If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's how did you survive?

[KiltedBanshees93GT]

I can empathize, if you ask me, the best thing about the old days was that Darwin was still at work in society. Taking chances, ok, taking the really bonehead chances, you stood a good chance of weeding yourself out of the gene pool,LOL.
Actually I had a similar thought at work the other day pondering "trip hazards" in the work place.
What happened to the days that if you were walking along with your head in the clouds and you tripped over something obvious, you would get up and go "wow, I'm an idiot, and should have been watching where I was going", as opposed to the new version "Wow, someone needs to protect me while I wander about not paying attention, I should be compensated"