Posted on 07/16/2014 9:55:58 AM PDT by yoe
Thats a nice post.
I would like to add adventures on the creek and discovering firecrackers. I miss my America.
“Yep. Good God, my childhood would have been absolutely no fun if it were run by the soccer moms of today.”
With the nannystaters gaining power, us adults are also getting a taste.
Just curious. Did you get ticks while playing on the battlefield? We took our children there, and it must have been when the grass was high or something. We had to pick fifty ticks off our children that day. They would have loved to go play there every day. Sounds like you had a fun filled childhood!
(I think it was spring when the ticks attached to them. We were there the Fall before and did not get ticks, but we did see at least twenty deer roaming around.)
“Homosexual Pedophiles” need to be secured to two stories worth of piano wire off a four story building.
Yes, I do remember my mother removing ticks from me; she’d usually get most and then a day or two later we’d find one or two all stretched and swollen to the size of a pea. I guess nothing changes in 55 or more years.
When I was four and I had two siblings just one and two years older, my mother would shove us out the door and tell us to go play. There was a mob of kids in the neighborhood of similar ages. We all played together with NO!!! parents around. And we stayed out late at night in the summer as well with no parents around. Insanity has taken over
In 1953 when I was three years old, we lived in a developing neighborhood in La Crosse, Wis. There weren't a lot of houses as yet in the surrounding area. That was the year when the Evelyn Hartley kidnapping case made national news. The house where she was kidnapped from was only about one half mile from our house. It's possible the kidnapper/killer drove by our house in his escape. I didn't find out about the details of the case until I was older. My parents never told us kids. We still continued to play outside as usual. Hartley's body was never found, and the case remains an unsolved mystery to this day.
I still live near La Crosse, but as far as I know there has never been another case in the area similar to that one.
Lived in a neighborhood like that. We moved. Safer.
Actually, everything else about our little neighborhood is great. He has managed to piss off all of us, and I don’t look for him to stick around much longer. I won’t let him push us out.
Petitioning John C. Thomas Director of Public Safety, North Augusta
This petition will be delivered to: Director of Public Safety, North Augusta
John C. Thomas Director of Public Safety, North Augusta........Chief John Thomas, director of the North Augusta Department of Public Safety,
Acting State Director South Carolina Department of Social Services Amber Gillum....
help look for contact numbers or emails...and post them here.....thanks, yoe
The Overprotected Kid
A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
Did you even bother to read the story, like the part where it said there were about 40 other kids in the park at any given time?
The child saw an opportunity to catch up with some old friends, and was not in danger until she went into State custody.
When we found out where she was, we went over to get her and were detained by Police half a block away while the Social Services people made the grab.
In the year and a half it took for her to be finally free and home, her hands were burned by cleaning chemicals (she was told she had to work for her food--at six years old), she got scabies, lice, and all her stuff was taken from her, including gifts from family members--all by the State-approved foster parents she was placed with.
By the time the situation was resolved, our family had enough documented ethics violations to get the social worker's license revoked, but she resigned before the child was returned.
Beware of the nanny-staters!
Remember when Homosexuality & Pedophilia was not tolerated, wasn't accepted or considered natural, was instead shunned by all society, and because of this they knew they had best leave kids alone. It was leave kids alone or face very grave legal and physical consequences? Remember when that standard of morality was encouraged and considered healthy and necessary?
1965 at 8 years old & lived in the city I would ride my bike several a couple miles from home and be gone most of the day. I walked to school {about 4 blocks actually I rode my bike}, I'd take short cuts to get to a mom & pop store that by road was two miles away on two roads I wasn't allowed to ride on but by a shortcut in the woods it was less than a mile LOL. A quarter in my pocket got a coke, bag of chips, and change for penny candy.
My dad who grew up in the 30's and 40's would ride a bicycle 35 miles up to a family hunting & fishing camp on Saturday and back home 35 miles again on Sunday. In the summer he and his brother stayed camped on the river unattended until school started. His dad worked 12 hours 7 days a week so dads uncle would drive up and check on them on the weekends. They did have a friend of family who was a farmer they could go to if anything was serious.
I'm thankful I got to experience what I did when I did. That USA is gone. I go to the lake now I carry. Heck I go to the store now I carry and I'm in a rural area.
I was born in 1970. Heh.
When I was a kid, we left the house at the crack of dawn and got home when the street lights came on. We never checked in unless we had a broken bone, even that was iffy.
Besides that, my Depression-Era grandparents raised me. They had strict rules about morality and responsibility but virtually no rules when it came to “You can’t do that. You’ll shoot yer eye out!”
I was blessed. I was loved more than I could stand and experienced things that most people my age will never know or understand.
Yes I did. I also live here and got the news first hand, whereas the source of this article is out of state Loaded with conjecture and full of things to inflame the passions of others I see that it worked well.
Really? You were there, at the park, at that time, and saw for yourself how many children were there? Because that’s what “first hand” means. Otherwise, you too got your version of events from someone else.
The government is 18T in debt with over 200T in obligations. Who do you think is going to pay that off? The people. It is the people who serve the government’s debt. As such they are the government’s asset, it’s property. No one is allowed to endanger the government’s property and its ability to service its debts.
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