Bubble wrap your kids this year

Excellent advice, TJ.

 

When I was 8 my parents bought me a child size iron maiden.

 

Is that anything like a child size sex doll?

 

Well at least he didn't poke his eye out.

 

I had one of those easy bake ovens. And yeah. The first time I used it I nearly burned my lip off trying to eat one of those molten-lava, chocolate cake concoctions.

I learned you have to let them cool a little first. What a concept, Learning from play.


The following was sent to me via e mail, It's kind of long, But I think some of you may get a kick out of it.

Those Born 1930-1979!

TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!


First, 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.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day
was always a special treat.

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 koolaid made with sugar, 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
scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out
we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a
few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's,
X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on
cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound
or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no
Internet or 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.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and
the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and,
although we were told it would happen, we did not
put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and
knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked
in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made
the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke
the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

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


If 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 so much of our lives for
our own good And while you are at it, forward it to
your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky)
their parents were.


( Kind of makes you want to run through the house with
scissors, doesn't it?)

 

Yes it dose. Those where the days all right.