| Subject: I've really come to enjoy the coffe clutch. One thing I noticed is that everyone wants a niche. Gay, straight, black, white, religious or not, political or not and the list goes on and on. I have purposely stayed away from the Gay/Hetro topics of this past weekend. The thing about me is that I don't really want to be pigenholed by many of these things. I am of Cherokee, Irish, and German descent, but above all I am an American. Those of us baby boomers who post on this board, were products of mass civil change in our formative years. Intergration into the schools was one of the biggest events I went through. There is so much desire to be separate these days, that many foget what we in the 60's & 70's went through to make social change work in the schools. We were all brothers and sisters trying to get along. Technology, thougt fabulous, has allowed us to be separated. Below is a description of where I come from and why I thiink and act as I do, now. Peace out and enjoy! |
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Date Posted: 11:05:05 01/03/10 Sun
To All the Kids Who Survived the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s
Got this in an email from my friend, Peter:
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, CD's or Ipods, 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!
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 life for our own good.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
posted by Jamester at 5:47 PM 0 comments
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- Re: OMG, y'all were like SO weird doing all that kind of stuff when you was growing up. Some of this made me throw up a little bit in my mouth. Ya'll were obviously all a bunch of tards and you're parents should of been reported to the FBI or whatever. (NT) -- Sunshine Girl, 16:35:59 01/03/10 Sun
- Sunshine Girl, I believe they have medication for people like you. TRY IT! (NT) -- Rex, 20:34:09 01/03/10 Sun
- I eat a TON of tuna fish. Still. I don't care if I completely turn into a mercury thermometer, I love, love love tuna fish. Albacore; packed in water; in the seal-a-bag thingies. Mmmmm tuna! Your post made my old ass remember many of the things you described. I miss preservatives, msg and any other carcinogen that helped keep food "fresh". You could literally have a loaf of bread for a month there was so much shit and chemicals in it. Now....you're lucky to get three days out of it before penicilin kicks in. I can't tell you how much food is wasted nowadays. Hey! Does anyone own those moisture sucker things that you put in the fridge to keep your food fresh and if so...do they work??? (NT) -- M Back (off on a tangent), 00:04:21 01/04/10 Mon
- Ah, those were the days! I always cringe at ANYONE who uses the term "In this day & age" when they keep their kids from doing regular kid stuff in NY. Do they realize crime is down NINETY PERCENT since I was young? (NT) -- PageantGrl, 07:11:40 01/04/10 Mon
- i love posts like these. my parents always told stories like this, esspecially my mom. i watch movies like The Sandlot, Now&Then, and other kids movies that take place in the 70's and earlier and wish that i could have experience that kind of freedom! (NT) --
 PageantMistress, 11:42:26 01/04/10 Mon
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