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Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:55 pm  |
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-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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, 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 cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, 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 O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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, Nintendos, X-boxes, no video games at all, 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 or 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!
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.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them . . CONGRATULATIONS! |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:14 pm |
Amen to that!
Thanks, Doba! |
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Age 41; Oily; Acne prone; Resilient; Currently loving Tazorac, Kate Somerville ExfoliKate and Deep Tissue Repair; Bobbi Brown Hydrating Eye Cream |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:24 pm |
Very true. These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! Yay that I am one of them  |
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Simple but No Simplier...Approaching late 20s, Normal/Combination Skin, Rarely Breakout now but have some old acne marks, sunspots, & broken caps |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:05 pm |
| I'm proud to be one of them too. |
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53 and starting to show it |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:13 pm |
| salli wrote: |
| I'm proud to be one of them too. |
see Sal we are brilliant after all  |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:17 pm |
| you got it Mel! |
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53 and starting to show it |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:03 pm |
| I'm one of them,Thanks! |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:42 pm |
Love it!! I'm one of them as well  |
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Early 40's, normal/dry, Oily T zone (summer) fine lines, hyperpigmentation |
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:56 pm |
| yep, makes you feel sorry for so many kids today who will soon have square eyes, only avatars for friends, bizzare shaped hands as an adult (from all those game consoles and excessive thumb exercise) and who will die at the first sign of a hardy bacteria because everything they touch and eat has been super sanitized. |
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SKIN: combination, reactive to climate changes and extremely fair. "Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself." --Roseanne |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:17 am |
| It's so true. I feel really sorry for kids these days not being allowed to go out and have the same kind of day-long adventures we used to. |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:02 am |
Yeah very true!
- we survived it all and grew up to become the neurotic parents who are bringing up our kids with cell phones, g-strings, shite food habits (either too much fat and sugar or dieting), x-boxes, personal computers, cyber friends etc etc etc...
WE create society and the future - so all the hurrays for us are misplaced in my opinion, we aren't giving our kids enough of the good stuff we got - FREEDOM to figure life out - but this thread is a good wake up call that should remind parents out there to let go of their kids and take the remote or playstation out of their hands and "kick" them out in the garden or whatever! |
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Location: Denmark. Me = 32, think I'm combo without oiliness + sometimes sensitive. Have noticed that skin doesn't heal as quickly anymore and I've developed fine lines around my eyes... Hormonal breakouts which are sometimes cystic. PCOS |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:06 am |
Jeez I can be grumpy! 
Sorry girls! |
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Location: Denmark. Me = 32, think I'm combo without oiliness + sometimes sensitive. Have noticed that skin doesn't heal as quickly anymore and I've developed fine lines around my eyes... Hormonal breakouts which are sometimes cystic. PCOS |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:25 am |
Actually, Ruthie, I think you made a very good point. As I've mentioned, I don't have any children. But my brothers do and their kids haven't been brought up the way we were.
Bears thinking about, anyway.
A |
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Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh Crap, She's up!" Unknown |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:39 am |
Great post doba!
I have to laugh when I see the neighborhood kids on their bicycles in what looks like full body armor!!! |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:38 am |
| Thanks doba, I am one of them too |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:24 am |
I am one of them, too!  |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:06 pm |
Very valid point Ms. Ruth!!! The very we didn't die eating mud generation, is raising the we can't get dirty or hurt one! Of course I can say this being childless and all  |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:27 pm |
| katee wrote: |
Great post doba!
I have to laugh when I see the neighborhood kids on their bicycles in what looks like full body armor!!! |
OMG, Katee...I have the same reaction when I see kids decked out in all this "protective gear" just to navigate a bike down the street! I'm not a parent, so I probably have no right to comment...but somehow I managed to ride my bicycle and live to tell about it without a helmet, kneepads, and being encased in 30 feet of bubble wrap!
Mary |
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43, Confirmed desert rat (Scottsdale, AZ), animal lover (3 kitties and a pup) and hopeless product junkie (I blame EDS...lol!) |
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:51 pm |
| doba wrote: |
| I am one of them, too! |
Too |
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Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:32 pm |
| Even though I was born in '80, it sounds like my childhood! You should see all the scars I have from my adventures. |
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Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:21 am |
Completely true! Now in a world that's supposed to be getting better with each generation, we have more obesity and asthma than every before.
I was one of those children that played outside all day long, we didn't have computer games, we made our own entertainment and those days as a kid were some of the best I've ever had. |
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Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:37 am |
| I did survive - but I also ended up spending an awful lot of time in the Casualty Department of our local hospital! |
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Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:53 pm |
too funny Majob....
I also never saw furniture bubblewrapped in my lifetime, we'd run into once, and learn to avoid it in the future |
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Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:20 pm |
| The one thing I've heard about but obviously can't remember is my having stuck a bobbypin in an electrical outlet when I was still crawling. I wish I could remember that. |
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Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:19 am |
| Arielle wrote: |
| The one thing I've heard about but obviously can't remember is my having stuck a bobbypin in an electrical outlet when I was still crawling. I wish I could remember that. |
now quiet a few things are starting to make some sense. |
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