People over 35 should be dead!! here is one to think about everyone Let me know what you think about this?

Question

Subject: Forward: People over 35 should be dead!
According to today's regulations and bureaucracies, those of us who
were
kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably
shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We
had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets! and when we
rode ourbikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took
hitchhiking.)
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but
were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared
one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died
from this. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and
then rode 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 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.
NO Cell Phones Unthinkable!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no
video games at all, no channels on cable, video tape movies, surround
sound,personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We
had friends! We went outside and found them.
On a hot summer day we would take off and head for the river, lake,or pond and
dive in the cool water or took a try on a rope swing god for bid there was no
lifegaurd there or at least a growen up but as friends we looked after each other.
We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. We
fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits
from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned
to get over it. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate
worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very
many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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. Some students weren't as
smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same
grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a
parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided
with the law. Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and
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 to deal with it all. And you're one of
them!

Congratulations!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids,
before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good!

People under 30 are WIMPS!!

People take this List of things add to it and pass it to freinds and family I might get it back in my e-mail some day and see how much has been added to it?? Thank you all Hugggs Robecca HO By the way the question is how many of the things on this list did you Doo???

Hey jdp I wanted to find out if people like what it has to say Stop being a stuck in the mud If you do not like it then report ME
Hugggs
Robecca

Answer 1

If the young kids today only knew what life growing up back in the 60's & 70's was like!!! Our parents were strict, but actually seemed to give a damn, gangs were only something you saw on t.v., if you got in a fight- it was with your fists, not guns!! we weren't afraid to actually fist fight back then!! Now they all just run to get a gun!! Aids?? what the heck was that??? Soon a letter like the one above will be written for this generation!!!

Answer 2

Lol this brought back many many happy memories,Aaah swinging from that rope over a 30ft drop - wonderful.Jeez if my daughter did that i'd kill her. Lol thanks for the memories.What wonderful times they were. Cannibal : you make a good point BUT,now hear me out on this,we were a lot tougher in those days,we had to be,there was none of this rushing off to hospital for the slightest bump.We were pushed out the door at 8am during the summer break,and didnt get home until 12 or 13 hours later.Food? we had to work that one out ourselves,we had to amuse ourselves.Nowadays kids have everything just THERE,i'm 41,my daughter is 14,at her age i was exploring the whole world (ok it was just my city but it felt like the world) her exploration is via the internet sitting in her cosy bedroom.I'm happy she stays home because these days,the world is alot harsher,people arent as trustworhy.Hell i used to be running up to my friends house at 11 some nights.Now i won't even go out after dark - no woman in their right mind would where i live,and yet i live in the city i was brought up in.Kids are too soft,so yes,i'd yell at her for swinging that rope over a 30ft drop because she'd do it without considering the implications whereas i knew the best place to fall etc,i even knew how to fall.I was a lot wiser,i knew what was what.my daughter isn't.Her excitement is finding a new friend on fb.Mine was living..

Answer 3

Yes, that is all true about how I grew up as well. I am 57 and still in good shape. I wish I could say the same for some 20 somethings I see in my neighborhood. Too much good food and not enough exercise. I hope they will learn from this.
However, lets not be too smug. Each generation has its own trials to deal with.
We think we had it better but there were negatives in our time as well. And don't forget that we are either the parents or the grandparents of these young people we like to criticize.
It's up to us to teach them and guide them if they will listen.

