Saw something scary this weekend...
We were at a state park this past weekend. Early Saturday morning I was up in my pj's having my coffee and looking out the window. There was a pop-up with a family that was diagonal from our site. At ...
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phenrichs wrote:
No offense intended here folks but I gotta play devil's advocate and point out something. Many of us here are old enough to remember driving heavy farm equipment at or before the age of ten. We were allowed to be around and work around large animals that can be very dangerous at a moments notice. Many of us also had experience using (safely I might add) firearms by that age. At 2-3 years old you would be doing chores on the farm by yourself that now would be held for someone that is nearly a teenager.
I am not making any assumption as to what happened in the OP story but I am say that perhaps those kids haven't been raised to be scardy cat wimps as many of the over-protected children are these days.
I believe there is something to be said for the school of hard knocks. I took my licks and came out rosy on the other side. I was run over at 8 and had my leg broke because I was stupid and was playing in a blind alley. Learned my lesson.
Agree with you 100%. AND I think we were the luckiest kids 'back then' to be able to go out and play anywhere we wanted and our only concern was to come back in when the street light came on! :W
Sadly this world and many of it's occupants have changed dramatically since then. When you read and see the news of countless children who have disappeared and/or have been found murdered when simply walking to the bus stop, one does have to change the way we think of how we 'now' have to raise and keep our children save in today's world. :(
