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Parents think it's too dangerous to let kids outside in snow
UK Telegraph ^ | January 18, 2013

Posted on 01/18/2013 1:02:36 PM PST by Hojczyk

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1 posted on 01/18/2013 1:02:39 PM PST by Hojczyk
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Good! More snow for us!


2 posted on 01/18/2013 1:04:37 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Hojczyk

It is amazing how many people still believe that viral infections, colds and influenza, are caused by exposure to cool temperatures.


3 posted on 01/18/2013 1:07:26 PM PST by iowamark
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well, I suppose that explains why the Brits don’t have an Empire any longer...


4 posted on 01/18/2013 1:07:26 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Oh, it’s British parents. Figures...


5 posted on 01/18/2013 1:10:29 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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In my childhood, the wx didn't matter. From the standpoint of self interest, of less property damage, my mother was always kicking me and my brothers out of the house.
6 posted on 01/18/2013 1:12:51 PM PST by Jacquerie ("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)
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In my day, Canadian moms put razor sharp blades on their kids feet and shoved them outdoors to find a frozen pond. If the kids were boys, they gave them a stick with a sharp bend at the end, and a half pound of hard rubber. They told the boys to hit that rubber as hard as they could with the stick, in the general direction of other boys — and to knock down, or punch out any other boys, who got in their way.

Snow was for building forts and snowballs. If you had enough of it piled up nearby, you could tunnel in it, until the whole works collapsed on you. If you had a hill nearby, you sled down it, with anything that came to hand. Just remember to roll off, just before the big tree.

When you had frostbite on all your extremities, you could come in and get a scalding-hot cup of cocoa.


7 posted on 01/18/2013 1:15:33 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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In Carlisle MA it is illegal for anyone to throw a snowball.


8 posted on 01/18/2013 1:16:41 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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seriously ??


9 posted on 01/18/2013 1:20:07 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Hojczyk

The long, long winters of the Boston area...my sons would have eaten me alive if I was like this. : )


10 posted on 01/18/2013 1:22:33 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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Soon it will be illegal to have more then 10 snowballs in your possession.


11 posted on 01/18/2013 1:23:41 PM PST by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Don’t eat the yellow snow!


12 posted on 01/18/2013 1:23:41 PM PST by jim_trent
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On a day like today I would have been out on the lake skating, fishing or just sliding around.

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13 posted on 01/18/2013 1:25:02 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Oh that is one sweet pond!!! Not even any shopping carriages or anything sticking out of the ice (that I can see)...man, those were the best days, skating until you couldn’t feel your feet.


14 posted on 01/18/2013 1:36:22 PM PST by Fedupwithit (You gave him what he wanted. I gave him what he needed.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You see this in the United States too. There was a map put out on the internet (I can’t remember the site) that showed how far each generation allowed their kids to roam away from the house without supervision. In the 50s, it was a couple miles, in the 70s, it was perhaps a mile and now, it was a block. Parents are allowing their kids to do less and less activities that involve risk. In the old days, a kid breaking his arm was no big deal. A kid getting in a fight was no big deal. These days, its a crisis.


15 posted on 01/18/2013 1:37:37 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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***because they may slip on ice or be bruised by a tightly-packed snowball. ***

Bruised? When we were kids in NM we fought serious snow ball fights! The kids we were fighting started putting rocks in their snowballs, we fought back by putting cactus in ours!


16 posted on 01/18/2013 1:45:07 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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The British USED to be Lions, striding over the world.

They’ve turned, in two generations, from Lions. . . .to hamsters. . . a nation of eunuch sheeple. . .


17 posted on 01/18/2013 1:46:14 PM PST by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border. I **DARE** you to cross it. . . .)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Just scanning over this free range kids site and its kind of refreshing to see a lack of hysteria.

http://www.freerangekids.com/


18 posted on 01/18/2013 1:53:06 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The more time a kid spends outside playing, especially in the dirt, the healthy they are. Period.

Son #2 had the name of Pigpen when he was little after the Peanuts comic strip character and for much the same reason. I’d have him scrubbed and dressed to go out and he would be filthy by the time I got him from the house to the car. He loved to lay in the dirt and play with his toy cars and construction equipment. But, he was rarely sick. Even now, if he says he’s not feeling well, which rarely happens, he’s really sick (he just turned 31).

I don’t know what’s wrong with people today. The more exposure kids have to dirt and things, the better off they are.

That which does not kill you makes you stronger!


19 posted on 01/18/2013 2:17:58 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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We usually played touch but with deep snow we played tackle football. Snow time was fun time for me and my friends. Tunnels, forts, snowball fights, getting cold and frozen then coming home to moms warm dinner and warm house


20 posted on 01/18/2013 2:19:42 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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