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Something cute to start your day
| Tue, 01-18-2005 - 10:04am |
People over 25 should be dead. This message is for the survivors:
>
> According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
> were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
>
> 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 seat belts or air bags.
> Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a
> special treat.
>
> We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
> 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 were never 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 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
> rode 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 64, X-Boxes, no video games
> at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound,
> personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
> (although allot of this innovation is fun)
>
> We had friends! We went outside and found them.
>
> We fell out of trees, got cut and 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 inside us forever.
>
> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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 a 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're one of them!
>
> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors?
>
> According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
> were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
>
> 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 seat belts or air bags.
> Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a
> special treat.
>
> We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
> 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 were never 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 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
> rode 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 64, X-Boxes, no video games
> at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound,
> personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
> (although allot of this innovation is fun)
>
> We had friends! We went outside and found them.
>
> We fell out of trees, got cut and 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 inside us forever.
>
> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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 a 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're one of them!
>
> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors?

That is absolutley adorable. I was not born in the 40s, 50s, 60s, or 70s. I was born in 1980 and I am not to sure if we had special lids for the medicine bottles but I do know that times were different then as well. I was able to run around and play and eat "junk food" and not get fat. My parents weren't worried about me being kidnapped if I was out of their sights for more than 5 minutes.
Thank you for reminding us all of what life was like, and to let our children be children.
I am just glad we do the things we do now to protect our kids. I believe that with a car seat, cribs, childproofing, a lot more children survive childhood. JMHO