My Generation

[Bob Pacey]

Na we breed them tough up here Manfred. If they can stand that then they will be tough enough to survive anything.

Bill you never know what sort of bugs are gonna get in your cuppa so it is best to strain them out. The other benefit is you get to taste everything twice...



Have a good day all

Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to work we go.

Bob

[Zondrae]

G'day all,

People try to put us down, just because we get around. Things they do look awful cold.... Hope I die before I get old!

Just how my own children survived is a wonder in itself. I recall the baby basket on the back seat of the car, completely unrestrained. The loose fitting car seat with simple hooked over the back seat, again completely unrestrained. I also recall putting my firstborn in the bouncer in the kitchen where I went about passing pots of boilig liquid, either water or oil/fat back, and forth over her. She balanced on single width brick walls and walked along them, swag on wodden swings and used wooden seesaws. All life threatening activities. You wonder how the kids of our generation and our kids ever made it to adultood.
Todays 6 year old kids are so 'cotton-wooled' that they are afraid of their own shadows. But if you watch three and four year olds (if) allowed free play, and you will see them make a gun, or a sword, from a stick (if there is such a thing) they pick up from the ground.

I sat on (sorry 'for' or 'with') my Grandchildren yesterday morning and had prepared DVDs for them to watch or the enclosed trampolene to play on. Do you know what they wanted to do? Dig in my garden to find worms. We had a brilliant time. They discovered that - 1. worms like damp soil, 2. worms have slime on their bodies to help them slip through the soil. 3. worm wee and poo is good for the soil, 4. worms feel wiggly when you hold them on your palm 5. chooks like to eat worms 6. worms are cold compared to people 7. soil is dirty but dirt/soil is good stuff because it is where food is grown. 8. worms move along by contracting muscles around their middle. 9. you put the worms back after you have looked at them for a little while. 10. worms like to be in soil that has some grass or other matter in it that they can eat and digest. 11. worms would get sunburnt and dry out and die if you leave them in the sun... and you don't be crule to any creature, even a worm.. but most of all they found out that grandma loves to hear and answer their endless questions. (but loves to see Mummy come to collect them.

[william williams]

good on you Zondrae
In cotton wool we pack around them to protect them from what? US that’s who
So you lose a bit of bark from skinned knees, falling out of trees, eating a bit of dirt. And we pamper them and wrap them in cotton wool just who is the idiot them or us. Inside of us we cry for them when they fall down but how else will they learn? We teach them right from wrong, and to do this and that we have shown them , BUT have they really learnt or just copied what we have told them for they have never learnt the joys and disappointments of life for unwittingly threw our wish to help them we have removed those steps of learning
and health resistance that they must have. Good on you Zondrae they are the lessons that children need to learn about common things not so called modern technical stuff let them grow up first amidst a life of common hard knocks

Bill Williams the old Battler

[manfredvijars]

I knew a bloke who once said, "I wash me 'ands BEFORE (not after) I go to the dunny, 'cause I know' I'm 'clean!"

[warooa]

yair! Let's all protest . . . let's sitdown, pick dried scabs and eat'em!

ps. our own . . preferably

[Heather]

Oh you Queenslanders!

[Maureen K Clifford]

Totally agree Marty - I reckon dirt is good...you never see farm kids coming down with half the 'problems' town kids have and that IMO is because they spend the best part of their younger life surrounded by all the different kinds of manure and good old fashioned clean dirt that properties have and not all of it is 'bull**it'.

Us older ones and even the middle aged ones managed to survive through an area of dunnys and long drops -OMG shock horror, and parents that insisted we mix with other kids who had measles and chicken pox and mumps. Child abuse I hear you cry???? Dettol was only used in the gravest of emergencies...if the dog licked the cut on your leg - you'd be right.
Mind you kids back then I think had nouse but kids today aren't allowed to learn it.

We all need a degree of good old common dirt and germs in our system so that we can build up immunities to 'life and living'.
Some might call that a reality check.

I describe my home as clean enough to be comfortable. I have learnt to live with a bit of dog hair wafting around and occasionally muddy footprints and scratch marks on the floorboards. Dust is good it adds a natural protection to furniture surfaces although if you can write your name in it you should probably clean. Ditto with dirt on the car.

[Heather]

You'll have the seat heated by the time we get there won't you Marty?

[Maureen K Clifford]

Heather if you are first to use it in the morning you throw a bit of lit paper down to burn off the redbacks and any other undesirable elements that are in there....just stand back tends to go up with a whoooosh sometimes, but hey it warms the seat. Hope the seats not a plastic one though cause that can be be a bit tricky and sticky.