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born 1920-1979
READ TO THE
BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE
MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF
YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED
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 were
pregnant.
They
took
aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna
from a can, and didn't get
tested for diabetes.
Then
after that
trauma we were put to sleep on our
tummies in baby cribs 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
infants
&children, we would ride in cars
with no car seats, booster seats,
seat belts or
air bags.
Riding
in the back of
a pickup 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 dr ink with four friends, from
one bottle and NO
ONE actually died from this.
We
ate
cupcakes, white br ead and real butter and
drank Kool-aid made with
sugar, 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 150
channels on cable,
no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or
CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no
I nternet or 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 i t would happen, we did
not poke
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 tryout and not everyone made the
team. T hose 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!
These
generations
have 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!
If
YOU are one
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 so much of
our
lives for our own good
.
While you are at
it, forward it to
your kids so they will know
how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind
of makes you want to run through the house with
scissors, doesn't
it?!
The
quote of the
month is by Jay Leno:
'With hurricanes, tornados,
fires out of control, mud slides, flooding,
severe thunderstorms
tearing up the country from
one end to another, and with the threat of
bird
flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a
good time to
take God out of the Pledge of
Allegiance?'
For
those that prefer to think that God is not
watching over us...go
ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this
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