First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried you. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and did not get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
Oh, remember, no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets....when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets. What about the risks you took hitchhiking?
The cars you rode in had no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
Why, you drank water from the garden house and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
You ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but were not overweight because YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as you were back when the streetlights came one. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were O.K.
You would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem.
You did not have Playstations, Ninetendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms....YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them!
You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. You ate worms and mudpies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in you forever.
You were given BB guns for your 10th birthday, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not put out very many eyes.
You 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!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who did not had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
Your generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovations and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and you learned
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