Just thought i would share this

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1940's, 50's, 60's 70's and 80's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, 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, white bread and real 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.

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!

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 have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were!

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Awww thanx for that!! Brings back HEAPS of memories and made me realise that with modern technology we have forgotten our past!!

Hope our kids have the same lifestyle we did!!

I am glad it brought back memories for you.

When i got this email it reminded me that sometimes we are too focused on the things we should or shouldn't be doing instead of focusing on the fun times that we are hving or are ahead for us.

My thought is that as long as we are happy and healthy and not hurting anybody then why not do what we like to do, or eat or drink what we like. Our bodies will soon tell us if its not for us.

Anyway hope this email brings back many more great memories for people.

i didn't even THINK about ham for xmas. stuff it - i'm eating it anyway!!
I was thinking about this the other day, reading a newspaper article that said when we were young, we were less over-protected, so we took risks climbing trees, riding bikes etc. We broke arms and legs. These days kids don't take risks unrtil they \are teenagers and are instead taking risks in huge souped-up cars - and dying! makes you tyhink huyh!

My daughters are definitely like I was when I was younger My 10 year old has had 3 broken wrists so far;the 1st when she was 18mths old and decided to climb her nanas balcony and fall over the other side into a fish pond the second time when she was 6 and was playing on rollerblades at a friends and the 3rd was last year while playing bullrush at another friends My 5 year old(touch wood)hasnt broken anything YET but has had many a share of scrapes and colds from running around on gravel with barefeet in the middle of winter Am dreading what the next baby will be like

My ex's sister didn't want her son playing rugby in case he got hurt...she was really worried about him breaking bones...in the end he broke his arm the first time when he fell off his horse and the second time climbing a fence. Part of growing up really.

I broke my arm when I was 5. Had been swinging on a bar, jumped and landed bad. It's still crooked!