To All the Kids Who Survived!
TO
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 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 & 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 and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle
and NO
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.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
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 150 channels on cable, no video
movies or
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!
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
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, send 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?
Author Unknown
*Gene’s Note: Obviously, the above should not be taken as permission to throw away all common sense when our children’s safety (or our safety too, for that matter) is at stake. But damn, I miss those Cherry Bombs and M80’s…
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