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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 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, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 koolade made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or 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 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 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.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.











Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Yeah, I was brought up during all of these years, and we did all of these things --- and survived them!  And we're better for it.  Amazingly, this new generation seems rather fragile when compared to us, but as we know, they never do more than play on the sofa with a computer game.  They don't have to take responsibility and grow up thinking that they shouldn't have to, and that the world owes them something.  Teachers tell them that if they don't like a subject, they shouldn't have to take it.  I've had employers whinging about how these new kids have no sense of responsibility on the job, and don't even think they should have to do much for their pay.  Are we surprised?  I'm not.  So, what are their kids going to be like?  Is anybody else scared???

Oh, I do relate to that!  It seems like the more technology that we have to help us connect, the more we seem to need it!  I have two mobile phones so that people who visit me from other countries can have a phone to stay connected to me with, and my phone gives me the freedom to be out and about without having to worry about that missed call!  I never, ever (so far) forget my phone!  I think it would have to be surgically removed.  Do you remember when they were first invented and were the size of a large brick??  And you used to have to carry them in these huge satchels.  I only just got my first one almost five years ago, though.  I resisted it until it became absolutely necessary.  I couldn't believe that people could hear me talking on such a tiny thing, and now they have little earpieces that you can't even see.  It's amazing.

Everybdy`s time is prime time. We are boosting about us ,our next generations will also boost about their time. Think of free time we had . Now I feel pitty for my son and daughter . Because the way they are occupied with the studies . I can tell you ,I could never qualify this standard . Offcouse one thing is mising  in the present era is the human touch . Everytime  you can find the kids with computar or with mobiles. Physical fitness is the another area where modern generation is lagging behind . We can not blame them entirely . We started the track may be they have made it four lane highway . First pace ,first food first time and first go .- is the motto of time

Half agreed.