One of my co-workers had this posted on the wall in her office, and I thought it was cool so I thought I'd share.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s, and '70s...
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoke 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 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 a 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 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 home when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and ride down the hill, only to realize we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We didn't have Playstations, Nintendos, X-Boxes...no video games at all. We didn't have 99 channels on cable, no videotaped movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet, 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 rode our bikes or walked to our friends' houses, and knocked on the door or rang the bell...sometimes we just walked right in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't dealt 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!
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. We had freedom, failure, success, and responsiblity, 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 government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you're at it, forward it to your kids so they'll know how brave their parents were.
(Kinda makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?)





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