To all the "Kids" Who Survived...

This has been around the Internet for awhile, but for those of you who may have missed it, you may get a chuckle from it - and a few memories...

To All The Kids Who Survived the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us

They took aspirin, ate bleu cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints

We had no child-proof lids on medicine bottles

We rode our bikes and skated without helmets

We hitch-hiked

As children, we rode in cars without car seats, seat belts or airbags

We rode in the backs of pick-up trucks

We drank from the garden hose, and often 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 drank soda with sugar in it, but we were not obese because we were always outside playing

We would leave home in the morning, play all day, and did not come home until supper - no one was able to reach us all day - and we were OK

We would spend hours building go-karts out of scraps, then ride down the hill without brakes. After running into things, we learned to solve that problem

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games, no 99 channels on cable TV, no video-tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no computers, no Internet or chat rooms, no YouTube or MySpace - instead, we had FRIENDS, and went outside to play and spend time with them

We fell out of trees, broke bones and teeth - yet there were no lawsuits from these accidents because they were considered ACCIDENTS

We ate worms, mud pies and the white paste in school

We were given BB guns, made up games using sticks, and were told we would put someone's eye out - but most of us seem to still have both eyes

We rode bikes or walked everywhere by ourselves. We would walk right into their homes to see them, just like family

Sports had tryouts, and not everyone made the team. Those who did not had to learn how to actually deal with disappointment

Our parents actually sided with the law, and rarely bailed us out if we got in trouble.

Yet, this generation - YOUR generation - produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors that this world has ever seen

We had FREEDOM, FAILURE, SUCCESS and RESPONSIBILITY, and learned how to cope with it all

According to the government, and the liberals who incessantly want to protect us from ourselves, we should never have survived.

BUT WE DID! We survived because all those things made us stronger, smarter and more daring.

Makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?

Show this to your children (or grand-kids) to show them how brave you were...