Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: Drackare on December 30, 2008, 01:51:41 PM
-
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
F irst, 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 tire s 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, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank
Kool-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 O.K.
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 Playstations, 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 person al 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 ate worms and mud pies made f rom 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.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!
Yo u 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.
-
I agree. Bucky Covington said what you said in song...enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlrFOBmdVI
-
thats that was cool
-
Not a Bucky fan but a good song........
-
Scary how we made thru all that.
-
Scary how we made thru all that.
And we are the better for it!
-
I don't know how we survived some of those things but you sure did bring back some good memories.
-
And add to that we went barefoot all summer and no one told us we violated health codes by being barefoot LOL.
I still love being barefoot ! I must stil be a kid !
-
Anyone ever had a Dad who laid on the couch, yelled for you till you came in and had you change the channel? Not only that, the turn knob was broken and you had to rotate the dial with a pair of pliers? LOL...oh the days..I can see me calling my daughter in to push the remote control for me!!
-
Unusual time of year to reopen this topic with winter upon us, but like you, chgobuzzbald, I'm still a kid at 57 and I love to be barefoot. At home, I'm always barefoot and barefoot any other opportunity that I get. My feet are no worse for the wear, in fact, my feet are healthy with no problems whatsover!
-
Good article.
-
Have to agree, it is a good article.
-
Reminds me of a discussion I had with a 40 year old mother of 3. She was telling me about the THREE STEP PLAN FOR STOPPING BULLYING at her kids' school.
Step one is to tell the bully that what they are doing is hurting your feelings.
Step two is repeating step one and adding that if they don't stop you're going to tell the teacher.
Step three is telling the teacher.
I asked her what step four of the plan is. She told me that there is no step four. I told her that there most definitely is a step four. Step four is when junior gets off the bus after the bully was suspended for a week and had to spend that whole time at home with two violent drunken parents who kicked his ass regularly for intruding upon their party time. Step four is that junior is down the street and around the corner from the house and right now it's just him and the bully and the bully has a lot to get even for.
Step four, then, is that you have prepared junior for this inevitable confrontation by making sure he knows how to box.
Ahhh, the good old days. And although it seems funny I really mean that. There were no lawyers, hell, there were no referees. We just did what we needed to to get home and we did that without remorse. Because that's just the way it was. You either grew up on two feet or you grew up on your knees.
Speaking for myself I lost way more than I won, but, I remember all the wins and they still taste sweet. And even the losses carried the message that I wasn't going to kneel. People respected that back then.
Good article.
-
;) O0 8) Budda ! Great Message ! :popo
-
Reminds me of a discussion I had with a 40 year old mother of 3. She was telling me about the THREE STEP PLAN FOR STOPPING BULLYING at her kids' school.
Step one is to tell the bully that what they are doing is hurting your feelings.
Step two is repeating step one and adding that if they don't stop you're going to tell the teacher.
Step three is telling the teacher.
I asked her what step four of the plan is. She told me that there is no step four. I told her that there most definitely is a step four. Step four is when junior gets off the bus after the bully was suspended for a week and had to spend that whole time at home with two violent drunken parents who kicked his ass regularly for intruding upon their party time. Step four is that junior is down the street and around the corner from the house and right now it's just him and the bully and the bully has a lot to get even for.
Step four, then, is that you have prepared junior for this inevitable confrontation by making sure he knows how to box.
Ahhh, the good old days. And although it seems funny I really mean that. There were no lawyers, hell, there were no referees. We just did what we needed to to get home and we did that without remorse. Because that's just the way it was. You either grew up on two feet or you grew up on your knees.
Speaking for myself I lost way more than I won, but, I remember all the wins and they still taste sweet. And even the losses carried the message that I wasn't going to kneel. People respected that back then.
Good article.
Ah yes, the good old days. Thanx for that Buddha.
-
I grew up in the 70's so I can relate. We're a bunch of survivors. Kids today are a bunch of over privileged lazy ass whiners.
-
I am often reminded that (in my opinion) values and priorities are often misguided these days. It's messages like this that confirm my beliefs.
-
I am often reminded that (in my opinion) values and priorities are often misguided these days. It's messages like this that confirm my beliefs.
I see the same thing. Too much of it IMHO.
-
I was born several decades too late. I wish I'd been a 50's kid... 40's if not for the war, but even then... maybe even 20's...
-
Reminds me of a discussion I had with a parent at the park the other day. My daughter and another girl were fighting over a toy and arguing with each other. There was a little pushing and grabbing going on, but no swings of the hands. The lady asked if I was going to stop it. I just looked at her and said "Nope. They need to figure it out for themselves." I could tell she was uncomfortable with their confrontation, but 2 minutes later they figured it all out and I said, "See, it's all good now."
In short, I can't stand parents that want to referee everything. How is your kid going to learn how to resolve conflict?
-
Sometimes I think the best thing that parents can get for their kids is a pair of little boxing gloves and little headgear. When my grandkids fight it is a screaming/wailing match that can go on for hours, sometimes days. I told their mom about the boxing gloves idea. She was skeptical until I explained that it will actually curtail future disagreements by helping them to establish the pecking order among themselves without any artificial boundary marking by her. Once it is agreed who the alpha is by the occasional use of the gloves and headgear the underlings will not be so quick to launch a dispute.
I recommended the headgear because you don't want them leaving marks. Teachers are very quick to rat a mofo out to the man nowadays. Keep that s**t on the DL.
With the gloves and headgear the dispute is resolved in under a minute. Then I can go back to watching the football game. Because you gotta have priorities.
-
Buddha, that's the same thing my grandfather did for my brother and me; handed us boxing gloves and told us to take it to the front yard.
