We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps

Acculturated ^ | 10-24-13 | Mark Tapson

[bigbob]

Nothing we all haven't seen and heard, but pretty aptly put. I would only add that we're raising a generation of WHINY wimps...

[Mears]

“And then there are the senseless extremes of politically correct, anti-gun hysteria, in which schoolchildren all over the country are being suspended, labeled a “terrorist threat,” and even required to undergo psychiatric evaluation – not for bringing weapons to school, but for even pretending to play with guns or gesturing like a gun with index finger and thumb. One seven-year-old was suspended because he accidentally shaped a breakfast pastry to resemble a gun, according to his teacher, who was literally reduced to tears by the trauma. “

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I took one of my grandsons to Lexington,MA a few years ago. We were in the gift shop and a little boy picked up one of the toy muskets that were for sale. The father went NUTS !!!!

My generation were children in WWII-—all we did was “shoot” each other,drop bombs,throw grenades etc. We turned out just fine.

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[Starboard]

With everyone being turned into a marshmellow, one wonders what will happen when the time comes for a need for warriors to defend our country.

[originalbuckeye]

Yes. The whining that is accompanying football is a prime example. On those playgrounds of the fifties we might have gotten hurt. But our parents didn't sue the school and we recovered. We cannot protect our children against every little scrape or broken bone of childhood. But, without the experiences of risk, the children of today are growing up without that uniquely American characteristic of wanting to take risks. Without the risk takers, we are just another dying Socialist NeoEuropean country. But that is the Dream of the Obama Regime.

[Gen.Blather]

I’d like to see an educational institution I’ll call “Manup.” It would teach kids Judo, hiking, camping, hunting and above all make them conscious of liberal attempts to train their independence and aggression out of them. (Oh, they’d play dodge ball, football,base ball and (here’s the horrifying part) KEEP SCORE!)

[alexander_busek]

40 years ago, Bill Cosby said it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqv38fP7cr0

Regards,

[Cicero]

I think I remember playing tag in the school playground. Sometimes we just touched the other guy, but sometimes, if we were in the mood, we’d trip him up. And that turned into “I’ll get back at him!”

The good thing is that you learned to roll when you unexpectedly fell, and that has served me well in later life.

[calex59]

I vividly remember once hanging upside down from monkey bars and dropping onto concrete directly on my head (now that I think about it, that hit probably explains quite a bit about me).

I did this exact same thing and all the teacher did was to examine my head and say, "looks like you have quite a bump there, young man!" and that was the end of it. We also road in the backs of pickups and in cars without seat belts. Wonder how we made it to adulthood?

[Olog-hai]

Isaiah 3:2 does say that God will take away “the mighty man and the man of war” from a disobedient nation.

[Starboard]

We turned out just fine.

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Not according to the liberals. They believe we are a bunch of barbaric warmongers.

[bigbob]

Hard to believe isn’t it? We climbed trees and made tree-houses (I still have a scar from falling out of one), stepped on nails and got tetanus shots, got so sunburned we couldn’t stand to put a shirt on for days, swam in all kinds of yukky water, and settled disagreements by slugfests out behind the bike racks ;-) Not to mention our BB guns, chemistry sets, vacuum-tube radios, and soap-box racers!

The irony is, today a kid can be killed lying in bed asleep by a stray bullet - something we never could have imagined was possible.

[TomGuy]

One of those ‘Internet lists’ circulates occasionally about surviving as kid in the 1950s.

Those kinds of lists are pretty interesting and those of us in that age group know what they are talking about.

[calex59]

Crap, still early I guess. Post #8 road should be rode.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, I remember playing war games as a boy. We would choose up teams, and somebody would be the “Jerrys” and somebody would be the “Japs”. Completely politically incorrect, but those were words we used when pretending to fight World War II.

[Starboard]

Good post.

I remember spending a lot of time in my youth playing what was called murderball. Basically rugby with no rules whatsoever; just hold onto the ball for as long as you can and taunt the other “players” for not being able to take it away from you. Keep playing until everyone is physically exhausted. It was good traing for life’s challenges. lol

[Common Sense 101]

Not according to the liberals. They believe we are a bunch of barbaric warmongers.

And yet they don't fear us. Why? Quite a paradox, ain't it? They label us as "dangerous", "religious zealots", "haters" and countless other lies, but at the same time rely on us keeping our self control while they spew forth their spittle-laced diatribes. Any thoughts?

[petitfour]

One of our sons worked as a camp counselor this past summer. They had extreme sports camps among others. My son was merciless in playing extreme dodgeball with those children. We had friends whose sons attended the extreme camps. They are not raising little wusses and neither are we.

Our oldest son used to play wall ball in middle school. He threw around 85+ mph in those years. He and another friend would end up playing alone because they threw so hard. One of the school counselors brought them a softer ball so they wouldn’t fatally hurt anyone.

[Starboard]

I would argue that the liberals do fear the Tea Party. They spend an inordinate amount of time spewing vitriol against it.

[bigbob]

Tell you what - if someone were to put a business plan together for a camp like that (and get a smart lawyer to allow them to run it without getting sued every time some kid got a hangnail) - I’ll bet they’d have more business than they could handle.

[CodeToad]

We’ve raised at least 3 already.