Posted on 06/21/2015 2:03:59 PM PDT by QT3.14
With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods.
Here’s the problem with all of this babying: it creates a society of weenies.
There won’t be more more rebels because this generation has been frightened into submission and apathy through a deliberately orchestrated culture of fear. No one will have faced adventure and lived to greatly embroider the story.
Kids are brainwashed – yes, brainwashed – into believing that the mere thought of a gun means you’re a psychotic killer waiting for a place to rampage.
They are terrified to do anything when they aren’t wrapped up with helmets, knee pads, wrist guards, and other protective gear.
Parents can’t let them go out and be independent or they’re charged with neglect and the children are taken away.
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What’s wrong with eating peanut butter & jelly sandwiches?
Cops would just wave at us.
Impact on kids with peanut allergies?
“What’s wrong with eating peanut butter & jelly sandwiches?”
I eat peanut butter just about every day. But when the grandkids come, we have to put up all nuts and sanitize the kitchen.
did it all but 5 & 21. Oh, and MUCH, MUCH more!
In 1982 when I was a lad of twelve, we were living in New Zealand. During the week leading up to Guy Fawkes (when it is observed with fireworks), I bought with my pocket money a Bridal Veil “flower pot” (kind of a miniature Roman Candle). It gave out a bright white shower of sparks, and me and a friend set it off under the bridge on which the main drag of the town I lived in was on (it crossed a river).
All was safe and OK, but to think that me and this friend set off a firework in this location and no eyebrows were raised whatsoever. I certainly can not imagine this being able to take place now.
“With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods.”
Over 30? Probably more like 40 and over. Americans born 30 years ago were just the right age for the Clinton era’s liberalism to have gotten to their parents, teachers, low-life pop culture, lawyers, etc...40 years ago and they were coming up during the Reagan era just before the bullsh*t started creeping in.
Like the author, I also survived my teenage attempt to fly a home-made hang-glider.
Meanwhile, Russian and Chinese kids are raised rugged and the Moslems are creeping in everywhere.
Prognosis for America...?
These days, if a boy was to act like boys did in the 1950s, he’d be pumped full of Ritalin.
Bkmrk.
I did everything on the list except the snow related ones (grew up in the desert - two inches of snow every three years and gone by noon). I doubt that even in a more relaxed cultural setting I’d want my granddaughter ride in the back of a pickup on the highway or not use a seatbelt. Not everything is an overreaction. Should there be criminal sanctions? I’m of two minds there.
I’ve done all 25 and far more. Loved explosives, cannons and home made fireworks.
I did make a kid-carrying kite. Tried it out in a gale. Fortunately the fabric ripped off before I went too far.
I used to make my own gunpowder and pu ‘warheads’ on model rockets.
And that is among the safer things I did as a kid.
I’m trying to raise my son to take chances, with reasonable success (he likes motorcycles, guns & fireworks, and knows how to use a pocket knife& properly start a fire) - but the nanny-staters are working hard to undo my work.
A lot if things were tougher in ‘the old days’, but I think my parents had it easier than I do trying to rear a [reasonably] well adjusted, independent child who thinks for himself.
I’m just 31 so a lot of things already had changed for my generation but I was old enough to play on monkey bars that werewolf made of metal lol
5.56mm
werewolf — lol typo made on my android keyboard
Slingshots(made from tree branches), firecrackers, the ability to go out after dark to play anti-I over, hide and seek, pump pump pull away, kick the can, etc all have vanished from childhood. Very, very sad!
As a kid (up until 14 or so) I was a real menace. Lots of stuff that I probably SHOULD have been arrested for but didn’t. The following is just what I got caught doing:
Throwing a rock through a black family’s window. (With a bunch of other kids - police gave us to our parents. We had to say sorry and pay for the window)
Shoplifting.
Giving a bloody nose with a snowball. (TWICE!)
Playing “King of the Jungle” on the merry-go-round - throwing kids off of it as it spun around. (The school ended up taking it down).
Graffiti on a neighbor’s house.
That doesn’t include all the other stuff where I DIDN’T get caught.
Although I did get it out of my system early on thank goodness. I still did stupid things as a teen and in college (and beyond) - but not malicious. And after I got caught shoplifting in the sixth grade I never even thought of stealing something again.
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