-
It truly is a wonder that any of us from "those" generations survived to see hair loss.
When I was in grade school (kindergarten through 8th at our school) we didn't have special zones in the cafeteria for peanut-free and gluten-free and lactose-intolerant. We didn't have special classrooms for "exceptional" kids (regardless of learning exceptions) - everyone was in the same classroom and the teacher provided general and individual instruction. We were all just kids and learned how to get along and recognize each other's differences (not always in the nicest manner). We also played outside daily.
School is so different now. But I worry more about the afterschool hours when kids are hidden away in their rooms playing video games which - in my ancient opinion - distort one's view of the world.
As you may know from other of my postings I work in the tourism industry - my particular area is "old west" (hence "Frontier Guy" - get it?). Anyway, we sell various toy guns in the old west. In my youth we were taught never to point a toy gun at someone (and in my case, at any living thing) - but that guidance has gone out the window. Kids are so accustomed to shooting others in video games they pretend to shoot at each other and their parents constantly. Gives me the creeps. What happens when they have a real gun in their hands - even if they think it isn't loaded? Oh, and what do their parents do? - mostly nothing. They lost control of their kids years ago and don't recognize opportunities to teach them. They are so busy texting or chatting on their cell phones they often lose track of their family members.
I don't think it bodes well for any of us.
-
It truly is a wonder that any of us from "those" generations survived to see hair loss.
When I was in grade school (kindergarten through 8th at our school) we didn't have special zones in the cafeteria for peanut-free and gluten-free and lactose-intolerant. We didn't have special classrooms for "exceptional" kids (regardless of learning exceptions) - everyone was in the same classroom and the teacher provided general and individual instruction. We were all just kids and learned how to get along and recognize each other's differences (not always in the nicest manner). We also played outside daily.
School is so different now. But I worry more about the afterschool hours when kids are hidden away in their rooms playing video games which - in my ancient opinion - distort one's view of the world.
As you may know from other of my postings I work in the tourism industry - my particular area is "old west" (hence "Frontier Guy" - get it?). Anyway, we sell various toy guns in the old west. In my youth we were taught never to point a toy gun at someone (and in my case, at any living thing) - but that guidance has gone out the window. Kids are so accustomed to shooting others in video games they pretend to shoot at each other and their parents constantly. Gives me the creeps. What happens when they have a real gun in their hands - even if they think it isn't loaded? Oh, and what do their parents do? - mostly nothing. They lost control of their kids years ago and don't recognize opportunities to teach them. They are so busy texting or chatting on their cell phones they often lose track of their family members.
I don't think it bodes well for any of us.
How very true . Some good thoughts have been posted here . What is to come ?
-
The number of people that have been killed or wounded by guns that the shooter thought weren't loaded must be staggering.
-
What I find in this generation, is that too many people make the mistake of letting the "village" raise their children....While outside forces DO play a part in raising a child, the PARENT should be to the forefront of raising the child(ren) and being accountable for said child(ren) as well as teaching children to be accountable. Back in my childhood, there was no cable or internet, and me and my grandparents actually sat at the dinner table and talked instead of eating with the TV on. Nowadays with more channels on the TV than I care to count, parents are letting the children eat in bedrooms and instead of watching TV as a family in one room, are having multiple TV's on with just whatever. I ran into my ex at my friend's father's funeral last month and I asked her where her 14-year-old daughter was....She said, oh, let her stay wherever she is....I make it a point if my kids are not with me, that I better know where they are and with whom.....Times have changed, and it ain't necessarily for the better....
-
What I find in this generation, is that too many people make the mistake of letting the "village" raise their children....While outside forces DO play a part in raising a child, the PARENT should be to the forefront of raising the child(ren) and being accountable for said child(ren) as well as teaching children to be accountable. Back in my childhood, there was no cable or internet, and me and my grandparents actually sat at the dinner table and talked instead of eating with the TV on. Nowadays with more channels on the TV than I care to count, parents are letting the children eat in bedrooms and instead of watching TV as a family in one room, are having multiple TV's on with just whatever. I ran into my ex at my friend's father's funeral last month and I asked her where her 14-year-old daughter was....She said, oh, let her stay wherever she is....I make it a point if my kids are not with me, that I better know where they are and with whom.....Times have changed, and it ain't necessarily for the better....
Right on Harry.
-
What I find in this generation, is that too many people make the mistake of letting the "village" raise their children....While outside forces DO play a part in raising a child, the PARENT should be to the forefront of raising the child(ren) and being accountable for said child(ren) as well as teaching children to be accountable. Back in my childhood, there was no cable or internet, and me and my grandparents actually sat at the dinner table and talked instead of eating with the TV on. Nowadays with more channels on the TV than I care to count, parents are letting the children eat in bedrooms and instead of watching TV as a family in one room, are having multiple TV's on with just whatever. I ran into my ex at my friend's father's funeral last month and I asked her where her 14-year-old daughter was....She said, oh, let her stay wherever she is....I make it a point if my kids are not with me, that I better know where they are and with whom.....Times have changed, and it ain't necessarily for the better....
Right on Harry.
Agree 110%, the games that kids play with car theft, gang stuff, killing etc.. The older kids in the family get the little ones started. I also have seen parents play and think all this is right and it is bonding time. The Gene Pool is not good. And yes a family meal most of the time these aren't even done on Thanksgiving or Christmas anymore. It seems like kids now days as long as they are in the house and outta sight they are safe with , computer's , video games, Movie channels that have so much sex on them, that parents don't block. Also back in the 50's etc.. I didn't see all the mental problems with kids and that they were on medications etc.. But no if a kid is trying to get attention from parents, they are put on drugs and have all these fancy medical terms. It is sad .