Answer 4

Wow. That is awesome. Now I must speak for the tiny sect of the generation I belong to. I am a young adult. I must say sect because I am not an average young adult. But here is how it works in thee tiny sect of this generation.
I was homeschooled by my parents. Now before anyone passes judgement you had better read on. I got down with my school early and went outside to play. So many games between me and my friend's. I can remember them to this day. All the rules we would make up and we actually used our imaginations. To this day I still use my imagination. It lets me come up with new answers and see things that I could be. Just like when I was little. We went over to friend's houses and stayed for hours swimming and using our imaginations. It was great fun. I wasn't the least bit deprived of social interactions. I knew about how the politics worked when you were a memeber of a group. I grew up knowing what it meant to actually have to think and create. Now I stand looking out on the rest of my like and I can honestly say that I enjoyed my carefree childhood free of cursing, gangs, sex, and drugs. Some people may say that I was sheltered and I was. But as I look back on it now I do not see a single reason why knowing about all of the drugs, cursing, sex, fighting, gangs, and politics would benefit me now. Some say I missed out on part of my childhood by not attending public school. I say I missed out on the worst part: being there. And believe it or not some people even say that I am not as smart as someone who may have attended public school. That I have fallen behind and I do not have a proper education. Well I have listened and listened and listened to their nagging. And they have free invitation to come back and start naggin again when I have become a R.N. at the old age of nineteen. And I did it the old fashioned way. It was no quickie online degree. I have spent hours in the classroom. And hours pouring over books studying for tests. They can come back and nag when I have graduated from medical school. They can come back and nag when my diploma no longer bears the year that proves I graduated two years early. They can come back and nag when all of my friends do not have happy and successful lives after being homeschooled as well. Here I stand representing what lives on in today's world of the people that that article spoke of. For my tiny part of this generation I speak out. There are good people of this generation; but regreatably they are hard to find. But I will do my best to help the innocence of old live on.

Answer 5

There is an interesting book called "Freakomonics" that discusses why Americans -indivudally and as a society- massively over-react to statistically insignificant threats such as child abduction. Largely, this unreasonable paranoia is fueled by massive media coverage of every childhood tradgedy nationwide.

In the movie, "The Ring" one character says to a reporter: "You damn reporters! You take one person's tradgedy and make everybody live it!".

So true.

Now my anecdote:

Me and my brother had bows and arrows at a young age and we used to shoot the arrows straight up in the air. When we lost sight of them we would cower on the ground, covering our heads, and the arrows would crash into the grass 6" deep. (Obviously my kids will NEVER have bows and arrows!)

Answer 6

I used to body surf off the Pier at Ocean Beach all day without a wetsuit on, and later surfed all up and down the coast without being leashed to my board. One time five of us attempted to go outside at torry Pines State Beach, only I got out and heard a bark behind me, and it was sealion between me and the beach. Lol oh, and a lot of us were drafted into the services too.

Answer 7

THANK YOU!!! I am over 30 and remember the "Good Old Days"! Now I worry about my daughter growing up and all the dangers she faces. It seems she is growing up faster than I remember being at her age and the kids behind her will have all new situations to deal with that we didn't have to face when we were younger. Can we stop this evolution or slow it down?

Answer 8

I did all these except fail a grade, plus I camped out all night with friends no adults, we could leave the keys in the car, leave your house unlocked and go away for the weekend, I wrote letters with pen and paper, and actually sent them in the mail. If I got in trouble at school or at a friends house I got in trouble at home, my parents actually believed the adults. I could go on and on as I am sure you could have listed a lot more.

Answer 9

OH MY GOD--major flashbacks right here right now. how cool is it it to find other survivors like me. too bad that todays generations arent raised to acceept responsibility for their actions. I cant remember anyone ever in our over 35ers that would snitch on someone to save their own *** when caught with their hand in the cookie jar so to speak. nowadays kids are taught to rat others out to save themselves, and the sad part of it is that in the district where i live in GA one of the high schools recently offered a monetary reward to students that would snitch on their peers for anything. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?? I am proud to say I am 45 and glad i grew up when i did. You know when democracy really existed?

Answer 10

--Ahhhhh...the good ol' days...a time when Sunday's were spent with family, a day seemed to last forever--though simple or "square" as it may now seem.....and Woodstock--oh yeah, GROOVY.

--People under 30 aren't wimps....they're faced with more day-to-day complication, just like we were in our day....the "life" bar keeps raising.

--As far as "risk-takers"....we had to be. Alot of us "boomers" knew, didn't "buy into", or wasn't going to settle for the government's retirement/pension planned for the "golden years".

--P.S. I loved catching fire flies at night. I remember putting so many in a jar that when they lit up, you'd think it was a lantern, or a bright candle.

--Thanks for the reflection--it put a smile on my face, and a peaceful moment in my life.