This Is Sooooo True!

Thank GOD I am one of those kids, born in '65, I missed the '60s and the hippie era even though I was born smack in the middle of it, by the time I realized what it was all about it was over, but I still feel a kinship and nostalgia for the "good old days". Thanks to a good friend who sent this to me today, I can think back and remember my childhood and all the fun I had growing up.

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-base paints.....

 
 

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and

when we rode our bikes,

We had baseball caps

Not helmets on our heads..

 
 

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

 
 

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight...  

WHY? 

Because we were always outside playing...

that's why!

 

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 OKAY.

 

We would spend hours building our go-carts

out of scraps and then ride them 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 Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's,

No surround-sound or CD's,

No cell phones,

No personal computers,

No Internet and no 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 would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

 

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, tornado's, 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 ignore this. 

For the rest of us...pass this on.... 

So, what are your favorite childhood memories? Preferably the ones that would be considered not PC and would (probably) get your parents arrested for child abuse/neglect today? LOL.

For me, it's licking the bowl of raw cake batter when my mom was making a cake, raw eggs, real butter, whole milk, real sugar and all!


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