Jeni Giles
Well-Known Member
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us, they took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and whn we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts 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 friend, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, drank soda pop with sugar in it, 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 before the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach all all day and we were OK. We would spen hours building our go carts out of scraps and then rid 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 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no internet or internetchat rooms, WE HAD FRIENDS and we went ouside 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 mudpies 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 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 waked in and talked to them!
Little League had try outs 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 is we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has 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!! Congratulations to all of you who are this generation!!!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the layers and government began regulating our lives for our own good, and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it??
(it's a good thing I have internet and internet chat now, or I would know all you fab people, nor would I be able to share with you!!!)
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts 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 friend, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, drank soda pop with sugar in it, 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 before the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach all all day and we were OK. We would spen hours building our go carts out of scraps and then rid 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 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no internet or internetchat rooms, WE HAD FRIENDS and we went ouside 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 mudpies 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 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 waked in and talked to them!
Little League had try outs 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 is we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has 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!! Congratulations to all of you who are this generation!!!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the layers and government began regulating our lives for our own good, and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it??
(it's a good thing I have internet and internet chat now, or I would know all you fab people, nor would I be able to share with you!!!)
