Anticipating reminiscences of all you other survivors of our daily dalliances with danger while growing up !
Posted on 01/09/2018 4:41:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
Thanks for posting this.
YW
..... Dealing with kids .... “Too Safe to Succeed” .... Is one thing .... but remember .... these useless people will eventually become the the main component of society .... That said ..... It does not bode well for the future of this nation .... Where are all of the needed “Producers” going to come from to support all of these useless idiots who will bleed this nation dry without contributing anything at all?
The country is doomed.....although things my be changing where I live the kids are out playing and building forts....but the kids do not go miles from home....kids are walking , riding bikes and scooters to middle school....
but the majority pick there kids up at middle school....I would make the kids ride the bus...
biggest problem for boys are video games and iPhones for both boys and girls...
Hell I kicked my kid out..he thought he could live at home and a goof off job...
could not pay the rent and have fun..went back college and is a Doctor ...
Kids need movement, edge, and stress --- not packing foam.
They need to reach the outer stature of adults without being stuck with the inner life of infants in swaddling clothes.
Let your kids be kids with a minimum of adult supervision. Seek out other free-range families and let the kids ally with each other.
Free kids for a free country.
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how much of the “safety” BS is really about safety and not about avoiding lawsuits? Not doubting the end result: frightened, wimpy snowflakes, but I question the original motives.
When we were kids the playground equipment at school and the parks were on asphalt. If I fell and got any cuts or bruises up my Mom would clean me up and admonish me to BE MORE CAREFUL!
In November my trail life USA troop had a campout at a place with a large play area. The kids were up before dawn engaging in hours of unstructured play.
Artofmanliness.com has a great article entitled 23 dangerous things you should let your children do.
good post
Another is safety in numbers. There were kids all over my childhood neighborhood. When I let my young son out to play. There were no kids on the streets or at the park. It had to be a play date or I would tag along.
As a toddler, I would take him to the park and we would be the only ones there. Where were all the kids? Most likely in daycare.
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Anticipating reminiscences of all you other survivors of our daily dalliances with danger while growing up !
Thanks.
Everything is about lawsuits......we should outlaw lawyers....
Yea.. in 1955 the football helmet was NOT leather but the face mask In the middle of the season - was a bar across the nose.
My Baseball LL (50-51) helmet was two pieces of plastic over the ear and two strips of elastic to hold them together. Think the whole team had 3 of them.
I set pins in a bowling alley at 14- double alley, double shift, 5 nights a week and some weekends.that was with the PEGS in the floor..
Only nights off were Fri in basketball season.
All football and baseball games were in the afternoon.
And I was ‘hard on my kids (2 Ds)’ and my grandkids have a hard life....
‘Cry Me a River’.....
Btw, this is an OUTSTANDING essay .. thanks !
YW.
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