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09-29-2006, 8:30am
This is dedicated to
Those Born 1930-1979!
TO ALL THE
KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 1970's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. They did not get pre natal care, or took folic acid. Ultrasound had not been invented.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs
covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no baby alarms.
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 and playing in the street. We played with matches, and they were not the safety kind.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We hung our arms out of the car window.
For many years we had no speed limits. No drivers exam.
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 cola made with
sugar, 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. The cell phone had not been invented.
And we were just FINE.
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, or the brick was at the end of our street we learned to solve the problem. We only forgot the brakes but once.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games, Until the late 50’s we had not Television at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound, CD's or Ipods, no cell phones!, no personal computers , no Internet or chat rooms....... but 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. If the swing broke, our parents fixed it, and did not blame someone else.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.
We were given Air 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 any 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!
We did not have school councillors or career advisors.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
OUR Parents actually sided with the law!
These generations have 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!
If 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 so much of our lives
for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Those Born 1930-1979!
TO ALL THE
KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 1970's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. They did not get pre natal care, or took folic acid. Ultrasound had not been invented.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs
covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no baby alarms.
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 and playing in the street. We played with matches, and they were not the safety kind.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We hung our arms out of the car window.
For many years we had no speed limits. No drivers exam.
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 cola made with
sugar, 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. The cell phone had not been invented.
And we were just FINE.
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, or the brick was at the end of our street we learned to solve the problem. We only forgot the brakes but once.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games, Until the late 50’s we had not Television at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound, CD's or Ipods, no cell phones!, no personal computers , no Internet or chat rooms....... but 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. If the swing broke, our parents fixed it, and did not blame someone else.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.
We were given Air 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 any 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!
We did not have school councillors or career advisors.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
OUR Parents actually sided with the law!
These generations have 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!
If 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 so much of our lives
for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.