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For all the kids that survived the 40s 50s 60s 70s? |
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine 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 on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight 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 channels on cable, no video tape 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 cut, broke 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 walked in and talked to them! Little League had tryouts 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 has 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 lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! thank you...(taking a bow) Source(s): =) read that on a web page the other day dude but its all true aint it You described my childhood to a "T". You must of been one of the kids in my neighborhood! :-) You certainly woke up some wonderful old memories with this one 'D': How on earth did I ever reach 65 and thank God, I can still stand up, play golf five times a week and be financially secure, I will never know until I reach 100. Not to take anything away from what you say, there is just one I will add, if I may: The Hoops Season. It鈥檚 hard to think, for the modern child, When we were young, what drove us wild. For computers and those mobile phones, Are never likely to break bones. Each year, just as the seasons came, We boys would play a certain game, The one that I will tell you true, Is Hoops, and what we used to do. A bicycle wheel with the tyre removed, Was not so bad and so it proved, A car tyre 鈥?never big enough, But a lorry wheel 鈥?now that鈥檚 the stuff. Hoops was what we called the game, And often ended with great pain, For when the lorry tyre we鈥檇 use, An unlucky lad we had to choose. Up the hill, higher and higher We鈥檇 roll the lad, inside the tyre, Then with a push the mighty load, Gathered speed towards the road. Cars were fewer at that time, So things were looking pretty fine, Until the wall at the hill鈥檚 end, Came much too soon before the bend. Each lad, he had to take his turn, And with each run, he had to learn, How to make the tyre brake, Before he reached the road and gate. 鈥楾ill blood was drawn, or bones were broke, We treated this game as a joke, But then we鈥檇 tremble with great fear, And stop the nonsense for another year. ---------------------- My own......... |
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