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| [Fun] For those that remember
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, Nitendo'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 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 50 years have been an explosion of inovation 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! | |
Hayward
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April 7th, @03:19AM
| Hey you forgot, digging underground forts and escaping cave ins (decent enough engineering) Though it did nearly kill the huge old tree from cutting roots
No it is a sad state of affairs today... I would hate to be a kid today... where something happens is everyone else's fault in this litigious happy society we have become. (But maybe the not even caring parent... again yes we had to be home by dark... not duh MIDNIGHT they still aren't here?
Oh and school was SCHOOL not just free DAYCARE, don't DARE tell us kid is doing something wrong.  More like whooped because you had been. 
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Yep, a few things have changed since then. | |
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| said by Juke Box  :Yep, a few things have changed since then. Ain't that the Dang truth! 
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said by Juke Box :Yep, a few things have changed since then. For the better IMO. I was born in 1980, and I can't think of a better year to be born in. | |
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said by Maxo :said by Juke Box :Yep, a few things have changed since then. For the better IMO. I was born in 1980, and I can't think of a better year to be born in. Yeah and I am sure you were really enjoying it. 
While I, 18 then, was voting for Ronald Reagan later that year. Yep, it was a good year.
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said by Hayward :Like what as far as being a kid goes? Steps forward in medical and electronic technology. Improved social relations (civil rights and recognition of medical problems such as autism, learning disabilities, etc.) that allow our society to better handle people with special needs instead of leaving them behind the rest. When my mother was a young girl black people where introduced in her class room. It was a very scary thing as she didn't know what a black person was. My daughter has many black friends and doesn't think anything of it.
Today's children have all sorts of technologies that help them learn at a much faster pace than any generation before them. This includes computer programs, educational programs, and special needs programs.
Children with more potential get put in special programs that nurse their desire to perform beyond other children their age. Children who are not are put in other special programs that help them achieve the best they can.
In the past an autistic child may find him or herself being ostracised systematically by teachers and parents who don't understand why they have to be so different.
Also, when I had my gal bladder removed I had three very small incisions and some killer meds that had me out of work for just one week, and then back on my feet like nothing happened. When my mother had the same surgery is a major deal that had all sorts of dangers attached to it.
The multi-racial couple that watches two of my kids during the day are able to move around in society with out being killed or beaten, or even laughed at. People just don't think it's weird at all. Their twins are a subject of adoration by strangers, not a lesson in societal freakness.
Backed up on my paid server I have thousands of photographs of my children that will never reduce in quality, and will still be around if my house where to burn down or a thief where to ransack my house.
I also get to discuss topics of interest with people all over the world. I get perspectives from people from all walks of life on all sorts of subjects that I would have never had considered otherwise.
I am very grateful for the people who came before me that have provided the freedom, advances in social justice, medical and computer technology, and have all around made the time and place I was born in a very comfortable time and place to live in. I would not swap it out with you older people who had to live through the beatings and murders of people who wanted nothing but to be treated just like everyone else. A time when medical technologies did not offer the simple cures we take for granted today. A time when people with disabilities where intentionally shoved to the side and put in asylums to be tortured because it was obviously their fault their brain doesn't work quite right.
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| said by Maxo : Improved social relations (civil rights and recognition of medical problems such as autism, learning disabilities, etc.) Two very interesting things for you to pick out... civil rights still shamefully lax though somewhat better... hey and back in the 60's up north I had black friends too... sorry the south had to be dragged into it kicking and screaming... and the KKK is sadly still around.
Autism now 1 in 166 births if you want to believe the ads... for what ever reason...(pollutions, scrip or illicit drug uses whatever) that did not exist back then.
Kids can no longer go out and just play, under age 12, and over that have been so coddled or ignored they have BECOME the problem.... beating up homeless, each other etc., and now even with Uzis
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The multi-racial couple that watches two of my kids during the day are able to move around in society with out being killed or beaten
again you are talking SO vs NO... again in that degree long gone from there and still sadly in the present, though many of threat ilk have now switched over to safer GAY bashing/murdering instead, the still remaining ignored discrimination. Even if the kid isn't but is being brought up by gay parents.
Your later points, don't really have to do with just being a kid, and a carefree childhood... in fact rather the opposite.
A kid just can't any long just be in their own little fun world. Even even allowed out of the house most places unsupervised, and even if capable of that parent likely hauled into court for neglect or something.
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