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Eagle 1
12-13-2009, 10:10 AM
From: us born between 1930-1979

Subject: Those of us born 1930-1979

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME!!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF!!!!



To Those of Us Born 1930 - 1979
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.
If you don't read anything else, please read what he said.


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-base 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 & 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 made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon.
We drank FLAV-OR- 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, Nintendo's and X-boxes.
There were no video games, 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 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 these 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 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
What can kids today do besides push buttons?


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.




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 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?'


God is watches over us... go ahead and pass this on.


Let an angel touch your heart !

Eagle 1

RickO
12-13-2009, 05:04 PM
Yep, we lived through it all, and are stronger for it. RickO

Jason in Enid
12-13-2009, 05:07 PM
Very goog post. At first I was thinking why am I lumped in with folks WAY older than me? Then it made sense. I did all those things and more.

I also make sure that my kids do all those things. Yeah, I tell him to be careful, watch for cars, etc. etc. Yep, I get nervous when I see him climbing WAY up in our trees in the back yard. But that's the stuff kids are supposed to do. My kids also enjoy camping, hiking, fishing, scouts (boy and girl), boating, swimming in lakes :shocked04:

Experience is priceless, and experience comes from doing and making mistakes.

Epi-hunter
12-13-2009, 05:13 PM
Great post. Reading it brought back a lot of memories :)

My daughter (almost 9) has a friend who lives a block away. The friend's mother won't let my daughter walk or ride her bike to this friend's house because she feels it isn't safe. I have to drive her or walk her there and back, in broad daylight. I live in a safe subdivision with almost no through traffic. Yes, I worry about things that could happen, but this is ridiculous. At some point you have to teach them about safety, and let go a little.

Eagle 1
12-13-2009, 05:25 PM
So true but it's not the same world we live now then back then. There are rules evey where do this don't do that, a sign here a sign there :ticked: What a sole to do. :bangahead01: :mad: I had so much fun back in the day. Now you might get sude.

Eagle 1

coinnut
12-13-2009, 06:30 PM
Yep, those were the days. Monkey bars with no padding, when you fell you hit dirt (or concrete) not woodchips or shredded rubber lol Hurry up and invent that time machine, so I can go back there. While your at it let me take my detectors. I know of some good place I would love to be first at rofl

Stang1968
12-13-2009, 06:32 PM
I was born in 1981 and did much of that that same stuff too.
Its one of the debates I have with my wife occasionally- I want to do things with the kids the way I did, and she thinks its unsafe or dangerous.
I still drink from the hose when she's not around :tongue:

yazoo
12-13-2009, 08:24 PM
I could handle that time machine just let me take my V3 and a good rechargeable battery with a bigfoot coil, say lets try 1969 .Iwas 14yrs old and that detector and I could have made a fortune.Dreams lets go ! :grin: H.H. Yazoo

sectshun8
12-14-2009, 12:30 PM
I was born in 1981 and did much of that that same stuff too.
Its one of the debates I have with my wife occasionally- I want to do things with the kids the way I did, and she thinks its unsafe or dangerous.
I still drink from the hose when she's not around :tongue:


Me too thumbsup01

hoser
12-14-2009, 01:07 PM
Man that brought back SOOO many memories. Being as I was born in 49 think what I could go back and find :shocked04: :twirlingeyes: :drool:. Great post BTW.

del
12-14-2009, 03:23 PM
yup those were the days , i tried to explain some of those to my Daughter and i just get the deer in the headlights look :confused: and can tell theres no comprehension of the concepts lol lol and she just thinks i'm :crazy:

coinnut
12-14-2009, 05:30 PM
and she just thinks i'm :crazy:


Sounds like one smart kid lol :yes: ;)

Eagle 1
12-14-2009, 05:45 PM
I 2nd that :poke: .

Eagle 1

BHNugget
12-15-2009, 12:23 AM
Looking back to about the fourth grade, my friends and I were lucky we werent crippled or killed just from our innertubing episodes in the winter.Those extreme skiers didnt have nothin on us! lol

MT
01-28-2010, 10:06 PM
I was born in 1941...Never worried about anything except getting home when the streetlights came on. We had fun, we were very active and didn't die from eating Popcicles or the other crap we put into our bodies.
I still remember, if I needed Popcicle money, I would go to the playground and run my hands through the very hard sand under the Monkey Bars and find all the change I needed for a week. Walkers, SLQ's, Mercs etc.
Ahhh...I long for those uneventful times.
HH,
MT (Tom)