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Laura Goodwin (Pope)
Hi! Fellow Classmates.I got this from a friend and added to it. Be my guest add your own ideas.
To Those of You Born between 1930 - 1979
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else, please Read what he said.
To all the kids who survived the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to a few 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.
We slept on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored sheets.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, or air bags. Most of us wore seatbelts and sometimes we didn’t.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm summer’s day was always a specialtreat.We are mostly good drivers many of us drove around in old pickups or cars on the ranches as soon as we could see over the dashes.
When we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.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.
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 with real butter, and eggs & bacon. We drank whole milk by the gallon in glass jars, we used the cream on our cereal.We drank Kool-aid
made with real white sugar.
We were always outside, playing...We never complained of being bored, we made our own fun.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on, or mom called us to dinner.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.
We would spend hours building forts out of scraps in the trees or by our houses. We learned how to build, then tore them down and rebuilt them.
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 intothe bushes or the creek a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We played for hours in our yards with the sprinklers on and in the ponds at the Information Center. We learned to swim in the creeks, at lake De Smet, or in the
City Park’s and YMCA’s pools.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate mud pies made from dirt.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays.
We made up games with sticks, rocks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team yet everyone played and was invited to the YMCA teams.
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 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 US? 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.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
'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?'
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead Have a Good Day!
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