10 Things That Soviet Children Could Do, Unlike Modern Ones

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

10 things that Soviet children knew how and are forgotten today

After the collapse of the USSR, our country not only changed its name - the way of life of former Soviet citizens also gradually changed. Thus, the upbringing of modern children is very different from the upbringing of their peers before perestroika. The guys who were born and lived in the Soviet Union knew a lot that today's pampered children never dreamed of.

Content

• 1 Be independent
• 2 Work with your hands and help with the housework
• 3 Communicate a lot with each other
• 4 Collect
• 5 Take good care of things
• 6 Obey and respect elders
• 7 Don't be afraid of pain
• 8 Be patriots
• 9 naive to dream
• 10 Choose a future profession according to interests

Be independent

In most Soviet families, a child who grew up to school (that is, 6–7 years old) could independently move around his area, stay at home all day (while his parents were at work). He could warm up his lunch without any problems (however, he could eat it and cold), some even knew how to cook simple dishes, for example, scrambled eggs or porridge. Parents could send the baby to the store for bread and milk.

Today, administrative and even criminal liability is stipulated for leaving a minor child unattended. The children themselves are much more infantile and helpless than their Soviet peers.

Soviet children gained independence early

Independence in Soviet times was also expressed in self-care and self-service. So, Soviet kids in kindergarten already at 4–5 years old perfectly tied their shoelaces, which even many modern junior schoolchildren cannot do (and why, if there are Velcro shoes?).

My nine-year-old son goes to the pool and tells how many dads there after a workout wash his peers in the shower, then dry them with a towel and dress them completely.

Work with your hands and help with the housework

Soviet girls learned to cook early, wash their clothes, could sew on a button, sew up torn clothes. Again, already in the first grade, they had certain household responsibilities (dusting, washing floors, etc.)

Boys, from an early age, learned how to repair household appliances (iron, table lamp, etc.), could fix a torn wire (strip, connect and fasten the ends with electrical tape), knew how to build an antenna from a wire for a TV in order to improve image clarity. Modern guys often do not know how to do this even at the age of 18.

Soviet children knew how to work with their hands - in many ways this was facilitated by the lessons of labor at school

Communicate a lot with each other

Soviet children spent their free time in the yard - after school and even more so during the holidays. The guys played numerous games (mobile, role-playing), were friendly, close-knit. The elders patronized the younger ones, passed on their experience to them.

The Soviet guys spent their free time in the courtyard, where they played, had fun, just enjoyed live, not virtual communication

For modern boys and girls, the best friends are electronic gadgets (computer, laptop, tablet, telephone). The main communication has become virtual. The guys, if they go out, do not go out for a long time (sooner home - again at the computer), more often during the summer holidays. As for the winter ones, you rarely see children on the street, having fun rolling downhills or making snowmen.

Collect

In Soviet times, every child must collect something: stamps, badges, calendars, postcards, coins. For everyone, such a collection was an invaluable treasure, it was often revised and admired for a long time. In the 90s. children began to collect already inserts from gum, stickers from "Kuku-ruka".

Every Soviet child was sure to collect something

Today, the guys are practically not engaged in collecting. Of course, someone collects figurines of animals or thematic dolls, but here the game function remains in the foreground.

Take good care of things

Most of the Soviet children had few toys and were treated with care. After all, there was a shortage of all goods in the country, and the purchase of each new thing was a holiday. The same was true for children's clothes, shoes, books.

The children had few toys, each was a favorite, they were treated with care

Today, children have a lot of toys, outfits, and few people value their things. Even if the family has a small income, they try not to deny the child anything, so that he is not the worst of all in the kindergarten or school. As a result, the boy breaks down a new car two days after buying it, and the girl rips off the doll's head.

Obey and respect elders

In the USSR, respect for elders was instilled from the cradle. Children, without being reminded by their parents, gave way to older people in transport. Modern mothers, first of all, plant their child (by no means a nursery), and they themselves stand next to the old people.

Respect for elders was instilled in Soviet children from an early age

The Soviet guys did not even have a thought to get nasty at an adult, either a friend or a stranger. Today's children are spoiled, they can talk rudely with others, including their parents.

Don't be afraid of pain

Walking in the street, Soviet guys tore off their knees and elbows. At the same time, no one attached much importance to this: plantain was simply applied to the wound in the summer, and the fun continued.

Soviet children fell all the time, ripped off their knees, elbows, while continuing to play merrily

Modern children are pampered in this regard: the slightest scratch becomes a tragedy. They run to show her to her mother, who groans and gasps, begins to console her crying child.

A nurse I know who worked at a children's summer camp said that children came to her every day in droves. With wide eyes they pointed to the same scratch, mosquito bite, etc., asked to treat the "wound" with green stuff and other preparations.

Be patriots

The guys in the USSR imagined a bright future, which they would build themselves, how they would glorify their homeland (industrial exploits, scientific discoveries, sports achievements). The boys were rather waiting to join the army (it was very honorable).

Soviet children were patriots, the boys dreamed of serving in the army

Today, everyone knows how parents intimidate future men with their upcoming military service. The spirit of patriotism is also absent in sports: foreign clubs buy and sell Russian athletes.

It's naive to dream

In the past, the children had romantic, lofty dreams: to get a huge box of sweets, to have a dog, to learn to fly so that their mother would never get sick and be happy.

Soviet children had naive romantic dreams far from pragmatism

Modern children have very material, mundane dreams: “I want a cool phone (laptop, iPhone)”, “I want a rich husband so that I never work,” etc.

Choose a future profession according to your interests

Soviet children wanted to be teachers and doctors, cooks and hairdressers, policemen and astronauts. Having matured, they chose a profession according to their interests. Today, if you ask a girl who she wants to become when she grows up, she will probably name the profession of a photo model, actress, singer. Boys plan to be bankers, traffic police officers, police officers, but only because they know from their parents that this job is well paid.

Soviet children dreamed of becoming doctors, teachers, cooks, astronauts, not bankers and photo models.

A modern child and his peer of the Soviet period are two completely different people. Children in the USSR as a whole were much more independent, they acquired many life skills early. At the same time, they loved to dream, communicate and be happy. Of course, it is not the guys themselves who are to blame for the metamorphoses that have taken place, but the living conditions, the changed thinking of Russian people.