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No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us, we are awesome!!! OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF !!!

To Those of Us Born 1925 - 1970 :

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who may have 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, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads. as infants and 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.  W  e 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.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">WHY?

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Because we were always outside playing....that's why!

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There were <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">no video games, no 150 channels on cable, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">no video movies or DVDs, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">no surround-sound or CDs, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">no cell phones, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">no personal computers, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">no Internet and no chat rooms.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth,and there were no lawsuitsfrom those accidents. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-although we were told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Imagine that!!

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. T <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">hey actually sided with the law! <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">problem solvers, and inventors ever. The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If YOU are one of those born <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">between 1925-1970, CONGRATULATIONS!

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The quote of the month <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">by <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jay Leno: <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"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?"

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For the rest of us......pass this on