Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have.
As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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 would leave home in the morning and play all day...as long as we were back home when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.
We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank Kool-Aid, but we were never overweight; we were always outside playing.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.
That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem solvers.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all!!!
We only got soda pop MAYBE once a week. We hung around our aunts, uncles and parents and most of them smoked. We only had to have three major shots to start school. We had home made clothes and homemade suppers from our canned garden vegetables. And liked them.
When we got spanked with the belt we knew we deserved it and we learned our lesson, it didn't even enter our minds that we could sue our parents.....and when they told us we couldn't go, we just found something else to do at home. No fits, no tantrums, no swearing.
How in the world did we survive? We had one bathroom and there was no TV, VCR or CD player in our bedroom. There was one TV in the whole house. It didn't have a remote control and everyone in the family watched it together.
HOW ON EARTH DID WE SURVIVE????
As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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 would leave home in the morning and play all day...as long as we were back home when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.
We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank Kool-Aid, but we were never overweight; we were always outside playing.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.
That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem solvers.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all!!!
We only got soda pop MAYBE once a week. We hung around our aunts, uncles and parents and most of them smoked. We only had to have three major shots to start school. We had home made clothes and homemade suppers from our canned garden vegetables. And liked them.
When we got spanked with the belt we knew we deserved it and we learned our lesson, it didn't even enter our minds that we could sue our parents.....and when they told us we couldn't go, we just found something else to do at home. No fits, no tantrums, no swearing.
How in the world did we survive? We had one bathroom and there was no TV, VCR or CD player in our bedroom. There was one TV in the whole house. It didn't have a remote control and everyone in the family watched it together.
HOW ON EARTH DID WE SURVIVE????