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 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 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 cell phones, 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 or 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!

Wow...to be a kid again..sigh...I know reading this young people will take it as a joke but I miss all that stuff..hehe..catching fireflies, swimming in a pond,
climbing trees...when is the last time you saw any kid climb a tree?

Not to mention that at the time my mom was pregnant, they prescribed drugs for everything. She was actually prescribed speed when she was carrying me to prevent weight gain.

you see the problem with this is, all those kids who grew up in the 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's are now the parents who sue/have the cable/computers/buy vidio games for their children etc... if they let their children be children then things might actually be ok!

I don't agree with you at all Gala, I grew up in the 60's and I sure don't have a problem with anything above. If I had kids I'd let them do all of that.......and I sure wouldn't be throwing cable, computers, video games etc at them. You can't group or say it is the ones in the 60's !!??

i wasnt grouping it to be just the 60's... hence the 60's etc... the 60's just stuck in my mind for some reason... *wanders off to edit it* anyway back to my point, personally my mum stopped me from doing so much that she had done because it 'wasnt safe'... she didnt let me learn to ride a bike, or play out in the road, or half a doesen other things that i coulda done so *shrug* some parents are different but meh

And folks thats just the way it was, I still have my first red Duncan yo yo and let my Grandson play with it when he comes to visit. We call them the good ole days, and i remember them well. Wish i could share with u all the memories.

omg I still have my first Duncan yo yo too........omg I loved that yo yo

Unfortunately society is NOT safe now, not the way it was when I was a kid. My kiddo can play in the backyard by herself, but not the front. Too many perverts around. I live in a good neighborhood and there is a convicted sex offender about 4 blocks away. Someone tried to break into one of my cars the other day. People try to poinson kids, get them hooked on drugs, molest them, just about everything. So yeah, I was a little overprotective when she was younger.

Now that she is older she has a lot more freedom. Still, every time she goes out with her friends, I am worried.