Posted on 05/31/2013 6:21:29 AM PDT by IbJensen
As far as pregnant mothers smoking, my mother didn’t smoke when she was pregnant with my sister and me, and we had healthy birth weights. She began smoking heavily for my subsequent 3 siblings, and their birth weights were significantly lower. My youngest sister barely weighed 5 lbs.
My daughter in law smoked with her first pregnancy, and her son had a low birth weight, looked scrawny for a long period of time, and now has asthma.
As far as pregnant women being tested for diabetes, maybe they should have been. I had gestational diabetes, and was put on a very healthy diet, which I followed to the letter. I put on just a couple of pounds per month, and my son was born weighing close to 7 lbs. Had I not been put on the diet, there was a good possibility that I would have put on too much weight, and my baby would have weighed more than 10 lbs. and could have developed diabetes as well. Some people did not survive the 50s, 60s, and 70s that may have if their mothers had been tested for certain prenatal problems, and had watched what they ingested when pregnant.
Many children did not survive car crashes because they were allowed to wander about in a car. Many nowadays do survive with seatbelts and safer car seats for the smaller children.
A PLASTIC tri-cycle! LOL!
I’m not against seat belts, that’s for sure. Even as a kid in the 70’s I always wore one. Which is why it fascinated me how we got to that point from cars not even having seat belts in less than twenty years.
From talks with my grandfather about driving in Pittsburgh in the 20’s I think 20MPH might be a generous estimate of the average speed that was possible. Between cobblestone streets and the gawdawful terrain you were probably lucky to get that. He said the Model T did not really have enough power to handle the hills around here. Had to turn them around and take them up in reverse, like having front wheel drive.
Once a firecracker that you’re trying to light with a sparkler goes off in your hand, you don’t do that again
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Society had yet to be culturally cleansed by unethical liberal perverts back then. It was a public culture that was safe and good for childen. It was a culture that respected children and familes. Moms were home to keep an eye out. Our society had clear moral values and expectations and it was taboo to interact immorally with children. Adults harming or corrupting a kid was a big deal and crime was not a central concern. People were entertained by people who were not totally depraved like today. School teachers were not permitted to corrupt children’s honor, moral behavior and values. There was no culture of death. There was no unjust, illogical p.c. zero tolerance to trip up a child.
Parents can not turn their children loose today in any way because liberal society is totally corrupt and dangerous. If parents were good people, they would not turn them over to public schools for liberal brain and heart washing either. The schools are lording over the better judgement and moral values of parents. If the parents organized and pulled their kids out, and closed some schools, it would stop fast.
I love that picture. However i’m also pretty sure it’s photoshopped.
Everyone who has ever jumped a Big Wheels off a ramp knows that it follows a ballistic trajectory after departing the ramp. And unlike a with a bike the rider isn’t positioned to be able to pull the handles strongly enough to keep the front wheel pointed up. The front of that Big Wheel is just pointed too far up not to violate the laws of physics ...
When my son was little, we lived on a cul de sac than sloped down from the through street to the circle we lived on. The kids would coast their big wheels down the slope around the curve, jump a ramp, then slide to a stop in the circle by slipping sideways. My son wore the wheels off of his big wheel, literally. Now he’s into Jeep expeditions in the wilds of North Alabama. He had 36 inch wide wheels on his Great Pumpkin ... things seem to come back around in life, eh?
“Nobody’s complaining about safer cars. “
I will. As our cars have gotten safer, drivers have become more dangerous.
“And that my grandparents felt that wearing seatbelts was dangerous because it would keep you from getting out of a wrecked car quickly. I guess when he started driving around 1920 you were at a lot less risk from a crash at 20MPH than from the fire that might come afterwards.”
I recall reading that up through about the ‘60s, Formula One cars didn’t have seatbelts. At the time, most drivers preferred being thrown from a flipping car to being trapped in a burning car, and between extensive use of magnesium and carrying enough fuel to run a two-hour race (as much as 50 gallons in some cases) there was a good chance that an F1 car would start burning after a crash.
Right, XYGGGICCY.
Enjoy the present.
Mine sits by the front door. I shoot it all the time. We've even been talking about starting a Red Rider BB Gun club in the neighborhood just for kicks and grins. Everybody has one around here.
They still make them
” The Red Ryder BB Gun is a BB gun made by Daisy Outdoor Products and introduced in 1938 that resembles the Winchester rifle of Western movies. Named for the comic strip cowboy character Red Ryder (who also appeared in numerous films between 1940 and 1950, and on television in 1956), the BB gun is still in production despite the fact that the comic strip was cancelled in 1963.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ryder_BB_Gun
I have had to pinch BBs out of my legs because of cheaters like YOU!
We made spoke guns...A bicycle spoke, break four or five strike anywhere matchheads off in the spoke end...cram in a BB and hold a match under it...A red hot BB would go flying off for 20-25 yards....Burns holes in your clothes too...(Momma wore me out from this)
I love to ask people “who’s childhood would you rather have, yours or your kids?” After a bit of thought, the answer almost always comes back “mine.”
I beg to differ, sir/ma'am.
Whole regiments of green plastic army men were taken out by the deadliest eight year old snipers on the planet armed with pellet guns and later .22s. Particularly troublesome strongpoints were reduced with canned Lysol or hairspray and a match.
What a way to go.
Those plastic tricycles can be made to get up to INSANE speeds on a long downhill driveway jump-ramp course. We were unable to duplicate the performance on a metal one, and it wasn't for lack of trying. The pic in post #2 is about what we'd do with them. Metal ones don't fly or land as well.
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