I was just going through my inbox and came across this email which brought a smile to my face and its so true Im sure most of you will remember these fun times.
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-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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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, white bread and real butter and drank drinks made with sugar, 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 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given spud guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
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!
These generations have 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!
If 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 so much of our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
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First film you see at the cinema?
Your Favorite TV programme?
What games did you play?
Was you ever grounded and if so how long and what for?
Best present?
Names of any bikes you owned?
Name of your first pet?
What things do you miss from your childhood?
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First film you see at the cinema?
grease thank you mum lol
Your Favorite TV programme?
six billion dollar man
What games did you play?
britsh bulldog
Was you ever grounded and if so how long and what for?
a month sneaking out the window to goto the pub and being brought back by the police
Best present?
relistic homebase cb radio
Names of any bikes you owned?
chopper and a realigh racer
Name of your first pet?
ben
What things do you miss from your childhood
childhood lol
1st Film – Ghost and I cried like a baby
TV Programme – Why don’t you (swith of your TV set and do something less boring instead)
Littlest hobo
Games – Clapping games such as a sailor went to sea, british bulldog, kiss chase
Grounded – Once for several weeks for throwing a stink bomb into our neighbours house when they were moving in.
Best Present – a full size Cindy dolls house completely kitted out.
Bikes – Red Shopper with the basket, streamers on handles and even the wind flower.
First Pet – Wiemaraner called Tanya.
things I miss from childhood – the worst thing I had to worry about having the right trainers and wodering if the boy up the street fancied me, speding all day building dens, rollerskating, climbing a tree without being totally petrified.
Mine are as follows
Name: Stuart
Age: 37
First film you see at the cinema?
20,000 leagues under the sea (I chucked up in the cinema)
Your Favorite TV programme
Only Fools & Horses and Bullseye
What games did you play?
40/40 in & Bull Dog
Was you ever grounded and if so how long and what for?
Once swore in front of my Mum when I slipped on some ice I was grounded for 2 weeks.
Best present?
My Mum brought me a ZX81 pc for my birthday it had a massive 1k Memory and you used to buy magazines with programmes that you could type into the pc which would take an hour to key in then you would get a message saying ‘syntex error in line 127′
Names of any bikes you owned?
Raleigh 14 shopper (I had 2 older sisters) , Raleigh Grifter, BSA Tour De France
Name of your first pet?
Jaws (Goldfish) When he died me and my sister placed him in the stream leading to the river stort in Harlow just over looking Beckingham Palace.
What things do you miss from your childhood?
Getting excited about getting older and also miss going to school