Those Born 1930-1970
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930s, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who 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, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants an children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 Kool-aid made with sugar, 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 O.K.
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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers!, no Internet or 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 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 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!
If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! [:D][:D]
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
First, we survived being born to mothers who 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, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants an children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 Kool-aid made with sugar, 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 O.K.
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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers!, no Internet or 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 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 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!
If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! [:D][:D]
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
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Times have sure changed! How did we ever survive [?] 0 -
we did it without computers, play stations.
when our parents told us to do something, we did it.
when we did something we werent suppose to, we paid for it.
did our folks get arrested for child abuse.
these damn kids better wake up.0 -
and we are better people for it. 0 -
Mostly I feel sorry for today's children. 0 -
The one I remembered best was if you could walk you did not need or were even offered a ride to anywhere.
Walk to and from summer job, wrestling practice, Uncle Lee's to hunt groundhogs, 6 miles each way, the movies, football games, school and anywhere else you wanted to or were allowed to go.
Sage 1 born 19440 -
Our mom would make us go outdoors and play until dinner time. We'd pay wiffle ball, kick ball, football, "Red light-green light", Hide-and-seek, or "King of the hill". We would race our "Mustang" bikes and see who could do the best "wheelie" to impress the new girl in town. We'd have great crabapple or snowball fights depending on the season. We'd play "mumblety peg" with our pocket knives (which we all had). We'd get dirty, tired and hungry while burning off excess calories (not that we knew that or even cared) as well as our after-school burst of energy. And if you missed the school bus, you'd walk to school because mom didn't like driving in the snow.
You don't even see kids playing outside anymore and getting exercise. They just sit around like zombies in front of the tv getting fatter and fatter playing their video games while brain-dead parents blame fast-food joints for their kids' obesity. [:(]0 -
Not all of us did survive!
I remember my twin brother
and a few neighborhood croneys
were riding in my uncles
trailor full of fill dirt when
one of us fell out and was run
over and kilt but to this day
I disremember if it was my
brother or me.
Go figure.
HeHe
mijelo0 -
yep after breakfast mom kicked us out of the house
we played tackle football, we climbed tree's
we went swimming in the creek, fished all day
we ran around barefoot all day, when we got
home, mom washed us down with a garden hose
before we got to go take a bath.
god I miss those days. not a care in the world0 -
I don't know about you guys but it was not out of bounds for the neighbor to jerk a knot in your behind if he or she saw you doing something really bad and then it really hit the fan when they told my folks.
How many of you would trade with one of the kids today at say 18 or 19?
I may be geetin up there 65 but I absolutely believe I have lived at a time and seen this country at its' very best. I would not give up my age and my experiences for a single minute of what kids have to live with today.
How many of you could or would stay in school with the tripe thrown your way that the teachers foist on these kids now?
I can't imagine my parents allowing it to be done and I don't know where the train came off the tracks. NO history of our forefathers, or geography or constitution.
Like I said, I think I am truly Blessed to have lived when and where I did.
SW WY in the mountains with all the fishing and hunting literally right outside my bedroom window.
46270 I agree If only I could go back and do it ALL ( I would not leave out a thing) again.
UF0 -
yep the kids growing up these days
call abuse if they get thier ass beat with a belt.
I could remember when my mom sent me out to go a
switch, you better damn well get one big enough
if you get a small one, and they went out to get
one, boy you were in trouble.
But yes I miss them days0 -
I think it has more to do with how kids are raised than what year they born. Beig considerably younger than most of you guys, i did most of the things listed in the first post. With the exception of having a gun rack, and having my principal show me his shotgun. I was kicked out of the house, played all day, climbed trees in the woods, fell out of the trees in the woods, i didnt have a cellphone then, i still dont have a cell phone now, i had a BB gun at about 11-12, I tried out for the baseball team and made it everytime. I think it also helped that we lived in a somewhat small town. When we moved into our neighborhood, there was a pond in our backyard, fished for bass and sunnies or crappies. My old neighborhood used to be a Cornfield. I could drive down the road and shoot shotguns at my friends house, i had a 3 wheeler, (yamaha DX 225). I visited my old town a few months ago, and its completely changed. Now they have starbucks, like 10 banks, a Buffalo Wild Wings, theres houses everywhere. Its different. My old town was Middletown, Delaware. It wasnt a super small town, it was big enough to find some trouble, but now its tooooooooooooooo big. 0 -
Surburban for the most part not that much difference
when I was growing up, I had 3 sisters, my dad worked
at a papermill. we did not have much, everything we had
we took care of, I remember I worked all two summers
cutting grass, chopping wood, everything I could to
raise money, I finally did it, I had enough in my piggybank
to by a honda sl 100, it was great.
we could hunt squirrels out back door, we could shoot our
guns, by the way had my own 22 at 12, my dad taught me
how to use it, he told me if I ever let him down with it
he would take it away and I would never get it back.
I believed him, I never let him down.
