To educate those who were born in the net generation

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According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't
have survived,
because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured
lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on
doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and
fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or
airbags and riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottleand it
tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with
sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always
outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and
no-one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then
went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the
brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we
learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as
long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach
us and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.
No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no
mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat
rooms.
We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played
elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!&n
bsp; We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there
were no law suits.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other
parents.
We played knock-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the
owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on
mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the
corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in
packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a
parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...they
actually sided with the law.

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real
kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our
own good.


For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like
to read about us. This my friends, is surprisingly
frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:
The majority of students in universities today were born in
1986........they are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children,
and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They
have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or
Belinda Carlisle. For them, there has always been only one
Germany and one Vietnam ..
AIDS has existed since they were born.
CD's have existed since they were born.
Michael Jackson has always been white.
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they
can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.
They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are
films from last year.
They can never imagine life before computers.
They'll never have pretended to be the A-Team, the Dukes of
Hazard or the Famous Five They can't believe a black and white
television ever existed.
And they will never understand how we could leave the house
without a mobile phone.