The following email essay, reproduced with bad punctuation and formatting intact, is sort of cutesy but also sort of thought-provoking. The points about risk-taking, innovation, and dealing with disappointment are particularly relevant from the point of view of considering the ongoing evolution of the species.<\/p>\n
<\/font>TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !!<\/p>\n First, we survived being born to mothers who We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, As children, we would ride in cars with no seat Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from We shared one soft drink with four friends, from We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and We would leave home in the morning and play all No one was able to reach us all day. And we were We would spend hours building our go-carts out We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and Little League had tryouts and not everyone made The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke This generation has produced some of the best The past 50 years have been an explosion of And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age The following email essay, reproduced with bad punctuation and formatting intact, is sort of cutesy but also sort of thought-provoking. The points about risk-taking, innovation, and dealing with disappointment are particularly relevant from the point of view of considering the ongoing evolution of the species. TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s… Continue reading Being a Kid in the Old Days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsmoked and\/or drank while they carried us.
\n<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/font>They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing,
\ntuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
\n<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/font>Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were
\ncovered with bright colored lead-based paints.<\/p>\n
\ndoors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets,
\nnot to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.<\/p>\n
\nbelts or air bags.<\/p>\n
\nwas always a special treat.<\/p>\n
\na bottle.<\/p>\n
\none bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.<\/p>\n
\ndrank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight
\nbecause…..WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!<\/p>\n
\nday, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.<\/p>\n
\nO.K.<\/p>\n
\nof scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we
\nforgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned
\nto solve the problem.<\/p>\n
\nX-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video
\ntape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went
\noutside and found them!<\/p>\n
\nwere no lawsuits from these accidents.<\/p>\n
\nthe worms did not live in us forever.<\/p>\n
\nmade up games with sticks and tennis balls and
\nalthough we were told it would happen, we did not put out very
\nmany eyes.<\/p>\n
\nknocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!<\/p>\n
\nthe team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with
\ndisappointment. Imagine that!!<\/p>\n
\nthe law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!<\/p>\n
\nrisk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!<\/p>\n
\ninnovation and new ideas.
\nWe had freedom, failure, success and
\nresponsibility, and we learned HOW TO
\nDEAL WITH IT ALL!<\/p>\n
\nYou might want to share this with others who have had the luck
\nto grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our
\nlives for our own good. \u00a0And while you are at it, forward it to your kids
\nso they will know how brave their parents were<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.
\n<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/font>Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors,
\ndoesn’t it?!<\/p>\n
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