Those born 1920-1969

kiwi_2005 · 05-13-11, 07:34 PM

Those born 1920-1969

First, You have 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, You were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when You rode Your bikes, You had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, You would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

You drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

You ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but You weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

You 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 You were OK.

You 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, You learned to solve the problem.

You did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms......

You HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

You ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although You were told it would happen, You did not poke out very many eyes.

You 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 You 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.

You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and You learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

Freiwillige · 05-13-11, 09:17 PM

I was born in 1972 and I had it all just like it was listed above. Maybe 69' is a bit to soon for the cutoff?

CCIP · 05-13-11, 09:22 PM

Forget years, I was born in the USSR. 'nuff said

FIREWALL · 05-14-11, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Those born 1920-1969

First, You have 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, You were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when You rode Your bikes, You had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, You would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

You drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

You ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but You weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

You 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 You were OK.

You 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, You learned to solve the problem.

You did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms......

You HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

You ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although You were told it would happen, You did not poke out very many eyes.

You 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 You 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.

You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and You learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

All I got to say is ...

: yep:

Diopos · 05-14-11, 12:26 AM

And still going on ...

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Stealhead · 05-14-11, 12:28 AM

Actually alot of that stuff was still the case in the 1980s I was born past your cut of date by a few years and that describes me for the most part what you said I never ate worms though and there are no street lights in a forest.And my mother never smoked in her life and she does not really drink(that is only bad if the mother is a total alcoholic anyway the baby getting harmed)

I agree with your point but just because kid these days have exposure to all this newer stuff it does not mean that they are all fat and lazy it all depends more on ones parents and how you grow up more so than your birth generation that effects the kind of person you will be.If you have bad parenting you have a good chance of being a moron later in life. or you will see their failure and become a better person.

For example a guy that lived down the road form me as kid his parents always got him out trouble in school/with the law they always got him onto the football team but he could not muster it when he got to college without their support now as an adult he seems unable to keep a good job I wonder why.

I on the other hand I never got bailed out by my folks for school troubles and never got in trouble with the law in the first place and I have had several great jobs over the years.

magic452 · 05-14-11, 12:40 AM

Been there, done that.

Mom use to say" I think he still lives here because there is a lot of food missing and I still find dirty cloths." She also use to say "dinner is at 6 if you're here you eat, if you're not here you don't. God bless moms.

Magic

Armistead · 05-14-11, 12:48 AM

Born is 63,

One TV, 3 channels

Don't know about you guys, but Moms cooked full course home cooked meal nightly, mine did

BB guns, we had shotguns and rifles by 13 and went out shooting on our own.

We may have had two obese kids in school due to genetics.

I walked a mile to school everyday from 2nd grade in that small town.

Yep, seemed all parents smoked...

Kids got yelled at and we didn't fall apart later in life when bosses yelled at us.

Toys, I saw them at christmas and birthdays, bout it, we picked up sticks a kids and played army and never needed to shoot up schools.

Yep, different times......

CCIP · 05-14-11, 12:52 AM

Also, I should point out that a lot of these lazy, over-protected kid stereotypes come from middle-class suburban kids. I know plenty of young'uns who were raised in the country or in the inner city much later than the given dates, and still got to run wild as the points describe.

krashkart · 05-14-11, 02:02 AM

Some of those things are well remembered beyond the '69 cutoff. Bicentennial baby here. Long live the real deal.

CCIP · 05-14-11, 02:34 AM

Yep, though it's also true a lot of kids these days (and in earlier days) are indeed sheltered from it.

Still, reminds me of sitting around smoking cigars with my best buddy recently... we're both both born in the 80s, I'm from Russia and he grew up in the hills of Tennessee - and we couldn't get over how similar our experiences of growing up doing stupid, dangerous, and completely amazing crap were so similar! ...and yet so strange to the people that surrounded us in our current lives as young working professionals in suburbia.

I wouldn't trade it for anything myself - I would say that one of the greatest things about my upbringing is that I got to both live "the streets" and learn the tough realities of city life, and at the same time I spend plenty of time living with relatives the countryside, knowing what it's like to live simple life with simple people, and take joy from connection with the land and with nature.

I think there's lots to be said for a frugal, tough upbringing. Try as you might, you can't learn that stuff in school.

Lord_magerius · 05-14-11, 04:08 AM

I'm only 23 and that describes my childhood perfectly

Oberon · 05-14-11, 05:03 AM

Yeah, I think the end date should be moved to 1985-7.

I took my cot apart most of the time anyway. Whoever thought that wing-nuts could not be undone by a toddler never met me...

joea · 05-14-11, 05:07 AM

I ç%&ç# hate these stereotypical "everything was simpler in the good old days" emails. Just look, we have at least two guys here (Lord_magerius and CCIP) who fall outside the demographic and say the message applies to them. The email applies to me-albeit partly. Some of it is contradictory, claiming the last 50 years and the generation of kids raised like that saw an explosion of innovation and change part of which is stuff like computers, playstation and the internet that are decried. My Mom never smoked btw-she did drink wine as far as I know though.

The stuff about

"You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when You rode Your bikes, You had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, You would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags."

Utter tripe-I am sure lots of kids had accidents and died or were severely injured at the time-yet the letter puts them at the same level as harmless or really healthy stuff like playing outside, making mud pies which are fun things kids today miss out on.

My neice for example has a helmet, my sis was super obsessive about what she ate and drank when she was pregnant, my neice plays volleyball, dances ballet, loves Broadway musicals of the 40s and 50s and actually likes books. Her exposure to the internet and TV is limited and supervised, and the only computer game she plays regularly is "Cut the Rope" on my sister's iPad.

antikristuseke · 05-14-11, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CCIP

Forget years, I was born in the USSR. 'nuff said

Yes, that.

