Re: THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
- From: Dick Zielinski <dickzielinski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:49:03 -0700
On 26 Jul 2005 20:31:42 -0700, sdcruisers@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
This all so true... I've often had these same thoughts as I watch the
news bites.
Dick
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>TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 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 cribs were covered with bright
>colored,
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>lead-based paints.
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>We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and
>when we
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>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 pick up 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
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>NO ONE
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>actually died from this.
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>We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop 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
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>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
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>the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
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>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 (well the 70's kids had a few), no 99 channels on cable, no video
>tape movies, no surround sound, no cell
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>phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat
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>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 BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
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>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
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>the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
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>Little League 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
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>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
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>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
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>kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our
>own good.
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>and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
>brave their parents were.
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>Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't
>it?!
.
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