This is good.



No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,

WE ARE AWESOME !!!

OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF !!!




To Those of Us Born

1925 - 1970 :


~~~~~~~~~
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!




First, we survived being born to mothers who may have 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, locks on doors or cabinets,

and, when we rode our bikes,

we had baseball caps,

not helmets, on our heads.







As infants and 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..







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 friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.







We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made 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.

No one was able to reach us all day.

--And, we were OKAY.







We would spend hours building

our go-carts out of scraps

and then ride them 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 Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were

no video games, no 150 channels on cable,

no video movies or DVDs,

no surround-sound or CDs,

no cell phones,

no personal computers,

no Internet and no 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 those accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.





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 to 85 years have seen 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 those born

between 1925-1970, 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 ?

~~~~~~~

Thanks, Ditter, that brought back many great memories.

And to add just one more thing....I grew up in a very small house with small rooms. In our house the center room was the dining room. It was also the room that we seldom used so it became the Avon room. Mom was an Avon lady and would get huge boxes of the most beautiful things in. We (6 kids) NEVER touched any of it because it wasn't allowed. Yes, back then kids were told NO, knew what it meant and obeyed it.

When the boxes were emptied we got to travel the world in our airplanes, trains and buses. We designed our own homes, made towns, and dog houses for our stuffed animals. Those boxes were the best toys we had and the greatest thing was that we got new ones every few weeks.

Amen to both sisters!!!

What memories. You are so right, we are awesome.

Hear, hear. Nothing like it is today. One other thing. Most of us have a good work ethic also, not like kids today.
Our parents taught us that.

Wow I didn"t know you lived on my block :mrgreen:

thanks so much for that. I will let the grand kids read this they don't believe me when I tell them these stories now I have proof

lynnie

Right On.....

So glad I was born when I was! Goes to show you things weren't that bad back then! My motto is 'why change it if it's not broke" Should've kept life simplier!

We were also able to go trick-or-treating for blocks and blocks with a pillow case, and did nt have to worry about the candy or what might have been put in it.

that is so true

Amen!!

I hope you are not advocating going back to the days of no car seats and lead paint on cribs!!! I remember when I use to see toddlers standing up in the front seat of a car - made me CRAZY!!

Sure, we (people who are reading this) survived, but how many didn't!! My SIL lost a baby to crib death, I bet she wished someone had told her about babies sleeping on their backs.

I do like the part about being out playing all day. Does anyone else remember, "Calling out" ? -- if you went to your friends house you NEVER knocked on the door or rang the bell. You stood on the stoop and "called them out" - called their name real loud in a certain singsong tone that I can't describe.

Those were the days. My dermatologist (and when did we start having a doctor for every little thing?) asked me if I was out in the sun much when I was a kid!! I say,"Are you kidding me? It's more like when WASN'T I out in the sun????"

Good memories. I've reconnected in the past year with several "kids" from the old neighborhood and we so enjoy remembering those days. Thanks for sharing!

amen...good one and all so TRUE

My daughter can't believe all the horrible things I did to her when she was little (born in 1981 just before super-crash-protected seats got popular)....and all the allergens I fed her too early---but kids like peanut butter! And all the grapes and hotdogs she ate (#1 and #2 choking hazards) but she loved them.... and of course, now that she's a mom, I can't believe how overboard everything is with her kids' generation!

so true!

Oh, what fun we had! My candy would last me all winter. Much different now for my grandkids - just not safe for them like it was for us.

Not only did we go out on Halloween but the night before was beggars night, so we got twice the candy and twice the neighborhoods. I remember being Hop A Long Cassidy when in Kindergarten!!!

Amen!

So true! Thanks for the reminder!

Blue Cheese dressing??? What is wrong with BLUE CHEESE dressing?? We are having so many health problems because what we eat too many preservatives and genetically altered foods. More kids are ADHD and autistic. It is the environment.

I still live pretty much in the "good ole days" mode. Thanks for the memories.

Thanks for sharing

If the world was only like that again. My daugher was born in 75 and when she was small 8-11 we lived in FL in a neighborhood where people watched out for each other. Kids didn't sit inside. They got "its nice out go outside and play. Can't do that anymore. So sad.

I heard a line on a show last night "I walked to school when you could do that without worrying about an AMBER alert. "
I wish days were simpler. But I am also glad I am not raising small children in this day.

Thanks!!! I remember how much fun it was and how little freedom kids have today. Can you remember going trick or treating and eating the candy before your parents saw it?

Sure can. I can remember taking my younger brothers and sisters. Not an adult to be seen on the streets. Of course it was a very small town in NJ and everyone knew everyone else. :-)

I remember raking up leaves devide the grass into rooms with the leaves.Walking from down town without getting molested or raped.
I had a neighbor,when i would ride my 1 bike, i would say honk-honk,he would say beep-beep.

I qualify for all of the above. Big Sigh!

I remember those days !! They were the best !!

So true and you can add to that, that we rode our bikes behind the mosquito DDT fog trucks every evening and well...we're still here!

Thanks, Ditter. We talk about all these things so often. And, how about our favorite sled riding hill. If you were one of the big kids and didn't stop in time you had to keep your head down to avoid the barbed wire fence at the bottom of the hill!

We are so fortunate to have lived in the 50's. and 60's - then it seems like it started "turning" When I mention to someone that I would LOVE to turn back the clock to the 60's - they think EVERYONE at that time was at hippy parties making free love and taking drugs! Not the case----

OMG - did that too!! but without the bike.

grew up with one bathroom, pladed on the pirches and played in lots that houses were being built tin. those were the days!!!!

You are so right...we are awesome. The world we grew up in was great...wasn't it?

We were and are Awesome! How true and what wonderful, beautiful memories we all have...I just pray our grandchildren can find some of the joys of growing up as we had and not be not burdeoned by this new entitlement generation. I also pray that businesses find a way to make it in this country without being pushed overseas so there are jobs for everyone in our beloved country. We Are Awesome and I hope that continues to be for everyone!

Yes, good ole days except I had a mother who didn't smoke or drink or do drugs. She took me to church every Sunday and left a wonderful legacy for me. Thanks for the rememberances.

right on and it never hurt me....those were the good old days wish it was that way now maybe kids wouldnt get sick so often or be so un manerly or rude to people and grow up not getting into trouble all the time.....

Nicely put!! I certainly still respect my parents to this day!!!