Posted on 08/26/2014 7:37:21 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
yep
I Doubt it!
You can buy an old house in Detroit for $100. and be in a private neighborhood of 1.
But still funny!
Yep, there were cylinder shaped scoops. You remember correctly. They were 5 cents a scoop.
well when you get thrown in jail for being more realistic with regard to safety people tend not to learn.
I just pray that we can devise some legally acceptable technological substitute for Constant unnecessary attention.
No parent should be expected to spend 100% of their time watching their children. Children MUST as a matter of growing up be exposed to ample amounts of unsupervised fun, that is how you learn things like how to order yourself among others, and o lets not forget HUMAN NATURE.
Good catch!
You parents picked the on secret password every pedophile was bound to say?
I remember going to the store to pick up smokes for my uncle when I was like 10 or so. Oh,the horror!
I walked to school every day from when I started. We moved when they started bussing—forced integration never was the panacea the leftists promoted. It has ruined schools everywhere.
When we were out of school in the summertime we would disappear after breakfast and mom would probably not see us again until dinner time. That was a rule, you had to be back home at dinner.
Most boys from the 60’s would be shot by police now.
Growing up in Albuquerque when I was about 11-12 in the early 60’s. My friends and I would get our canteens, bayonets and .22’s plus enough food for an all day trek up LaLuz trail to Sandia Peak at just over 10,000 feet. Was a challenge to make it home before total dark. And the horrors of no cell phones or adults around were not apparent.
Same with us in North Dakota in the early 70s. If we carried guns it was the occasional BB gun...my dad trusted me out alone with a .22 but a group of boys was different.
No phones no plan no worries and damned little trouble.
Those were blessed days.
Progressives incrementalists stategy / next move:
Cities and rural areas zoned into different classifications with each citizen given a list of zones they can work I and travel within. Zones outside of the ones assigned will require authorization and a debit from their ACA account (used once the private banking system has been removed).
The proggies want us to live like this while they declare themselves exempt due to grandfathered ogliarchial privilege. You will find they kind on Elysium.
> They think pre-teens should not play outside unsupervised? That is insane. More than 68 percent of parents allow their 11 or 12 year olds play outside unsupervised. It would be funny watching all these parents out chasing their kids zooming past on their skateboards and bikes. This poll cannot be correct. Perhaps they just polled idiots and single folks who don’t want to deal with the kids on their street.
Poll most likely taken on university campuses from students who’ve never had any children. Or abortion clinics. I could take a poll at Chick-Fil-A or any Christian bookstore and ask them if they believe in God and get the results I wanted...
Kids who know they'll be restricted to only activities with their parents and will lose recreational access to computers and video games for one year will not skip school.
As far as "there are perverts everywhere"? There always have been. Children need reasonable rules of staying in groups of two or three, have safe places to walk and wait for the bus, and in areas where there are adults who can keep an eye from a distance. A far worse danger, if there are reasonable rules in place, is that the children never learn to think for themselves, follow rules when left alone even for a few minutes, and learn how to stay safe and recognize danger. They need time and space to develop creativity and time management. If they don't learn those things as they mature, they'll be terrible adults.
I walked to and from school by myself when I was in elementary school, whatever age that was.
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