TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s! - I found it in 所有的孩子谁幸存下来的50的60和70的！ -我发现它在 Craigslist Craigslist的 thanks to感谢 John C. Dvorak约翰C德伏扎克 . 。

What the post doesn’t mention is that such kids were also not on Ritalin and they did fine.什么职位不提的是，这些孩子们也没有对利他林和他们的罚款。 Enjoy!享受！

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.首先，我们存活出生的母亲谁吸烟和/或喝，而他们进行了我们。

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.他们采取了阿司匹林，吃蓝奶酪敷料，金枪鱼从一个可以，而且没有得到测试，糖尿病。

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.然后之后的创伤，我们的婴儿婴儿床涵盖了鲜艳的彩色铅基油漆。

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.我们没有childproof盖子就中医药瓶，门或机柜和当我们乘坐我们的自行车，我们没有头盔，更不用提，风险我们采取了搭便车。

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.作为儿童，我们将乘坐在汽车没有安全带或安全气囊。

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.骑在后面的回升在一个温暖的天始终是一个特别对待。

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.我们喝的水从花园软管，而不是从一个瓶子。

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.我们共享一个汽水与4的朋友，从一个塑料瓶并没有人死亡，其实从这个。

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!我们吃的cupcakes ，白面包和真正的黄油和喝苏打饮料的流行与糖在，但我们并没有超重，因为我们总是在外面玩！

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.我们会在离家在上午和发挥所有一天，只要我们回到时，路灯就来到。

No one was able to reach us all day.没有人能够达成我们所有天。 And we were OK我们确定

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.我们会花时间的建设，我们的GO -推车走出签名，然后坐下来，山中，只有找出我们忘记了刹车。 After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.运行后进入草丛几倍，我们的教训来解决这个问题。

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms…WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!我们没有台Playstation ，任天堂的，的X盒，没有视频游戏，都没有99频道，有线电视，没有录影带电影，没有环绕音效，没有手机，没有个人电脑，没有互联网或互联网聊天室…我们的朋友和我们走到外面，并发现他们！

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.我们跌出的树木，得到削减，打破了骨骼和牙齿及有没有诉讼，从这些意外。

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.我们吃的蠕虫和泥馅饼从污垢，和蠕虫病毒并没有住在我们永远。

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.我们得到页BB枪，为我们的第十生日，弥补了游戏用棍棒和网球，尽管告诉我们，它会发生，我们并没有把很多眼睛是雪亮的。

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!我们骑上自行车或步行到一个朋友家，撞倒对大门或响钟声，或者只是走在交谈，向他们！

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.少棒了选拔赛，而不是每个人都作出了队。 Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment.这些谁没有必须学会处理与失望。 Imagine that!想象！

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.的思想，家长挽救我们走出如果我们触犯了法律是闻所未闻的。 They actually sided with the law!他们其实是片面的与法律！

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!我们这一代产生了一些最好的风险采取行动，解决问题和发明家！ The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.过去50年来已发生爆炸的创新和新思路。

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL.我们的自由，失败，成功和责任，我们学会了如何对付它的全部。

And YOU are one of them!和你是其中一人！ CONGRATULATIONS!祝贺！

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 our lives for our own good.您可能会想要分享此与他人谁曾有幸成长为孩子之前，律师和政府的规管，我们的生命为我们自己好。