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It's a miracle we survived our childhood, considering this!
> Was this before your time?
>
> We licked the beaters and didn't have anyone telling
> us we were going to become deathly ill from eating batter with raw eggs in
> it!
>
> At Easter time, we had our dyed Easter eggs in a nest on the counter and they
> sat out at room temperature for the week after Easter. We would peel one
> whenever we felt like it. I Can't Believe We Made It"!
>
> If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's. Looking back, it's
> hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have... As children, we would
> ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
>
> Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special
> treat.
>
> Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
>
> We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, cabinets, and when we
> rode our bikes, we had no helmets. Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a
> young kid!
>
> We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.
>
> 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 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. No cell
> phones. Unthinkable.
>
> We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut,
> broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents.
> They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents?
>
> We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to
> get over it.
>
> We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never
> overweight ... we were always outside playing games, we shared grape soda with
> four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.
>
> We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games at all, 99
> channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones,
> Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms .We had friends. We went outside and
> found
> them.
>
> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung
> the bell and just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without
> asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold, cruel world! Without a
> guardian. How did we do it?
>
> 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.
>
> Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't,
> had to learn to deal with disappointment.
>
> Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held
> back to repeat the same grade .... Horrors. Tests were not adjusted for any
> reason.
>
> Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind.
> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They
> actually sided with the law, imagine that!
>
> This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
> and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and
> new ideas.
> Was this before your time?
>
> We licked the beaters and didn't have anyone telling
> us we were going to become deathly ill from eating batter with raw eggs in
> it!
>
> At Easter time, we had our dyed Easter eggs in a nest on the counter and they
> sat out at room temperature for the week after Easter. We would peel one
> whenever we felt like it. I Can't Believe We Made It"!
>
> If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's. Looking back, it's
> hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have... As children, we would
> ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
>
> Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special
> treat.
>
> Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
>
> We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, cabinets, and when we
> rode our bikes, we had no helmets. Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a
> young kid!
>
> We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.
>
> 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 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. No cell
> phones. Unthinkable.
>
> We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut,
> broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents.
> They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents?
>
> We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to
> get over it.
>
> We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never
> overweight ... we were always outside playing games, we shared grape soda with
> four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.
>
> We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games at all, 99
> channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones,
> Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms .We had friends. We went outside and
> found
> them.
>
> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung
> the bell and just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without
> asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold, cruel world! Without a
> guardian. How did we do it?
>
> 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.
>
> Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't,
> had to learn to deal with disappointment.
>
> Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held
> back to repeat the same grade .... Horrors. Tests were not adjusted for any
> reason.
>
> Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind.
> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They
> actually sided with the law, imagine that!
>
> This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
> and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and
> new ideas.
