CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50'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 brightly 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 mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal
computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and looked for 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.
We 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 our bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or we just yelled for them!
Local sports 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
2006-12-03 03:04:45 · 9 answers · asked by untanuta 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I think I love you.
Did you also go sledding down a big hill and when you got at the bottom crash violently into the nearest tree or rock, just for fun?
Or dive off a cliff into the great unknown just to end up canon balling into the lake below and laugh about it?
Or race your friends home from school so you could change into play clothes and meet them on the sled mountain of hell?
And when you did wrong. like burning down outhouses. ( I held that record) Did the Neighbor have the rite to pick you up and paddle you instead of calling the police on the outhouse arsonist? Then make you build an outhouse and dig the hole for it?
We were Brats, Pranksters and "Problem children" Not criminals!
We grew up away from the TV and loved the largest part of it. We loved and respected our parents and neighbors and we learned that we had to pay for our wrongs.
2006-12-03 03:26:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Born in 57 here, and really liked how you put it. I never regret living in the era that I did...and today things are way too fast to think about the good ole days...I know the times have changed and it's for the worst in my opinion when it comes to the interaction of people, but it's much better when it comes to technology. Everything you said is true and yea...the parents took the side of the law!!! It was nice how you put that into perspective the comparasion of the medical and legal issues from then to now. I know the law has changed, but I forgot about drinking out of the same bottle...lol. Oh...I have had my butt spank several times by several people and it did teach me to respect my elders and today I'm glad it was that way!!!
2006-12-03 12:47:40 · answer #2 · answered by WV_Nomad 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
,How right you are my friend !! I remember all too well as a child, running out the door right after eating breakfast at the table with my brothers and sisters. We'd stay "gone" until 12:30...lunch time. We'd run in stuff down a sandwich and back out the door until dinner time. That was when the whole family actually sat down at the table and ate a home cooked meal at the same time. Then after dinner we watched TV for a couple hours until it was our turn in the tub. The world sure has changed... progress is not always a better thing.
2006-12-03 11:14:14 · answer #3 · answered by betty_crocker_lives 1 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Thank-you !!! Yah I was born in the '40's '46 in fact and I was raised in the enviroment that you describe,as were my kids who were born in the '60's and '70's, and I'm proud to say that I have 4 Grand-kids who are being raised as much the same way as possible, ( seat-belts, bicycle helmets, and other lawyer mandated rules not with-standing ) i.e. lots of fresh air and friends and limited access to video games and T. V.
2006-12-03 11:22:06 · answer #4 · answered by percylenain 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well said I was born in 1967 and miss the way things were. The baby boomers are retiring now and I'm worried about what is to come.
The part about friends all drinking from the same bottle, me and my long term friends still do that now. The people around us look at us like we're crazy, I still do alot of the things you mention and people think I'm crazy for it.
2006-12-03 11:11:42 · answer #5 · answered by Sean 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Don't forget the new helmet laws fo bicycles. If I wore a helmet as a kid the other kids would have kicked my a** for being a wimp. Or we would have done experiments to see EXACTLY how good that helmet really was.
2006-12-03 11:13:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
And don't forget, we walked to school, played baseball just for fun, and got great stuff like homemade cookies and popcorn balls at halloween.
2006-12-03 12:19:36 · answer #7 · answered by mightymite1957 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Reminds me of my dad telling me about his life growing up. And now i do the same to my son, lol.
2006-12-03 11:08:43 · answer #8 · answered by tinamaries43 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
And how!!
2006-12-03 11:11:46 · answer #9 · answered by Gary P 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