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 -
1960
:
At the end of
this 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
KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930s,
'40s, '50s, and '60s!!
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
1925-1960, 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
By
Jay
Leno:
"With
hurricanes, tornado's, earthquakes, 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 and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to
take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
Missing link; The phrase "missing link" has been used extensively in popular writings
on human evolution to refer to a perceived gap in the hominid
evolutionary record. One idea related to the die out of one species and the start of a new "human" like species is the first species did not have Child Protective Services to "protect" it. Therefor, they died out.
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