Time to Remember and Smile

Those of Us Born 1930 - 1955:

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TO ALL THE  KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, and  50's !!    
 
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have 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-based 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 and 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, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-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 by dark.

    
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 that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned  To Solve the problem.

   
We did not 
Have Play Stations, Nintendo  
and X-boxes. There were    
No video games, 
No 150 channels on cable,     
No video movies 
Or DVDs,     
No surround-sound or  CDs,     
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 Lost teeth,     
And there were No lawsuits  From those 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, 22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses,  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 60 to 85 years Have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.  We had freedom,  Failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

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.  

The quote of  the month     
by  Jay Leno:  

    "With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of coronavirus and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"

For those who prefer to think that God is not watching over us... 
go ahead and delete this.    

For the rest  of us.....    please pass this on.