OVER 25!
All people over 25 should be dead...
To the survivors:
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
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 children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We boiled eggs, colored them, hid them, and kept them unrefrigerated for days before we ate them. And didn't end up getting
.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We shared one soft drink with four
, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We would leave home in the
and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable.
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 did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64,X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies,surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chatrooms.
We had
! We went outside and found them.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home 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 didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
The
of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
Our 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
s.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them!
Congratulations. Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
Doesn't it kind of make you want to run through the house with scissors?
Mechele, this took me right down Memory Lane I tell ya! Now with that said, I like the one about eating the cupcakes so do you want to come outside and play now? 
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days. Here's the good part ... I suggested that he do what I did while I was walking home from school. I told him I tried to pass the time by creating little adventures and before I knew it I was home!!! His response was ... "HOW DID YOU DO THAT???" Can you believe it??? I said "Jeez ... use your God given brain ... use your imagination and create adventures in your head!!!!!". He just looked at me. I was stunned!!! He gets very little TV and what little TV he does gets must be earned!!! Since we became very strict with TV and video games his graces have gone from Cs and Ds to As and Bs!!!! It's made a great difference in his life. However, you'd think that being an only child he'd have at least some imagination!!!!
adventures I had and most of them involved the huge willow trees in our back yard ... I was always in the jungle for some reason or another!!!!
of my kids not going out enough! Also the PS2, 99 channels, and car seats. Not 
about the 
car sets though. When they are outside with me they can eat a worm if they want (?) 
I do give them worms and other bugs to see. I do feel bad for my boys that they arn't getting what I had. I don't mind not going to the Emergency room as much as my parents had to w/me.
That was great! I am right there with you Amy about the five second rule! 
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