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WOW, To Those born in 20's- 70's LOL?

THOSE BORN 1920-1970 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-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 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, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies=2 0or DV D's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, 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! 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?!

Public Comments

1. That's really cool, even though i'm a 90's baby!
2. Wow, we really had alot of freedom and imagination, I hadn't thought about that. Those truly were the good old days!!! I wish I could give you 10 points just for throwing that out there. Well written, thanks for the memories.
3. Wow, this stuff is amazing. Now I know what my parents and grandparents and even family further than that went through, lol. My grandma showed me something like this and then she said "Good for nothing damn children these days!" and then she kissed her teeth. LOL! I was born in 1995, so I don't know too much about those things you mentioned before. I had a good laugh imagining those things though.
4. We also played on steel monkey bars embedded in cement and Fixed our own bicycles, changed our own oil and walked to the store"X" miles, got paddled by the teachers, Mine still hurts lol! was polite to adults and strangers. we said excuse me when crossing in front of somebody. Didn't put up with criminals on our street.We handle peoples food bare handed and smoked cigs while working in the restaurant or grocery store.and done our window shopping outside, not in the mall!
5. Yes , it was a great time to live and sometimes I wished we would not have given up somme of these carefree and lol times
6. the "kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?" cracked me up. too bad i was born in the 90's. i would've loved to live like that.
7. God gives us memories so that we may have roses in December. These are the best roses (memories) in December (old age) of our lives.
8. My sister e-mailed me this before. I LOVE IT! So true!