I played ball in little league, senoir league, high
school, and played in jr college & Air Force0 -
if i acted like the kids today my mother whuld beat the ever loving snot out of me to this day and i am 40 yrs old i still respect my elders and its yessir no sir lord help the kids today they need parents like ours 0 -
women wanted to work women wanted equal pay for that work women left home to work, and let daycare centers raise their kids kids came home after school, and no parents at home, so no supervision latchkey kids kids grew up with no supervision, nor discipline no spanking allowed in: daycares,schools, home kids run the homes,rebel,get lazy,no chores [*disfunctional families out of control, leads to more divorce now single parent families are the norm, because the home environment has eroded kids grow up not knowing right from wrong [/*]a society now in total dissarray, with the inmates running the asylumquote:Originally posted by UncleFudd
I don't know about you guys but it was not out of bounds for the neighbor to jerk a knot in your behind if he or she saw you doing something really bad and then it really hit the fan when they told my folks.
How many of you would trade with one of the kids today at say 18 or 19?
I may be geetin up there 65 but I absolutely believe I have lived at a time and seen this country at its' very best. I would not give up my age and my experiences for a single minute of what kids have to live with today.
How many of you could or would stay in school with the tripe thrown your way that the teachers foist on these kids now?
I can't imagine my parents allowing it to be done and I don't know where the train came off the tracks. NO history of our forefathers, or geography or constitution.
Like I said, I think I am truly Blessed to have lived when and where I did.
SW WY in the mountains with all the fishing and hunting literally right outside my bedroom window.
46270 I agree If only I could go back and do it ALL ( I would not leave out a thing) again.
UF0 -
And when we needed it our parents disciplined us(tanned our hide)and didn't go to jail for it.
They were respected for it!!!0 -
quote:Originally posted by Hunter Mag
And when we needed it our parents disciplined us(tanned our hide)and didn't go to jail for it.
They were respected for it!!!
AMEN TO THAT, GOD BLESS THEM FOR IT.0 -
Where did these kids of today come from?
Some of them came from people born before 1970 so I guess some folks need to look in the mirror.
My 16 yo son swims 2-3 hours a day, five days a week and rides his mountain bike on the trails on the property we live on.
My 7 and 9 yo daughters swim 2 hours a day two days a week and go to Karate for a hour a day three days a week. (Both just got their yellow belts and are working for their orange belts.)
All three are currently on the A-B honor roll.
My wife just took my daughters to a swim meet and will take them again tomorrow.
Sunday night the TV gets turned off and they do not watch TV again until Friday when they come home from school.
My point in all of this?
Point the finger at the parents, not the kids.
DSM0 -
quote:You don't even see kids playing outside anymore and getting exercise. They just sit around like zombies in front of the tv getting fatter and fatter playing their video games while brain-dead parents blame fast-food joints for their kids' obesity.
The above describes a lot of "Grown Ups" to a T..[:(]0 -
quote:Originally posted by 46270
quote:Originally posted by Hunter Mag
And when we needed it our parents disciplined us(tanned our hide)and didn't go to jail for it.
They were respected for it!!!
AMEN TO THAT, GOD BLESS THEM FOR IT.
Exactly!! Thanks again Dad!!!0 -
The sack of sh__ we live in today is because we let liberals have their way and run the country for a long time. This is the result of their "utopian dream". Anyone with an ounce of brain could see this is how it would turn out. Everybody is NOT basically "good". WTG for letting this happen.[V] 0 -
you can point fingers at some parents.
But Ive got a daughter, she gets straight A's,
she has never had a B. She got a music scholarship
at our arts academy, she is only 14 now.
I got married to my current wife late in life.
But I built her a computer when she was 3,
she had a small keyboard at age 6.
she was in the florida bandmaster allstate band.
she made the district 17 band.
I'm I proud of her, your damn straight.
she will get to go to any collage she wants too.
did I tan her backside when needed, yes
But that being said, you see boys walking around
with thier pants hanging off thier ass, you can
see more of thier underwear, thats a joke.
places where they give your kids birthcontrol
give them advice on abortions.
anything that affects my daughter I want to be able
to make that descision, not some nurse in school.
its the way this county is heading.
give the local, state, & federal more power over
your kids, than we do.0 -
Sure is a lot of good old days retoric here. Somethings to remember from the good old days:
Polio
Rheumatic fever
TB
Some things about today are better folks.0 -
no one died from second hand smoke, today it is treated like saran gas even though there has never been one documented case that proves cause and effect 0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
Sure is a lot of good old days retoric here. Somethings to remember from the good old days:
Polio
Rheumatic fever
TB
Some things about today are better folks.
Well if you want to go there. No aids back then.
Very few things are better today, unless one considers being lazy better.0 -
Last time around it was 1920-1979. What brought on the loss of nearly 20 years?
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Boy those were the days ! But i just didnt know it then. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Radar
Boy those were the days ! But i just didnt know it then.
We sure did But....I bet this new batch of kids survive longer....Bwwwwwwwwwahahahah!0 -
quote:tobefree:
I bet this new batch of kids survive longer....Bwwwwwwwwwahahahah!
Yeah - THAT'S what *I* want to do ... live to a zillion! LOL
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Zip, if there is a God ...you may just have too...At least in your case you won't have to look at him!!!! 0
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