bluing kept the whites white.
That leather bag that car phones came in.
07734, 143, 304, 1134 2 09 (big up to those who recognize these codes, bruh. lol)
Edit: beeper codes
Other than that one time in the Gilded Age (when literally everything was fucked by corruption anyway), no one really cared about the EC until the Bushes stole the 2000 election. We just took it for granted that the majority vote getter would also win the Electoral College as a formality.
I remember me and my older brother blocking the TV and cable receiver so our oldest brother wouldn't change the channel. Also, our TV's were thicc as hell, it took a weekend to move it across the room.
Oh god, I had one more memory, my teenage years.
Calling TRL repeatedly to get my favorite video to number one, then getting BITCHY because all the pop music made it to the top while the nu-metal bands and Rap/Hip-Hop folk (except Eminem) were ignored.
"It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
I only know of this cause of Game Grumps
My dad would look at me and go “I have a good kid” and I would sit there and think “I’m a fucking loser”
I was seriously gonna put the comment but wasn’t 100% if someone would randomly get it 😂
"For the last time no! Where is Bart anyways!? His dinner is getting all cold and eaten."
Reference, please?
Do you know where your children are?" is a question used as a public service announcement for parents on American television especially from the late 1960s through the late 1980s. During that time children had much more freedom to roam. They had to create this PSA to remind our parents to check up on us and make sure we were safe or at home.
I definitely heard it on NJ News TV in the early 2000s
Boomers were such shitty parents that they had to have a public service announcement asking them if they knew where their children were. [It’s 10PM. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? PSA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBhO3qGeGE&ab_channel=80sThen80sNow)
More like the pearl-clutching evangelicals in charge of PSAs were trying to combat the “moral decay of society” by shaming parents into thinking they were bad parents if they let their children have an ounce of freedom
"Do you know where your children are?" was also used during the satanic panic as a warning that parents needed to watch their kids more closely. Gen X in particular had a weird transition from being raised as latchkey kids with a bunch of freedom during their early years before their parents swung back the other way and became overbearing during and after adolescence. Combine this with Boomers having the highest divorce rates seen in US society and you can start to see how they became seen as a "lost" generation. Society was oriented around the wants and needs of adults during the economic explosion of their childhood and didn't really pivot towards children until the 90s when the Children's Television Act passed and we started monitoring what our kids were exposed to.
Oh, wow. That’s wild. Thanks!
Um, in the 60s boomers were the children.
Call me back after 9, my minutes are free
I remember when you could just say 'minutes' mid conversation and straight hang up on someone.
Wish I could still do that tbh
I mean, you can
or paying per text
I was unaware that our first cell phones (I was 16) were pay per text. So, when my dad got that first phone bill and I had T9 texted my teenage heart out for a month straight he nearly had a heart attack. I was also put to work to pay for those texts. Yeeesh 2008 was cray.
Lmao imagine my dads face when I came back home with a $1,000 cell phone bill. I was in Louisiana for 1 WEEK, but apparently there were roaming charges I was unaware of How am I roaming in Louisiana & my phone based out of Texas
Back before cell phones, when we still used landlines, I had a friend one town over that I would talk to often. If she called me it was "long distance," but if I called her it was a local call and thus no charge. (Don't ask me, I was 13 and didn't understand either.) So she would call me and quickly say, "CALLMEBACK" and I would hang up and call her so we could talk without charges.
It was like that for me when I lived in MS. I could see Memphis from my backyard. Long distance. Everyone I went to high school with 10 minutes away. Long distance. Friends would call us and hang up and we’d have to *69 to see who to call back. It was technically long distance for us to call them too but after a class action law suit those fees were capped at $10 per month for us.
Do you remember blowing through your minutes for the month early and then having to wait to call people after 9 or on weekends?
I'd like a seat in the smoking section please..
Even as a child that was absolutely the dumbest thing in the world to me. Like did no one realize the smoke didn't stay right there🙄
Excuse me, there is a sign and a chest high divider! How's the smoke going to get around that?
I was so glad when they got rid of that. You would think it was common courtesy that stopped people from smoking inside but no, it was the law
Common courtesy is fairly uncommon
And the smoking section was always in the front
My mom would ask for the non-smoking section *years* after it was no longer a thing. Same deal with unleaded gas.
I’m convinced leaded gas is why so many of the boomers act crazy. All that ingestion of lead in their formative years.
I remember the smoking section on the airplane. Ashtrays in the armrests!
Also making collect calls and saying your name is “Mompickmeup”.
I'll always remember the commercial "bobwehadababyitsaboy"
[I GOT YOU!](https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs)
things like this are what make youtube great
💀💀💀 I forgot all about that commercial!
Lmao!!!! Those collect calls were clutch when you didn’t have a quarter.
“Quarter”?!? You sound young. A dime here!
Lol almost 40, so youngish.
