I'm 35 and this really hits the nail on the head:
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's 60's and 70's (and possibly early 80’s) probably shouldn't have survived.
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. 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 seatbelts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water form 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, bread and 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 we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones-unthinkable.
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, Nintendo64, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, cell phones, personal computers or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends! 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 made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
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.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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!!!!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
Poor Kids Nowadays- How did we ever survive?
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gieslel
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Poor Kids Nowadays- How did we ever survive?
"You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone."
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing.
Don't see many kids outside playing these days..they are inside on a computer or glued to the TV.
When I was a kid I was outside every chance I got, and I hated to go in..damn those street lights, meant the end of a day for most of us.
Winters on your sled for as long as there was light and a good hill.
Summers were made up of capturing a poor unsuspecting frog or tadpoles at the local creek, and trying to talk your mom into letting you keep them.
Kids in the neiborhood would gather after supper for a game of British Bulldog, Red Light-Green Light..or Hide and Seek.
Kids now..mine included are pale and sickly mainly because they do not see the light of day..sunshine never touches their skin. They are too busy living in a virtual world..so sad, and scary.
I grew up in Toronto..when the world was real. I had fun never watched TV unless the weather was so bad I could not go out.
I made it to 45 no worse for wear..and the memories of days gone bye are just that..memories, never to be seen again.
Don't see many kids outside playing these days..they are inside on a computer or glued to the TV.
When I was a kid I was outside every chance I got, and I hated to go in..damn those street lights, meant the end of a day for most of us.
Winters on your sled for as long as there was light and a good hill.
Summers were made up of capturing a poor unsuspecting frog or tadpoles at the local creek, and trying to talk your mom into letting you keep them.
Kids in the neiborhood would gather after supper for a game of British Bulldog, Red Light-Green Light..or Hide and Seek.
Kids now..mine included are pale and sickly mainly because they do not see the light of day..sunshine never touches their skin. They are too busy living in a virtual world..so sad, and scary.
I grew up in Toronto..when the world was real. I had fun never watched TV unless the weather was so bad I could not go out.
I made it to 45 no worse for wear..and the memories of days gone bye are just that..memories, never to be seen again.
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