RANT & CHAT - No Politics

[trkyhntr]

I picked this up in email this morning, and thought it worth sharing. I wonder about the current crop of children. They never get the chance to take risks, are never exposed to failure and how to deal with it, aren't permitted to play without supervision, and don't know how to organize anything without an adult present. I guess we know how they turn out, as this is not the first such crop of kids. When they are disappointed, they grab a gun and shoot someone, or perhaps get drunk and crash a car.
Bring back real discipline. Bring back the neighborhood where most moms were home and cooked real meals. Bring back failure and loss of self-esteem. We aren't doing so well without them.
trkyhntr

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have.
> As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in
> the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. Our
> baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often
> chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. We had no childproof lids on
> medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no
> helmets. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We
> would spend hours building our go- carts out of scraps and then rode 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 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. We
> played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We ate cupcakes,
> bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never over weight; we
> were always outside playing. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made
> the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some
> students weren't as smart as others or didn't work hard so they failed a
> grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. That generation produced
> some of the greatest risk-takers and problem solvers.
>
> We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how
> to deal with it all.
>
> ~author unknown~