TOP HOW ON
EARTH DID WE SURVIVE OUR CHILDHOOD?
HOW DID WE KIDS SURVIVE THE 40s AND 50s?
HOW DID WE KIDS
SURVIVE THE 40s AND 50s?
We survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were
pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get
tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs
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 infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster
seats, seat belts or air bags. And we
might have
ridden in the front seat.
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 cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with
sugar, but we weren't overweight because,
there were few snack foods and 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 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.
Penicillin
American participation in World War II
jet planes
polio shots
television
frozen foods
TV dinners
instant coffee
shrink wrap
air conditioners
Xerox
dishwashers
clothes dryers
nylon sweaters
FM radios
electric typewriters
area codes
Touch-tone dialing
ball-point pens
pantyhose
tape decks
CDs, videos, DVDs
Zip codes
contact lenses
the pill
laser beams
credit cards
yogurt
space shots and walking on the moon
McDonald's, Pizza Hut and the rest
Organ transplants
Computers, iPods, cell phones--the list is endless TOP