Posted on 10/26/2013 8:35:29 AM PDT by bigbob
Don’t forget fags in the military and gender neutral uniforms.
I long for the pre-Tailhook years!
I agree, we are crippling our children. They will be totally unable to handle life. In trying to help, we are destroying them. We coddle their bodies, we make them dependent and unable to deal with the hardships that life sends their way.
You don’t need a camp to do that. You just need parents. Lots of kids do have such parents, unfortunately their numbers are small.
They are not raising little wusses and neither are we.
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I grew up playing all sorts of contact sports with lots of kids older (and bigger) than me. I was well prepared to play football in high school. My coach marveled at my toughness. lol
No, a generation of wimps is raising a generation of totally clueless pussies.
They used to call those Boy Scout Camps.
I imagine many out there have the same fond memories of ‘stuff that would get us killed’ or ‘poke out an eye’.
Judo is excellent defense against bullies.
Our playground was hard-packed Pennsylvania clay, though most of the time we were running around in the woods. You know, swinging on vines that more often than not broke dropping us (if we were lucky) into a creek, or onto exposed shale...
Other toys? Anything round, any kind of ball be it baseball, football, kickball... My friends and I would make up some game that involved possessing and moving the ball amid tackling and running... Pads? Never wore them. Helmets? Not until I started riding - a motorcycle.
I survived with all my parts intact. Yes there were a couple of trips to docs for strained this, dislocated that... It happened to all of us. Builds character. Without it, the author is right - builds wimps.
I LOVED dodgeball! Never got hurt so badly that I couldn’t pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again. And I am a girl ; )
Classic. I thought of that Cosby routine as well.
“The monkey bars came in, we lost 124 kids in one day....”
We called that game “Smear the Queer”. I don’t know why.
Yes. And if someone tripped us up, we didn’t want to murder them. We would just trip them up the next time. Many of our youth are growing up without a conscience. But that is their example, now sitting in the White House.
These foam and blow-up plastic playgrounds are harboring zillions & quadrillions of bacteria of all kinds. The blow-up slides, etc. are blown up, scads of kids play on them; then they’re deflated, stored, taken out again and rented out the next time - and repeat until they, thankfully, wear out. I doubt they’re ever cleaned adequately.
Trouble is these wimps grow up to be lawyers. Perpetuating the whine.
Great picture.
I raised 5 kids in the 60s and 70s.
There were so many split chins and that type of injury I started treating them myself. I could apply a butterfly bandage with the best of them and if there was a scar there was a scar.
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I remember a cold morning at a particularly nasty first grade game of dodge ball on the asphalt playground when one kid got beamed square in the face. He just lay there, small puddle of blood beneath his face. All the kids were gathered around him. Nothing was said until one kid broke the silence and gave voice to what we were all thinking...”he’s dead.”
In a minute or two a teacher came out with tissue in her hand, cleaned off his face and wadded up some of the tissue and put it in his nose to stop the bleeding. “Bloody nose- easy to get, easy to get rid of” she said, and the kid was back in the game.
Simpler times.
And today parents make their kids live in plastic bubbles, out of fear of germs.....Thus, the immune systems are never allowed to fully develop, which may explain why today there are so many weird allergies that kids develop.
This is as good an example of how dangerous life used to be, as I have ever seen.
Just look at the first 30 seconds of this 1906 filming of a main street in San Francisco, these are just people in daily life in the city, but it looks like a scene from some kind of futuristic death game to reduce the population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdvRNdGlgzY
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