Kelly Kilbourne
07-30-2009, 10:58 PM
To
Those of You Born
1930
- 1983
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by
Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else, please read what he said.
Very well stated, Mr. Leno.
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 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
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 thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks,
are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of
Allegiance?'
For those that prefer to think that God is not
watching over us...go aead and delete this.
For the rest of us....pass this on.
_Oh! so! true. A friend sent me this. _______________________________
Those of You Born
1930
- 1983
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by
Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else, please read what he said.
Very well stated, Mr. Leno.
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 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
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 thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks,
are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of
Allegiance?'
For those that prefer to think that God is not
watching over us...go aead and delete this.
For the rest of us....pass this on.
_Oh! so! true. A friend sent me this. _______________________________