Political Correctness is killing our country

According to the new rules and regulations, I shouldn't be alive today because I'm a sixties child
We grew up in cots painted in lead based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no child proof lids on medicine bottles, or latches or catches on doors and cabinets and it was fine to play with the pots and pans.

When we rode our bikes, we did so without helmets and other body protection, just sandals on our feet, and more often than not, wearing just a tee shirt and shorts.

As children, providing mum and dad were rich enough to own a car, we rode in them without seatbelts, air bags or side impact protection systems.

We drank the dew from the grass in the fields, and water from the garden hosepipes and not from a bottle - and it tasted the same.

We ate sandwiches made from the cold fat left in the pan after cooking meat - called dripping in the Midlands- and followed it by drinking sugar rich pop. We were never overweight because cars, computer games and televisions were not as prolific as they are now, so we were always playing outside.

We didn`t have hundreds of television channels, video tapes, DVD’s, surround sound, mobile phones, Computers, and internet chatrooms. We used to have real friends and used to have to go out to find them.

We used to walk to school every day instead of expecting mum to take us in the big four wheel drive armoured personnel carriers they use today, clogging up all the roads.

We shared one drink between four or five friends and no one died from doing so.We would spend hours building carts from scrap wood, and after crashing into stinging nettles so many times, we learned how to cure the blisters without the medication creams we`re taught to use today. We would play out all day, in all weathers, getting back before dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.

We played street games and cricket without helmets. Sometimes the ball did really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cuts and bruises and broken teeth and there were no lawsuits. We just learned not to do the same thing again. We rode our bikes in packs of six or seven and wore our coats only by the hoods. We made our things last for ever, or as long as possible anyway. The idea of our parents baling us out if we got in trouble with the police was unheard of. We learned our actions were our own and consequences were expected.

This freedom has produced some of the best risk takers, inventors and problem solvers ever. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned how to deal with it ourselves before Governments started to interfere and regulate our lives for `Our own good`.

We were not cocooned in cotton wool and grew up knowing that we had responsibility for our own lives. Exercise was the natural order of the day. We did not grow up like todays children.
If you had a childhood like mine, congratulations. It won't happen again. Government regulations will make sure of that.

Paul

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