CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 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.
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 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 cellphones, 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 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 yelled for them!
Football teams had trials 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!
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
2007-08-16 12:40:41 · 15 answers · asked by Bio Hazard 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Hi there Bio-Hazard, This is great....hilarious yet quite poignant, and certainly gives people food for thought..... It really made an impression on me! I often wonder at what point have contemporary society gone wrong....and your 'ethos' explains a hell of a lot. BRILLIANT!
How proud and glad I am to have been a child of the 70's!!!
All the best! :o)
2007-08-16 17:45:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes very true and funny...
I especially like the go-cart without brakes..lol and the parents who sided with the law...so true.
I'm a child of the 50's..they were happy days.
Thanks for the memories.
Have a star : )
2007-08-16 13:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by ;) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what you say is true we did have a good time .... but now some of those same people are the ones now making the laws, running around screaming 'the sky is falling'.
isn't it amazing; what was okay for them to enjoy is wrong, dangerous,etc. for everyone else now?
well i can officially only give you 1 star ... but here's an unofficial 9 more, yes this was a ten star memory of happier times. thanks
2007-08-16 14:51:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is true... but I have to say its the people born in say the 70's that are stopping children going out and playing with friends and that...
2007-08-16 13:12:15 · answer #4 · answered by sparkle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a song out now with exactly the same idea.
A Different World, by Bucky Covington. It's country, but it's good if you can get into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AKe8kOueDw
2007-08-16 13:02:33 · answer #5 · answered by SomeGirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and yet you refrain from drinking during your pregnancies, childproof your homes, make sure your baby's cribs have non-lead-based paints, warn your children against drinking from the garden hose, and insist they don't wave sticks around. congratulations to that.
2007-08-16 12:51:13 · answer #6 · answered by Meep <3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Superb,but what did Bob say? I suppose he was too stunned & restricted (with being on air)to say anything. It would make a good "caption" competition.
2016-04-01 18:27:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brilliant!!!!!
I was born in the 50's and everything you say is spot on.
Well done!
Have a star!
2007-08-16 12:57:20 · answer #8 · answered by steve f 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
great loved it. although i was born in 82' and this still applies to me.... things are only gonna get worse 2
2007-08-16 12:49:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
hahhahhaa
very true
and good
dont usually give stars to people who ask. but ythat deserves one
2007-08-16 12:47:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