cancel2 2022
Canceled
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.
After that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured 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 and 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 NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends all from the same bottle and NO-ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank lemonade 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 but we were ok.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill only to find out that we had forgotten 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, no 150 channels on cable no video movies or DVD’s, no surround sound or CD’s, no mobile phones or 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 were given air 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 friends house and knocked on the door or rang the bell or sometimes just walked in and talked to them.
Rounders had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with the 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!
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so that they know how brave (and lucky) their parents were to have survived such things.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors doesn’t it?!!
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
After that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured 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 and 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 NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends all from the same bottle and NO-ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank lemonade 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 but we were ok.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill only to find out that we had forgotten 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, no 150 channels on cable no video movies or DVD’s, no surround sound or CD’s, no mobile phones or 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 were given air 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 friends house and knocked on the door or rang the bell or sometimes just walked in and talked to them.
Rounders had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with the 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!
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so that they know how brave (and lucky) their parents were to have survived such things.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors doesn’t it?!!