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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 194098" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>It's so funny when I get talking with old friends my age about how different things were back then! I honestly think kids today are much "softer" than we were and that's not necessarily good! I've recently reconnected with a girl who was my best friend back when we were kids and we were marveling at the differences! She said her grandkids are being raised to think that caffeine is practically poison and that they'll be ruined for life if they eat anything with sugar in it! They lecture her every time she drinks a cup of coffee! And we ate <em>cupcakes</em> full of real sugar and lived to tell the tale! And we weren't even afraid to eat what the neighbors put in our bags for Halloween! We actually managed to survive our childhood without <em>hand sanitizer</em> if you can believe that! And somehow we managed to survive sweltering St. Louis summers without air conditioning! Nobody's <em>house</em> was air conditioned! Nobody's <em>car</em> was air conditioned either! Yeah, you were hot but you learned to live with it. There were four kids in my cousins family and they lived in a tiny 2-bedroom house. When it got hot at night, they'd open the front door and they'd all sleep on the floor in front of the screen door! Even the schools weren't air conditioned back then - not even fans. Now, if the A/C goes out in the schools they declare it a "health hazard" and close the schools down! We must have been really tough kids back then and didn't even know it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 194098, member: 1883"] It's so funny when I get talking with old friends my age about how different things were back then! I honestly think kids today are much "softer" than we were and that's not necessarily good! I've recently reconnected with a girl who was my best friend back when we were kids and we were marveling at the differences! She said her grandkids are being raised to think that caffeine is practically poison and that they'll be ruined for life if they eat anything with sugar in it! They lecture her every time she drinks a cup of coffee! And we ate [I]cupcakes[/I] full of real sugar and lived to tell the tale! And we weren't even afraid to eat what the neighbors put in our bags for Halloween! We actually managed to survive our childhood without [I]hand sanitizer[/I] if you can believe that! And somehow we managed to survive sweltering St. Louis summers without air conditioning! Nobody's [I]house[/I] was air conditioned! Nobody's [I]car[/I] was air conditioned either! Yeah, you were hot but you learned to live with it. There were four kids in my cousins family and they lived in a tiny 2-bedroom house. When it got hot at night, they'd open the front door and they'd all sleep on the floor in front of the screen door! Even the schools weren't air conditioned back then - not even fans. Now, if the A/C goes out in the schools they declare it a "health hazard" and close the schools down! We must have been really tough kids back then and didn't even know it! [/QUOTE]
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