We DID survive..... (6)
pity the world has changed for the worse,how i agree with you
ooohh, 
those were the days....
those were the days.... 
I am guessing you will get away with this .... I didn`t! I posted this a few months ago ... and got slammed - maybe the person thought I was telling me own personal views? .. anyway I got slammed about being pregnant and smoking......
Anyway, despite all the hysteria, and the immune depressed babies being born now..... my mother smoked carrying me, and I smoked with my two children. Plus I grew up in a smoky farmhouse, and so did my kids ......Oh maybe it was that we were out in the countryside and not near factories? Anyway, I am healthy and so are my kids and their kids.
And thank you Paola for posting this ... maybe now the person wil realise I was not telling my own personal story?!
Anyway, despite all the hysteria, and the immune depressed babies being born now..... my mother smoked carrying me, and I smoked with my two children. Plus I grew up in a smoky farmhouse, and so did my kids ......Oh maybe it was that we were out in the countryside and not near factories? Anyway, I am healthy and so are my kids and their kids.
And thank you Paola for posting this ... maybe now the person wil realise I was not telling my own personal story?!
everything in this post is true,cannot think it is offensive,if people think it is,the worlds gone mad
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's 70's 80's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured 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 children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe 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 cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, 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 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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 played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Local teams 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!
This generation has 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!
And 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 our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age!