Note to people born in the 30's,40's,50's,60's and 70's

Tidewalker · #1 06-24-2006, 11:49 AM

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 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 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 fri end'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.

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #2 06-24-2006, 12:03 PM

Ain't it the truth!

AlArchie · #3 06-24-2006, 01:27 PM

Heck, I was born in the 40's, raised in the 50's, came of age in the 60's, started raising a family in the 70's, worked my a** off in the 80's, retired in the 90's, passed a new millenium and now I'm just trying to figure out where all that time went!

But it's been one helluva great ride!

Al

Kenny_S · #4 06-24-2006, 02:47 PM

Respect!
Something the "NOW" generation doesn't understand.
Of course, we didn't have TVs, Boom boxes plugged in tio our ears on high, Newer cars than our parents,fast food joints on every corner, Jobs in them fast food joints, Laws to protect the Kids(if ya know what I mean), A society that backed the president no matter if we went to war or what party, prisons that were hard on criminals, not the golf course ones we have these days, chain gangs, and I could go on and on but the soap box is getting taller.
Yep ALA, You are right though, " One Hell of a great ride" for sure.
Glad I am from the 1940s generation.

wood-whittler · #5 06-24-2006, 03:38 PM

i agree kids these days have it made, kinda makes you wonder what the world will come too. i have freinds that have electrical contracting business's and you should hear the stories they have about trying to find helpers and electricians for that matter. noone wants to work for a living the younger generation wants everything handed to them. i watched my daddy bust his hump for 40 yrs and noone ever gave him a thing he earned all him and momma have on their own.
enough said, sorry getting on my soap box.

bart

p.s when my wife and i got married 15 yrs ago noone gave us a thing either we have busted our hump for what we have and we are still busting our hump just like all the other hardworking americans out there.

Kenny_S · #6 06-24-2006, 07:12 PM

One thing is for sure Bart, My little bride's father gave me his daughter. I can see why now

Nah, she is a sweet and wonderfull woman who gave me two wonderful and thoughtfull children who in turned, gave me 3 wonderfull, loving angels.

That is my story and I am sticking to it.

Tucson Bill · #7 06-24-2006, 07:56 PM

I am in favor of rolling back military boot camp to what it was in the 50's and early 60's and then reinstituting the draft. If you can't learn respect and pesonal responsibility there, you kinda deserve the military!!

Ron Davidson · #8 06-24-2006, 07:59 PM

I am one of six boys in our family and we grew up in the 60s. I am the third oldest. I remember for fun we would have rock or dirt clod or hedge apple fights which ever we had on hand. I still carry the scars from BB guns. I remember one day my little brother jumped from around the corner of the house and shot me in the thumb. I also remember playing in the barn swinging like tarzan on the rope. My oldest brother knows what a pitchfork feels like. And yes we all survived and so has mom. I know there were times she wondered how. Have you noticed that alot of the people writing movies and such now days have no imagination they have to take old movies from our time and redo them Posiden adventure for example. They never had to create their own intertainment I guess. And don't get me started on manners.

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #9 06-24-2006, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Tucson Bill

I am in favor of rolling back military boot camp to what it was in the 50's and early 60's and then reinstituting the draft. If you can't learn respect and pesonal responsibility there, you kinda deserve the military!!

Yep, that works doesn't it? ha ha

woodtrapper · #10 06-24-2006, 08:21 PM

Boy I miss the sixty's and seventy's growing up with beebe guns and schwinn bicycles with bananna seats.Do you all remember clipping a playing card with a clothes pin to your spokes for the noise.I am currently training a 24 year old electrical apprentice and I like to listen to soft rock radio stations.He says I have a horrable taste of music.My dad taught me to appreciate all kinds of music. I will stop there.What a great topic.