Older people will understand this. younger generation probably wont.?

but to the all generations who had it better.?%26gt; CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

















1920%26#039;s, 30%26#039;s 40%26#039;s, 50%26#039;s, 60%26#039;s and 70%26#039;s !!








First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.














They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn%26#039;t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.














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 or shoes, 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 Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.














We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.





Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.





Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn%26#039;t open on the weekends, somehow we didn%26#039;t starve to death!











We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.





We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.











We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren%26#039;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. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.














We did not have Playstations, Nintendo%26#039;s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile 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.





Only girls had pierced ears!











We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.





You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time.......no really!











We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,











We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.








We rode bikes or walked to a friend%26#039;s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!





Mum didn%26#039;t have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!





Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn%26#039;t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!





Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps and bully%26#039;s always ruled the playground at school.











The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!





Our parents got married before they had children and didn%26#039;t invent stupid names for their kids like %26#039;Kiora%26#039; and %26#039;Blade%26#039; (Ed. Nothing wrong with Blade (named in honour of champion ruckman Brendan Lade))











This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!














The past 70 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.














And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.














Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn%26#039;t it?!











PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age























Play Movie Mash-up and win BIG prizes!








Get closer to the jungle… I%26#039;m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!

Older people will understand this. younger generation probably wont.?
Well, seeing as I%26#039;m half a century old just after Christmas....I have to agree with you wholeheartedly!!


I remember waking up with frost on the INSIDE of the bedroom windows, where the condensation from our breath had frozen onto the inside of the window....NO central heating in those days I%26#039;m afraid. All we had was a coal fire in the living room....and ALL our rubbish went on there, which kept down the amount of rubbish sent to the tip!!


The only entertainment we had was Top of the Pops on a Thursday night at 7.00pm or a radio that was quite boring....except if you found radio Caroline, but then that would fade in and out.....remember that?


I was never in, always out with my friends. We kept ourselves amused in those days.


O%26#039;h nostalgia, what a wonderful thing that is? xXx
Reply:Yes those were truly barbaric times! JK! Too bad younger people won%26#039;t be able to experience these things. Most are too wrapped up in themselves %26amp; the technology which enables this behavior. Oh well...
Reply:I agree( born in54)It is too bad that the world has turned into a dangerous place for children.I must say though that many are way to spoiled now but then again there are some real dangers out there nowdays.


I think you forgot to mention that many of us had parents who would drive drunk after viisting friends and relatives and some moms where totally drug heads with their valuims ect.We did survive though!
Reply:Absolutely spot on.





I was born in 1962.





how did we survive?????????????????
Reply:All that made me laugh,and its absolutly true.
Reply:That%26#039;s awesome. But you did have hippies, and disco... so you didn%26#039;t make it through completely unfazed. :-)
Reply:So true
Reply:And now Iam 3 mins older from reading all that


And we used straws to blow up frogs.


Happy days.


Some of the kids born today are born with HIV and addicted to crack cocaine or heroin.


Its the same Sh@t differant decades different toys.


Psp are bring out a game were you go out and play all day falling out of trees and blowing up frogs. So the kids dont have to go out.


Sad Days
Reply:That is a bloody good point!!!! I%26#039;m only 25 and have 2 sons and i wish i was born in the 40%26#039;5/50%26#039;s. Nowadays nobody knows the meaning of life, everything gets handed to them on a plate(of from there parents credit cards) I can remember going to my friends house when i was little and it was a bit away from my mums house, my son is 5 and i wont let him out of the garden, its a sad world we live in now. The more people try to improve things the worse it is getting. I wish people nowadays would think more and live more for there familys instead of living for money and trying to get better than everyone else.! x
Reply:and many of the things you have listed, are the reasons why when we were little we didn%26#039;t have the childhood ailments that kids have today.





my husbands saying to our daughter when her kids are dirty or eating things they shouldn%26#039;t - mud, grass, fluff etc is %26quot;you will eat plenty of s--t before you die%26quot;





i was a 1966 child and neil was a 1964 child
Reply:I was born in the 60s, I can JUST remember watching the moon landing and the Beatles splitting up (my big sis cried for hours!), and I agree totally.


I remember playing in the dirt in our back yard WHILST eating a jam sandwich (white bread too!), riding my bike before helmets and knee-pads were even thought of, playing with matches (AND a can of lighter petrol!), sitting on my dad%26#039;s knee while he was driving (and smoking!), spending every day of the school holidays playing outside (we lived in Glasgow, main roads and all)..and yeh, I%26#039;m totally fine.


To put things into perspective, my friend has just bought a new car, one of the options was an %26#039;antibactrerial steering wheel%26#039; !! JEEZUS!!
Reply:1960....spot on obeservation.....the good old days .....i never thought id say that........lmao
Reply:I am actually a kid, but that actually touches me! I always knew I was born in the wrong time period! My dad always tells me about when he came to this country, he had the best child experiences ever because he go to the pool all day and swim without there being any harm, or he mad 300 dollars in a short amount of time because he actually had a job at 13! Or how he would walk with his friends without there being the danger of a creepy people wanting to do something to them. My mom also tells me how she and her friends just use to roam around the neighborhood playing until dinner.





Those were the times, and I wish I had experienced them!



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