THE 30s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s:
♦ First, we survived being born to mothers who may have 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.
♦ 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 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 pick- up truck 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, real butter, and bacon. We drank 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.
♦ 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, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, 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 those accidents.
♦ We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, 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 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!
♦ These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever.
♦ The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
♦ We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
CONGRATULATIONS for surviving!!!
We were blessed to grow up at a time when the lawyers and the government didn't regulate so much of our lives ..."for our own good".
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Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
(Posted on FB Friday, January 22, 2010 at 10:11am)
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