You forgot Jarts! We had Jarts. As does my 7 year old nephew.
He also has an iPod filled with great music that he chose. He knows all the bands from the 60s, 70s and 80s. And he walks to school, as do the other kids in his neigborhood. He prefers water from the tap, and has never had a soda. He rides his scooter outside. In the winter. With no coat. Barefoot. (And we all yell at him for it). But it is hard to find other kids who are "normal" to our (and now his) standards. On 1/2/07, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BORN BEFORE 1986? > > According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were > kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, > because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured Lead-based > paint which was promptly chewed and licked. > > We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or > cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we > wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our > wheels. > > As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and > riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden > hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same. > > We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar > in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside > playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can > and no-one actually died from this. > > We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top > speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After > running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the > problem. > We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we > were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one > minded. > > We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 > channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile > phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chatrooms. > > We had friends - we went outside and found them. > > We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! > > We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law > suits. > > We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners > catching us. > > We walked to friends' homes. > > We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or > daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner. > > We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of > 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us > out if we broke a law was unheard of...they actually sided with the law. > > This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem > solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of > innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and > responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. > > And you're one of them! > > Congratulations to you and others who have had the luck to grow as real > kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for "our own > good". > > And on the other side of the coin... > > The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986.... > > The Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. > > They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda > Carlisle. > > For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam. AIDS > has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were > born. > > Michael Jackson has always been white. > > To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't > imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. > > They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from > last year. > > They can never imagine life before computers. > > They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of Hazard or > the Famous Five. > > They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. > > And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a > mobile phone. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223463 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
