TO ALL THE KIDS WH0 SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's &
Discussion
First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank whilst carrying 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 coloured 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 hitch hiking.
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, 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 street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day and we were okay.
We would spend hours building our go carts from scraps and then ride down the hill only to find we had forgotten the brakes. After running into bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X boxes. No video games, 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 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 never put out anyone's eye.
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.
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 your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
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 coloured 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 hitch hiking.
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, 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 street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day and we were okay.
We would spend hours building our go carts from scraps and then ride down the hill only to find we had forgotten the brakes. After running into bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X boxes. No video games, 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 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 never put out anyone's eye.
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.
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 your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
heebeegeetee said:
First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank whilst carrying 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 coloured 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 hitch hiking.
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, 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 street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day and we were okay.
We would spend hours building our go carts from scraps and then ride down the hill only to find we had forgotten the brakes. After running into bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X boxes. No video games, 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 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 never put out anyone's eye.
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.
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 your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
Black Jesus?
buzzsaw said:No, please, I can take anything....
First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank whilst carrying 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 coloured 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 hitch hiking.
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, 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 street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day and we were okay.
We would spend hours building our go carts from scraps and then ride down the hill only to find we had forgotten the brakes. After running into bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X boxes. No video games, 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 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 never put out anyone's eye.
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.
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 your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
Black Jesus?
But no more Black Jesus........
volvos70t5 said:
I believe the statistics don't actual agree with such sentiment. A lot fewer people are killed these days than was the case back then.
Yes but we were not as risk averse in those days. Also if you were a national serviceMAN there was the possiblity of going to foreign parts, meeting interesting people and shooting them.
Parents these days seem to be scared of letting their offspring do just about everything, because of lawyers, lentiists and PC politicians.
heebeegeetee said:
We would spend hours building our go carts from scraps and then ride down the hill only to find we had forgotten the brakes. After running into bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.heebeegeetee also said:
Did anyone ever actually know anybody at school get killed or die for any reason?
I don't, and neither does anyone I know know anyone who did.
Ah yes (ahem)...A kid at my school died when he crashed his homemade toboggan into a tree...head first
The hill was right next to the school...i'll never forget that...
...Still I agree with the sentiment
heebeegeetee said:
First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank whilst carrying 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 coloured 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 hitch hiking.
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, 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 street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day and we were okay.
We would spend hours building our go carts from scraps and then ride down the hill only to find we had forgotten the brakes. After running into bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X boxes. No video games, 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 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 never put out anyone's eye.
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.
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 your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
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