Other Post TO ALL THE KIDS

[Bombardier]

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
carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for
diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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, bread and butter and drank soda 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 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 made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we
were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the
worms live in us forever.

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!

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!

 

[mineman65]

Dammit, we really did survive all that ! tng1; If you listen to all that what's "dangerous" today, it's wonder that anyone of us is alive or at least don't have some major disease. But how the h*** we managed without mobiles, pc's and game consoles...just fine?
Situation in Finland, just few months ago i heard Finnish Army officer on radio telling that they have to nowadays always send couple of percent of conscripts back to home (to grow up) because they can't for example lace their shoes! ( i bet they are good with computers or sending sms thou)

 

[Matzos]

When I joined the RAF in 1976, god, we marched everywhere, on my last visit to the RAF basic training school, I found that they now bus the trainees around the camp between lessons. Last year they tried to ban all mobile phones on the Unit, that don't last long.
In these days, children don't do the things we did. When I was a teenager (years ago) I don't have a PS2, computer (I was married when I got my ZX81 computer), mobile phone or even Sky TV, in fact on Saturdays the TV program that was being watched was the horse racing by my Dad......So we got on our bikes, with our friends and had a bloody good time. Kids these days - lucky very lucky.... :?

 

[Bombardier]

Kids these days - lucky very lucky.... :?

Or are they buddy? :roll:

 

[Matzos]

You could be right in one way, one of my daugthers, who's 21 this year, when she goes out 'clubbing' in Cambridge I always go and pick her up. No way in hell is she getting a taxi or train in that town. One of her university friends was murder there over Christmas. So any time of the night, mum or dad are the taxi's. So Bombardier you could well be right, they may have all the latest 'toys' but do they have the freedom we had in the 60's or 70's

 

[Bombardier]

i bet they are good with computers or sending sms thou)

Yep they will be fine with the basic neccesities of life, but those little perks like feeding yourself and keeping clean........well they kinda struggle dont they? :shock:

 

[Zofo]

I got my first computer (a C64) in the army and used it to play games that were loaded on a tape! Suited me absolutely fine!
I started to use the internet only in 1998 and got my first mobile in 1996 with a battery the size of a brick.
My bro was telling me mobiles are now part of emcon on his warship and luckily I was not in the army with a mobile - mind you I would probably have had better comms than my unit, R. Sigs!!
My trusty bike fitted a brother on the parcel thing at the back and I was outside from dawn to dusk - the only problem I had was smoking in a farmer's field once and got a backside full of buckshot (well, saltpetre)! Happy days indeed.