James T Thomas
Member
May I quote a thought provoking message that I received from a friend this morning? I am not the author and I do not know who is, but it is good.
"Congratulations to all the kids who were born in the thirties, fourties, fifties, sixties, and seventies!
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 with real butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it.
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 OK!
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 our 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 tenth 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 every one made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with the 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 fifty years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility,and we learned to deal with it all.
You may 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.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
"Congratulations to all the kids who were born in the thirties, fourties, fifties, sixties, and seventies!
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 with real butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it.
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 OK!
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 our 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 tenth 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 every one made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with the 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 fifty years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility,and we learned to deal with it all.
You may 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.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