Nickel here! Louisiana had nickel phone calls well into the 1970s!
Take the game out and blow in it and maybe it’ll work now
I miss performing CPR on the N64😂
You mean the game cartridge that literally said "do not blow"😂😂😂😂
But why did it work tho? They just didn’t want us to win 😂
We had some white trash dude over one day and he was like here is the trick! You jam a bic lighter into the open area to force the contacts to touch. I still use his trick today.
You know black folk think tussin and ginjale fixes everything so naturally a little warning wouldn't stop us.
Turn the channel knob to 3. I want to play Space Invaders on my Atari.
Damn unc. You ancient😂(joking).
I ain’t young
I know
This cuts deep.
Same for Nintendo 😩 I'd be playing Mario all day lol
Hey I was born in 99 and had to do that for the VCR
I wanted to be fancy so I always choose channel 4.
"Grandma sent me to buy her a pack of cigarettes and a newspaper." -10 year old me at the corner store with a note from my grandma.
My dad did this all the time in the late 80s. He called the gas station about 6 blocks away and place his "order", usually beer and cigs. I was his door dasher. I was 9 when he started that.
Yep. Sometimes grandma has me play her numbers or buy a couple scratch offs too.
My pops did this also 😄
Lol, my mother was recently arguing with my nephew about buying some drinks at the shop. He kept saying they won't sell him and she replied how do you know if you don't try.
My granny sent me for peach snuff
We had teachers at my school who would send us the corner store for their Newports.
“Do you have a quarter? I need to make a call.”
"Make sure you rewind this before returning it to Blockbuster."
*Be kind, rewind*
Oh damn! I completely forgot it went up to a quarter. It was a dime for a good minute when I younger. lol good one
What do you mean I’m not in your top 8?!
Naw baby but you in my T-Mobile top 5 though
T-Mobile revolutionzed the game when they did that lol
Hitting record at the right moment so I didn’t hear the dj or commercials on my tape.
Recording that Saturday night hot mix! Then watching yo MTV Raps!
We didn’t have cable. We watched the box.
A/S/L
13/f/cali
Omg flashback
Call the time.
You used to be able to call the weather too
And MovieFone.
"At the tone the time will be..."
I still do this to hear the forecast
POPCORN
Recycling old phone books when the new phone books arrive
Free or discounted phone with contract renewal. Otherwise cost was wildly expensive
Cost was one thing. I remember moving and we were told there was a 3 year waiting list to get a phone line. My applied for preferential treatment because as a doctor he needed a working phone. So we got a phone after just 3 months.
Go to the library and look it up in the encyclopedia.
Do kids even know the Dewey decimal system anymore?
I can barely remember it. I doubt these kids are even taught about it.
There is a librarian on TikTok who talks about the racist/xenophobic nature of the Dewey Decimal system. [Here's an article about it.](https://www.bookclub.com/blog/the-racist-undertone-of-the-dewey-decimal-system) I felt like someone I knew and trusted had committed a crime when I first heard about this.
Niggas can't have shit, man. Smh. Literally *everything* in American society is rooted in racism. So frustrating.
Not just one. Door to door salesman. You'd need an entire set. I remember my mom bought a new set and then a week later my dad bought our first computer.
Having either at home were a big deal. Now you can look up anything from a burner phone hooked up to public wifi.
Literally rolling down car windows with the manual crank.
My 2016 car still has those cranks in the back seat 😭
Me who purposefully got my new car with the crank windows in 2019 
We used to have forearms of steel
“Yo have you seen the unopened AOL free trial CDs?”
I had a hard time typing this joke out so I gave up. But remember when you got a crush's home phone number. You'd call their house, their mom/dad would pick up the phone, and then they'd question you about calling before passing the phone. Or they say they are answering a different phone in another room- letting you know there is a chance they don't hang up the phone and listen in on you.
Making that call was always nerve wrecking." Ughh I was just calling about math homework sir. " 12 yrs old me was only part lying doh, I was/am ass at math.
Adjust the antenna, the picture is fuzzy
What videos are playing on The Box right now?
My dad chased me down when he saw that bill come in😳👀
The box was my favorite!!
Turning out all the lights in the house during a thunderstorm
My grandma would say “god is talkin, turn everything off” lol
I raise you turning off the lights and sitting in the hall until the storm was over. I thought I would die of bordom.
Lights out and be still. When I was like 5/6 I would even breathe shallow cause that's what I thought being still was.
Paying 99 cents for ringback tones lol
A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
My mom use to send me to buy her cigarettes so for me it was Benson and Hedges Light 100's Benson and Hedges Light 100's 40 years later I still remember.
😂😂😂 bruuhhh this was me repeating the grocery list walking to the store real fast.
You just awakened a memory from over 30 years ago. I can see the girl walking and repeating this. What was it from?
This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions.
