Must Have Been A Beer or 12 Involved
I think it will work ok if he scoots it forward a few more inches.
Forum Discussion
I've been thinking more about this, and I think it would be neat to discuss it a bit more deeply if you all are willing.
I may sound like I'm on one side, but really I am ambivalent.
I was raised in an extremely non-helicoptor way. And I am grateful for that every day. My life would be pretty boring if I did not have the skills and the sense of adventure and confidence that came from how I grew up.
But I also saw one of my closest friends killed in front of my eyes when I was 7. There was no camper or motor vehicle involved. He was doing farm chores, of a sort that no parent I know nowdays would allow, let alone require, a 7 year old to do on his own. He did nothing wrong, but had some bad luck. And now his parents live with that.
I don't have kids. I think if I did, I would not be as helicoptor-y as is fashionable, but I would not be as freewheeling as my parents were, either. Looking back on the stuff we did as kids, I am surprised as many of us survived as did. We took a lot of risks, and, mostly, we got lucky.
I may sound like I'm on one side, but really I am ambivalent.
I was raised in an extremely non-helicoptor way. And I am grateful for that every day. My life would be pretty boring if I did not have the skills and the sense of adventure and confidence that came from how I grew up.
But I also saw one of my closest friends killed in front of my eyes when I was 7. There was no camper or motor vehicle involved. He was doing farm chores, of a sort that no parent I know nowdays would allow, let alone require, a 7 year old to do on his own. He did nothing wrong, but had some bad luck. And now his parents live with that.
I don't have kids. I think if I did, I would not be as helicoptor-y as is fashionable, but I would not be as freewheeling as my parents were, either. Looking back on the stuff we did as kids, I am surprised as many of us survived as did. We took a lot of risks, and, mostly, we got lucky.
