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Just came across this in my files. Might be of interest 
I'm not the author btw.
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in
the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s or even maybe the early 70’s probably shouldn’t have
survived.
Our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint. We had no
childproof tops on medicine bottles, door or cabinets. And when we rode our bikes,
we had no helmets! (Not to mention the risk we took hitchhiking).
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags. Riding in the back of
a truck or on the trailer of a tractor on a warm day was always a special treat. We
drank water from the garden hose or the tap and not from a bottle.
Horrors!
We ate cakes, bread and butter with dripping on and drank lemonade and 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 carts out of old prams and then rode
them down the hill, only to find out we had forgotten the brake. After running into the
bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play outside all day, as long as we were back
when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.
No mobile phones! Unthinkable!!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes. No video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, VHS, VCR’s, DVD’s,surround sound, personal mobile phones,
personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played rounders and sometimes the
ball would really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there was
no litigation from these accidents. They were just accidents. No one was to blame but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and we punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get
over it. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms – and although we
were told it would happen, we were not put out, and the worms didn’t live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s home and knocked on the door, or rang a bell, or just
walked in and talked to them. Some school children weren’t as smart as others. So
they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Some were relegated.
Horrors!
Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our Actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of our parents 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, problem solvers and inventors ever. The last 50 years has been an
explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal
with it all. Are you one of them?
Congratulations!
Please show this article to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before
lawyers, governments and ‘do gooders’ regulated our lives for our own good.
I'm not the author btw.
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in
the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s or even maybe the early 70’s probably shouldn’t have
survived.
Our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint. We had no
childproof tops on medicine bottles, door or cabinets. And when we rode our bikes,
we had no helmets! (Not to mention the risk we took hitchhiking).
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags. Riding in the back of
a truck or on the trailer of a tractor on a warm day was always a special treat. We
drank water from the garden hose or the tap and not from a bottle.
Horrors!
We ate cakes, bread and butter with dripping on and drank lemonade and 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 carts out of old prams and then rode
them down the hill, only to find out we had forgotten the brake. After running into the
bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play outside all day, as long as we were back
when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.
No mobile phones! Unthinkable!!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes. No video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, VHS, VCR’s, DVD’s,surround sound, personal mobile phones,
personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played rounders and sometimes the
ball would really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there was
no litigation from these accidents. They were just accidents. No one was to blame but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and we punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get
over it. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms – and although we
were told it would happen, we were not put out, and the worms didn’t live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s home and knocked on the door, or rang a bell, or just
walked in and talked to them. Some school children weren’t as smart as others. So
they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Some were relegated.
Horrors!
Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our Actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of our parents 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, problem solvers and inventors ever. The last 50 years has been an
explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal
with it all. Are you one of them?
Congratulations!
Please show this article to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before
lawyers, governments and ‘do gooders’ regulated our lives for our own good.
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