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carolef

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>>TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
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>> 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
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>> First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked
>>and/or drank while they
>> carried us.
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>> They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a
>>can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
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>> Then after that trauma, our baby cot's were covered with
>>bright colored
>> lead-based paints.
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>> 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.
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>> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or
>>air bags.
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>> Riding in the back of a car on a warm day was always a
>>special treat.
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>> We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a
>>bottle.
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>> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one
>>bottle and NO ONE
>> actually died from this.
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>> We ate Jam butties, white bread and real butter and
>>Lemonade with sugar in it, but
>> we weren't overweight because
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>> WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
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>> We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as
>>long as we were back
>> when the streetlights came on.
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>> No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
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>> 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...
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>> We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no
>>video games at all, no
>> 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround
>>sound, no cell
>> phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet
>>chat
>> rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and
>>found them!
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>> We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and
>>there were no
>> lawsuits from these accidents.
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>> We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms
>>did not live in us forever.
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>> We were given Air 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.
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>> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked
>>on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
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>> Football had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
>>Those who didn't
>> had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
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>> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law
>>was unheard of They
>> actually sided with the law!
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>> This generation has produced some of the best
>>risk-takers, problem solvers
>> and inventors ever!
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>> The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation
>>and new ideas.
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>> We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and
>>we learned
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>> HOW TO
>> DEAL WITH IT ALL!
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>> And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
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>> 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
>>our lives for our own good.
 
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Seems like we are lucky to still be alive, I think I need a lie down, after all I was born in the 50s
 
We had polio, diptheria, consumption (tb), mealses, chikenpox and many more diseases killing us. Pollution was abominable. Women were treated like skivvies. I don't miss it.

(born in 50's)
 
And if you did need an operation you wasnt put to sleep with a needle you had a big black mask put over your face and you felt like you was choking !
 
if bird flu had been around in the 70's we coulda eaten the chicken raw and at most had bad farts the next day

todays world has become so sterile we dont get near propper dirt to build up our immune sytems
 
emmatjackson said:
They :hippy: were the good old days. Wish my kids could have grown up like us!
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yeah so do but unfortunatly by the time my kids have kids things like risk , adventure and freedom will just be words in a dictionary
 
I suppose we were hardier - these days with so much "better hygiene", more and more kids have asthma and allergies. And another funny thing, when not everyone had quite enough to eat, very few people seemed to have "food intolerances".
 
carolef said:
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>> rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the
>>risks we took







>> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one
>>bottle and NO ONE
>> actually died from this.

Suppose all does sound better when ya' put it that way, doesn't it?

Did inherit scar on eyebrow and concussion, however, from tumbling over handle bars on bike.

Best friend nearly 'died' on many occasions after she used to spit crumbs in the Tizer and didn't fancy a swig after that!!

Oh, and the one about the black mask before operation... had tonsils out when I was 4 (only because they thought were rather big and better to take them out before they caused trouble in later life). Thought I had dreamt this mask, but WAS true after all .... can smell it now..

Good fun this thread anyway. Thumbs up.
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