The document summarizes life for children born in the 1950s-1970s. It describes how children at the time played outside all day without supervision, engaged in activities like catching insects and swimming in canals that would be considered unsafe now, and did not have access to modern technologies or entertainment. It posits that this generation faced more challenges and responsibility as children but ultimately grew up to be innovators due to their independence and problem-solving skills learned from an unregulated childhood.

1. TO ALL THE THOSE
WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's, 60's and 70's
Music: Those were the days
Show: Created by Henry

2. First, we survived with mothers who had no maids.
They cooked
/cleaned
while taking care of us at the same time.

3. They took aspirin, candy floss, fizzy drinks,
shaved ice with syrup and diabetes was rare.
Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was
remedy for fever.

4. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
doors or cabinets
and when we rode our bikes, we had no
helmets.

5. As children, we would ride with our parents
on bicycles/ motorcycles for 2 or 3.
Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or
air bags.

6. Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.

7. We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle.

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.

18. We never had birthday parties till we were 21.

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.