Posted on 09/26/2014 8:51:48 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
But what I want to talk about are children who don’t feel safe outside — not because of stranger-danger or threat of immediate injury, but because the police will be called if they’re just playing like we played when we were young. What will members of the Always On Screens Generation be like when they’re adults?
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I hope James from “Yukon Men” takes note after taking his two boys out in the wilderness and leaving them overnight. Of course he stayed close but OMG he left them with two rifles. OMG, they are only 9 and 11. Quick, someone call the Alaska branch of cps.
So now it is a crime to let your children play outside without adult supervision? My brother and I used to roam the countryside all summer long.
“Dallas-area native Kari Anne Roy lives in Austin ...”
James from Yukon men is a good guy. I watched that show with my wife and her city girl came out in full force and she disagreed. James does a service to his kids by teaching them the ways of their ancestors. I am sure his father probably did the same thing to him. If you are out in the Alaskan bush you have to know what to do and not panic or you will be lost forever.
So kids can no longer play outside as we used to do. Now childhood obesity is a major problem.
If the author was a member of HSLDA, she would know that CPS does not have the authority to enter her home and interview her children unless they have cause to suspect an immediate threat to survival ... which a report of “playing outside” is NOT.
I’ve had deputies on the doorstep a number of times. When a neighbor asks, “Where are your parents?” my sons have a tendency to say, “I don’t know,” instead of, “Mama’s at home mopping the floors.”
(Legalistical minds, you see ... although I was mopping the kitchen when they left the house, they do not KNOW, half an hour later, whether I’m in the shower or headed to the airport with the baby and the credit cards.)
We think the problems are illegal aliens or communist Presidents and rampant immorality presented as normal and good.
But these are just symptoms.
This more than anything else explains why the nation is falling.
How can independence and freedom and self respnsibility and reliance be understood by individuals who grow up with none?
Brings back fond memories of my childhood and Boy Scouts.
At Boy Scout Camp we were brought into the tribe of Mic-O-Say.
One of the indoctrination ceremonies involved being taken out in the middle of the night with only a sleeping bag,flashlight, some matches, and a few pieces of newspaper.
We were marched way out into the woods, and every so often they would stop and send a pair of us (bloodbrother pairs) off the trail and into the deep woods. We were told that we must go far enough ‘into’ the hills so that our fire could not be seen (we were to build a ceremonial fire with the paper,matches, and kindling we could find).
That’s it. Off into the deep dark woods, having no idea where we were to begin with (none of us had ever been on that trail) and no idea were we were going. Just had to go Really, really far.
Doesn’t sound too bad, does it ? So, fire built, ceremony done, we go to sleep.
Now, the trick is that the next morning, no one comes to pick you up, guide you back to your camp. You both have to FIND your way back. No compass, No idea just where you are at all.
I don’t imagine they allow this anymore. And that’s a shame.
Today’s children grow up without building much character.
Such snitches need to be ostracized, shunned, be the subject of passive hostility by the rest of the neighborhood.
Roger that. Sadly, when these folks open themselves up on these “reality” shows, they get unwanted attention. Notice the salmon restrictions now in Tanana. Now they are building a road to the far side of the Yukon river across from Tanana. The Gold miners all of a sudden get some scrutiny from the mine safety folks. The guy in South Carolina gets a visit from the building inspector and tax folks. Just sayin’.
Exactly.
I’d ride my bike for miles, even downtown and back..............how times have changed..............
'nuff said.
Would ride my bike the 2+ miles to the creek and fish, build forts, shoot BB guns, etc. It was probably 4th grade and I told my parents I wanted to sleep out one night in a fort I had made of logs and brush. “Better bring a blanket!” (I was alone).
OTOH - looking back, I do really wonder how my parents let me do all of the stuff I did as a kid. Usually by myself.
Lots and lots of busybodies out there ... with little else to do than cash their government-issued checks and mind other peoples’ business.
MAN I saw her on Bewitched earlier this week on Antenna TV
Was Uncle Arthur around the scene LOL!
Trust me Alaska wont investigate beside James would be near by with cameracrew
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