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According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived,
because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based
paint, which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no child-proof lids
on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to
play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just
flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children,
we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags - riding in the
passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not
from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar
in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
playing...
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one
actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts out of
scraps and then went topspeed down the hill, only to find out we forgot
the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to
solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and could play all
day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to
reach us and no-one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile
phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had
friends - we went outside and found them. We played elastics and
rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of trees, got
cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We had full on
fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents. We played
knock-on-the-door-and-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners
catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not,
WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to
school, which was just round the corner. We made up games with sticks
and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The
idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They
actually sided with the law. This generation has produced some of the
best risk-takers and 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're one of them. Congratulations! Pass this on to
others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and
government regulated our lives, for our own good. For those of you who
aren't old enough thought you might like to read about us?
This, my friends, is surprisingly frightening, and it might put a smile
on your face: The majority of students in universities today were born
in 1986. They are called youth. They have never heard of "We are the
World", "We are the children", and the Uptown Girl they know is by West
life not Billy Joel.
They have never heard of Rick Ashley,Bananarama, Nina Cherry or Belinda Carlisle. For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. AIDS has existed since they were born CD's have existed since they were born. Michael Jackson has always been white.
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't
imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that
Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are Films from last year. They can never imagine life before computers. They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, Red-Hand Gang or the Famous Five. They'll never have applied to be on "Jim'll Fix It" or "Why Don't You".They can't believe in black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone. Now let's check if we're getting old...
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night
out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably
with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in East-Enders the first time
around..
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old
days, repeating again all the fun you have experienced together.
Do you feel old now???!
, we did have a better time then than what kids do now, all this electronic stuff seems to be ruining their childhood experience 
