Comments on: Apparently I Wish Injury On My Kid

By: Think of The Children! « You Got to Be Kidding Me!

Think of The Children! « You Got to Be Kidding Me! — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:28:53 +0000

[...] dialogue about the appropriate role of safety concerns in children’s play. As mentioned previously, I come down on the side of new experiences even if it risks some scraped knees or a twisted ankle. [...]

By: Robert Buchanan

Robert Buchanan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:44:03 +0000

Stacy,

That’s a good point, and you shouldn’t second-guess yourself. My kids aren’t getting cell phones when they’re old enough. Coddle them too much, and they won’t know how to cope without either cell phones or parents.

Extra P.,

Tell me about it; you just described the biggest problem pertaining to difficult kids.

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:59:07 +0000

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By: Extra P.

Extra P. — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:27:45 +0000

My wife works at a major university, and she sees these kids every day. Their parents call on their behalf to try and strong-arm the registrars and talk their precious babies out of trouble they brought on themselves.

It’s ridiculous.

By: Stacy McMahon

Stacy McMahon — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:46:36 +0000

“Those early years are so formative; if they don’t learn about danger then, how will they cope with it when they become teenagers and adults?”

Or just learn to handle themselves on their own. When I was a kid, I had a bicycle and more or less free range of my suburb (until dark/dinnertime anyway.) If I got into an altercation with other kids, blew a tire or whatever else, I might be on the other side of town with no quick way to contact my folks. I wonder if you get the same level of self-reliance when mommy and daddy are just a phonecall away.

And maybe you do — I don’t want to fall into the “good old days” trap here either…

By: Robert Buchanan

Robert Buchanan — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:06:19 +0000

Those early years are so formative; if they don’t learn about danger then, how will they cope with it when they become teenagers and adults? If I fear anything, it’s a society that’s become so sterile and overbearing that it prevents children from enjoying themselves and experiencing excitement!

By: Extra P.

Extra P. — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:47:58 +0000

My thing has always been, as long as my son knows how to swim, most everything else bad that can happen to him while he’s out playing is happenstance.