According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 30's, 40's,50's,60's,70's, or even early 80's, probably shouldn't have survived.Baby cribs were covered with bright lead-based paint.
No child-proof lids or locks on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
Not too metion the risks taken while hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or airbags.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank from the garden hose and not from a bottle!
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps of wood and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the bra After runnig 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 street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.
We did not have playstations, nintendo 64, x-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no satellite, no video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or internet.
We had friends!! went outside and found them.
We played dodge ball, and sometimes the ball would really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. they were accidents. No one to blame but us.
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
tle 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 it again.
Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
The idea of our parents bailing us out if we got in trouble at school or broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the school or the law!!
We didn't spend tons of time and money medicating our kids for their behavior problems.
We had freedom and responsibility---and we learned how to deal with it.
