Topic: Don't Ya love this!
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1950'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, tuna from a tin, and didn't get
tested for diabetes.
Then
after that trauma, our baby cots 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
hitchhiking .
As
children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags.
Riding
in the back of a van - loose - was always great
fun.
We
drank water from the garden hosepipe 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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank 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 text messaging, 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 played
with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.
Made up games
with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we
did not poke out any eyes.
We
rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just yelled for them!
Local teams
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.
and
while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave
their parents were and still are.
PS -The BIG
type is because your eyes are shot at your age 
