A quick aside to let you know Morgan�s amnio was A-OK. After a blood test indicated a potential problem, we went through a few weeks of anxiety until Baby Boy got big enough for additional testing. Due date was also moved up to week of July 4 (hoping for the 8th actually � my Daddy�s BD). Time to stock up on baby stuff for grandma�s house!
By the way, there�s an interesting new DLander out there - Azaziel. And don�t ever forget to check up on the Unfukd multitudes.
Today there were a dozen somber, soul searching, angsty, insecure, interesting and more IMPORTANT entries in my �To Be Posted to DLand� folder, but hey � sometimes you just feel like a nut. This was sent to me by my favorite Cousin Michael who lives in Colorado. He�s a year older than me, so we cross two of these decades!! Don�t ask me where he got it � I�m just a-passin� it on.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, and 60's!!
(and a few born a little earlier!)
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
Our toys, and strollers, and playpens, and walkers, didn�t go through years of government approval and weren�t recalled because a few parents failed to pay attention to us using them.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, no bumpers on furniture edges, no special stove control or electric socket covers, because when mom or dad said NO! they meant it the first time.
And when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no 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 soda pop with sugar in it, 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 street lights 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, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet 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.
Spanking our little bottoms when we deserved it was neither cruelty to children nor perversion.
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 yelled for 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!
If you failed to pay attention and do your homework, you could fail the class, or the grade. You, and your parents, were responsible for your passing grades, not a government program.
Teachers were Mr. This and Mrs. That. And the clothing we wore to school showed respect for the privilege of attending.
This generation has 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!
And, if YOU are one of them - CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck and good fortune to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
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