'No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us, we are pretty Awesome! Our Life Is Living Proof!'
'This Is For 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 were pregnant.
They took aspirin, drank coffee, ate blue cheese dressing, lunch meat, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes bad brakes. Sometimes dad let us drive the car in his lap.
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, a mountain spring, 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, real butter and bacon. We drank whole milk heavy with cream, and Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. Why?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
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 okay.
On Sundays there were no malls and everything was closed except church.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them 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 Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no 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 would get spankings with wooden spoons, leather belts, switches, or just a bare hand or fist, and no one would call child services to report abuse.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We made fires in our yards and everyone loved the smell and didn't call the police.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with hoses, sticks, and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke 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.
When we came home with bad grades, it was our fault and not the teacher. Or the Nun. Or the school.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They 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 modern parent and lawyers and government regulate so much of our lives for our own good we lose what is good about being a kid.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it? I just did and Look...I'm still here..."
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'With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu, swine flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' Jay Leno
'This Is For 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 were pregnant.
They took aspirin, drank coffee, ate blue cheese dressing, lunch meat, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes bad brakes. Sometimes dad let us drive the car in his lap.
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, a mountain spring, 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, real butter and bacon. We drank whole milk heavy with cream, and Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. Why?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
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 okay.
On Sundays there were no malls and everything was closed except church.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them 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 Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no 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 would get spankings with wooden spoons, leather belts, switches, or just a bare hand or fist, and no one would call child services to report abuse.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We made fires in our yards and everyone loved the smell and didn't call the police.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with hoses, sticks, and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke 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.
When we came home with bad grades, it was our fault and not the teacher. Or the Nun. Or the school.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They 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 modern parent and lawyers and government regulate so much of our lives for our own good we lose what is good about being a kid.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it? I just did and Look...I'm still here..."
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'With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu, swine flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' Jay Leno
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