here's to us..... (22)

Here's to US!!!!
No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To Those of Us Born
1930 - 1979
At the end of this is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, please read what he said..
Very well stated, Mr. Leno.

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 OKAY.
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 Play stations, 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!
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Love that one. Oh my God!!! We really don't meet the safety standards of today do we?
Amazing any of us are still alive......

How true it is...but it all makes me wonder...
How many kids in your school had allergies? How many children had ADD or ADHD or other behaviour and psychological challenges? Do you remember the percentage of children and families affected by autism? How many people did you know struggles with a variety and unending list of learning disabilities?
What I am saying is...really, perhaps we have been safeguarded to the point of our own detriment??? Just a thought...
But yep...memories...make me smile

Mommy, can I go out and climb that tree? I know it's a huge tree but there are lots of branches and if I make it to the top and carve my name in the bark up there, I can be in the gang. It's a really cool gang, mom. They get together and go on hikes in the forest for a whole day at a time sometimes. They are all friends and they bring their dogs too. Mom, I really want to do neat stuff like that instead of play Xbox or watch tv. I know I can't hurt myself playing Mario Bros but you should see the scars that some of my friends have. One guy has a scar over his eye from a hockey puck. That's a game that some of the luckey kids get to play, mom.
One of the guys fell off a brach and got a broken arm and we all got to sign heis cast. That's really cool mom. I wish I had a cast like that so all my buddies could write funny things on it.
Mommy, please let me go and try to climb that tree? I bet I can do it. Oh yeah, can I borrow a paring knife so I can prove it?

I totally agree with you Eyes... and when kids are done university, (using a computer to do research instead of a book ... and use spell check and have their grammer checked by the computer program)... get a job and expect to earn more than people that have worked their for 20 yrs, might show up at work, are late all the time, more than 1 hr for lunch, and know everything ... but don't understand crap about the real world and what it takes to do a job the right way ....

Ok rant over now..... more to follow for sure.

Ummmmmmm....would I be considered a bad mother if I allowed and encouraged a still did some of those things with my 10 yr old?

Yes we did sign a few casts and the stories of how they happened were kinda the funny thing,we stayed ouside so long everyday, i do not remember being bored