congratulations if you were born in 30s.40s.50s.60s.70s.80s.
Jan 5, 2015 10:17:02 GMT
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Post by stevegbr on Jan 5, 2015 10:17:02 GMT
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!!
First, you 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, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking ..
As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van or back of a truck - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and not from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... you were outside playing!!
You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street-lights came on was the only rule. No one was able to reach you all day (no phones). And you were OK and your parents were fine with that. You really did live the life of a child. You would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem .
You played outside and fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents, you played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live inside us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out anyones eyes. You rode bikes everywhere they were just things to get you where you needed to go and nothing more. Same with your clothes it mattered little what brands they were or what they cost as they were to wear not to look at.
You were so very lucky to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our children's lives "for their own good."
First, you 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, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking ..
As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van or back of a truck - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and not from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... you were outside playing!!
You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street-lights came on was the only rule. No one was able to reach you all day (no phones). And you were OK and your parents were fine with that. You really did live the life of a child. You would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem .
You played outside and fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents, you played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live inside us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out anyones eyes. You rode bikes everywhere they were just things to get you where you needed to go and nothing more. Same with your clothes it mattered little what brands they were or what they cost as they were to wear not to look at.
You were so very lucky to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our children's lives "for their own good."
