How true

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How true
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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 1:31pm

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
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> 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.
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> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
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> We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
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> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
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> We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
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> WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
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> We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
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> No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
> lawsuits from these accidents.
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> We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
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> We 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 yelled for them!

Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
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> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.They actually sided with the law!
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> This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
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> The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
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> We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
> HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
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> And YOU are (maybe) one of them!
> CONGRATULATIONS!
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> 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.
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> and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
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> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

HOW TRUE IS THIS!!!

Von.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: gal_vony2
Sun, 01-28-2007 - 1:53pm
How true it is Von,
Not to mention we all turned out just fine :)



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In reply to: gal_vony2
Sun, 01-28-2007 - 2:21pm
So very true, wish things were simple like that again...

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In reply to: gal_vony2
Sun, 01-28-2007 - 3:22pm
Yes, it's very true, and I'm not only old enough to have done all these things in the 50's, I'm old enough that my dd, who was born in the late 70's, did most of them, too!


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In reply to: gal_vony2
Sun, 01-28-2007 - 4:56pm

It's amazing isn't how we all survive and with no play dates either...LOL When I tell my sons how it was way back then in the dark ages they just look at me with disbelief in their eyes. Why I can even remember going to the dentist and having a filling put in without Novocain and no rides for me to school had to walk in snow, rain and sleet....school closings were for only 12 inches or more of snow and worse of all no color TV's, VCRs or computer... but you know something I wouldn't trade my growing up years for anything....I can remember all the neighbors sitting outside in the summer evenings with us kids having a blast because we were able to stay out late and chase fireflies. Drinking Kool aid from those colorful aluminum cups and drying out the punks we collected and lighting them up at night to keep the mosquitoes away.


Yes I'm going to forward this to my sons just to show what stuff their mother

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Registered: 09-12-2003
In reply to: gal_vony2
Mon, 01-29-2007 - 4:43am

thank you very much for posting this.