Those Born 1930-1979!

[Darling SilverDodger]

Those Born 1930-1979!

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 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 koolade 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 Internet 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 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!

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 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 so much of our lives for our own good

And 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?"

[kandykitty20012]

Bravo.......aint that the truth...... :D :D

[IndianLover]

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[swamp]

 :D   your so right ty for this post

[Mary]

thanks silver i`m a 1950s baby and what you said there is all true nothing like today thanks again  0:

[supermondeb]

 :D that was great thanks

[pogo_gamer]

Yep, I am also one of the 1950 baby boomer's who's dad use to apply the board of education to my seat of knowledge until I seen the stars, felt the stripes and sang Glory alleluia

and I am a better man for it today no matter who says SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD !!  :!!

Thanks for the post

[Darling SilverDodger]

You're so right about applying " the board of education to my seat of knowledge"..  :)) I learnt really fast to apply that knowledge in my behavior, seeing how my backside was so tender and any playing after were so tricky doing  ::> 
And Pogo Gamer, you are so true I'm a better person for it

[S/H/Z/G]

I was born in '73 and don't remember too much of the 70's...but I do remember doing most of these things in the early 80's.  Heck sometimes we didn't even come inside even after the streetlights came on...night was prime for hide - n - seek. 

I remember drinking kool-aid and eating real butter and not being fat.  I also remember that McDonalds wasn't a main course weekly either.  Nothing we ate came from the freezer section of the store.  My family considered that to be junkfood too.  People actually cooked back then.  We didn't have a microwave either.  Maybe that is why we weren't fat too?