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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 carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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 soda 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 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 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!

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!

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.

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

Answer 1

so many memory's tink i have been there and done all them things best days of my life and if i was cheeky got my ar se booted you knew not to do it again thanks tink 10/10 funny thing i had nothing but we didn't know what boredom was

Answer 2

Obviously human beings are more resilient than the pc brigade would give them credit for, or do they just use these arguments about welfare of children to score points. It makes u wonder.
I didn't do many of the things that u did but they sure sound like fun! Except the worms bit. What did they taste like?? lol !! I'm not gonna be tempted, whatever!! lol 30 years ago, there is no way on this earth that we would have been allowed to watch the kinds of things out children do or listen to the music they do. Fortunately I have tried to ensure with mine that their hearts are in the right place, but many others who do not have the right sort of emotional imput grow up to be hooligans and criminals because they lack the security that proper love and discipline instills.

The punch line is, instead of pointing at the specs in our parents' eyes,with a fault finding mission and that is what they are saying to a certain extent, they should take the plank out of their ***!!
I suppose their argument would be thus:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
lol
unfortunately the running round with a pair of scissors sounds too much like my ex!!! lol !!

Answer 3

You know, I'm 15, but I believe 100% with you. When I was growing up in the early 90's, I did those things. My little sisters too. We grew up great, but then came my little brother and my parents took a "modern parenting" course......

Then again....

Your generation started multiple wars, including 3 world wars (If you count the terrorism war as the 3rd war), aggression and competition with many nations (i.e. Russian Space Race), had some of the worst US presidents ever (i.e. LBJ) and created the TV dinner.

Our generation is going to tip the earth with obesity, burn to global warming since we won't do a thing about it, have worse presidents (Said with sarcasm: Hillary Clinton will be the best president ever!) and we're just going to get worse.

I can't wait till I'm an old man and tell my grandchildren how hard my generation had to live.......lol.........

Answer 4

Now I'm only 22 and I did that all the time. Being an only child my friends were like my family and I spent all of my free time outdoors. I never had a nintedo or anything like that and I turned out fine. I would rahter be outdoors enjoying the world God made for us instead of spending time indoors playing video games that dont get you anywhere. Now I have played my share of video games and I like video games when there isnt something better to do outside. I got cut from softball teams, made mud pies and cakes, and cookies, and I learned the hard way that when the cars got seat belts we needed to use them (my mom had to hit the brakes and I was sitting on the edge of my seat and my head slammed into the dash board (before the air bags). I was fine) Also something that wasnt mentioned is that I am sure everyone of us got our butts whooped if we did something wrong. I got spankings when I did something wrong and I learned real quick that what it was I was doing was wrong. Now a days if people spank their child they can be punished for child abuse. Its dumb. oh well. thanks for the memories.

Answer 5

That was the lyf. Im 32 and have two daughters, I raise them the same way I grew up. No cable, no video games and they have no cell phone. we don't watch much tv either, Neither one is fat and they play all day, only difference, I do give them a walkie talkie to carry so I can tell them when to come home and they do where helments but only at the park.

Thanks for reminding me about what it was like when I was young, I almost forgot I did those things.

Oh, you forgot, our parents left us home alone at age 9 to care for our younger brother and sisters cause there wasn't a daycare.

Answer 6

Ann Coulter?

Anyway, good old days when out parents survived the 2 World Wars, Korea and Vietnam conflicts, civil right marches, Watts and Rodney King riots.

But are we going to survive the Global Warming:

pointing to a map of California and the San Andreas Fault]
Lex Luthor: Everything west of this line is the richest, most expensive real estate in the world: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Everything on THIS side of the line is just hundreds and hundreds of miles of worthless desert land, which just so happens to be owned by...
[Whaps Otis with his pointer]
Otis: Uhhh... Lex Luthor Incorporated.
Lex Luthor: Now, call me foolish, call me irresponsible, it occurs to me that a 500 megaton bomb planted at just the proper point would, uh...
Superman: Would destroy most of California. Millions of innocent people would be killed. And the west coast as we know it would-...
Lex Luthor: Fall into the sea.
Lex Luthor: [Gives a little wave with his hand] Bye-bye, California. Hello, new west coast. My west coast

Answer 7

I started in the 40's and you forgot one thing. What about all those drippin sandwiches we ate ?
And Dick Barton special agent !!

Today life is sick with it's drug addicts, graffiti artists and pavements covered in gum, dumped crisp or sweet wrappings as they finish eating, and no respect for anyone.

Oh yes, what about all the young school age mums? we didn't have too many of those either, in our day you didn't get paid for the first child, no house or money to enjoy life and sit on your ar+e all day, you worked or went without.
Today, 'cause the pathetic government make life living off our taxes the norm. I can only thank my mum for having me in 1940, life was hard then but we appreciated everything we had.
I would not like to have been born in recent times, when all they think about is what they can get, who they can claim against and their bloody human rights.

Life in Britain is real sick nowdays.

Answer 8

So...im 13 and im not fat! i dont spend all day on my nintendo of xbox cos i dont have 1! i spent loads of time out with my friends. ok so i didnt get a bb gun for my 10th birthday doesnt mean that every single kid in this world is like that!

Answer 9

Those were the good ol days! I so wish it was like that now as a mother of 2 wondering what's next in this crazy world!

Answer 10

Run through the house with a scissors? Or you mean run over to 10 Downing Street and kill every MP lol

Answer 11

I miss those days. I had a Huffy BMX bike and I literally rode the tires off that thing.