How Kids are Raised
Those Born 1930-1979
IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO --- VERY WELL STATED
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 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 & 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 bottle with four friends and no one actually died from doing it.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter. We drank Kool-aid made with sugar but we weren't overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
As long as we were back home when the streetlights came on, we could leave in the morning and play all day.
No one was able to reach us all day and we were always 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 computer! s, 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.
(common sense prevailed and legal greed hadn't set in, yet)
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 make it 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!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before greedy lawyers figured another way to make easy money and before we allowed Government IDIOTS to start regulating our lives 'for our own good'.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they can see how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
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?"
For those who prefer to think that God isn't watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass it on.
I am sure that there are going to be some who disagree. But the fact is those of us that did survive are doing great. Now look at some of the brats, sure sounds like who ever wrote it, hit the nail on the head!
IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO --- VERY WELL STATED
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 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 & 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 bottle with four friends and no one actually died from doing it.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter. We drank Kool-aid made with sugar but we weren't overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
As long as we were back home when the streetlights came on, we could leave in the morning and play all day.
No one was able to reach us all day and we were always 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 computer! s, 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.
(common sense prevailed and legal greed hadn't set in, yet)
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 make it 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!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before greedy lawyers figured another way to make easy money and before we allowed Government IDIOTS to start regulating our lives 'for our own good'.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they can see how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
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?"
For those who prefer to think that God isn't watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass it on.
I am sure that there are going to be some who disagree. But the fact is those of us that did survive are doing great. Now look at some of the brats, sure sounds like who ever wrote it, hit the nail on the head!
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We now live in a society where government intrusion has permited at least two generations of "Darwin Candidates" to survive and breed more Darwin Candidates and so it will continue. 0 -
I have a black guy who works for me, and he tells his children at supermarket to go ahead and whine, cry and scream like white kid's, but when I get your black _ _s home your going get a good old black whipping. 0 -
Social Darwinism works!! 0
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