Congratulations to all the kids

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CONGRATULATIONS TO A LL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

 

 

 

1920's, 30's 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 and lived in houses made of asbestos.

 

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get

tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

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 or shoes, not to mention, the risks we

took hitchhiking .

 

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from a stream and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds,

KFC, Subway

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the

weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE

actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store

and buy fruit spangles and some straws to blow up frogs with.

 

We ate sponge cake, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks

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.

And with no mobile phone 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. We built tree houses and

made camps in the woods and played in the gutters with matchbox cars.

 

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

mobile 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 and no waiting at A & E for the host people

from all over the World who can't spell Accident and Emergency to be seen before

us .

 

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in

us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter

time.......no really!

We were given pellet guns and Bow and arrows for our 10th birthdays and

we did not grow up to be muggers or hold up shops.

 

 

 

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass

covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing.

 

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or

rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

 

after walking in.

 

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Football had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had

to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!

 

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and

bullies always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent

stupid names for their kids like " Sky " and " Blade "

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem

solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 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!

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.

 

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how

brave their parents were.

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

it?!

PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age