1) The document nostalgically recalls childhoods from the 1950s-1970s when kids played outside all day without strict safety measures and entertainment technology.
2) Children had freedom to explore and take risks through activities like bike riding without helmets, catching insects, and climbing trees. They solved problems themselves.
3) This generation still produced innovators and risk-takers despite a lack of modern conveniences, because unstructured playtime allowed for learning and personal growth.
My cousin just sent me this nostalgic reminder of the way thinsg were when we grew up. No generation will understand how we feel about those days. I wish they good, but those days are gone and what is happening today....well I wish they were gone.
My cousin just sent me this nostalgic reminder of the way thinsg were when we grew up. No generation will understand how we feel about those days. I wish they good, but those days are gone and what is happening today....well I wish they were gone.
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8. We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about UV rays which never seem to affect us.
9. We go into the jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.
10. With mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game. With a ball (tennis ball best) we boys would ran like crazy for hours.
11. We caught guppy in drains / canals and when it rained we swam there.
12. We shared one soft drink with four friends from one bottle and NO ONE actually worry about being unhygenic.
13. We ate salty, very sweet & oily food, candies,bread and real butter and drank very sweet soft drinks, sweet coffee/ tea, ice kachang, but we weren't overweight because......
14. WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
15. We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride 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.
16. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
17. We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.
19. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them!
20. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
21. Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
22. The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
23. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
24. HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them!
25. CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good.
26. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were .