Just Some Thoughts

I found this on Facebook today and thought it was very appropriate in today's world.....
I reposted this from a friend. As I was reading it I was saddened by how much things have changed. My grandchildren will never be able to experience what we had. Easy life (though we didn’t think so at the time).
I was raised in Iowa, in a small part of Clinton County during a time when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, and not a basic food group. We drank Kool-Aid or iced Tea made from water that came from our kitchen tap. We ate bologna sandwiches and peanut butter sandwiches, but mostly we ate home made meals consisting of meat, potatoes, beans, & vegetables.
We ate breakfast at the table before going to school. We had no cable TV or remote control , Dad used Me,,,just a few channels that you had to manually turn a large knob on the TV to switch channels, no microwave, or cell phones.and no computers. We watched TV as a family: Gunsmoke, Gilligan's Island, Wonderful World of Disney, Bonanza, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Rifleman, Maverick, and Mission Impossible. After school, we came home and did homework and did chores. On Saturday we watched some cartoons, and yes they included Bugs Bunny, Foghorn/Leghorn, Rocky and Bulwinkle, and the Jetsons. We finished chores and dinner so we could go outside to play, ride bikes or whatever we could do in the woods. We were inside at dark, bath and bed time!
If we were bad in school, you got in trouble first there. When we got home, we got in trouble again (because your parents already knew). Paddling was allowed in school and you behaved yourself or else.
We LEARNED FROM our parents and grandparents instead of disrespecting them and treating them as if they knew nothing. What they said was the gospel. We were told to go play and we stayed out of our parents hair as we were told that children should be seen and not heard.
If someone had a fight, that's what it was - a fist fight and you were back to being friends a few days later and the bullying pretty much ceased. Kids that were around guns were taught how to properly use them and to respect them and never thought of taking a life.
We ate around the dinner table and talked to each other as a family unit. We said the Pledge of Allegiance, stood for the National Anthem and we listened to our teachers.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew If we DISRESPECTED any grown up we would get our butts whipped. It wasn't called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries and gave up our seat without being asked. “Please, Thank you, Yes M'am and Yes, Sir" were part of our daily vocabulary! (Still are for me)
We didn't hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth and had to stand in the corner for quite some time. We grew up with good, God-loving families. We were raised and taught who Jesus was.
Life seemed easier with less stress when we were kids. It seems that we complicate life when we become adults. Thank You to our parents for showing us how to adapt to change and take responsibility seriously.

CAM

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