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 with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade 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 , CD's or Ipods , 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 ***** 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!

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 so much of our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

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

 

Oh man thats so true!! I got a BB gun when I was 10 and built tree forts and was gone all day playing in the woods and swimming and play on rafts all day out in the lake! Those were good times. Oh and the TV was not allowed on during the weekends.

 

Born in '55, my Mom and Dad were smokers. The ceiling above them was brown with cigarette smoke and I sat in the same living room with them every night breathing the same air. I cringe at the thought of it now. I would put on my little suit to go to church every Sunday and it would wreek of cigarette smoke. I don't mind a smoke now and then but I would never subject my wife and child to smoke like my folks did to me.

 

I made the cut by a year, whooooo hoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Didn't you post this YESTERDAY?




















j/k LT

 

I was born in 1972, and that was my childhood.

 

I'm a Bicentennial Baby! 1976! Happy 200th Birthday to the USA!(and 0 for me)
I agree with you, LT, I would get on my BMX bike,(which could be considered my 1st custom vehicle), and be gone all day! My Mom would kill me if she knew the places I went! I had a great childhood, and I try to give my kids a great childhood as well. I still can't believe I'm 30...

 

How very true LT. Great post! I can remember being 8 years old and riding in the back of my Dad's new 66 Mustang convertible. He'd do 80 down a country road and my brothers and I would be in the back seat(it didn't have seatbelts) just loving it!

 

Kids have it made now in some regards. For instance, they have internet ****. We had Cosmopolitan and Sears & Roebuck catalogs.

 

I was born in 88 but I grew up that way too. I had all the Nintendos and everything but we only played em at night when it was time to go in (after playing outside ALL DAY LONG). I hate the state our country is in now.

 

I remember that!!! That ladies underwear section in the Sears catalog was the shiznit.

 

Looked familiar.
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...ght=childproof

 

10?

i was packing a red ryder from my 6th birthday when i was rewarded for diving off the big diving board at the ymca...

and i carried a pocketknife with me at all times from age 5 until the pansification of the TSA made it illegal to bring one aboard a plane

...everyone will be wearing helmets in 50 years, all day every day

back in my day, we didn't have no rollie coasters, we threw ourselves off the edge of a cliff, and we liked it

 

Glad I was raised a country boy (born in 84) I won my first BB gun when I was 8 from a little shooting contest inside the sporting goods store in the middle of the city (imagine that now) Got my first shotgun when I was
12, good ol Cooey single shot 20ga

I loved riding in the back of dad's '69 Bronco with no seats, never mind seatbelts.

I cant stand how everyone who grew up in the city spends every day in front of the PS3 and night in some lousy club or martini bar, when it warms up Ill be in the bed of my truck backed up to the river with a 6 pack and a fishin rod.

 

Class of 1970 checking in!

Our video games were at the 7/11 and cost $.25 to play and we walked or rode the bike to play them, and the store wasn't owned by a middle-easterner.