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READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY
JAY LENO IF YOU DON'T
READ ANYTHING ELSE-----VERY WELL STATED.



TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED
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 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. (which by the way, we should have
nowadays)

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 ONE actually
died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade 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 DVD's,no
surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no
Internet or 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 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 ALL!

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,
let your kids 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 is by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornados, 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?"


Kat

Oh! All this sounds so familar!!!! I love it, thank you once again,
Kat!

YEAH IVE HEARD THAT BEFORE ....HERE I THINK!!!

Here here Kat, boy those were the days!!!

Didn't ya just love it.

love it Kat

in the famous lyrics of the theme song to All in The Family......
"Thoseeeee were the dayssssssss"...... and you knew who your were
thennnn..... girls were girls and men were men...

Crazy how time changes eh?

I remember looking at photo albums when I was a kid.

Me in the back dash of the car...

Riding horse at 5...

In the back of the pickup with the dog...

Everyone smoking while holding me...

Me driving the tractor at 9 on a slanted hill...

My crib full of blankets and pillows..and I was on my tummy

i like it kat

hugs sug

it brought back some wonderful memories

for ya






party on...

That sure tells alot now about all B/S in the world 2 day we are still
alive,we made without seat belts,and lead base paint and blah,blah
blah

i feel so left out by about 5 years,... me and 1984 will hold each
other!

Almost makes me glad to be a child of the 70s. :)

It was alot beter then than now that's for sure

Yes that described my childhood but not completely...each era has it's
downside and our had the good bad and ugly. I'm an old dog so I relate
to the old fashioned ways and that is how I have tried to raise my kids
so they will know where being a good person in a hard world is rooted.
Excellent post and food for thought and discussion. What would our kids
(20 somethings?) remember fondly? There must be some young folks here
that can speak to that. I remember how my grandparents thought my
parents jitterbugging was scandalous and my parents thought rock and
roll was scandalous.
Unfortunately, the information has made processing what comes at us much
more complicated. The military industrial complex has ended life as many
of us knew it into the high tech age and the globe getting smaller and
smaller.

I have posted something quite similar to this before. It was a little
different. I am sure someone else has also. It does change from time to
time. But the memories of those days was so much simpler. I do miss
them. I wish our kids (yes, I said our kids, because it does take a
village to raise a child) of today had it as easy. I say easy because
times were simpler, calmer,more stable, and at a slower pace.
Kat

Very good Kat, also you could leave your doors unlocke, neighbors sat
onb their porches and talked too you when you passed by, neighbrs would
actualy ask you if you needed help with anything.

Yup, that too. Neighborhoods rarely know one another anymore. It is all
so sad.
Kat

OH not ME!!!!!!!!!....I don't know about any of that stuff I was born
after 1979!!!!!

Agreed. I miss the good old days, especially my whirlybird... :)

I remeber those days, to bad they aren'tstill the same, just think of
what our kids would be like without their compuers and computer games,
but then we would't be together either, I am so confused