Posted on 04/03/2018 8:28:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
By the way, those are solid skills to give to your kids, good job.
One of the way the Leftists are attacking the 2nd Amendment is to demonize it among the young and impressionable, beginning in Kindergarten and all the way up through college and beyond.
I am certain they are thinking they can outlast conservatives on gun ownership by waiting for us all to die...or killing us off.
Only if someone touches my bike.
But seriously folks.
Learn how to take general care of yourself.
How to do laundry,cook and other daily chores.
This especially applies to millennials.
Flush the toilet when you use a public restroom.
Learn how to make change without a calculator.
And learn cursive.
A few things every modern human being should be able to manage:
1.) Build a nuclear reactor from scratch.
2.) Travel back in time on a study tour of the Roman Empire.
3.) Manufacture diamonds by squeezing coal.
4.) Lead a burro into the Rocky Mountains, mine gold, smelt it, and turn your diamond into a diamond ring.
5.) Launch a rocket to the moon and build a space station there.
6.) Wrestle a Great White Shark and force it to become a vegetarian.
7.) Jog up Mount Everest, build an igloo, and have a picnic there.
8.) Swim from San Francisco to Singapore.
9.) Read up on mathematics and teach at Cal Tech.
10.) Find a Democrat and get him/her to make sense.
It's well underway. Several years ago while undergoing questioning for jury service on a murder trial, I was shocked at how many of the prospective jurors (maybe 40-50%) didn't own a gun, had never held or shot a gun or were horrified at the thought of firearms. I grew up in Texas, my father taught me to shoot at 8 years old and summer camp had firearms training when I was 10. I don't think I knew a family that didn't own a firearm. It was "universal". Of course, that was in Texas 60+ years ago. :o)
My family did not have guns when I was growing up, I attribute it to simply a lack of money and general interest...raising six kids on military pay.
I would have loved even a BB gun.
Couldn’t afford any of it.
Sorry you missed a nice part of childhood. I had a Benjamim pump air BB rifle that could put nice holes in tin cans, break bottles and make holes in the garage door, which almost disintegrated from the shots I pumped into it. The bb gun was legal in town but I took the .22 to the lake. Today, I suspect people would freak to see a kid riding a bike with a .22 across the handlebars but it was common back then.
I watched a clip with Denzel Washington talking about what to do ...
He said “When you go to bed at night, kick your slippers under the bed so that when you get up in the morning you have to be on your knees to retrieve them, while you are there, Give Thanks to your Creator for all the blessings that you have and those that you will receive.
Works for me
TT
Conkers is an old English kids game using the hard seeds from horse chestnut trees.
A good competitive kids game that can be played at no cost - no fancy clothes or equipment needed...:^)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers
It has probably disappeared now due to computer games.
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