Born Between 1930 and 1979

My sister-in-law tamara fwd. this to me in my e-mail I thought is was cute and I wanted to blog it.


TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's, & 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mother who smoked &/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can & didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered w/bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets & when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars w/no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires & 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 & not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink w/friends, from one bottle & no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter & bacon. We drank kool-Aid made with real white sugar, & we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning & play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. & we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps & then ride them 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 Play stations, Nintendo's & X-boxes. There were no video games, 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 & no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS & we went outside & found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones & teeth & there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms & mud pies made from dirt, & the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games w/sicks & tennis balls & 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 & knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in & talked to them.

Little League had tryouts & not everyone make the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal w/disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided w/the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-taker, problem solvers & inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success & responsibility, & we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of the? CONGRATULATIONS!!

You might want to share this w/others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers & the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to ur kids so they will know how brave & lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house w/scissors, doesn't it?

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornado's, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, & w/the threat of bird flu & terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

I'm happy to say I am one of the proud parents that survived :)