Posted on 09/06/2023 9:11:54 AM PDT by jcon40
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930’s, 40’s and50’s !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have 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, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and 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.
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, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and 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 street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day and, we were OKAY.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, Only to find out that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not Have Play Stations, Nintendo and X-boxes. There were No video games, No 150 channels on cable, No video movies Or DVDs, No surround-sound or CDs, 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 Lost teeth, And there were No lawsuits From those accidents.
We would get Spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, And no one would call child services to report abuse.
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, 22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen - we did not put 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 60 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
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The quote of-the month by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of Coronavirus and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
“Clipping a playing card to the front and back bike tires for the sound of a motor as you peddled down the road.”
I loved doing that!! Thought it was so cool.
I suspect you grew up a few years before me but backed then we were socialized by our neighbors, by society. (My favorite thing was shimming up giant trees and I knew if I screwed 2 blocks from my home, my mom would know about it before I made the bike ride home back.
Now kids are socialized by the net. Ain’t gonna work.
Standing on dad’s running board for a ride home.
Jumping from the upstairs window or porch with a bedsheet for a parachute.
Jumping over the third rail on the electric rail line.
kids of the 40s and 50s
NO the wimps the were reared by progressives with the utopia idea and no nerves for the call of duty.
By the 60’s the hippy era was festering to the point of feral and it’s still spreading many made it to D.C. and look how that turned out.
Just wondering....when were THOSE kids born?
Not in America who knows what they call where they squat.
Who were the kids fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Who were the firefighters running up the stairs in the World Trade Center?
They were not your precious children of the 40s and 50s. And none of them were drafted.
They were not your precious children of the 40s and 50s
Better do a recheck on that data.
Alcohol and mercurichrome.
When I found out that an M-80 was a 1/4 stick of dynamite, I took four of them, wrapped them with electrical tape, twisted the fuses into one. Lit it and threw it into the storm sewer.
Great fun. LOUD as hell.
I remember the kits for making these at home, as my sister and I did.
Really? Or were they the 20 something’s born in the 80’s.
You must be old and delusional. It’s OK that our kids are doing well. At least mine are—and their peers. The have gone to war, multiple times, and they have come home to run stuff.
You can focus on the few that scream and shout in whatever echo chamber you are in. Those are a vast minority. Most Xers and Millenials are doing just fine. If you don’t think so, go to your local kids soccer field and watch. The suburbs are full of them.
The kids of the 30’s and 40s are the Silent Generation. Those kids threw up to do almost nothing. Their claim to fame? Joe Biden.
Good luck with that.
Having trouble with math are we and ages of people in service
Someone born in the 30’s 40s or 50s would have been mid sixties, fifties, and forties on 9/11. No, those were the guys running up the stairs. Nor were they the majority in the service.
You seem to think your peers are young forever. They aren’t. You are mistaking kids born in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s for the old folks you recall.
Someone born 40s or 50s served mech longer then you believe check the numbers no where the 80’s your locked on Biden.
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