TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930'S, 40'S, 50'S, 60'S AND 70'S !!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/ or drank while carring us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trama, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead based paints.
WE HAD NO CHILDPROOF LIDS ON MEDICAINE BOTTLES, DOORS OR CABINETS. AND WHEN WE RODE OUR BIKES, WE HAD NO HELMETS, NOT TO MENTION, THE RISKS WE TOOK HITCHHIKING!!
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
we drank water from the garden hose and hot from a bottle. we shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died fron this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't over weight because.........
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. no one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channel on cable, no video taped movies, no surround sound. No cell phones, no personal computers. No internet or internet chat rooms.... we had FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!!!
We fell out of trees, got cuts, broken bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
we ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
we were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
we rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them !!
Little League had try outs and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to LEARN to deal with disappointment. IMAGINE THAT!!
the idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.....THEY ACTUALLY SIDED WITH THE LAW!!!
This generation had produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.
the past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. we had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all!!
and you are one of them!!!
congratulations!!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyer and government regulated our lives for our own good. and while you are at it, forward it to yourkids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with sissors, doesn't it !!
