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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 194088" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>This is all SO true! I almost feel sorry for kids today that they will never know the pure freedom to just be a kid that we had! I was born in 1946 and honestly, if today's parents raised their kids the way our parents raised us, they'd probably all be arrested for child neglect! We ran all over the neighborhood when we were very small, as soon as we had sense enough to stay out of the streets. When we got older we had bikes and covered even more territory. If you fell off your bike, you figured out what you did wrong and tried not to do that again! It makes me giggle now but when we were kids, if we had to wear helmets and be slathered with sun screen and our bikes covered in reflectors, we would have been so humiliated we'd have stayed home! And it's true - as long as you showed up at home for dinner, nobody worried. If you got in trouble at school, you'd be in trouble at home too and nobody sued anybody. If you climbed a tree in the neighbors yard and then fell out, your parents assumed that you had learned to be more careful next time - and they didn't sue the neighbor! We drank soft drinks out of glass bottles (and took them back to get the deposit) and I don't remember anyone ever getting injured with them! Now even the plastic bottles have a warning label on them that the cap could blow off and put your eye out! Oh, please!</p><p> </p><p>We got brown from playing outside all day in the summer and nobody worried that it would kill us! We played in the dirt and dug worms in the yard and washed our hands only when forced to. And most of us had great immune systems and didn't get sick all that often, and if we did we only went to the doctor if we didn't seem to be getting over it on our own. And it's true - there were very, very few overweight kids back then because we were so much more physically active than they are now. We had no video games, no computers, and only three channels on the TV - go figure!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 194088, member: 1883"] This is all SO true! I almost feel sorry for kids today that they will never know the pure freedom to just be a kid that we had! I was born in 1946 and honestly, if today's parents raised their kids the way our parents raised us, they'd probably all be arrested for child neglect! We ran all over the neighborhood when we were very small, as soon as we had sense enough to stay out of the streets. When we got older we had bikes and covered even more territory. If you fell off your bike, you figured out what you did wrong and tried not to do that again! It makes me giggle now but when we were kids, if we had to wear helmets and be slathered with sun screen and our bikes covered in reflectors, we would have been so humiliated we'd have stayed home! And it's true - as long as you showed up at home for dinner, nobody worried. If you got in trouble at school, you'd be in trouble at home too and nobody sued anybody. If you climbed a tree in the neighbors yard and then fell out, your parents assumed that you had learned to be more careful next time - and they didn't sue the neighbor! We drank soft drinks out of glass bottles (and took them back to get the deposit) and I don't remember anyone ever getting injured with them! Now even the plastic bottles have a warning label on them that the cap could blow off and put your eye out! Oh, please! We got brown from playing outside all day in the summer and nobody worried that it would kill us! We played in the dirt and dug worms in the yard and washed our hands only when forced to. And most of us had great immune systems and didn't get sick all that often, and if we did we only went to the doctor if we didn't seem to be getting over it on our own. And it's true - there were very, very few overweight kids back then because we were so much more physically active than they are now. We had no video games, no computers, and only three channels on the TV - go figure! [/QUOTE]
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