Those of us born 1930-1979

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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?'
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Aaaaah those were the days. I can relate to a lot of them.
 
Good stuff but the thing I don't get is that the people making up these health and safety rules now are more often that not from these generations you mention so why are they wrapping up everybody in cotton wool when it did them no harm?
 
I especially love Jay's quote. I'm glad I was born in 74!!! btw I still like to climb trees and I have never fell out of one.
 
thisnthat said:
Good stuff but the thing I don't get is that the people making up these health and safety rules now are more often that not from these generations you mention so why are they wrapping up everybody in cotton wool when it did them no harm?
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Those are probably the unfortunate few whose parents were overprotective and neurotic:eek:
 
All my Jarts are stuck in the top of an old tree. They're a lot of fun but not very good at knocking other Jarts down :(
 
And for everyone born after 1979:

GET OFF MY LAWN!

:D

--Mark
 
And remember the "rich" city kids (I was born a country boy) got to play in special places called playgrounds that were made of steel poles sunk into concrete slabs! As for me and my friends we played with snakes, caught frogs and ran down baby rabbits when we baled hay (in REAL bales, not these lazy giant rolls)! Went fishing, and swimming by ourselves and nobody died...shoot I even learned to ride a bicycle on Interstate 80 before it was open to traffic near my farm! Damn...now I feel older than dirt!:eek:
 
In my nieghborhood when we were kids. We played a game called "tree tag" It was kinda more like dodge ball but one person was on the ground throwing a ball at the ones in the tree. If you got hit by the ball it was your turn to be on the ground and throw the ball. Thats how I busted my right arm when I was five years old.
 
Our Xmas gifts were soddering irons so you could burn your name into wood or leather or write you name in a piece of metal. Or chemistry sets with real chemicals.
We would play with fireworks. While trying to find snakes, we would throw M80's down snake holes.
There was no car pooling. If I wanted to get to baseball practice, I had to ride my bike there.


And not to make light of this but when did the peanut become the most toxic substance known to man. I don't know a single person over the age of 25 with a peanut allergy. I never had to deal with it in high school (2500 kids at my high school), nor at college. Now, my kids can't so much as mention peanut butter and jelly. Everything has to be peanut free. I feel bad for these kids of today with peanut allergies, because the peanut is delicious. And because the allergies is dangerous and severe. But when did that happen?
 
Man that brings back so many childhood memories

Thanks for the memories Papa Dave.

In the small rural community where I grew up in central Wisconsin, we had 4 channels on the TV including PBS. In the winter we could usually bring in at least 3. We all fished as soon as we were able to hold a fisning rod, and starting hunting at 12. School never closed due to snow, we just showed up whenever the bus driver got us there, and sometimes were able to leave early.

Had to ride my bike 5 country road miles for little league practice and yes I was one of those cut the first few years.

Of course there are a lot of things we have now that we didn't have back then: Aids, Crack, Crystal Meth, AK57's, Metal Dectors and Police Officers in our schools, Entertainment Television that headlines celebrity snafus instead of world events, advanced calculators as a requirement for grade school math, games that entice you to play for hours on toy guitars instead of learning the real thing, cell phones etc... Now I'm rambling like on - I think I have turned into my Dad.. Wait a minute, that's really not a bad thing after all!!
 
Hankthetank said:
Our Xmas gifts were soddering irons so you could burn your name into wood or leather or write you name in a piece of metal. Or chemistry sets with real chemicals.
We would play with fireworks. While trying to find snakes, we would throw M80's down snake holes.
There was no car pooling. If I wanted to get to baseball practice, I had to ride my bike there.


And not to make light of this but when did the peanut become the most toxic substance known to man. I don't know a single person over the age of 25 with a peanut allergy. I never had to deal with it in high school (2500 kids at my high school), nor at college. Now, my kids can't so much as mention peanut butter and jelly. Everything has to be peanut free. I feel bad for these kids of today with peanut allergies, because the peanut is delicious. And because the allergies is dangerous and severe. But when did that happen?
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I got a chemistry set for Christmas when I was 8 or 9 (which put it square in the middle of the '70s). One of the chemicals was Sodium Ferrocyanide - relatively harmless in its natural state but if mixed with an acid it can form Hydrogen Cyanide gas. Which is lethal. I remember my oldest brother (12 years older than me) looking at the bottle and shrugging and saying, "You should probably keep acids away from this one."

I'm still alive, by the way!
 
I too have chased kids out of my lawn, but because they were going into the culvert behind my back yard to smoke pot and drink beer, and they weren't even in high school yet.
 
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