Reply #93: Well, I lived through them too, and although there has been progress

[napi21]

in a lot of areas, like the polio vaccine, and opther diseases, I believe many kids are way too over protected in todays world.

There's no problem with seatbelts, but I think it's wrong to ticket ME at age 61 for not wearing one.

It was wrong to paint baby cribs with lead based paint, but to forbid it's use on the outside of your house is silly. Surely people can keep their kids from gnawing on the outside of their house!

I still think it's better for kids to use their inginuity to make up games instead of buying every darn plastic toy, or game station you have the money for.

The worst of all is trying to protect kids from any disappointment. Sometimes you get a bad grade, they really have to learn to live with that! Sometimes you don't make the team, sometimes you do bad things and get caught. Responsibility is taught, and learned while you're young, and I think it's every parent's responsibility to make sure their children not only learn honesty, moral values that they believe in, and guilt, sorrow, and responsibility so they can be happy, successful, and well adjusted adults.