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
LOL thanks for the visual.
I did the same thing and still live to talk about it.
I left out the part where he burned down his neighbor’s bushes playing with firecrackers. It was not done maliciously. I don’t know where he would be today if he had done the same in this era.
The degeneration began in the mid 1960s. I remember it well.
The allowance of vagrants back on the streets.
Bail on your own recognizance.
The beginning of anti gun propaganda.
The degrading of language when the libs insisted that the most foul language become normal.
The death of John Kennedy and later Bobby Kennedy began the feminization of American men.
The attempts to “de-violence” society.
The allowance of the movie industry to “police themselves” with a rating system. This allowed them to churn out the most vile films ever made.
The GREAT SOCIETY war on POVERTY.
REMOVAL of Silver from coinage.
There are other things that happened then which began the degradation of civilization.
Bump for the survivors of no seatbelts in cars with steel dashboards!
> The list neglects the practice of becoming blood brothers.
Yeah, it does.
Followed by the interrogation by your mother, “How did you cut yourself?”
I think that is probably due to vaccinations and advances made in treatment of ailments, not due to the nanny state.
My husband managed to set the trees across the road from their house on fire too, when he was 9. He WAS watched by local law enforcement LOL.
What is it with little boys and fire?
On balance, I would say in spite of the nanny state. The greatest and most impactful advances in medical knowledge over this time frame came mostly from the private and voluntary sectors in the United States, rather than government. Certainly Obamacare in and of itself, by rationing and restricting access to medical services and by impeding medical research by decreasing profit incentives, will not have a positive impact on life expectancy in the United States.
Just saw on Drudge a kindergartner was suspended for having a cowboy style cap gun. I remember playing with those all the time, we all lived and no one grew up to be a mass murderer.
could make great scooters too, w/orange crates, a short 2x4, and one old roller skate!
Criminalizing speech; we always just said “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me”.
I don’t believe life expectancy has changed all that much.
I’ve tracked my ancestry back to the mid 1600s and find a lot of people living well into their 80s. Men tended to live longer but I attribute that to the fact that they weren’t pregnant 15 or 16 times. Lots of children died but if you were a male who survived to adulthood, chances are that you would live as long as anyone today.
It sure was. I know. I lived it. ———— and it WAS in the 30s!!!!!!
I brought my Grandfathers Japanese WWII sword to show and tell.
As it was passed around the room a ruddy color started to come off on the kids sweaty little mitts.
We thought it was rust, but we determined that the blood runner still had 25 year old blood in it.
That was the best show and tell ever!
Yeah, but I am a girl! :)
CC
He left out a very important part of the 1930 - 1979 time period. Everybody was bored to tears.
Back in the ‘30’s, especially in the Southland, about the only entertainment people had were tent revivals. Some have gone so far as to blame lynchings on sheer boredom.
By the 1950s, and the great suburban western expansion, social tension had about reached a boiling point. While the end of the war pretty much ended omnipresent segregation in the North, much of the “Bible Belt” was still ruled by small town religious cliques that mistreated those outside of their sect.
The “sexual revolution” was actually a “cultural revolution” by people sick to death of their defined roles in society and wanting something better for themselves and their children.
The first big breakthrough gets little credit but had a huge impact: Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System. For once, people could “vote with their feet”, and they did.
The in the 1960s, the light dawned that industrialism had made much of America a polluted mess. This is when cleaning up, both nationally and personally, suddenly became important.
The 1950s diet of meat, flour, sugar, salt, fat, liquor and cigarettes was really taking its toll.
But the giant breakthrough came with the breakup of AT&T: entertainment! Finally we had information we didn’t have to wait for, and was filtered through the big three TV nets and the local paper, days or weeks after it happened.
“Dad, why is polar bears fur white?”
“Gee, son. I don’t know. Why don’t you go to the library, find and read a book about polar bears, and find out? It should only take a day or two.”
“No thanks, dad. I’ll just Google it.”
“He left out a very important part of the 1930 - 1979 time period. Everybody was bored to tears.”
Boredom = Lack of imagination
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