To the Baby Boomers 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 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, bread and 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.

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
99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.

if we wanted money we would have to go mow lawns for it.


We made up games with sticks and tennis ***** and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

If we screwed up we didnt get a timeout, we would have the belt, stick, paddle or whatever dad could find, brand our ***. And it worked just fine if you ask me.

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!

This generation has 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!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who were blessed to grow up as we did, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

 

LOL, did someone put a soap box in here????



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The biggest kick in the a@@ of this is the following: You might want to share this with others who were blessed to grow up as we did, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
Think about that, then look who is mainly in charge of this country. The majority of this country is being ran by people who were from the baby boomer era. Your legistlators, lawyers, city council, judges, ect. are mainly from that era....I tell my parents frequently that they had too much fun when they were kids and ruined it for all other generations....I remember hearing a story of my grandfather doing a burnout on the steps of the courthouse in a model T. If I tried that I would now have terrorest charges pressed against me and be looking through bars for a long time. I also remember myself getting picked up for underage drinking and got a few tickets from it. My dad decieded to give me a lecture on it, I knew I screwed up but at the same time I said to him I have never even attempted half of the stuff he and his friends used to pull when he was my age. And they would even get cought by the cops doing it...but then the response was the cop would take there beer and tell them to go home, or take them home and the courtrooms were in living rooms not courthouses for kids. But whenever I got cought I had to deal with both courtrooms in home and at the courthouse. Society is soft and the cops are hard a@@es these days. And the sad part of it is the cops who were kids once that got told to go home are writing tickets for everything they used to do.

 

It's the "Been there, done that" syndrome. Someday you'll be in your 40's/50's telling your kids not to do the same thing you did. Two things will happen. 1, they won't listen to everything you say, and 2, they'll find out your were right.