Just wanted to share something... that we should all read ... think of... and ACT differently after we have read it...
THERE IS A LESSON TO BE LEARNT HERE
If you lived as a child in the 70's or the 80's, looking
back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we
have........
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags.
Our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based
paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or
cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
(Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
Horrors.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and
then rode 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 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. No mobile phones. Unthinkable.
We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really
hurt.
We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to
blame but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue
and learned to get over it.
We ate cakes, bread and butter, and drank sugary pop but
we were never overweight.........we were always outside playing.
We shared one bottle of pop with four friends, from one
bottle and no one died from this?
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, video
games and all 99 channels on Sky Digital TV, video tape movies,
surround sound, personal mobile phones, Personal Computers,
Internet chat rooms........we had friends. We went outside and found
them.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on
the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves!
Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How
did we do it?
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms
and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very
many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one
to hide behind.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was
unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers
and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been
an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure,
success and responsibility, and we learned how to.
THERE IS A LESSON TO BE LEARNT HERE
If you lived as a child in the 70's or the 80's, looking
back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we
have........
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags.
Our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based
paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or
cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
(Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
Horrors.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and
then rode 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 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. No mobile phones. Unthinkable.
We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really
hurt.
We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to
blame but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue
and learned to get over it.
We ate cakes, bread and butter, and drank sugary pop but
we were never overweight.........we were always outside playing.
We shared one bottle of pop with four friends, from one
bottle and no one died from this?
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, video
games and all 99 channels on Sky Digital TV, video tape movies,
surround sound, personal mobile phones, Personal Computers,
Internet chat rooms........we had friends. We went outside and found
them.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on
the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves!
Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How
did we do it?
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms
and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very
many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one
to hide behind.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was
unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers
and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been
an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure,
success and responsibility, and we learned how to.
