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Growing Up In "Dangerous" Times! |
According to today's regulators and
bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 30's, 40's,
50's, 60's, 70's or even the early 80's, probably
shouldn't have survived.
- Our baby cribs were covered with
bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof
lids or locks on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets,
and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets (I never
knew one kid who ever got a brain injury on a bike...)
- 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 pickup truck
on a warm day was always a special treat.
- We drank water from the garden hose
and not from a bottle. Horrors!
- We ate cupcakes, bread and butter,
and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never
overweight because we were always outside playing.
- We shared one soft drink with four
friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from
this.
- We would spend hours building our
go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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 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.
- No cell phones. Unthinkable!
- We did not have Playstations,
Nintendo 64, or X-Boxes. Instead of playing video games
of skateboarding, stunt bicycling, football, baseball
and hockey, we actually went outside and played them for
real.
- No 99 channels on cable, videotape
movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal
computers, or Internet chat rooms.
- We had friends! We went outside and
found them.
- We played dodge ball, and sometimes,
the ball would really hurt.
- We fell out of trees, got cut and
broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from
these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to
blame but us. Remember accidents?
- We had fights and punched each other
and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
- We made up games with sticks and
tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen,
we did not put out any eyes.
- We rode bikes or walked to a friend's
home 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.
- Some students weren't as smart as
others, so they failed a grade and were held back to
repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted
for any reason.
- Our actions were our own.
- Consequences were expected.
- The idea of parents bailing us out if
we got in trouble in school or broke a law was unheard
of. They actually sided with the school or the law.
Imagine that!
- This generation has produced some of
the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors,
ever.
- We had freedom, failure, success, and
responsibility --- and we learned how to deal. And
you're one of them!
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