It's Really Amazing That We Made It This Far!!

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 NOONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread 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 computer! s, 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
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 on.

 

This Doesn't Pertain To Me, But I'd Still Like To Say Congratulations : ) Nice Post~

 

Thanks and hopefully some of what we learned from trial and error will be passed on. When it all comes down to it-family and love and respect for others is what is the most important things in life.Good attitude and a good sense of humor will always help get you through some hard times.-Glad to be alive!

 

so well put ...couldn't have said it better myself ....i'd add one more thing about the past ...took 2 people to make a kid bt a whole village to raise them ....everybody looked out for the children ..not like today where people only look out for themselves

 

Thats really true. I lived on a commune in the 70s and we really did help alot with each others kids.-The more love a kid gets the better. Makes life a whole lot easier to handle.

 

Right on for me,Rob.Those were easier days,indeed.

 

So true robspace, so true...those were happy days...

 

Thinkin about those days gone by, I get a warm fuzzy feelin all over! lol
I think someone told an untruth about these so called "golden" years.

 

:applause:

 

Re-read your post ,Rob ,and enjoyed it again.Pertain indeed!!-----scratcho

 

ahhh, the good ole days when kids acted like kids!

Thanks for sharing that!

 

Amen and Amen!

We all seem to be afraid of our own shadow in today's society.

We should all walk in the light that we have, and try to build the best world that we can, and the best children we can to run it. But these days, it seems that we spend too much time sweating the small stuff, and not focusing on the truly important things.

 

yeah - riding bikes with no helmets, going to the store by ourselves, playing in the woods - PLAYING outdoors - all day - till it got dark, like you say.

If I had kids and let them do that today, I'd prolly be accused of neglect. I wish we could wind it back a few years.

 

Such a stupid thread... feeds on stereotypes.

 

That's Your opinion Whiskers.. some of us that lived it see it like Rob denotes in his writings.

I do not see 'stereotype' in it at all. It was the way it was. I remember it like it was yesterday, but then I was there and you weren't, so it would be difficult for you to be objective. To say it is stupid is only your evaulation on something you know nothing about, so in essence your reflecting your own stupidity, or an uneducated statement.

Calling a nut a nut is not stereotyping. Living in a certain fashoin is not stereotyping but an actual event that took place in a certain era.

Rob was stating how he grew up, I grew up the same way. I see the point in being, kids today are being raised quiet differently then, as they are today. Too many distractions to get a clear focus on what is really important in life.

I miss swimming in the Lakes, too pouluted now. I miss the togetherness families shared, watching cartoons on satruday mornings with my dad laughing at Wily Coyote as the Acme Airballon blewup in his face in his attempt to capture the Roadrunner.

I miss the family reunions where aunt Jewelia would play the piano and aunt Polly would sing county gospel and the homemade ice cream and watermelon on the front porch with the lightening bugs falshing about the warm summer nights, the cadie-dids chimming in the background and the old record player palying old tunes as we danced beneith the Moon running through the sprinklers squeeling in joy of the moment..

I don't see a lot of that now, I don't see folks getting together and having clean fun, wholesome fun with the family, not just sports.. soccor, baseball and that, but just sitting around talking and cutting up, really getting to know your kids and how your kids are doing in development, to listen to them and their ideas and asperations. No cell phone interuptions or hurry through a conversation bc of time , but to sit and share your thoughts, hope and dearms. To share love in an open way and connect with one another.

I was not afraid to go outside at night when I was a young girl, I knew nothing of predetors or evil doings behind evil closed darkened doors. I knew nothing of drive-by shootings or anyone ever bringing a gun to school and using it on the teachers and the other kids. I was not afraid to pray, I was not afraid to call a police officer if I needed help or was lost. If I had a question I would ask my parents and believed what they told me bc they loved me and I respected and trusted them.

I don't know what happened, I don't know how things got so out of control, but we all have got a part in it and it is up to us all to fix the problem. No one has any faith any more, no one cares anymore, they are tired of it and just want to be left alone.

We need our Spirits back.

sh

No, it's not stupid to long for the quiet freedoms we once held dear, no time, too busy to stop and smell the flowers, or to watch the sunset with your family and see the beauty in their hearts.

 

Its bullshit cause children are NOT raised that different at all. Atleast I wasnt, and none of my friends were. We almost did all of those things, I just get annoyed when people try to act like "Oh when we were kids it/we was/were so different" especially when they give fake reasons.

How can you know I know nothing about it? Just cause of my age? People cant know anything from before they are born? Also lets please keep this civil no need to call people stupid here.


I dont want to break down the entire topic and tell you why I hate it. This isnt the direction this topic should go. I always joke that where I live we are 30 years behind in the times, maybe its more true than I thought.

 

By the way your commentsd are off topic and are subject to deletion if contenued. Be warned.

 

My comments are not off topic, but I dont care if they are deleted.

 

How could you know what happened 20 yrs before you were born.. you may have 'heard' about it or 'read' about it but that is only hear-say and not nesscessaraly fact, but anothers point of view, who was probably not there either. To come in and say ' no it's not' about something you did not experience yourself is kinda like adding fuel to the fire of decite. Here we are, the ones that lived it telling it like is was, and here you come saying' no, that's not the way it was' and you couldn't possibally know without being there and living it. So with that said, it seems to me your comments are on the trolling side just to make waves and are off topic, as this was a thread stating " It's Really Amazing We Made It This Far"

Why do you have to be so negitive about what or how we grew up, why does it upset you so. Here your just starting out and we're finishing up. Do you think we come in just to tell it like it wasn't, what purpose would that serve.

Here Rob was just remenicing and you say, Rob, your a lier, you never lived at all. "I heard that is not the way it was and that kids are no different now then they were back then"

I never did any of the things kids are getting away with now when I was growing up in the 50s.. plus my parents didn't worry about pedofiles, school mass murders, obesity, depression, autisium, AIDS, Hep-C, wierd flu strains, pimps. drugs, or scam artists, just to name a few. I was not afraid to be outside or afraid of drive-by shootings, or being molested, I didn't know what the word was, never heard it before.

You go ahead and think what you want, but please don't tell us how we were raised.

Brightest Blessings
sh

 

Mom was 42; Dad was 57 when I was born; no medical problems, no mental problems. While the Drs and shrinks come up with new diagnosises for the problem kids today.

We lived in a much simpler time;