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If you were born between 1950 to 1970 read this and let me know if it's true, and was their health insurance

from the 1950's to 1970??? thank you .. 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 lea d-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, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. 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 O.K. 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 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 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 game s 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, be fore the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. WOW THESE ARE GREAT ANSWERS SO FAR .......

Public Comments

1. It's true. Seen it before and I love it.
2. Its True! Its True! As a matter of fact, I took my grandpa's antique gun to school for show and tell and everyone was okay with that. I showed my classmates how to take it apart and clean a gun for show and tell and no one was afraid, paranoid or surprised. 40 years ago people weren't paranoid. 40 years ago, people didn't need or even want absolute safety...a little danger was fun. WOW! I'm old and telling "in the good old days stories" just like my grandpa used to do.
3. hi 1970 here...grew up in a town in Iowa. Amen! the little kids had to deal. the big kids got their asses kicked by the parents!!! anyway, yes we had health insurance the doctor was there FIVE days a week! step on a nail on saturday? well-but it in some bleach water and get the tetanous shot monday morning. I RANT. good post
4. Yes, those were the good old days.
5. this is true, when i was a kid, the worst thing you could do to me is say the magic words "you can't go outside". I would be crushed. no baseball, or basketball or football. no racing bikes or climbing trees or digging up ants. We fought in school, and played together after the fight. And we MOVED OUT THE HOUSE when we turned 18. I see guys now that still live at home, and they are in there 30's and their mom takes care of them!
6. All true, except I got my BB gun when I was 5, not 10. I played "Indian", with a real knife and everything, I rode my bike on a black top road, kids used to ride lying on the back "dashboard" like thing above the back seats of the cars. And, yeah, some of it I wouldn't let my own kids do for anything.
7. Yeah I did almost all those things growing up. But one thing I contribute our success to is the fact that our parents RAISED us, they werent on drugs, they whipped us when we disobeyed, they went to school to talk to our teachers, they made sure we were in school, they fixed us three squares a day, they made sure we were in the house after dark, they looked at our homework, they took us for regular medical and dental checkups, they saved and sacrificed to send us to good schools, they kept the house clean, they made us do chores, they would smack the shyt outta us for talking back, they taught us manners and made sure we used them, they didnt give us everything we wanted, I got toys on my birthday and for Christmas, thats it, they made sure we knew our place and that was a childs place not an adults place, they knew where we were at all times, they encouraged our successes, they worked with us on our failures, they were a united front and showed us how to be men and women.