Reply With QuoteCan't agree more,those were the days!the go cart with no brakes sure brings back memories!
You Should Be Glad Bureaucrats say we should be dead! WE BEAT THE
ODDS!!
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's or even the early 80's, probably
shouldn't
have survived.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
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 pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it,
but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one
actually died from this. We would spend hours building our go-carts out
of
scraps and then rode 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 would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at
all....... no 99 channels on cable........ video tape movies, surround
sound, personal cell
phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! We
went outside and found them.
We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to
blame
but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights, ........punched each other, got black and blue, and
learned
to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although
we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did
the
worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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 would never sue. They had to learn to deal with disappointment !!
Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were
held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors!
Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected, one to hide behind.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
They
actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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're one of
them.
Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the good fortune to grow up as
kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for "our own
good".
Can't agree more,those were the days!the go cart with no brakes sure brings back memories!
XLGPP:
We had friends! We
went outside and found them.
Yeah, before hot boat.
How can spin the bottle be left out? That was always a classic when someones parents werent home.
XLGPP:
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. True...I remember on special days my dad would help me with my paper route. Driving me around the neighborhood in his flatbed truck. He'd fold the papers in the front and drive...flipping them out the window to me, I'd catch them and toss them from the bed of the truck to the door steps of my customers.
Later in life, I was standing in the bed of a truck going about 20 mph way out in the middle of no man's land and got a ticket from a police officer...things have changed. wink
That post hit the nail right on the head .I wonder what the health of kids from those eras would be like compared to those since the advent of video games and computers.The rates for child obesity have probably skyrocketed since then...I guess as in any generation it depends on a parents ability to say NO!
True Dat! frown
That reminds me of a story my grandparents told me. They drove from Mississippi to California in 1945 and my dad was put in a draw with some blankets and put into the backseat. How is that for a car seat! eek!
Prime reason why I tell my kids it is nice outside go there. They have the video games but not while it is nice outside. Sometimes though they have to remind me that it is only 7:30 in the morning.
I was always being kicked outside to play and I'll do the exact same thing with my children.
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