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Tell me all about it, dear...
E - 2004-07-11 01:09:46
Almost everything you said is my mantra with my kids. If I hear one more time "How can you let your 11yo ride to the neighborhood school and back on her bike and not be following her?!?" I may just go postal on someone! I think everyone I know is sick of hearing me say that if we lived in any society other than this one that she would be running the house, taking care of all the kids (and there'd be at least 5 younger than her), cooking, hunting, gathering and still finding time to play with her friends and she'd be just fine. Of course, I think my 11 yo is also sick of being told that her friends (who are all older than her) can't go more than 2 blocks from the house without an adult in tow. No wonder there's so much debachery in high school and college, kids aren't allowed to play ding dong ditch anymore. :)
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Bex - 2004-07-11 08:16:31
I know, LA, life sucks these days! If we just stand completely still, keep our mouths shut, and our eyes straight ahead, we won't get into any trouble...isn't that what life's all about? ha! The good old days are long gone and buried. I miss 'em! Bex
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colz - 2004-07-11 09:05:01
I know I'm an old codger now, as I had a serious "kids these days" rant with a friend recently. IMO, the big problem is that they expect to be entertained all the time.
Two quotes from HL Mencken I think you'll like:
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
and:
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
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Notjustamom - 2004-07-11 11:20:09
I vote for the tight white suit.
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Pandionna - 2004-07-11 22:35:19
There was an article in last week's New Yorker written by a woman who was a latchkey kid at 12. It was called "The Hell With It," and it was all about what it was like to grow up a kid then. One paragraph struck me. It was about how kids didn't have much supervision, and how a six-year-old pretty much had the run of the neighborhood. There was none of this hysterical panicking so many yuppie soccer moms have these days. And then one part really killed me: She said everyone had collections, and she specifically mentioned glass animals or plastic horses for girls. I had glass animals, my next-door neighbor had plastic horses. Really a trip down Memory Lane.
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Lorrie - 2004-07-12 00:19:32
I agree with almost all of this, but as a feminist how could you be ok with a guy singing "you're gonna be naked by the end of this song" and then "forcibly" ripping off JJ's shirt on national television? I'm no prude and my small kids have seen bare boobies on movies when it's in the story line (Silkwood), etc. the JJ thing was too close to a "rape" for my tastes.
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nutashamed1 - 2004-07-12 00:54:45
I was born in 1981 and I can relate to this.
Especially the everything must be a) educational or b)good for your health.
Children who live in my street are driven to school daily. This wasn't the case when i was growing up. Now it seems that not driving your kids to school is tantamount to sending them out to walk the streets of Paedophile Town.
Of course there is much more traffic on the roads,particulalry around the schools and more pollution. But no one wants their kids to walk in the pollution and run the risk of getting run over.
nx
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Wyndspirit - 2004-07-13 18:53:56
AMEN!!! I STILL think a helmet takes half the fun out of biking, horrible me. I mean, we rode up and down and around the edge of the slippery sides of a gravel pit with bikes and three wheelers. Remember three-wheelers? They don't exist anymore, too dangerous. Must have bulky four-wheelers. Total physical damage over the entire childhoods of about ten kids? Two sprained arms, happened to two little boys the same day. That's IT.
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