Posted on 05/31/2013 6:21:29 AM PDT by IbJensen
To: Those of You Born 1930 - 1979
At the end is a quote of the month attributed to Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, Please read what he Said.
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-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode Our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck 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, real butter and bacon..
We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren't overweight.
WHY?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
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 them 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 and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no 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 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 put out our 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.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thund erstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu and terrorist attacks. Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
A Small Prayer!
God determines who walks into your life.....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.
When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer:
Father,
God bless my friend in whatever it is that You know they may need this day!
And may their life be full of your peace, prosperity, and power
as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you.
Amen.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Nobody’s complaining about safer cars. They’re great. The sentiment is against nanny state government overreaching and their destruction of freedom in the name of safety.
Your critique of days gone by smacks of a progressive’s rant against the era when the going was better!
If you lived in the south and could only find entertainment in tent meetings and believe that the boredom without the electronic doo-dads people use to watch R and X rated movies and what passes for tele-programming then you’ve missed something.
Another electronic doo-dad that gives the sexual revolution feminists great pleasure is the vibrating penis. It helps them over today’s hump of not marrying and being a wife and mother.
I don’t believe you were a child of those decades past, however. If you were you wouldn’t be tossing stones on someone else’s nostalgic parade.
That's not a 1950s diet. It's the diet our American forebears have lived on for 400 years. And, strangely, many lived into their eighties, nineties, and or even past 100.
Cigarettes are not part of anyone's "diet," by the way.
Yeah. And lack of work to do. God help me if I told my parents I was bored.
We were taught the same. One of my friends was born thee hours after I was...guess what he heard a lot?
I don't know. Never having been one, I will never "get" it! ;-)
Imagination only takes you so far. Then it turns into delusion.
Hah...sounds like my daughter with her pony. Had both saddle and bridle and didn’t much bother. Kinda rigged a hackamore things and she was off. Rule was be home before dark and stay with your girlfriends. Those were the days, wouldn’t even think of it today. If i were riding today as i did when i was a young adult I would be carrying and the trail dog or two. Times sure have changed.
So am I. I was a tomboy and still am.
Had a matching set myself as a kid. And the snappy cowgirl outfit and boots to go with it. Yeehaw.
False nostalgia is fun for a while; but real nostalgia reminds us that we are in the present for a reason. If you aren’t happy in the here and now, you wouldn’t have been happy there and then.
Oh the memories! Sweet!
Those were the days when parents, the public in general, and authorites protected children. We no longer “protect” children...we weaken them.
You were either born in the ‘80’s or ‘90’s or you were severly sheltered.....
I never got a cowgirl outfit as my dad was a cherokee and would have been upset to know that I even played the part of cowgirl sometimes. He used to get upset watching westerns when the Indians lost LOL.
As a kid in the 60’s in the summer time we disappeared after breakfast and Mom wouldn’t see us again until dinner time. That was a rule, you had to be home by dinner. We had chores to do. Boredom was not a problem.
I will admit that our imaginations did get us in trouble at times but we were never bored.
as women entered the workplace their power in the family
even a two parent one
grew exponentially
and women are just more cautious about boys being boys
and in time men just accepted all this and also became more subservient
yes...we have a problem with single moms and baby daddy culture...our biggest threat to me....before Islam and spending and homosexuality and gun control
and men under 45 just get more and more pliant as women get more and more bossy
it's weird
and I am living it as an older dad and my wife is a hair older too...compared to our parenting peers and us with three boys ...6,10,13
our kids love it
and every boy within a mile or so is at our house all summer...a bit of a challenge I confess
wifey cooks for them...teaches them to have manners (South)...since most don't anymore...even southern kids born to GenX and Y parents
we let them play with horses...shoot guns supervised with parental permission
sleepovers in the barn or tree house
KTMs and Go carts
or sitting up late with me watching war movies..and they get the added benefit of hearing me drone about how it was once or my overseas exploits...PG version...or history
but when I meet these younger folks ..their parents...it's just too strange the dynamics...over protection...indoor kids...bossy..even if cute...mommy...mousey daddy who doesn't own a firearm...or just a shotgun maybe
and their dads all sit around at night playing video games in their 40s....college grad fairly well off guys
Williamson County TN...
I never thought it all would come to this...we were actually optimistic in the 60s/70s
oh well
won't be long men like me will be dying off like we've watched the WWII/Korea guys and next will be the Vietnam guys and then my gang...the lost 70s lads...but at least we were real guys
Ha ha good for us!
I remember my mother developed a blind, seething hatred for Evel Knievel because he was inspiring all us boys to construct scrap wood ramps and perform daring jumps on our bicycles.
My dad was not to thrilled about the added bicycle repair work either.
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