Creeva’s World 2.0

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !!

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.

We had no child­proof lids on med­i­cine bot­tles, doors or cab­i­nets 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.

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 cakes, white bread and real but­ter and drank 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 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 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.

We 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!

Foot­ball teams had tri­als 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!

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 YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with oth­ers who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the gov­ern­ment reg­u­lated our lives for our own good.

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?!