Those born 1920-1969

[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!

[Freiwillige]

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]

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

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by CCIP

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

Yes, that.

[the_tyrant]

seriously, this sort of thing is boring and ageist

stereotyping young people is just another type of ageism

so what if our parents didn't smoke or drink when they were pregnant?
so what if we didn't eat mud pies?
so what if we didn't drink from garden hoses?
so what if we used more computers and electronics?

it seems like the original author of this article seems to think that everybody born after 69 are somehow worse

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

the future will be better, and our generation will produce better best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors!

[MH]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

seriously, this sort of thing is boring and ageist

stereotyping young people is just another type of ageism

Its typical generation war.
I think today's youth is much smarter than in 60 or 70s.
The old guys have problem keeping up so they complain.

Today children demand more know more but i don't think they are more greedy nasty and so on.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by CCIP

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

My experience with working with ex-Soviet citizens is that they tend to regard Americans as sissies when they start obsessing about exposure to germs, possible lawsuits, second hand smoke or eating something that is a few days past the expiration date. They sometimes put off going to the doctor because they seem to regard pain as a trifle. A stoic lot, they.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by CCIP

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

Nice to meet you comrad, I was born in SFRY

(same up-bringing, better food )

[FIREWALL]

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]

And still going on ...

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[Stealhead]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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