CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70

[RED-DOG]

My dad sent me this....
 

CONGRATULATIONS  TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940'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 tin, and didn't get  tested for diabetes.

Then  after that trauma, our baby cots 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 van - loose - was always great fun.   

We drank water from the garden hosepipe 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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank 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 cell phones, no text messaging, 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  played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live  in us forever.

Made up  games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would  happen, we did not poke out any eyes.

We  rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang  the bell, or just yelled for them!

Local  teams 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?!!!!!!

[AndrewT]

And what are we risk-takers and innovators doing at the moment?

Posting on an internet messageboard.

[Claw75]

check to all of those.

I'd love my daughter to have that kind of childhood with all those fond memories, but social services would probably take her away.

[tantrum]

check to all of those.

I'd love my daughter to have that kind of childhood with all those fond memories, but social services would probably take her away.

 

[Claw75]

check to all of those.

I'd love my daughter to have that kind of childhood with all those fond memories, but social services would probably take her away.

 

it's not funny, it's sad! 

[bolt pp]

Lets give Tikay a chance to get involved, what were the pitfalls of being born in the 1910s?

[thetank]

Yes, congratulations to all those born before 1979

Particulary the ones whose memories are beggining to fade

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=6967.msg149292#msg149292

[Claw75]

Yes, congratulations to all those born before 1979

Particulary the ones whose memories are beggining to fade

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=6967.msg149292#msg149292

doh - I even posted the same reply

[mex]

15 a siide football, and no one rembers the score, but they kicked off at 1pm and ended at 7pm for tea, some one always had to get the ball beardy blokes garden and he'd chase you off. 

summer lasted forever. I walk past where we'd play football, now i can't remember seeing anyone play on 'the green' for about 10 years.

[AndrewT]

15 a siide football, and no one rembers the score, but they kicked off at 1pm and ended at 7pm for tea, some one always had to get the ball beardy blokes garden and he'd chase you off. 

summer lasted forever. I walk past where we'd play football, now i can't remember seeing anyone play on 'the green' for about 10 years.

No one needed to keep score, because it was always 'Last goal wins.'

[Dale]

Your generation sucked. (sorry, but it did, no nintendo.... WTF?)

[RED-DOG]

Your generation sucked. (sorry, but it did, no nintendo.... WTF?)

Yeah? Well your generation wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for our generation sunshine.

[smithy69]

I was born in 1981, so don' t quite fit into the title of this thread, but everything stated applies to my upbringing.

I am genuinely worried about my 9 month old daughter and the world she will be brought up in. None of Red's list seems to apply even more and it is sad.

As a young parent today's world scares me!!!!!!!!!

[M3boy]

A time when kids respected (or feared) adults!!!

God help our kids children!!!!!!! Is all I can say.

[cambo]

plus all cartoons for kids these days are rubbish 80s cartoons all the way