Sounds awesome. Wish we had been neighbors. My early childhood was great and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
I pity children of this last generation going forward. Many are so screwed up- looking up to vapid losers like Paris Hilton, Linsday Lohan and Michael Vick. Hopefully I will be long gone before that ilk will be making my life or death decisions.
If the present trend continues, I don’t think most of those kids will ever be anything but pleasure-loving mannjequins. It will be up to those who are being brought up as real people to see that things make sense, and none iof us need to ever think we can retire. Fortunately, I don’t want to-I’ll just keep up my little business till I die, and I’ll be perfectly happy.
My mom and grandmother both used a limber switch from a small bush or tree to discipline kids-I suppose that is considered child abuse now...