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D.S.
Guest
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
Kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived,
because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint,
which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we
wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our
wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags -
riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted
the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar
in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no
one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts out of
scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we
forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day,as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us
and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile
phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played 40-40 and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We
fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We
had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played knock-down-ginger and were actually afraid of the
owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The
idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They
actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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're one
of them.
Congratulations!
Kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived,
because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint,
which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we
wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our
wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags -
riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted
the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar
in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no
one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts out of
scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we
forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day,as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us
and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile
phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played 40-40 and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We
fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We
had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played knock-down-ginger and were actually afraid of the
owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The
idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They
actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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're one
of them.
Congratulations!
