CONGRATULATIONS 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 coloured 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.

 

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 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 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 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!

 

Football teams had trials 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?!

 

PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

How very true that is. Arr the memorys come flooding back. But that was when it was safe to go out kids then where innocent and didnt act like they do now, bloody shame

 

Life was fun then, the summers went on forever and if you didnt have a bike you scrounged about for the bits to make one. Why did it ever end? At least i can go in a pub now instead of having to stand outside while the adults where inside enjoying themselves, and now and then they would bring a glass of lemonade and a bag of crisps out. :rofl: :rofl:

How true is that!!!!!

 

I dread to think what the world is going to be like when the current younger generation is in control.... If they show the same amount of respect they do now then **** global warming, the world will be blown to pieces by some burberry wearing chavved up prime minister pressing the big red button cos he's coked up/pilled up/whatever....

How true is that!!!!!

 

I dread to think what the world is going to be like when the current younger generation is in control.... If they show the same amount of respect they do now then **** global warming, the world will be blown to pieces by some burberry wearing chavved up prime minister pressing the big red button cos he's coked up/pilled up/whatever....

lol or wonders what the big red button with the "DONT PRESS" sign does, so they press it anyway

:cry: childhood how it SHOULD be. the last stand of fun, responsiblity, respect and common sense :cry:

Is it illegal to smack your children now? If so then why not invite a friend round to smack them for you? That isn't in the law is it? :D ;)

Is it illegal to smack your children now? If so then why not invite a friend round to smack them for you? That isn't in the law is it? :D ;)

i never smacked my kids (all grown up now) they fell onto my hand :slap: