Cursos
de Inglés en Durango, México
Cursos
de
Inglés para niños desde 3 años de.
July 20, 2009
To Those of You
Born
1930 -
1983
At the end
of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read anything
else, please
read what he
said.
Very well
stated, Mr. Leno.
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-base paints.
We had
no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our
heads.
As
infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster
seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no
brakes.
Riding in
the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real
white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?
Because
we were always outside playing...that's why!
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 them 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 and X-boxes. There were no video games, 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 and no 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.
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
?
~
The quote
of the month is by Jay Leno:
'With
hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe
thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the
threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to
take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
