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Here's to US !!!!
It doesn't matter what our kids and the new generation
think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To Those of Us Born 1930 - 1979
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 drank &/or smoked while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, ate 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 lights and lead-based paints.
We had no child-proof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
And when we had our sleds, we tied them to the bumper of a car and had a really neat ride as long as you made sure you didn't slide under the car when it stopped.
As infants and children we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires, and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from a 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, real butter or lard, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren't overweight.. - WHY?
Because we were always outside playing... that 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.
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, &/or 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 a few bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, coat hangers, or just a bare hand, 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 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, rang the bell, or we just walked in and talked to them.
Our Little League had tryouts. Not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The very 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 lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors or a Busse knife, doesn't it?
It doesn't matter what our kids and the new generation
think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To Those of Us Born 1930 - 1979
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 drank &/or smoked while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, ate 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 lights and lead-based paints.
We had no child-proof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
And when we had our sleds, we tied them to the bumper of a car and had a really neat ride as long as you made sure you didn't slide under the car when it stopped.
As infants and children we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires, and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from a 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, real butter or lard, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren't overweight.. - WHY?
Because we were always outside playing... that 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.
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, &/or 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 a few bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, coat hangers, or just a bare hand, 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 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, rang the bell, or we just walked in and talked to them.
Our Little League had tryouts. Not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The very 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 lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors or a Busse knife, doesn't it?
