WE ARE AWESOME !!!! OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To Those of Us Born 1930 - 1979
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read
anything else, please read what he said.
Very well stated, Mr. Leno..
TO ALL THE KID! S 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, drank coffee, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were always laid down to be put to sleep on our tummies. Our baby cribs were all covered with
bright colored lead-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in
cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. We sait in the front seat anytime we could.
Riding in the bed 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 plastic bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from
one bottle and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white
bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV-OR-AIDmade with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?
Because we were always outside playing....that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all
day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on..or when mama called us to eat.
No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.
No one kidnapped us, abused us, or harmed us in any way.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
like wooden crates and old street skates and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes and poles a few times,
we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play stations,
Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no
surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDSand we went outside and found them!
We played softball, football, kickball, basketball, tag, hide and seek, rang doorbells, skated, built tree houses, formed clubs in big boxes, rolled down hills in barrels, rode bikes, smoked cigarettes, and many more fun things. These had nothing to do with alcohol, drugs, or firearms. We barely knew what they meant and were never in the presence of anyone that did other than parents.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, got black eyes, caught the measles, chicken pox, and whooping cough from each o! ther. But, there were never any lawsuits from the accidents.
We got spankings on a regular basis with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, belts or just a bare hand. No one even thought about calling child services to report abuse. Our elders could all correct us - whether family or neighbors and helped us to stay on the straight and narrow.
We ate worms, mud pies made from dirt, and the
worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, got bow and arrow sets, cap guns, army men, lincol! n logs, Tinker toys, red wagons, Tonka trucks, Tiny Tear dolls, GI Joes, Easy bake ovens, Steve Austin dolls, and made up games with sticks, rubber bands, rocks and tennis balls. Even though we were told it might happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
Most everyone lived in the neighborhood and we all walked to school together, played together, and grew up together. There were no socker moms or vans to haul us around from place to place every day. We walked to our friends house. There was no extra money for those ballet lessons, piano lessons, because we were usually staying after school to play some type of ball.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
We were all given the same opportunity, but some did not measure up. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. They were also told 'why?'. Imagine that!!There were no lawsuits from parents or assaults resulting from these decisions.
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 last 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas in technology. We designed all those buttons for today's kids to push, all those screens for today's kids to watch, all those phones for today's kids to talk on. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility. And, we actually learned how to deal with all of it!
If YOU are one of these kids, 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 ?
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu, swine flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this. For the rest of us...pass this on.
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