[cardboard]

THOSE born 1920-1979

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ
ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED



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 were pregnant.



They 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 cribs 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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats,

booster seats, 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 with sugar,

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 150 channels on cable,

no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,

no cell phones, no personal computer! s,

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 lawsuits from these accidents.



We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt,

and the worms did not live in us forever.



We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

made up games with sticks and tennis balls and,

although we were told it would happen,

we did not poke out very many eyes.



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!



These generations have 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!



If 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 so much of
our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave
(and lucky) their parents were.

[SPORSTERBOY]

Well Said, Sad But True About Todays Kids.

[chucktx]

very true...

[voodoochild]

Ditto, ain't it the truth!

[wvak47]

Originally Posted by SPORSTERBOY

Well Said, Sad But True About Todays Kids.

I don't think it is sad about today's kids. I think it is Sad but True about today's parents. I think it is Sad about all of us that allowed this lovey dovey, need a protector, hippy BS to be ran down our throats without protesting in force. We went isolationist and as long as it didn't effect us directly said nothing, as we just wanted to live our lives and be left allow while some out there had real agendas.

How many of these "protect us from ourself" laws do you think were sponsored by insurance companies and their lobbist. The insurance companies charge us big rates to "cover us in case of an accident" but then fight b*tch and moan about paying when we have one.

And you know this BS of no child left behind is all from losers who couldn't cut the muster back in their day. Rather than work at getting better, or figuring out something else they were good at and going for that they believe they should be allowed in because they want in. Too F'n bad, you suck, deal with it. Now they think their little monster should be allowed in because they want in and have changed the rules now that they are in a position to do so. What we have now is a group of kids who don't know disappointment and when they finally do hit something they can't handle they snap and shoot up a school. Maybe if little Johnny learned to handle disappointment earlier in life he would have the mental tools to deal with bigger things as they come at him.

I am just d*mn glad I grew up when I did, with the parents that I had, and don't have children to bring up in this F'd up mess now. God answered my prayer of a beautiful woman who couldn't have children, and I love her and thank him EVERYDAY for it.