Born before 1979

[babylockss]

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 bottles, doors or cabinets were not childproof, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets!.

As children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, not even air bags!

Riding in the back of a ute up on a warm day was considered a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose, not from a fancy plastic 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.

With no cell phones, no one could to reach or monitor us all day and we survived and thrived!

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find 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 Foxtel, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms........

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, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We rode bikes to a friend's house and knocked on the door or just walked in and talked to them without adult supervision or scheduled play-dates!

We had Footy 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 had the luck to grow up 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?

[RIKMIK]

SO TRUE - 70'S CHILD MYSELF POWER!

[justtee09]

Thanks babylockss for the trip down memory lane...am gonna take a copy for Jag so he can read it when hes older.....

[rpep]

Hehehehehehehehehehehe .....