READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---IT'S VERY WELL STATED!

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 Kool-aid 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 poke 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?'

WOW! I did most all of those things listed.. How cool I'm still ALIVE!!!

hehe!

J

I gotta totaly agree,it's all so true.

same here that's awesome

I never even heard of spf 30 until I had kids! You got sunburned as a kis ya took it like a man damn it! I do remember mom rubbing vineger on my sunburn a few times though.... That sucked!

And what ever happened to methialade (sp?) You scraped a knee you knew mom was going to bring out the little red bottle...And it was going to sting! It made ya tuff!

soooooooooooooooooooooooooo damn true!!!!!!!!!!!!

times have a changed for sure!!!

cute very cute

like this one best:

Yea we used to have wars with raped up firecrackers for handgernades,fire bottle rockets from a peace of pipe for rifes. In God We Trust, right Yea its only going to get worse.

1979 just barely made this one

Wow...amazing...I made it!

I was born in 1976, my mom gave up drinking and drugs when she found out she was preggo.

I wish the government would let up a bit if they keep going, we will have a nation of pansies

On the sunburn comment, i was an exception to the take it like aman because when i got burned they were normally 2nd degree burns. So mom learned to use sunblock after the hospital visit for my burns I still cant takem y shirt off in the summer without sunblock or i get badly burned.

I survived 99% of it

Buy the way it sounds today,It's amazing any of us suvived.
Here is to us!

"And those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves."

We used to chase the "mosquito man" around the block when they would fog the neighborhood. Nice thick cloud of DDT and nobody developed cancer or died. Now, thanks to the EPA, we can't leave the house on a summer evening without losing two pints of blood.