Unkle_John
11-07-2007, 09:22 AM
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 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.
We were allowed to use scissors and used them to cut out our paper dolls and kites.
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.
We played baseball, kickball, flew kites, played tag.
We knew how to play Hop-Scotch with rocks and kept ourselves
occupied all day doing that.
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 PlayStation's, Nintendo, 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 played with our Barbie Dolls, and the boys used them in
war games with their G.I.Joe's, and later we would find them
full of mud.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
Babydolls had names and were "part of the family" in order to keep the peace.
We knew how to play checkers, and fish, and battle with cards, and it kept us busy for hours.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were able to make entire villages and towns with Popsicle sticks and glue, and we NEVER got high from the glue.
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.
Everyone wore the same type of tennis shoes, clothes, etc. NO ONE ever died of embarrassment from wearing the same thing the other girl or boy wore..
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
School sports had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
When our bicycles broke, we knew that we had to repair them because we were not going to get a brand new one just because it broke!
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, huh?
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.
We were allowed to use scissors and used them to cut out our paper dolls and kites.
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.
We played baseball, kickball, flew kites, played tag.
We knew how to play Hop-Scotch with rocks and kept ourselves
occupied all day doing that.
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 PlayStation's, Nintendo, 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 played with our Barbie Dolls, and the boys used them in
war games with their G.I.Joe's, and later we would find them
full of mud.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
Babydolls had names and were "part of the family" in order to keep the peace.
We knew how to play checkers, and fish, and battle with cards, and it kept us busy for hours.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were able to make entire villages and towns with Popsicle sticks and glue, and we NEVER got high from the glue.
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.
Everyone wore the same type of tennis shoes, clothes, etc. NO ONE ever died of embarrassment from wearing the same thing the other girl or boy wore..
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
School sports had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
When our bicycles broke, we knew that we had to repair them because we were not going to get a brand new one just because it broke!
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, huh?