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To all born in the 1930s,40s,50s,60s,70s and early 80s.
You survived being born to mothers who smoked and/ or drank while carrying you. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin and didn't get tested for diabetes. 

After that trauma, your baby cots were covered with lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles. Doors and cupboards were unlocked. When you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention the risks you took hitchhiking. 

As children, you would ride in cars without seat belts or airbags. Riding in the back of a van without a canopy was always such fun. You drank water from the garden hose pipe and not from a bottle. 


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You shared one soft drink with 4 friends from one bottle and no one actually died from that. You ate cakes, white bread and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE, PLAYING. 

You would leave home in the morning and played all day, as long as you were home when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach you all day and you were fine. You would spend hours building go carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. 

You didn't have Playstation, Nintendo, x-boxes or video games at all. No TV in many countries and certainly not 99 channels. No video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no texting, no PCs, no Internet. 
YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them!!. 

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You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. You made up games with sticks and balls and although you were told it would happen, you didn't poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them. 

School teams had tryouts and not one everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. The idea of a parent bailing you out if you 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. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and responsibility and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL. 

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You are one of them if you reading this, you made it. Forward this to your children, so that they will know how brave their parents were. 

Sources : Author, Todd Workman. 


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