Kids were KIDS when we were kids! (I was born in 1979, grew up in Brooklyn, NY and later the Hamptons, NY. I got dirty and skinned my knees and all that. Because I was disabled, my parents tried to protect me, but they didn't encase me in a bubble like what happens nowadays. People really do need to think about personal responsibility, actions and consequences, riding the bicycle without training wheels (says the woman who has such poor balance that she can only ride a three-wheel bike). But you know what I mean. Kids NEED to learn how to fall and how to pick themselves up. My husband would perform stupid bike stunts as a kid. He'd scrape skin off his face, break fingers and toes, mangle the bike... and get up, tend to his wounds, and do it again later. His parents would help him with the bandages, say "What have we learned?" and carefully watch to make sure he didn't break his skull. He went on to do volunteer EMT and lifeguard work, was trained by a master martial artist, knows how to stitch a wound, extract a bullet, set a bone, stop and start a heart, skin a deer, and understand the female mind. What's with the helicopter parents today?
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Date: 2009-06-06 04:46 am (UTC)People really do need to think about personal responsibility, actions and consequences, riding the bicycle without training wheels (says the woman who has such poor balance that she can only ride a three-wheel bike). But you know what I mean. Kids NEED to learn how to fall and how to pick themselves up.
My husband would perform stupid bike stunts as a kid. He'd scrape skin off his face, break fingers and toes, mangle the bike... and get up, tend to his wounds, and do it again later. His parents would help him with the bandages, say "What have we learned?" and carefully watch to make sure he didn't break his skull.
He went on to do volunteer EMT and lifeguard work, was trained by a master martial artist, knows how to stitch a wound, extract a bullet, set a bone, stop and start a heart, skin a deer, and understand the female mind.
What's with the helicopter parents today?