I just received this today and it seems to fit with the topics of the last few days.
  so I'll pass it on.  How are we all alive today ????

  Bob Vanech
  BVAN enterprise
  


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 carried us.



They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, 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, white bread and real 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 (or when dad whistled).



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 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 tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chatrooms ........

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 were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and pink balls and, although we were told it would happen, we didn't put out many eyed. Games with sticks and pink balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out any eyes. 

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell and just walked in to talk to them.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!



We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all,







And you are one of them! CONGRATULATION



  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?!


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