At the end of this is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, Please Read what he Said. Very well stated, Mr. Leno.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's,
60's and 70's!
First, we survived being born to 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.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our
tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base
paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on
doors or cabinets and when we rode
our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our
heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car
seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald
tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day was
always a special treat.
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, real butter and bacon.
We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar and, we weren't
overweight. WHY?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as
long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day and, we were
actually O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride them 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's and X-boxes.
There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no
video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,
No cell phones, No personal computers, no Internet and
no 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.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms
did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up
games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told
it would happen,
we did not put out very many eyes.
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.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the
team. those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!
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 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 them? 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.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with
scissors, doesn't it ?
A great 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 swine flu
and terrorist attacks.
Are we sure this is a good time
to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
Pass this on - Print it - Post it everywhere