this was sent to me by my sister and I thought I share it with you


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-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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car
seats, booster seats, 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 koolade
made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no
surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no
Internet or 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




And 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, tornado's, 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
ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us.....pass this on.

AWESOME MORENA...I ALMOST CRIED...LOL....HOW IS YOUR SON AND YOU OF
COURSE??

(((Morena)))))

MORENA
plz allow me to add one more thing


in our town
if any kid did wrong we got a wooping
then took home to our parents n they told them what we did
we got another

try that these days


party on....

very nice halley berry pic baby.

bravo,bravo that is the &hit because it's so true WOW

I thought I heard a beautiful lady calling my name

So true TwoStepper!

I just look around today and wonder why people want kids with all the
examples I see and how many obsticals there are.

KUDOS MORENA! ALL TRUE BUT ID LOVE TO BE BACK IN THE 60'S AND 70'S AND
BE MY AGE NOW...LOL...OK...KNOW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW...AHHHHHHHHH! THOSE
WERE THE DAYS!!! HOW ARE YOU GIRL?

why can we go back to the 60's and 70's when everything was love and
peace, MAN THOSE WHERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS, AND IM NOT THAT OLD BUT ALL
WAS BETTER THEN!!!

((((((((((FAMILIA)))))))))))))

WAIT!!! WHY AM I YELLING? DAM COFFEE!!!