Raising kids today

[Roguish Lawyer]

I am so sick of this overprotective helicopter parent crap. Am I alone?

[Paslode]

In this day and age, You might get a visit from CPS if you let your kid jump a Big Wheel without a helmet and pads....do they still make Big Wheel or have they been outlawed because of safety concerns by CPSC.

LMAO!

[Tweeder11]

Originally Posted by Paslode

In this day and age, You might get a visit from CPS if you let your kid jump a Big Wheel without a helmet and pads....do they still make Big Wheel or have they been outlawed because of safety concerns by CPSC.

LMAO!

Coming from a parent of this "Y generation", this is absolutely true. If one of our little guys fell off his Big Wheel (which they make, but I'm sure they are on their way out ) without a helmet, we'd be in BIG TROUBLE. With lawsuits running amok it's C.Y.A, cause goodness knows just saying boys will be boys anymore doesn't work.

[Ret10Echo]

Originally Posted by Paslode

In this day and age, You might get a visit from CPS if you let your kid jump a Big Wheel without a helmet and pads....do they still make Big Wheel or have they been outlawed because of safety concerns by CPSC.

LMAO!

Big wheels are still out there...


But why make your kids work when you can put them in POWERWHEELS.....

[alelks]

One of my favorites:

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

[longrange1947]

All of this does make you wonder how in the hell the human race didn't die out before all the protections administered by liberals doesn't it?

[Tweeder11]

... it's sad to see the result of these overprotective parents in action. Parents today want to control their child, not raise them. It's pretty common where I'm from to see a 7 year old sitting inside all day with a $500 tablet (ipad, what have you), an Xbox 360, and whatever he/she wants on TV at DINNER TIME!

Not to mention this extreme political correctness that has infected our society, is now the reason for playgrounds to be replaced with "imagination stations" AKA 3 foot high colorful ramps with slides, it's now the reason their are 3-4 all-star teams for every level of little league, and it's now the reason grades are negotiable by parents!

Sorry for the rant, but it's sickening and what scares me most is that these people are registered voters.

My $.02, be well

Tweeder

[alelks]

You know there is a theory that the reason small children are always putting things in their mouth is because it is the right thing to do. Supposedly it allows them to be exposed to germs so they can build up a resistance to them.

Pretty darn good theory if you ask me.

[Roguish Lawyer]

Al, I'm stealing yours.

[alelks]

Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer

Al, I'm stealing yours.

Two more things to add.

Dashboards were made of metal
We slept in the back windows of the car on long trips

[longrange1947]

To reinforce Al's thought, going through OJT for medic in the way back machine of 68, I listened to a doctor admonish a mother to take the kid out and rub dirt in his face. Reason, she was too over protective and the kid was not building up an immune system. The Doctor later stated to me that over protection screws up more kids then accidents.

That may have been an exaggeration, but I remembered it with my kids and they were seldom sick and yes, they had their fair share of knocks.

[Streck-Fu]

We used to build bicycle ramps so tall that we could think about how bad the impact would be during free fall.

[Streck-Fu]

Originally Posted by alelks

You know there is a theory that the reason small children are always putting things in their mouth is because it is the right thing to do. Supposedly it allows them to be exposed to germs so they can build up a resistance to them.

Pretty darn good theory if you ask me.

I remember our pediatrician thanking us for having two dogs and a cat when out first son was born. He called the perfect combination for his immune development.

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by Tweeder11

... it's sad to see the result of these overprotective parents in action. Parents today want to control their child, not raise them. It's pretty common where I'm from to see a 7 year old sitting inside all day with a $500 tablet (ipad, what have you), an Xbox 360, and whatever he/she wants on TV at DINNER TIME!

The YMCA is the answer. what could be safer and better for a kid then the Y?
They have roller hockey. Nothing makes me smile more then watching a kid get a major 5 minute penalty and a dad ejected from the rink. (especially when later the little dud sez,"It didn't hurt. yeah, I made him do that; he was killing our goalie". (I'm a bad person)

[PSM]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

We used to build bicycle ramps so tall that we could think about how bad the impact would be during free fall.

My mother still reminds me how much it cost her to repair my broken front tooth when I landed on my face when I was 12. She's 83 and I'm 61!

Pat

ETA: We gave our son a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas this year. Then again, 2 years ago, we gave him a Del-Ton M-4 when he graduated AIT as the Master Blaster. Next year, a cap gun!