CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930'2, 1940's, 1950's and 1960's
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00 pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, milk from the cow, and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, 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 street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes! We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY,
no video/DVD films, or colour TV,
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at EASTER TIME time....
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!
Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on
MERIT.
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating..
. We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora', 'Blade' 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !
Well, I wonder how many of you can relate to the above. I can remember doing so many of these things, including go-carting, making mud-pies, oh all of it really!
It didn't seem to do us any harm, did it?! Hope your week ahead is filled with good things my friends.
11 comments:
Hi Diane,
I agree this is so true, remember riding in the car with no seat belt, 3 kids in the back and we were all over the place lol! I was born in the late 60's and don't know where the years has gone, it goes so fast or does it only feel this way as we're getting older? Hope you've had a good day my friend. Hugs
About a week or so ago I said to Bruce that I was so grateful to have grown up when we did. It was so much simpler then and there was respect for others along with such fun. It's a sad world today and so unsafe. The lack of respect floors me! Great post my friend!
Hallo, dear Thisisme! So much has changed and very little of it for the better if you ask me. Life's simple pleasures are the best by far but few people seem to realize it these days. Thank you very much for reminding boomers how fortunate we were to have been children of the 50s. Ours was the last generation to experience the joys of a low tech world, one in which less was indeed more. Have a wonderful week ahead, dear friend Thisisme!
We're practically indestructible! I enjoyed reading this and found myself nodding my head at so many of them. There's so much of that I wish we still had.
You blog looks a little funny to me. It may be my computer.
Any way - this is the absolute truth - and we survived well.
sandie
I can identify with all of them for the most part and can remember how much fun it was. Today the majority of folks seem to drink neverending "diet" drinks with aspartame and Lord knows what other evil things and most of these people are overweight and always will be. It's sad and like I saw on Pinterest today kids are obese because hamburgers are 99 cents and salads are $4.99. It is a losing proposition. The whole country needs to see your post for today.
Oh and I love your beautiful header. Have an awesome week.
Hugs,
Odie
Dearest Diane,
Oh, I DO agree with others, my friend. I was born in the middle of 50s and I think more various ways of skin-ship with friends and nature. When without TV, I remember I played with my brother outside a lot and shared the water from faucet p;)
And definitely more personal contact the each other☆☆☆
Sending you lots of love and hugs from Japan, xoxo Miyako*
I grew up in the seventies, and also drank out of a garden hose, rode my bike without a helmet, rode in the car as a baby in a portable crib with no seat belt, ate bits of raw hamburger that my father would give to us while he prepared a meal, and tons of other stuff!
Loved this post!!!!
I do think parents are over-cautious these days. My daughters do too. Bubble-wrapped kids! I loved not wearing a seat belt and my parents buying huge gas-guzzling cars. My brother, sister and I had such fun playing in the back seat. We could even make beds on the floor the cars were so wide and long. Still, I do feel safer with seat belts on all my family members!
I do think video games have been bad for kids because they rarely want to go outside and play. We made up a lot of our own games and had a ball doing it.
I could relate to every word you wrote here today. How did we survive? Actually, we thrived. I'm so glad I grew up when I did. I loved this!
It's all true! I'm in this group, and, remember only getting to drink coke on special occasions, and, candy only on holidays and special occasions!
I had a hard time getting here...just couldn't seem to open it up, and there's double-vision writing in between your paragraphs and comments. But I got through most of it.
Great thoughts, and truisms Thisisme. Have a wonderful week, will see you later!♥
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