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Originally posted by Tim Sullivan
Now that I've got two daughters, it amazes me just how insane parents really are. My oldest was dumb enough to slide headfirst down a slide at a park once, when one of the other mothers saw her doing this she went running ot help my daughter screaming "OH MY GOD, SHE'S GOING DOWN HEAD FIRST!!!" Wasn't even her kid, and my wife and I both told her to relax, she's fine, she does it all the time. A great example of the over-protectiveness that is out there nowadays. Try finding a park anywhere now that has any play structures higher than six feet as well. We wouldn't want a kid to fall and learn not to do somethin dumb now, would we?
Love the memories... hehehe....
Tim
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Todays kids are being taught fragility, helplessness, dependence, and lack of self-sufficiency or responsibility and accountability and a false sense of entitlement. Even when the parents try to raise and teach them all the good stuff, PC others, enmasse, come down on them and force their standards on that family and winning over that kids perceptions of being "effed over" by those parents.
We're steamrollered by a force of bullying to give up any sense of self-sufficiency, self-responsibility, and self-accountability. Our kids are taught that others are responsible and accountable for their own wellbeing and safety because they are too weak and vulnerable, too lamebrained, to "get it" and think and learn to do this for themselves. The flip side, our kids also feel both overly and underly responsible for others in unrealistic ways.
Yeah ... this topic twigged a little frustration and bitterness, and yes, a little heartbreak in me about some of this stuff
It ain't over yet though ...
