No Matter What the Kids Think....

No matter what our kids and the new
generation think about us,

WE ARE AWESOME !!!!

OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!

To Those of Us Born

1930 - 1979

At the end of this
email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else, please

read what he said.

Very well stated,
Mr. Leno..

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-base paints.

We had no childproof
lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,

we had baseball caps

not helmets on our heads.

As infants &
children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts,
no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back
of a pick- up truck 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
made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV- OR- AID

made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were
always outside playing....that's why!

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 OKAY.

We would spend
hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride
them 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
 Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, 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 and
no 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 would get spankings
with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one
would call child services to report abuse.

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. What can kids today
do besides push buttons..

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 ?

~

The quote of the month is by

Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes,
tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing
up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' 

For those that prefer
to think that God is not watching over us....go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of
us...pass this on.

Have a beautiful day
all!!!!