Hey, any kid who thinks there are no dangers in the world lives in a cave or off the grid....
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yep, As Scott said, the real world has consequences, whether immediate, > deferred, or whether people are in denial. Laws of Fizziks and other laws > of nature and Nature's God always have consequences. > > Kids should be trained to be watchful for dangers, and know how to react, > and how to anticipate dangers, and how to avoid un-necessary risk. They > need to have responsibilities as early as possible, like helping to dress > themselves, and then have larger responsibilities as they learn and grow. > That used to be the norm until the 1900s when coddling became popular. > > We had drills in school to get on the floor under the desk in the event of > any attack, be it bomb or otherwise. It always seemed to me to be an > exercise in futility. Being under a desk would not help in case of a nu > clear at tack. Building bomb shelters was not uncommon. Every town had CD > buildings and CD supplies. I remember the CD supplies were restocked all > over the country right after the cuban missile crisis. Survival crackers, > bandages, drugs, water and such were in paper drums in the CD shelters. > > That said, I am not sure we should declare our generation turned out ok. It > produced billyBob Clinton and Pillory Clinton, charlie manson, Jeff Dahmer, > John Ketchup Kerry (look at all the purple hearts I scammed) and quite a lot > of other miscreants. Not sure it it is really any worse than any other > generation. Certainly no better. > > > > > >> When I was a kid (in the 50s), we did duck-and-cover drills in school and >> we >> learned how to build fallout shelters (in fact, there still is one in my >> back 40). If you are too young or sheltered to know what I'm talking >> about, >> this was WWIII, the end of the world (like in the movie "On the Beach", >> 1959) >> >> I think I was at least as concerned as the 5 or 6 year-old cited in the >> post. But, as far as I can tell, most of the kids from my generation >> turned >> out OK. >> >> As an aside, do we really want to educate/raise our children to believe >> there are no dangers in the world? Such is not the natural order. I >> suspect this "nothing bad can happen" indoctrination is the root of many >> of >> our current problems. In the real world, there are consequences, even if >> they are deferred. >> >> Scott > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
