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Who's Your Daddy
While the family was sitting around the dinner table, Jennifer, 5, turned to her brother Andy, 3, and pointed to her dad. "That's not your real father," she said, startling the whole family.
"Yes, he is!" Andy replied.
"No, he's not," Jennifer insisted. "God is your heavenly father."
Then pointing at her dad, she said, "That's your homely father!"
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Thanks to M/M Riverrats: you lived thru it"I Can't Believe You Made It" !If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or70's.Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have livedas long as we have...As children, we would ride in cars with no seat beltsor air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on awarm day was always a special treat.Our baby cribs were covered with bright coloredlead-based paint. We had no childproof lids onmedicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rodeour bikes, we had no helmets.(Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)We drank water from the garden hose and not from abottle. Horrors.We would spend hours building our go-carts out ofscraps and then rode down the hill, only to find outwe forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes afew times we learned to solve the problem.We would leave home in the morning and play all day,as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.No one was able to reach us all day.No cell phones. Unthinkable. We played dodgeball andsometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut andbroke bones and broke teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. Noone was to blame, but us. Remember accidents?We had fights and punched each other and got black andblue and learned to get over it.We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugarsoda but we were never overweight...we were alwaysoutside playing. We shared one grape soda with fourfriends, from one bottle and no one died from this.We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes,video games at all, 99 channels on cable, video tapemovies, surround sound, personal cell phones, PersonalComputers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. Wewent outside and found them. We rode bikes or walkedto a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rungthe bell or just walked in and talked to them.Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! Byourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Withouta guardian. How did we do it?We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ateworms and although we were told it would happen, wedid not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms liveinside us forever.Little League had tryouts and not everyone made theteam. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal withdisappointment..... Some students weren't as smart asothers so they failed a grade and were held back torepeat the same grade.....Horrors. Tests were notadjusted for any reason.Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing usout if we broke a law was unheard of. They actuallysided with the law, imagine that!This generation has produced some of the bestrisk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovationand new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success andresponsibility, and we learned how to deal with itall.And you're one of them.Congratulations!