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  • To All Born In The 1930's 40's 50's 60's & 70's

    Had this sent to me by e-mail, compare this with now:

    TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 ute 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 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



    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 video tape movies, no surround sound,no cellphones, 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, walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for 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?!






    PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

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    Re: To All Born In The 1930's 40's 50's 60's & 70's

    thats great. .....how society has changed( not for the best either ).

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      I was always one of those "Little Leaguers" who didn't get on a team and had to watch everybody else in my class pile onto a minibus at lunchtime & get Coke'n'chips after the game.
      I've seen this before but every word of it is true, we were less mollycoddled but happier for it.
      Into the 5th Millennium & beyond...!

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        Re: To All Born In The 1930's 40's 50's 60's & 70's

        WELL DONE David!!, I've been tryin 2 put that in 2 words 4 ages!! I am always tellin my younger 2 how it used 2 b, they say ' I wish we cud hav bin there mum!!

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          Re: To All Born In The 1930's 40's 50's 60's & 70's

          Excellent!! Not many times we are glad to be getting older, but if it means we had all that - yes I am very glad!!

          thank you for the reminder of the privileges we had.
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            Re: To All Born In The 1930's 40's 50's 60's & 70's

            todays kids have allergies to this, that and the other because they are coccooned from birth in a false sterile environment. Bring back booby feeds... cant sterilise a boob!
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            Count your friends amongst the stars....
            And your enemies on the fingers of one foot!

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