please. garbage.
Children are given more free reign now than ever before as far as I can tell.
Geez louise. Maybe Nancy Gibbs and other parents do all that stuff but most of us didn’t get into all of that.
Excellent. Now I can finally get pregnant!!!! YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL.
Foster a child’s — time alone to invent, freedom to make mud puddles, allow innovation to make toys from sticks, encourage a child’s to use his/her imagination, let a child ride imaginary horses, allow a kid to skin a knee or elbow... LEAVE THEM ALONE...
Helmets for kids riding bikes - disgusting !!! ... I rode a bicycle from age 5 to age 16 or beyond... ALL my friends did the same... we had unsafe bikes by today’s standards ‘coaster brakes’ for heavens sake.... YET not a single playmate I knew or even heard of had a serious injury in all those years. Today we have Stupid laws - stupid parents.
“Overparenting” is a farce - we NEED more quality parenting in our communities.
I agree with this article completely. I don’t think it’s garbage.
I had six younger brothers and sisters. My parents didn’t “overparent”.
Me, I’m planning to use lots of benign neglect. My seven month old likes to wiggle around on the floor and eat the dogs’ tails. It probably won’t kill her.
Risk aversion. I see parents get so riled up if they kid does not do well in class or if they do no get into the cheerleading team or the college they want to go. This has been a problem for centuries, especially among the elites. It is exacerbated by cell phones. Also, there is the scare of kidnappings, child predators, and poisoned candy.
Most kidnappings are committed by parents in bitter divorce case or a relative or friend. Most victims of molestation know their molester. The poisoned candy was because Ronald O’Bryan put cyanide in candy to kill his own children in a life insurance scam in 1974.
This is caused by too few children. When I was a boy, my mother had 6 kids to look after. It was nothing for us to take off in the woods behind the house without telling our mom and stay gone for hours. In the summer she would literally shoo us out of the house and tell us not to come back until we were hungry. We would walk a couple of miles in the summer to go swimming, catch crawdads, climb trees, and catch fish. I didn’t know we were poor until I was about 12.
‘free range’ childhoods
Can we have open season on predators first, so they can free range in safety, as we did?
The left wants us all to be weak, both physically and emotionally so that we can be totally independent on the government.....
I listened to some PSA awhile back on our local radio station as I was driving. I could not believe it. I do not remember the “cause” or the objective, but it went like this. “You worry about your children. You’ve worried about them getting sick. You’ve worried about them getting injured. You worry about molesters. You worry about what might happen at the play ground and at school. You worry about what they eat. You worry about their future. You think you’ve worried enough. But have you worried about “blah?” Blah is killing a gazillion kids and it is something new you need to worry about!”
Has anyone even noticed how some of these freakin PSA’s seem to go on and on? The preachier and more stupid they are, the longer they get!
“The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought macrobiotic cupcakes and hypoallergenic socks, hired tutors to correct a 5-year-old’s “pencil-holding deficiency,” hooked up broadband connections in the treehouse but took down the swing set after the second skinned knee. We hovered over every school, playground and practice field — “helicopter parents,” teachers christened us, a phenomenon that spread to parents of all ages, races and regions. Stores began marketing stove-knob covers and “Kinderkords” (also known as leashes; they allow “three full feet of freedom for both you and your child”) and Baby Kneepads (as if babies don’t come prepadded). “
Ridiculous! I don’t know of any parents who are even sarcastically like this sarcasm.
WHERE(!) are there these helicopter parents who are hovering over the education of their children. Actually, that is what we need. We need parents who will look over the teaching of the NEA teacher who is brainwashing their children and put the breaks on him/her.
But WHERE(!) are there parents of public school kids who spend 5 minutes a week checking out these teachers?!
These pantywastes haven't caught on to anything. They found another intellectual fad that justifies their ovine infatuation with Other Peoples' Standards For Enlightenment. So now they are going to relax and stop micromanaging their kids' lives. Prithee, how? They will spend the next bonus on a slow parenting chamber, a room in which the parents will force the little brats to sit while the parents tell the kids how they're not micromanaging their behavior, and it's for the childrens' benefit.
These kids won't be driven nuts by OCD parental disorder, they'll learn how to sit and be quiet and stare into space as the family contemplates slow time, or whatever other nirvana in a can attracts mommy's and daddy's superficial intellects. But hey, we told them that they're just as good as everyone else, no matter how much they destroy whatever they touch. It would have been too painful to tell them they were not experts when they were seven year olds in mathematics class.
Ever see a nuerotic bird? They pick out their own feathers, destroying the thing that makes them unique. It's reminiscent of bulimia, or cutting, or kids who dress up like the opposite sex with the knowledge - the intention - that it will get them ridiculed by their classmates. The uber - emo kid movement is coming to a prental psychology class near you.
For the love of God, Montressor.
Have yall seen the new TV commercial regarding Childhood Obesity?
I was shocked, it promotes letting your kids play outside! I thought it was a detergent commercial at first. I could not believe they had to do a t.v. commercial to enlighten people on kids playing outdoors and getting dirty!
Good article.