HOW DID WE SURVIVE?

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. Riding
in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often
chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. We had no childproof lids on
medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no
helmets.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. 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,

We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We ate
cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never
overweight; we were always outside playing.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those
who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't
as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the
same grade. That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and
problem solvers. We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility,
and we learned how to deal with it all!!!