Chemical ban targets toys, rubber duckies

Boy, you know it's really getting to the point where nothing is safe anymore. What's a parent to do these days? You do your best to protect your kids but every time you turn around there's something else that contains some kind of carcinogenic substance or poison.

We grew up with lead in paint, with apples that were sprayed, with eating your dropped food off the ground. Maybe we should just stop see everything as a potential danger and start living again? You don't have to Lysol and sterilize everything to stay healthy. We have an immune system for that. Set it back to work and accept colds to happen, and realize that strengthens your immune system.

Stop freaking living in a bubble! We are strong!

Amen to that Brenda. Here's a few other things many of us were exposed to...

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
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.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
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. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has 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.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

We could have nice wooden toys made from fine British Columbia fir.. oohh.. but the splinters.

By the time I was 15, I had stitches in 7 different places, all from accidents.
I should have broken countless bones but by the grace of good genes, I just dislocated a shoulder and on another occasion, had to wear a cervical collar for a few months.

We would catch feral kittens in the alleys of Montreal.
If you've ever tried to catch one... you know the damage they can inflict.

EDIT: To Strutz... nice one.

Thanks Raydan!

I love this list, one of the many "list" things I've saved over the years. Best part about it is I can say "I did that" to everything! Whoo hoo did we ever have fun as kids eh? Things were so much simpler then...