Reply #17: Incredible... Poor children.

[neweurope]

Why don't they just chain them to the benches?

What is wrong with this generation of parents? Reading posts from others my age on this board I know that things weren't always like that even in the USA. We had fights, we had accidents, and if I came home with bloody knees my mother was mad AT ME for having torn my clothes...

Children are children. Or should be, anyway. What kind of grown-ups will they be? With all those pent-up emotions? Of course you can give them medication to produce the automatons your society evidently wants to have; as I hear this is quite the fashion in the USA anyway.

Some posters have mentioned snowballs with rocks in them. Normal kids who are allowed to live out their frustrations don't do this. But, yes, some do and have done so in my youth, too. I even remember one child having to get one or two stitches after having been hit with a rock-snowball. I never heard of a child dying from a snowball, though. And the person who threw a rock-snowball did it exactly once - because all the others ganged up on him. Children are quite able to keep incidents like this under control by themselves. If we let them, that is.

There is never perfect safety. Life is always something "involving danger to life and limb". You can try and make things 100 % safe - but you take all the joy out of life doing so. And then who needs it?

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