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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

Larry Hoover

2006-02-25, 6:56 pm

"Provigilant" <Provigilance@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1139288920.843958.268490@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

I got this in my email box the other day, and it struck me that it is on topic in
discussions such as this.

Lar

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
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 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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 soda 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 cell
phones, 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 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!

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.

Cassandra

2006-02-25, 6:56 pm

As one of those kids who survived childhood -- a childhood in which I
could get hurt in a room with padded walls (ask me someday about the
summer I kept re-spraining the same ankle) -- I loved this.

Personally, it's the rewritten fairy tales that bug me the most. The
little mermaid? Her tongue was cut out, there wasn't any sea witch
with a bottle to hold her voice. The whole point of the story was that
you made a choice and then experienced the consequences of it! There
weren't back door strategies to get you out of it if it didn't work
out. And guess what? That's a whole lot more like the real world than
the current Disney versions. (Or maybe the problem is I need to go
live in the Disney version of life?)

Thanks for posting that, Larry. The first part made me laugh -- my
mother did smoke through her pregnancy, which probably stunted my
growth, according to accepted wisdom now. That's why I only weighed
9pounds 12 ounces...

Cassandra

2006-02-25, 6:56 pm

Squiggles wrote:
> I was raised by wolverines :-)
>
> Squiggles
>

I knew that!

lol

Just Another Victim

2006-02-25, 6:56 pm

In article <6cc72$43e8c88a$d8a87981$3355@NEXICOM.NET>, larryhoover@sympatico.ca
says...
>
> Hi Lar,

I read this and it really struck a chord in me.. Sent it to everyone on my
email list... thanks for posting it :D

Mary Kay

>"Provigilant" <Provigilance@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1139288920.843958.268490@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
>I got this in my email box the other day, and it struck me that it is on topic
in
>discussions such as this.
>
>Lar
>
>
>
>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
>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 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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 soda 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 cell
>phones, 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 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!
>
>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.
>
>
>

wingingit

2006-02-25, 6:57 pm

Count me in. I was one of those always outside playing. Hmmmm. Maybe I
should go back to that to shake off the last two years' weight?

Somebody get the garden hose! I want to be water-soaked, not
drug-soaked!

snort

Cassandra

2006-02-25, 6:57 pm

wingingit wrote:
> Count me in. I was one of those always outside playing. Hmmmm. Maybe I
> should go back to that to shake off the last two years' weight?
>
> Somebody get the garden hose! I want to be water-soaked, not
> drug-soaked!
>
> snort

My mother used to lock me outside for the summer -- if the sun was out,
I was supposed to be out, too. On Mondays, when the barn was closed,
I'd lie on the lawn, and read to her while she worked in the garden.
But Mother was absolutely set on it. Even made me stay in the sun
while I read to her, thought it was healthier. Now, of course, we know
that the first degree burns I got -- twice it was that bad, I was sick
for a few days from it -- put me at risk of skin cancer. But you know
I got enough vitamin D...