05-13-11, 07:34 PM	#1
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	Those born 1920-1969 Those born 1920-1969 First, You have 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, You were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when You rode Your bikes, You had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As infants & children, You would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. You drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but You weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! You 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 You were OK. You 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, You learned to solve the problem. You did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms...... You HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. You ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although You were told it would happen, You did not poke out very many eyes. You 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 You 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. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and You learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS! __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

05-13-11, 09:22 PM	#3
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Forget years, I was born in the USSR. 'nuff said __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

05-14-11, 12:26 AM	#5
Diopos Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Athens, the original one. Posts: 1,226 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	And still going on ... . __________________ - Oh God! They're all over the place! CRASH DIVE!!! - Ehm... we can't honey. We're in the car right now. - What?... er right... Doesn't matter! We'll give it a try anyway!

05-14-11, 12:40 AM	#7
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Been there, done that. Mom use to say" I think he still lives here because there is a lot of food missing and I still find dirty cloths." She also use to say "dinner is at 6 if you're here you eat, if you're not here you don't. God bless moms. Magic __________________ Reported lost 11 Feb. 1942 Signature by depthtok33l

05-14-11, 12:52 AM	#9
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Also, I should point out that a lot of these lazy, over-protected kid stereotypes come from middle-class suburban kids. I know plenty of young'uns who were raised in the country or in the inner city much later than the given dates, and still got to run wild as the points describe. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

05-13-11, 09:17 PM	#2
Freiwillige The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phx. Az Posts: 1,458 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I was born in 1972 and I had it all just like it was listed above. Maybe 69' is a bit to soon for the cutoff?

05-14-11, 12:28 AM	#6
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Actually alot of that stuff was still the case in the 1980s I was born past your cut of date by a few years and that describes me for the most part what you said I never ate worms though and there are no street lights in a forest.And my mother never smoked in her life and she does not really drink(that is only bad if the mother is a total alcoholic anyway the baby getting harmed) I agree with your point but just because kid these days have exposure to all this newer stuff it does not mean that they are all fat and lazy it all depends more on ones parents and how you grow up more so than your birth generation that effects the kind of person you will be.If you have bad parenting you have a good chance of being a moron later in life. or you will see their failure and become a better person. For example a guy that lived down the road form me as kid his parents always got him out trouble in school/with the law they always got him onto the football team but he could not muster it when he got to college without their support now as an adult he seems unable to keep a good job I wonder why. I on the other hand I never got bailed out by my folks for school troubles and never got in trouble with the law in the first place and I have had several great jobs over the years.

05-14-11, 12:48 AM	#8
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	Born is 63, One TV, 3 channels Don't know about you guys, but Moms cooked full course home cooked meal nightly, mine did BB guns, we had shotguns and rifles by 13 and went out shooting on our own. We may have had two obese kids in school due to genetics. I walked a mile to school everyday from 2nd grade in that small town. Yep, seemed all parents smoked... Kids got yelled at and we didn't fall apart later in life when bosses yelled at us. Toys, I saw them at christmas and birthdays, bout it, we picked up sticks a kids and played army and never needed to shoot up schools. Yep, different times......

05-14-11, 02:02 AM	#10
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Some of those things are well remembered beyond the '69 cutoff. Bicentennial baby here. Long live the real deal. __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard

05-14-11, 02:34 AM	#11
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Yep, though it's also true a lot of kids these days (and in earlier days) are indeed sheltered from it. Still, reminds me of sitting around smoking cigars with my best buddy recently... we're both both born in the 80s, I'm from Russia and he grew up in the hills of Tennessee - and we couldn't get over how similar our experiences of growing up doing stupid, dangerous, and completely amazing crap were so similar! ...and yet so strange to the people that surrounded us in our current lives as young working professionals in suburbia. I wouldn't trade it for anything myself - I would say that one of the greatest things about my upbringing is that I got to both live "the streets" and learn the tough realities of city life, and at the same time I spend plenty of time living with relatives the countryside, knowing what it's like to live simple life with simple people, and take joy from connection with the land and with nature. I think there's lots to be said for a frugal, tough upbringing. Try as you might, you can't learn that stuff in school. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

05-14-11, 04:08 AM	#12
Lord_magerius Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Right by the hydrophone station Posts: 724 Downloads: 96 Uploads: 0	I'm only 23 and that describes my childhood perfectly __________________

05-14-11, 05:03 AM	#13
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Yeah, I think the end date should be moved to 1985-7. I took my cot apart most of the time anyway. Whoever thought that wing-nuts could not be undone by a toddler never met me...

05-14-11, 05:07 AM	#14
joea Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: At periscope depth in Lake Geneva Posts: 3,512 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	I ç%&ç# hate these stereotypical "everything was simpler in the good old days" emails. Just look, we have at least two guys here (Lord_magerius and CCIP) who fall outside the demographic and say the message applies to them. The email applies to me-albeit partly. Some of it is contradictory, claiming the last 50 years and the generation of kids raised like that saw an explosion of innovation and change part of which is stuff like computers, playstation and the internet that are decried. My Mom never smoked btw-she did drink wine as far as I know though. The stuff about "You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when You rode Your bikes, You had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As infants & children, You would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags." Utter tripe-I am sure lots of kids had accidents and died or were severely injured at the time-yet the letter puts them at the same level as harmless or really healthy stuff like playing outside, making mud pies which are fun things kids today miss out on. My neice for example has a helmet, my sis was super obsessive about what she ate and drank when she was pregnant, my neice plays volleyball, dances ballet, loves Broadway musicals of the 40s and 50s and actually likes books. Her exposure to the internet and TV is limited and supervised, and the only computer game she plays regularly is "Cut the Rope" on my sister's iPad.