GENERATION GAP--CAN YOU RELATE?

TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED CHILDHOOD in the 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

• First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
  

• They took aspirin, diet pills, ate tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
  

• Then after that trauma, our babycribs were 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 children, we would ride in cars with no 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 white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
  

• No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

• We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no CDs or DVDs, no surround sound, no cell 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.
  

• 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.
  

• The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
  

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

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO: DEAL WITH IT ALL!

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.