Here's why ...©JOKEDEMO.COM

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.©JOKEDEMO.COM

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.)©JOKEDEMO.COM

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Horrors!©JOKEDEMO.COM

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode 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.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.©JOKEDEMO.COM

No one was able to reach us all day. NO CELL PHONES!!!!!©JOKEDEMO.COM

Unthinkable!©JOKEDEMO.COM

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We had friends!©JOKEDEMO.COM

We went outside and found them.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.©JOKEDEMO.COM

They were accidents.©JOKEDEMO.COM

No one was to blame but us.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Remember accidents?©JOKEDEMO.COM

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.©JOKEDEMO.COM

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 inside us forever.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Horrors!©JOKEDEMO.COM

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Our actions were our own.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Consequences were expected.©JOKEDEMO.COM

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.©JOKEDEMO.COM

Imagine that!©JOKEDEMO.COM

This generation has 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.©JOKEDEMO.COM

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.©JOKEDEMO.COM

And you're one of them!©JOKEDEMO.COM

Congratulations!©JOKEDEMO.COM

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good !!!!!