Natwerk Designs - Do you agree?...i apologize for the length!?

Do you agree?...i apologize for the length!?

For those born 1920-1969 TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1920's, 30's, 40's,50's and 60'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 NO ONE 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 OK. 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 poke 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!

Public Comments

I agree. Oh yeah and... Apology: NOT ACCEPTED.
sure. congratulations...
isn't there a song about this
coolio or should i say polio
What length? Not too long for me.I agree completely.The newer generations are Sissy's in comparison.
OMG you live on my street. We prolly hung out till the street lights came on. LOVE this question.
And death was probably more common...
I read all of that! i agree My parents bring up stuff like that all the time! Times change. It's sad.. Not that I was born, back in the day lol
I agree.Paranoia has taken over big time in peoples lives. They can't live without paranoia. God forbid these people lived back then.
wow. all these kids these days.... heck, im a teen in these days! srry i was curious...
yes i agree. my parents talk about that too.
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Oh the life. I was born in 1993 but my mom has raised me somewhat similar because we're in the country. I'm so glad I'm not treated like a peice of glass. We need to live!
well of course that generation survived back then, but times have changed. once we find new technology and discover things to improve our lives, we aren't gonna go back obviously. i mean i do agree back then ppl had more exercise by going out and playing without using the computer, gamesystems, or television. but you gotta realize that we shouldn't waste our knowledge and ignore it. so i do agree with your idea that we were ok with the things we had back then. but now we got new things we enjoy. we might go back and see what old stuff we have today like you are now. the world never changes, but the ppl do :)
i'm growing up in the 21st century and i really did sort of want to live in the small town 1960's where kids can run around and be home for dinner without the rush of the world, i think i would like it then, like in dennis the menus playing the town wide hide and go seek, i would love that, however there was also lot of bad happening in our world during that time period, like genocide, war, and crime/drugs, which is obviously is still happening now however i think that was a very revolutionary time, with great inventive and creative minds that helped shape my life and world. i agree, it was a hard time and bravo to living through it, we now look back on it a see how the world adapted to a difficult time
I agree. You made me remember my childhood once again..
I TOTALLY agree....no seat beltsd and we never had issues with automobile safety ....of course the cars were made MUCH better many years ago....strangely about the only thing that youdo NOT need license for anymore is to get pregnant ~ Whoaaaaaaaa!!! Not that i want to see it but it makes me laugh~! I remember the days youare speaking of and those who do NOT like what i am saying can get stuffed (with the truth....ok?) Bikes, BB guns, Barbies....it was all the same. sadly we live in a society now that on account of Media Saturation...and people WANTING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE and be seen, heard, and have little certificates and trophies about what good parents they are are the ones now making the rules...i.e. this: The kids I babysat years ago are the little monsters now monster grownups creating these rules....BUT.....there are more deviants out there and even I had to walk my own kids to school in a posh area of W.L.A. as there were predators everywhere. We had a code....and no one who did not know the code including the babysitter could not pick them up from school.....guess what? TWICE my children were tried to be lured into strangers cars simply from the front of the school while the alleged 'Good Soccer Moms' just watched. I was asked to leave the PTA as I told the women that the Bake Sale made my kids sick to their stomachs....it was the truth. It made me laugh to be invited out by a bunch of Haute Coture Mavens that didn't realize this one thing. I am intelligent and I am a writer....oh loathe they became when they realized that whe I offered that they cater the damn bake sale as they didn't know the difference from Baking Soda and Baking Powder....(turned out to be the truth...) anyway it freed me up one night a month....I did receive an award for being the most prepared Mom in an earthquake and I did the calligraphy for the ungrateful parent's children's diplomas...at the end of that school year....they apologized. Who knows what they are doing now...but my kids grew up to be really together, very savvy and than goodness for that family code which kept them alive. Your points are very well taken by me and i can ONLY imagine that i will receive a few thumbs down...but that doesn't stop me. I get the points. I believe in the truth...and yes we HAVE become an over protective society...if I sound a bit to the left i may be but so what? You are right...i don't ever recall one child having their eye poked out with a benign BB gun. More children actually choked on Barbie's high heels! THINK PEOPLE!!!! I LOVE your column and kudos to you! If anyone doesn't like what i have to say then glide on by as I have no use for you either....this IS our First Amendmant Right....you know...the freedom of speech one? Thanks for this brilliantly posed question...I am laughing...Youhave made my day!
Amen born in 71 and raised like this
Yeah, I agree 10,000 percent with you. It's like if the power goes out, Oh my GOD! what now? the world stops and people just stand there with heir mouths open not knowing what to do. Here's a clue, get out a pen and paper. I get crazy looks whenever I actually say that if the power goes out. We didn't need electricity as kids. We actually used our IMAGINATIONS. The more we used our minds, the better thinkers we became. Not like the Zombies of today (and I'm not talking about the video games, I'm talking about our kids playing the video games) Yeah, I screwed up and bought them for my kid. Hell, I remember riding my bike with a flat tire on the back and no tire on the front rim and thought WOW, I have a bike.
No Need for apology at all, i read all of this, was born in 74 and i totally agree with you, fair play to ya hun for putting it altogether. Happy New Year Tara!
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hallelujah I was born in 1974 and we played games, shared soft drinks , etc.An no one died of no meningitis or etc. These new generation of babies are extremely sensitive too stuff. But back then growing up as a kid in the 80's we had more trees and less traffic and less neighborhoods.Now they have more neighborhoods more pedophiles and more issues. That would explain we everyone got much more fatter after 9/11. I think 9/11 made everyone afraid to LIVE
I remember the whole neighborhood getting together and playing hide and go seek. Sometimes parents even joined in! Ahhh.....those were the days.