Congratulations

[Davetheref]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO

 

WERE BORN IN THE

 

1940's, 50's, 60's 70's

 

 

 

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they

carried us.

 

 

 

They took aspirin and ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin.

 

 

 

Then after that trauma, our baby cots 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.

 

 

 

Riding in the back of a

van - loose - was always exciting and great fun.

 

 

 

We drank water from the garden hose or tap and NOT from a bottle.

 

 

 

 

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from

one bottle or can and NO ONE actually died from this.

 

 

 

 

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and

drank cordial 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,No Pay TV,

No cable, No DVD movies or surround sound.

 

It's crazy! We even had

 

No mobile phones, No text messaging, 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 played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the

worms did not live in us forever.

 

 

 

 

Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were

told it would happen, we didn't poke out anyone's eye.

 

 

 

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the

bell, or just yelled for them!

 

 

 

Local 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.

 

 

 

 

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with your eyes shut

holding a pair of scissors, doesn't it?!

[searcher]

Ah yes a good trip down memory lane there.

Whats it going to be like in the future ?

My dad says to me "in the good old days" as did his father and so on.

Do things move along much faster nowadays or does it just seem like it ?

My dad looks at my two little ones (5 & 7) and thinks about the society they are growing up in and you can watch him filling up with emotion and worry but would his grandad have done the same?

When i was a kid and could do all the things mentioned in the above post did my mum and dad look at me and feel sorry because it wasnt THEIR good old days. I really dont know if it is as bad as it it seems because the young ones dont know any different but i think i would rather have my youth than the one my kids have in front of them.

When you here of all the sickos on the news nearly every day i have even thought what sort of world have i brought my children into.

There not many things in this life that worry me too much but this is one of them.

Thats whet you get for having kids i guess

 

Adrian.

Edited February 8, 2008 by ?adrianf?

[mk2vr6]

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they

carried us.

 

 

 

They took aspirin and ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin.

 

 

 

Then after that trauma, our baby cots 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,

 

 

the resulting head injuries and effects of the above lead paint may explain the large pauses and hesitancy in your speech/written work ;)

[mumof4]

Ah yes a good trip down memory lane there.

Whats it going to be like in the future ?

My dad says to me "in the good old days" as did his father and so on.

Do things move along much faster nowadays or does it just seem like it ?

My dad looks at my two little ones (5 & 7) and thinks about the society they are growing up in and you can watch him filling up with emotion and worry but would his grandad have done the same?

When i was a kid and could do all the things mentioned in the above post did my mum and dad look at me and feel sorry because it wasnt THEIR good old days. I really dont know if it is as bad as it it seems because the young ones dont know any different but i think i would rather have my youth than the one my kids have in front of them.

When you here of all the sickos on the news nearly every day i have even thought what sort of world have i brought my children into.

There not many things in this life that worry me too much but this is one of them.

Thats whet you get for having kids i guess

 

Adrian.

 

Its very true, i used to climb trees to the top, hang upside down and flik off the branches to the ground below.I used to jump off high walls onto a pile of dumped mattresses below, hide and seek was different as we used to hide in concrete road salt containers that the only way in was to crawl in from underneath.Arguments were settled with a fight with other kids, black eyes and bruised lips them days didnt bring another kids parent complaining to your door.Out all day and home when the sun set on weekends, roaming all over the place.we were fit and healthy.Not like the kids of today.And yes, time moves on and we are now in the playstation and X-Box generation etcc...

I've taught all my lot to climb trees properly, the looks on the kids faces when i start climbing a tree is soooooooooo funny.LOL.

But the world we live in now, how can we let them have the freedom that we had?.

[Bigjeeze]

By not being over protective and worrying about them too much. There were always perverts and bullies etc out there - Common sense is all they need - plus the ability to shout for help and the nous to kick someone in the balls when necessary.