Posted on 05/31/2013 6:21:29 AM PDT by IbJensen
To: Those of You Born 1930 - 1979
At the end is a quote of the month attributed to Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, Please read what he Said.
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 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 our 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 thund erstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu and terrorist attacks. Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
A Small Prayer!
God determines who walks into your life.....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.
When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer:
Father,
God bless my friend in whatever it is that You know they may need this day!
And may their life be full of your peace, prosperity, and power
as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you.
Amen.
IN GOD WE TRUST
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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