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

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.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Now leave me alone and let us camp in the woods


Luv~N~Lite

 

Amazing how we are here today, huh?? The bleu cheese dressing my mom ate almost got me though...

Good to see ya' hillbilly!!

 

..but i never put beans in my ears.

 

aw thats wonderful.....makes me wish i wud of lived back then

 

Loved that....actually does remind me of my childhood. I did alot of stuff like making treehouses and stuff.... good times!

 

Ahhhhh,th' good ol' daze,,,,,big sigh.I remember them well,and with great fondness.I did build my share of go carts,in later years(8 or 9) I had the great fortune to get an horizontal shaft engine that ran.From there,I decided 2 wheels where much better then 4,thus began a lifetime of building/restoring bikes.

 

But I did stick a half of a peanut up my nose once.

 

and a little note to remember all of those that didn't manage to survive.

 

we didnt go blind either ,, but wheres my flying car?

 

Yes, I agree those were the gold ole days. I'm probably of the age of the last few to have grown up without a lot of the stuff we have today or a lot of the high tech stuff was popularized during my growing up. We did have atari, but didn't play it all that often. Grew up in a rural area and actually enjoyed helping my family in the garden and eating vegetables right off the plant even with a little dirt on them! We rode bikes a lot as I got older, but never wore helmets. We also spent many days playing in the local creek that ran through our village of houses. We are so used to cell phones now it is hard to imaging life without them!

 

I don't buy it.The old days weren't all that great.I think things,for the most part, are way better now.

It's easy to forget the crappy stuff,and get all nostalgic about the good stuff,but if you take a good, hard, balanced, and realistic look we've come a long way.

 

back when coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be..The Hag

...and back before those damn helmet laws.

 

after everything i stuck up my nose half a peanut doesn't sound that bad...

 

I may only be 18..... and i don't belong to said generation.... but i grew up on a farm in Ohio.... with 7 brothers and 2 sisters..... we couldnt aford a lot of things.... as a matter of fact my mother still does'nt have a computer, or cell phone, or anything special other than a T.V. thats older than i am........ we all worked on the farm and played in the feilds and woods......... I may not belong to your Generation.... but i can relate..

 

well wonder be, I am still living..... That old thing do not fix what is not broke?

My problems in life are lead paint......just know it....lol

Thank you for the smile.

 

Sounds like a great childhood, vegetable man...I bet you have some wonderful stories to tell about your growing up years!!

 

WELCOME VEGTABLE MAN!!!!!

I love my veggies,
teepi

 

Yeah but, is any of your stuff STILL up there????

 

Very few places had A/C down here (schools/most stores did not).

One was in tall cotton to have an home attic fan.
Open windows/screen doors 24/7.
The only Time the solid doors were shut was in the winter/or a trip out of Town.

Keys were left in cars.


How the Hell did we get to where we are Today?

 

Hippies, man. All them damn hippies.