How True Is This?

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE - 1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs/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.

Riding in the back of a pickup on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no Indian, kebab, pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, or Greggs.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Wednesday afternoon or 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 Opal Fruits/Spangles and some penny bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in, 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/trolleys out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and made our own dens and played with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, 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.......no really!

We were given Cap guns, Pea shooters and sling shots 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!

Soccer/Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks or a size 12 pump(trainer) and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade'

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 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!

And 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 our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Oh I loved this. I could relate to so much of it as I was born in the sixties. We lived in a village and it's true that we would play out all day and go home for tea. I have great memeories of being out with my friends (knocking on eachothers doors) and having fun. We were all fit and healthy with a rosy glow. I never remember being bored. I even pushed my dolls pram in the street until I was eleven and they wouldn't do that now! In fact my best memory was of me and my best friend sitting by a stream nearly all summer holiday with a bit of string attached to a garden cane with a curtain hook on the end trying to catch fish. It never occured to us that we wouldn't catch anything but we had great fun trying. Why? Because we were innocent and allowed to be kids.

That is great, there is an 80's one to that is very simalar.
It true alot of kids don't do what we did and it is a shame.

Colin, what you say is so true. Those were the days when kids were kids and not computer freaks.

Ooooh brings back great memories.

sooo true that!!

im an 80's girl - but id ratherhave been born and brought up earlier tbh - sounds like ahealthyier life style!

LOL Colin, what a great thread!

Sooo true, takes me right back to when I was zipping around on my Tri-Ang scooter and getting gravel under my knees lol

My Mam used to say be back before the street lights go on lol I can remember I had to be in bed by 8.00pm every night.

Funny, we ate sweets that were all the colours of the rainbow and nobody back then seemed to suffer the effect of E-Numbers. Those were the days!!

I think today we are too into this 'Nanny-State' Gawd, I fancy going to the corner shop now and buying 4oz of chewing nuts!!!

been there done that. wore the t-shirt
pass me the zimmer frame please.

Enjoyed reading that, i'm a 70's child and alot of that is sooooo true!

I heard the other day on the radio that Opal Fruits are back!!!

great thread, I wonder how we all survived

we had rafts made out of bits of wood, climbed trees and rocks, went down caves, I even had an off road motorbike (something they would send a police helicopter out for now)

my dad was a health and safety officer in the 70's and we must have done the most dangerous stupid things ever, but we are all still here