My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e coli?

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.

What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah.. and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked (physical abuse) here too and then we got butt spanked again when we got home. I recall the kid from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof.

It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!

How did we ever survive?

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you've forgotten about ADD, my nephew is very bright, he gets good grades but is bored to death with the "fluff" education. The school recommended that my sis in law take him to be checked out. Now he's on that drug that make him dopey (ritellin?).

I now know that I should have had that stuff too. LOL

you've forgotten about ADD, my nephew is very bright, he gets good grades but is bored to death with the "fluff" education. The school recommended that my sis in law take him to be checked out. Now he's on that drug that make him dopey (ritellin?).

I now know that I should have had that stuff too. LOL

Thank Godness they didn't have Riddlin when I was a kid.....
They thought I was stupid and slow until I took the I.Q. tests!
Then I would get my butt spanked because "I was too lazy"

I would act up in shop class and would get my butt spanked,,,,
My mother would be called to school and she wouid tell the teachers to
spank my butt,,,, and then when I would get home she would spank my butt!

Now I have no Ass I wonder why!

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How did we ever survive?

I question that myself anymore with how many precautions are taken these days and even more people are getting sick, hurt or dieing than when there were far less precautions.

My mother said something a few years ago that back when she was in school (and even when I was in school in the 70's), having someone with asthma in school was uncommon but today it's commonplace to have it. When my daughter went to school in the late 80's and 90's, over 3/4 of her class alone had asthma.

My mother's belief was that with all this sterilization of everything to protect people, it's actually harming people more by weakening our immune systems. Back when she grew up in Pittsburgh, noon could look like midnight from all the smoke from coal burning and steel mills but asthma was rare. Today the air is clean yet far more of the kids brought up in this much more sterile environment are coughing, wheezing and popping pills and using inhalers in order to breath.

From what I've observed after she mentioned it, I have to agree with her. In the effort to protect people from disease and illness, we may actually be contributing to making it easier for disease and illness to strike.

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To truly explore, one must keep an open mind...

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

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me@rescam.org

LOL! The good old days, I remember my milk and bread for lunch.

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During the day I walked the back woods of east Texas with a BB gun and a fishing rod, hurting birds, snakes and fish. At night I watched Palladin, Johnny Yuma, Wanted: Dead or Alive and Gunsmoke. Guess I'll take up the mass murder thing up later.

The wide spread use of pesticides in our neighborhoods and on our foods is the primary reason for the rise of diseases and cancer in our populations.

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