ARE YOU A SURVIVOR?
First, we survived being born to mothers who 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 cribscovered 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 tookhitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, boosterseats, 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 withsugar, 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 150channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cellphones, 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 lawsuitsfrom these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in usforever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks andtennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke outvery many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang thebell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't hadto 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 andinventors 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 DEALWITH IT
First, we survived being born to mothers who 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 cribscovered 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 tookhitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, boosterseats, 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 withsugar, 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 150channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cellphones, 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 lawsuitsfrom these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in usforever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks andtennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke outvery many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang thebell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't hadto 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 andinventors 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 DEALWITH IT
ALL!
If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!
Answer to 2/12's trivia question: The picture is of a tv test pattern. For those of you who are too young to remember this, television did not air 24 hours a day and we only had 2 channels. When the networks went off the air, the tv test pattern appeared on your tv screen.
Today's trivia question: Who was the first woman whose picture/portrait appeared on a US postage stamp?
Thought for the Day: You know you're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
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