Renee Blodgett [down the avenue] posted her answers to:

"Someone sent this to me and these are things I think about frequently, and its amusing so worth posting part of it. For those of us born in the 50s and 60s, things we survived:

• We survived being born to mothers who smoked and / or drank while pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
• After that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored 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 the risks we took hitchhiking.
• As children, we rode in cars without seatbelts or air bags.
  We drank water form 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, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because we were always outside playing.
  We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones-unthinkable.
• We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-boxes, or video games, no 99 channels on cable, videotape movies, surround sound, cell phones, personal computers or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! 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 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 in us forever.
• We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house, knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
• The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
• This generation produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. Here here.