How True

Just had this ent on to me
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer..
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle...
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
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 would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,
no video/dvd films,
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time..
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had try outs and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on
MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always
ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanill
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Reading that made me feel so... Awkward.

You have been successsful in making me feel ............

of mature years.

But life like that was fun .......

It was indeed and I can relate to most of it, I loved my childhood a bottle of pop, a couple of jam butties and that was me out for the day on my bike with my mates..........halcyon years.
I feel sorry for the young'uns closetted up in their bedrooms on a nice sunny day.

Neh its not that bad when i have a forum to go on.

I pretty much agree with everything you said there but its your generation who made this country what it is today, so you've only got yersens to blame for it

Surely most of that is still what any like 5-10 year old does today? Or was it just the south leeds massive?

Depends on how you bring your kids up a lot of the time.
You can be lazy n just plonk your kids in front of a computer or TV , or spend time with em and get em "programmed" to enjoy outdoor activities etc...
Tis all about providing them with a balanced lifestyle.

I have a balanced lifestyle i would say.
always playing football and on the internet.

Surely every lad played army at one point in their life, no matter how old

LEEDSLAD/03/01/2010 wrote:Surely every lad played army at one point in their life, no matter how old

Kids today don't seem to play out like we used to, Kickout ball, tag , cowboys and Indians i could go on, its sad really best years of there lives just been wasted..

Jack was pretty big and obviously SLAM

Bloody kids , just been round my local park and some young uns were digging holes in a newly dug over area we were going to use for a flower bed.
Kids beat us to it, now their BMX mud jumps area. Going to let them have it if it keeps them out in the fresh air and out of mischief. Little lass about 5 had a spade as well, it was bigger than her.
Suppose its the cheaper option free as opposed to 50 grand to put a propper BMX track in.

I still play football,Buzz off,Spot,Bmx,Swimming.

very active kid.

shame about my achiles though.

thornabyred wrote:Bloody kids , just been round my local park and some young uns were digging holes in a newly dug over area we were going to use for a flower bed.
Kids beat us to it, now their BMX mud jumps area. Going to let them have it if it keeps them out in the fresh air and out of mischief. Little lass about 5 had a spade as well, it was bigger than her.
Suppose its the cheaper option free as opposed to 50 grand to put a propper BMX track in.

Sensible and generous but I bet you still gnashed your false teeth thornaby.