Ah...the good ole days.
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 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 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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, twinkies, white bread and real
butter and 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 when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were
O.K. There was only one phone in the house and
you asked permission to use it.
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 99 channels on cable, no videotape
movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal
computers, no Internet or
Internet 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 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!
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!
And 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 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?!
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60's and 70's !!
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 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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, twinkies, white bread and real
butter and 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 when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were
O.K. There was only one phone in the house and
you asked permission to use it.
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 99 channels on cable, no videotape
movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal
computers, no Internet or
Internet 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 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!
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!
And 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 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?!
www.healingdrummer.com toby@healingdrummer.com
posted by Toby Christensen at 12:29 PM
1 Comments:
Its true, I still run thru the house with sissors, and I still give bad haircuts in the kitchen.
Thank you for this post. It was good being a kid, and finding friends.... We were lucky then, and yes there were pot holes and sometimes we hit them square on the chin. We learned to live. Some of us had good teachers, some of us had bad teachers. As you said, we got over it. I hope to instill these lessons with my grand children. It is true, grandma has a back yard and gives us hammers and shovels with very little instruction, and when we think the ladybug is talking to us, Grandma agrees even if she can clearly see baby fingers have squished it.
Its good to draw on those happy times, too much time spend on all those yucky times. Life is for living.
Thanks again for your insights Toby.
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