Editor –

First you survived being born to some mothers who smoked and drank, while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then, after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright-coloured lead paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention the risks you took hitchhiking.

ALSO READ: Innocence lost in the technological age

As children, you would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags. Riding in the back of vans, loose, was always great fun. You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as you were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach you all day and you were okay.

You didn’t have PlayStations, video games, surround sound or cell-phones; BUT YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them. You fell out of trees, got cuts, broke bones and teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents.

You made games with sticks and tennis balls, and although you were told it would happen, you didn’t poke out any eyes. The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of; they sided with the law. This generation produced some of the best risk-takers, problem-solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility. You learned how to deal with it all and you are one of them…

Submitted by Dharam Sewraj

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: You can never know it all

Click to receive news links via WhatsApp. Or for the latest news, visit our webpage or follow us on Facebook and Twitter