We survived!

[oberon]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 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, bread and 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 made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

[monie]

Damn I wish I was born at least 10 years earlier... lol

Lucky people you... grr

Although a lot of that actually does apply to how I grew up... haha

But not all of it

[finewine]

Let's hope those kids taught their kids well.

[vagabondprince]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (oberon @ Jan. 23 2005,23:40)]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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

i just thought i'd point out that your generation is the lawyer, the government that is regulating our lives. And i do it only because i am a big irony enthusiast

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[monie]

hahaha great point Vaga!!!

[finewine]

what are we going to do about it?

[canoestripper]

Wow, most of the things I miss from being a kid, especially riding in the back of a pick-up. I miss those days.

[lilly2279]

Oh yeah. I remember riding in the back of pick-ups. I always liked to sit on the bump over the back wheel. So that was even more dangerous!! wooo hoooo!

I also remember that I would play outside all day, have kool-aid stained mouth and the bottoms of my bare feet would be sooooo dirty! When I would get my evening bath, i would leave this nasty ring around the tub that my mom would gripe about. ha ha ha.

I wore no sunscreen and was always fine with my olive complexion (for some reason now I burn!) I had jars of bugs and buckets of caterpillars. My best friend and I rolled down the big hill in my back yard and thought it was the biggest kick. lol. I had a tire swing above a sand box. I would get cut up and scraped and used to put sand from my sandbox on the cut to stop it from bleeding. Real clean, huh? And I never missed a day of school for being sick my entire elementary education. I think infusing dirt into my blood gave me some kind of weird special immune system. lol

At 13, instead of having sex, we have sleepovers with other girls and played truth or dare, or board games and stayed up all night. completely sober!! It was the time of our lives.

Monie, I wish you had been born a while back too, because childhoods like that, are the best. We were so innocent. I'm sure some were not, maybe I was an exception. But I'm proud to be a child of the 70's. I'd go back any day.

Freeze tag anyone? lol