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  • For those Born in the 40's - 70's?

    First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or 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 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 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 (in newspaper, not hygienic fast food wrappers!) 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 shop and buy Toffos, Spangles, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

    We ate fairycakes, 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 tryouts 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 'Vanilla'

    We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
    DEAL WITH IT ALL!


    This is soooo true!

    Jules
    Jules

    Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?

    ♥ Nutter in a Million & Royal Nutter by Appointment to HRH VC ♥

    Althoughts - The New Blog (updated with bridges)

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    Every single word is true!!! Imagine, and we're still alive. As for parents inventing stupid names these days, we took our grandson to the park last week, there were several other grandparents there with their grandchildren and we were the only ones who didn't cringe every time we called to ours (fortunately he has a good, solid and, most importantly, normal name). We were chatting to the grandmother of a "Maddox" (girl) and a "Harley" (boy) who admitted to us that when with friends she's so embarrassed that she simply refers to them as 'My Grandson' or 'My Granddaughter' A colleague at my work has a grandchild who is "Mason"; it took her two months to confess this to me. Tomorrow a scan will probably tell me if my next grandchild is to be a boy or a girl, in this case an Alexander (Alex) or an Elizabeth (who will be shortened to Beth). When my daughters told me they were expecting I said the same thing both times; 'How lovely! Pleeeeease don't call it something stupid'. So far, so good.
    Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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    • #3
      Playing outside, getting dirty, not having mothers who were horrified of 'germs' or 'bacteria', we garnered a natural immunity and were not prey to allergies and asthma.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by annacruachan View Post
        Playing outside, getting dirty, not having mothers who were horrified of 'germs' or 'bacteria', we garnered a natural immunity and were not prey to allergies and asthma.
        Another of my hobby horses!!! An immune system is a wonderful thing, not only does it protect us it actually works better the more it's used.
        Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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        • #5
          We used to play tennis on our road, only occasionally did car stop play
          Hayley B

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          • #6
            Originally posted by HayleyB View Post
            We used to play tennis on our road, only occasionally did car stop play


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            Yes the world has changed & not for the better.
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            • #7
              I could spend all da picking holes in this...

              My Mum did have to work and even that didn't make ends meet. I had family and friends that died of diabetes and cervical cancer cause it wasn't diagnosed in time. A boy from my town vanished one day....still never been found. All the children that were abused at home in care by teachers and it was swept under the carpet.....

              It wasn't all rosey then.......or now.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by NOG View Post
                I could spend all da picking holes in this...

                My Mum did have to work and even that didn't make ends meet. I had family and friends that died of diabetes and cervical cancer cause it wasn't diagnosed in time. A boy from my town vanished one day....still never been found. All the children that were abused at home in care by teachers and it was swept under the carpet.....

                It wasn't all rosey then.......or now.
                You're right it wasnt all rosey. Kids were abused then and are still, medical advances have saved many lives.

                But, and I think it is a big but, our generation wasnt wrapped in cotton wool, protected from all known germs and basically frightened half to death if a stranger so much as looked at us.

                Mind you I still smile at my mum's "you will have someones eye out with that" we played with sticks and never did
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                • #9
                  So true Julesapple - and can I add we were never bored or had nothing to do - there was always the chores.

                  Off course they weren't halcyion days, there's no such thing, but it does point up some of the nonsense that goes on now.

                  From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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                  • #10
                    My mother went to school in wellies as she had no shoes.

                    I did not...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by julesapple View Post
                      [COLOR="RoyalBlue"] .They ...ate blue cheese, ...loads of bacon and processed meat
                      Yes, and both my grandparents smoked, and both died of heart attacks. They ate full fat everything and it killed them early.
                      Grandad was quite active, but Nanny was housebound & then bedridden as the fags ate her up ... she lost her toes and her life to smoking
                      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                      • #12
                        We lived on a coucil estate and the road was a through road, the bus stop was in our garden and a lampost across the road, we tied one end of the skipping rope to the lampost and played skipping games and ' whats the time Mr Wolf ' etc only pausing when the bus came or the occasional car, I drove along this road very recently and the cars were parked on both side with no gaps inbetween, couldnt play there now. We would go to the beach all day leaving about 9ish and not come home till 6ish having spent our bus fare on chips and walk home, sometimes mum joined us but most often she was working. My mum had to work as dad died when I was 6yrs old and had two older sisters aged 10 and 11. My mum worked until well into her 70's even though she had a blood disorder and was often told to stop working, how could she, there wasnt any help then. We looked after each other and as luck had it mum was a cook in a Grammer school hostel so had most of the holidays off. I hated being a latch key kid and always went looking for mum when I got home from school. During term time she worked double shifts starting early in the morning to cook the girls breakfast, getting home after their lunch and returning to cook their tea.
                        Holidays were spent at my nan's in southend - on -sea if we were lucky most of the time we didnt have holidays.
                        We didnt have a car or a phone, my clothes were nearly all second hand mainly from my sisters, even my bike was my sisters and that was at least second hand when she had it and my middle sister had it before me.
                        They were happy days for us, my mum was an excellent cook, we never went hungry, we always had clean clothes, new shoes and coats.
                        I am proud of the way we were brought up and have tried to do the same for my children, yes they have more than I ever did, but then I have more than my mum ever had, and our grandchildren will have more than their parents did.
                        Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
                        and ends with backache

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                        • #13
                          We didn't have so many 'things', but I bet we enjoyed the things we did have a LOT more!
                          Yes there were risks, but we knew we were alive, without needing to destroy what others had made in order to feel worthwhile. We knew where the boundaries were, and if we were caught 'over the line' we knew we would regret it. That made it a real challenge to get way with the smallest transgression, and it was FUN to take that risk in small ways that did little harm (apart from to our ability to sit down in comfort). These days, what is there to provide that challenge? NOTHING short of vandalism!
                          Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                          • #14
                            Blimey.....

                            I posted this as a little piece of nostalgic light heartedness.

                            My apologies for setting the cat amongst the pigeons.

                            Jules
                            Jules

                            Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?

                            ♥ Nutter in a Million & Royal Nutter by Appointment to HRH VC ♥

                            Althoughts - The New Blog (updated with bridges)

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                            • #15
                              my mum used to heat a stone in the stove and keep it in her pocket to keep her hands warm walking to school, i told this to my kids and they thought it was a great idea and they said they want to do it next winter,,,,,, do you think i can heat one up in the microwave!!!!!! what an idea.....

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