In my opinion more kids today wear safety equipment due to the fact that overtime it has improved or been developed. Compare it to safety equipment in sports overtime..........look at the injuries / deaths new/better equipment has prevented in football or nascar.
My mother would have been better off never telling me not to do something. It would have been safer for me. The things she said not to do sounded like so much fun, I had to do them... Don't climb that big tree in the yard it is too dangerous. I spent many summers at the top of it. Don't going wading in the pond by the road. Was wading in it 10 minutes later. Stay away from the edge of the deep fish pond at the aunts. Not only did I go to the edge... I fell in and was swimming with the aunts big arsed gold fish. If I ever catch you on top of the big barn you will be beaten. It had such a nice view though and was scary fun getting up to the cupalo. Later as I grew older... a great place to sneak a smoke and watch out for the old man. Even sat up there with the shotgun shooting at geese as they flew over. Don't smoke. Still puffing away today. Kind of wished I had listened to that one. No jumping bikes. Ya right !! Don't go fast on the cousin's motorcycles and wear a helmet. Ya sure !! These were the guy's that got me smoking and drinking at 15 !! Wasn't worried about them squealing on me. She came up with a lot of fun things for me to do. Tim
I think the days of junior laying in the back windshield while on the sunday drive while mom and dad both light up their second marlboro in the car are long gone. It's all about knowledge - if we knew then what we know now, there probably would have been a lot of different decisions made.
They have to be over protective... and for a very good reason. The kids are not as smart today. LOL And why not protect the old noggin. They'll get enough bumps and bruises in life. And as someone said, lots of crazy folks around. Kids are to trusting to be unguarded.
i dont have kids, but can say this. whenever my buddy's two little ones venture too far the Lion kicks in and i start looking/searching/calling! different times back when we grew up. now with all the crazies i'd like to think with youngins of my own the leash would be pretty short.
When I was a kid, it didn't cost $150,000 dollars in medical bills to treat a broken arm. It's just being smart to protect our children when it is within our power to do so. Of course it can definitely be overdone.
So now you guys are saying that I am an unfit parent? Care to post your appropriate educational degree upon which to make such an assessment over the internet? Is it time for each of us to hail the almighty government that knows better than any of us how to rear our children? It is no wonder this country has gone down the crapper like it has. Pathetic.
We had to get my boy Jack one of those as a joke...it was a little monkey on his back - he loved it and still does...BTW it never goes out in public - at least not with the leash attached
And as a parent you shouldn't be *****ing here about it. You should have been at the school the next day wanting some answers and raising hell. That's just stupid. I can't believe someone who draws a government salary or pension would accept this. I wouldn't be threatening my kids.... I'd be after some school andd social services dummies.
all three! =-) grunt = get over here bark = hurry up and get over here burp = hurry up and get over here i need another beer!
I had a step-parent come to me literally shaking because his step daughter was talking about telling her teachers that he assaulted her... just to get her way. He asked my advice and I told him and her mother to take her to the DHS half-way house themselves. Tell her "If that's the way you want this to go... come on." They took her to a house she thought was a safe house (pre-arranged with the owner) and they were pulling her by the arms and legs and anything else they could get hold of to drag her out of the car... she was screaming and crying and hollering and begging them not to make her stay. They finally let her get back in the car and guess what? They never had another problem from her... ever.
Certainly a LOT of points made and directions this thread can go. I'm not a parent so my view is probably skewed. I don't see an issue with safety gear in the appropriate situation. But I also think in less dangerous arenas, kids gotta learn things themselves. Now when it comes to societal safety, it's unfortunate but the world we live in is full of bad people, so keeping tabs on a kid & knowing where they are at all times to me seems very much needed, unfortunately. It's a REAL fine line between gov't stepping in to tell parents how to raise thier kids, and I hate the thoguht of it, but there are so many unfit parents, I'm not sure how else to do it.
Good post sticknstringswife! I'm not the over protective type dad with my daughter WHEN we are at home or camping. I worn her when she's screwing around doing something foolish and that she's going to get hurt If she keeps It up. Sometimes she listens, other times she don't. I can tell you this much she listens more now, experience has been her best teacher. When moms around us she's way over protective for my liking. As far as when we are around large groups of people, I'm VERY protective of her and she don't venture far at all per my rules unless of course she ask's and I approve. I don't trust the people In this world at all.
