Those Born 1930-1979



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-based paints.


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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with
no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up 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 and real butter
and drank Kool-aid made with sugar,
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 streetlights 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 scraps
and then ride 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, X-boxes, no video games at all,
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 or 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?!

my mom didn't smoke or drink......maybe thats whats wrong with me, LOL

Oh man. This is awesome. The garden hose, drinking out of it, made me laugh cause I remember doing it...sometimes we were so dirty it was the only way we got any water at all.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride 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


this was my fav... esp when i wasn't driving

go cart we were lazy a big hill and a tractor tire we knew how to stop the tractor tire hit something . and im not supposed to run with scissors?

Oh, we used to have bottle rocket wars as kids. Those were the good old days.

Yeah those were the days...

Awww b b gun fights

Hola hoops

pogo sticks

flag football shshshsh we played football

made our own baseball diamond with the push lawn mower no motor type heheh used old pillows as bases.

played human bumper cars (shshsh chip bone in ankle on that one)

climbed every tree in the neighborhood.

played hide n seek

We had our own American Bandstand (lmao)

we went trick or treating without parents

left our doors unlocked

we ate breakfast , lunch and dinner as a family

OM G, sounds like my childhood, LOL

whenever someone in the neighborhood purchased a new appliance like a freezer or refrigerator we would take the box to the top of the hill lay it on it's side then 3 or 4 of us would crawl in & roll down the hill.

never broke a bone.

tried to jump ditches with our bikes & not make it.

never broke a bone.

i go outside now when there's a strong wind now & my bones feel like there going to crumble.

old age.......i love it

ok I had a weird childhood......My dad was in the aerospace program so got to see all the apollo launches from our backyard.....also brought huge weather balloons for us to play with......

60's child it was a beautiful time.....

Yup those were then days.

I do remember and I am here to talk about it...lol

1969 ROCKS!!!!!!!

So very true. So many of us don't know how to make do and be happy. Hey I had chores. It was fun and not work. Thanks for the post. Merry x-mas!

My grandpap got three of those old tanks that they used to store oil in cleaned them out was going to make a bridge, while us kids would climb on top of them and roll them around the field...........boy were they rusty but none of us got hurt, and had a lot of laughter and fun with them

i was conceived in Dec 79,does that count?

We would do all those things plus!! I remember borrowing sheets of styrofoam insulation from a construction site and making rafts out of them and floating around on the local pond.
We were gone from breakfast time to dinner. The park was the place to go and the public pool was heaven. I made things with wheels to fly down the hills too!! All trees were climbed to check out the view and the bird nests.We threw rocks into the air and watched the bats try to catch them using their radar. Our bikes took us as far as we could pedal..including to school.We never locked doors. We had 1 cop and one stop light at the center of town.It was also a dry town. Most of the adults put money towards our recreation instead of booze. Kids were allowed to be kids. We slept out under the stars in sleeping bags with the neighbor kids for the fun of it. I broke my little finger playing sand-lot football but it healed like new. We were not rich with money but rich with a great,normal childhood!

Who recalls the old heay pure steel tonka toys???

So much fun, chasing fireflys at night during the summers, swimming in creeks and ponds, playing Tag, building forts, Riding your Bike everywhere, 3 wheelers, who can recall those...
In the Winter you build snow forts and had snowball wars all day long...Just off the top of my head...I'm sure i will recall more later..

AMEN!