All people over 25 should be dead!

**ponyboy** · 01-13-2004, 06:24 AM

A good article on perspective and maybe some ideas as to why our society is getting more messed up as the years go by...

I got this from a friend and said yes to every one these lines. We are just too politically correct and careful these days. Anyone else relate to this?

To the survivors:

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. 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 pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

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 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. No cell phones. Unthinkable.

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 did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends! We went outside and found them.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

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.

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.

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 a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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.

And you're one of them!

**TheGreatSatan** · 01-13-2004, 07:46 AM

How true. Makes you realize how the country is headed for the toilet.

**Triple Threat** · 01-13-2004, 08:28 AM

I can relate to just about everything on that list (except the part about eating worms). Good article, ponyboy.

**kuso** · 01-13-2004, 08:51 AM

Great post and I agree for the most. I did have an Atari though ( just never used it ) and ate white ants instead of worms.....but near enough

lol

**naturaltan** · 01-13-2004, 08:51 AM

I've seen this many times and it does make you wonder where the kids of today are headed.

**Sapphire** · 01-13-2004, 09:48 AM

Great article!! I am amazed I made it this far!!!

**Dero** · 01-13-2004, 10:07 AM

I'm ALIVE!!!!

Those were the days...

**katie64** · 01-13-2004, 10:41 AM

Wow, what an awesome article, brings back some really great memories

My children do most of what I did when I was a kid (not the norm today), it's amazing to watch their imaginations come to life, very cool, they also each have their own pc, cell phones, tv's in their bedrooms and every video device available, but they also have "The Mom rules here", they have strict time limits on everything and I scan everything they watch and I mean everything, they're kids and I want them to stay that way until it's time for them to be adults, what they learn outside of my presence I have no control over, but I set them straight on most things they tell me, and sometimes Mom is quite shocked

at what they've learned, even my 6 yr. old comes home with some interesting new information

, ok I'm done, just wanted to share a little, again it's a great post

**katie64** · 01-13-2004, 10:44 AM

PS.......I even scan the cartoons they watch

some of them are pretty bad nowadays.....

**heeholler** · 01-13-2004, 10:50 AM

*pokes self to see if I am still really here after doing all that stuff growing up*

**naturaltan** · 01-13-2004, 11:10 AM

Originally posted by katie64
PS.......I even scan the cartoons they watch

some of them are pretty bad nowadays.....

we have a very responsible young lady ... she knows what is and isn't acceptable and will tell us if a show she is watching has bad words or ideas. She will then ask if she can continue to watch that program.

**katie64** · 01-13-2004, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by naturaltan
we have a very responsible young lady ... she knows what is and isn't acceptable and will tell us if a show she is watching has bad words or ideas. She will then ask if she can continue to watch that program.

That's awesome NT, definitely is a reflection of great parenting, my kids also do this, but usually change it anyway, yet my 14 yr. old tries to slide things by me now, must be a homonal thing

**Dero** · 01-13-2004, 11:33 AM

Originally posted by heeholler
*pokes self to see if I am still really here after doing all that stuff growing up*

...and???
Are you?

**naturaltan** · 01-13-2004, 01:00 PM

Originally posted by katie64
That's awesome NT, definitely is a reflection of great parenting, my kids also do this, but usually change it anyway, yet my 14 yr. old tries to slide things by me now, must be a homonal thing

We've always subscribed to taking the mystery out of 'the forbidden' . So far, so good. I guess we'll see if the plan really works when she starts jr.high/high school - that is was where peer pressure will start to become a perhaps overwhelming presence.

**DFINEST** · 01-14-2004, 12:38 PM

I've done all of this, except
share a soft drink with four freinds....
I shared my FANTA Red Cream soda with no one, period!

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