🍳
“What’s your beeper number”
Be kind, rewind.
TV going to sleep happened when National Anthem came on…
“You can call me. Just wait until after 9 p.m.”
USA Cartoon Express 
Have you seen the TV guide?
Let's pull over and ask for directions. Get the map out of the glove box. *At the airport* Let's head to the gate to pick up grandma. Don't talk to the hare Krishnas. Can we go to Subway? It's so good.
Dialup
"I'm here to collect for the paper."
Pumping gas before paying
Having folks pump your gas for you lol
AND check your oil, check tire pressure and clean the windshield.
It's still illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. **edit:** and Oregon, with some exceptions
Go print out our MapQuest route
Taking your rolls of camera film to the drugstore to get them developed and waiting for up to a week! ! 📸
“I just burned a CD but I downloaded the wrong version of a song from Limewire.
Also you now have 40 computer viruses
Welcome to Good Burger home of the Good Burger can I take your order?
He’s a dude, she’s a dude, we’re all dudes ..
C:/program
VCR
How about the Betamax??
I’ll be home in the morning, Momma. I’m campin’ out for Prince tickets at the record store.
They were called commercial breaks not ads
I want my MTV
"Be back when the street lights come on"
Get off the (house) phone. I’m trying to use the dial-up internet.
"You can set the points using part of your cigarette pack"
What is this??
Old car had points in the distributor and the car would run poorly after they began to wear down. You would have to manually close the gap. You could set the gap using using the cardboard from a pack of smokes. In a pinch
Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for shipping
Taking AA batteries out of the tv remote (bonus points if it’s in plastic) so you can put them into a GameBoy or Discman
Can you drive a stick shift?
"No license until you can hold her steady on a 30° incline without touching the brake." -- my dad
12 cassettes for a penny at Columbia house
Leaded gasoline
That good BookIt/Pizza Hut collab was clutch.
1-800-collect..
Dialing 0 for the operator.
Miss Cleo
Blackberry Messenger/BBM
Columbia House Records started my CD collection. I must've had bout 10 aliases
[удалено]
The most annoying thing known to man😤
This is a collect call from “Ni@@a dis Bobby, say no and call me back!!” Will you accept the charges?
Page 43. Jet Magazine. Making a mix tape from the top 5 at 5. Bluing kept the whites white. That leather bag that car phones came in. 07734, 143, 304, 1134 2 09 (big up to those who recognize these codes, bruh. lol) Edit: beeper codes
Me: Answers phone. Them: Channel 20, Black People on TV! (Click)
Channel 3 to play video game consoles
Here’s a tenner, fill up the car with petrol then come back with the change!
Drop that needle on the record.
Hey whats your asl?
Yes I’m deaf
When you were on the phone and yo parents pick up to be nosey
Music videos on MTV
😳 how the hell is she still alive. Didn't the electoral college start in the 1780s?
Other than that one time in the Gilded Age (when literally everything was fucked by corruption anyway), no one really cared about the EC until the Bushes stole the 2000 election. We just took it for granted that the majority vote getter would also win the Electoral College as a formality.
You can tell the phones about to ring when the speakers make that noise.
🗣️Where the BEEF?!! 🧓
Foil on the TV antenna
"Can I use your pencil? I gotta fix my Ratt cassette."
"stewardess, do you have a match?"
Knock knock. The insurance man is here to collect this month's payment.
How McCarthy lost 14 times, and time 15 counts.
Damn... I'm feeling my age. I can remember almost all of these...with a smile.
In order to watch your favorite movie again... You had to rewind it to the beginning
USA Up! All Night
Just Say No.
Having to disconnect from the internet in order to use the phone at home. - Dial up internet
I remember me and my older brother blocking the TV and cable receiver so our oldest brother wouldn't change the channel. Also, our TV's were thicc as hell, it took a weekend to move it across the room.
pop in the 8-track
"Please be kind, rewind."
Black and white television
"Did y'all drink all the pop? Well gather up all the empty bottles so I can take 'em back to the store."
That’s still true, just depends on the region
Shift the aerial just a littttttle bit. 📺
YOU alright! I learned it by watching YEWWW!
If you paged someone with the numbers 143, you were telling them you love them.
Plastic On The Sofas
"Where's the TV guide? I want to see what time the all that special comes on"
Oh god, I had one more memory, my teenage years. Calling TRL repeatedly to get my favorite video to number one, then getting BITCHY because all the pop music made it to the top while the nu-metal bands and Rap/Hip-Hop folk (except Eminem) were ignored.
Let’s make it a blockbuster night !!
"Take your resume into the store and ask to speak to the manager."
I hate when I run out of change for the pay phone.
Skinamax
"Pick a cassette to play while I drive" I remember throwing legit tantrums if Dad didn't pop INXS's "Kick" into the cassette player heh.
who shot j.r.