Kalista

TO THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

• They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.

• Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, 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 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!

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

• We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

• 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!

• This generation has 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!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

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


Judith L. Mounty, Ed.D., MSW, LGSW
Center for Families in Transition
4401 East West Highway, Suite 201
Bethesda, MD 20814
Voice: (301) 907-7996
TTY: (301) 718-8358

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Reba

Ha, ha, yes, that is all true (except I don't remember eating worms).
Thanks for the funny memories.

Angel

haha you're funni, but it all true but I don't remember eating worms either, but I do remember my son ate ants when he was helping me with the flower garden...

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Roadrunner

Ahhh...the memories of those times but not forgotten days--here's another one, playing 'cowboys and indians' with the neighborhood kids...kids actually picking out odd items such as dandelions and plucking them into their ears in order to be like me while I had a hearing-aid on...ahhh...those were the days before the electronical buzz of TV games, computers, etc.,....

Fly Free

OMG -- i remmy them!!! thanks Sabrina for posting that!

such a shame how today everything is objected againt and lawsuits filed and etc *smh*

sleepytaz

aw, I missed those days... climbing the trees, playing pretend games... being outdoor as much as possible... yeahhh!!!!

Malfoyish

Remember Red Rover? I loved that game...needed many kids, though.

Liebling:-)))

VERY TRUE ***sigh***

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harleymn

remember lets play kick the can; hide a seek; be able to walk any niehbor trick or treat; those were good memories i which anybody kids would have the same memory as we did becuz it made us tougher and stronger to whatever the problems that we faced today dont you think

Fly Free

VERY true Harleymn!

CatoCooper13

And walking on train tracks behind the house - :-x I did that in the late 70's to mid '80's. Did a lot of biking around on my own when I was old enough to ride a bike...amazing! Was born in the '70's.

Aber

The days of simple dreams seem lost in the fog of the past.....

Oddball

The list gave me wonderful memories..I wanna do it all over again without any technologies.

Fly Free

ohh yea Oddball! that would rock!

Gemtun

I remember wrestling with my siblings in the car and not worrying about wearing seat belts.

I remember standing up and dancing without my parents going Hush shut up and sit down and wear your seat belts!

I also remember falling down to the ground a lot from the tree house up on the tree and never get hurt!

Good ole days 70s rocked!

Fly Free

i remmy those too!!!