A shout out for this guy!!!
A shout out for this guy!!!
At the moment, the federal and state govt’s have made the outside environment too dangerous for kids to be left alone...with what is allowed to transpire in schools - what crack-pots are allowed to run free - the lack of pro-active police work - and a host of other things that, if they did exist 30 yrs ago don’t now, make going outside and playing a nightmare....
Case in point, my wife dropped my son off at her parents - she was saying good-bye and two 8 yr girls thought it was okay to stand there and mock her in a high pitch voice...yeap - I’m sure those girls speak to their parents like they are best buds instead of knowing their place - but if they do stupid childish stuff like that - what else are they capable of doing - be cause they were NEVER taught the right thing to do apparently.
Bullying seems to be increasing in schools - there’s a lack of respect taught at home - and schools wanting every dime a child is worth - won’t bar or kick the bullies out!
This is just one more indicator of children being pulled back in by parents too afraid to allow their children out of the home - or children too lazy due to technology - or a combination of both - or one leads to another in a cycle that will only increase bad social behavior in the near future...the kids going to college have much less discipline that those 20 yrs ago...and I wonder what they next 20 will bring...and we all wonder why Obama was elected...
They’re whining that it’s too hot to go outside. If you lock them out, they go to other people’s houses asking to be let in, and the other people call the Sheriff.
To be sure, the enticement of indoor entertainment technology is one reason. The fear of parents is another.
But truthfully, with both parents working nowadays, the kids aren’t even home during the day. They are at day care or at Grandma’s.
In the evenings and on weekends, they’re herded into one organized activity after another.
Go check Tumblr, YouTube, and Facebook, and you will find most of them there.
I’ve noticed the lack of children in my apartment neighborhood. Until a few years ago they were all over the place, bicycles, scooters, skateboards and just running around. Now in summer it looks like no kids are here but come September the school bus stops are crowded with kids.
I was just discussing this yesterday with a friend. Contrasting my childhood, my children’s childhoods with the childhood of my grand kids. My grandkids don’t play outside in the yard, can’t go anywhere ‘alone’.....
My grandkids are missing the best of America in more ways than one. I don’t think we will ever get that back.
The internet is fueling sex crimes. Parents are afraid.
I noticed this 25 years ago. We lived right next to an elementary school that had a playground and a baseball field, we moved in in 1988. It sat empty all the time except who organized softball was played, and kids never used the playground equipment except during recess. When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s there would have been a ball game going on every day while the sunlight allowed, and football would have been played in the fall. I actually drove by our old house a few months ago, they have built on the old ball field, now just more classrooms, was sad to see it....
They are inside on their computers or cell phones being braInwashed and told what and how to think by the MSM and their government sponsors all hours of the day except when they are asleep. Other than that they are being indoctrinated and brainwashed at school.
Kids ride on bikes in our neighborhood... it’s not an unusual sight
Though I’m not in favor of “helicopter parenting,” it’s certainly understandable for parents wanting to shield their kids from the scum that lurks out there. The last thing any parent wants is to be in that situation of saying “if only...”
Sex offender? Guy gets drunk in bar, puts hand on girl’s bottom. Fifty years ago, the girl would have slapped him and he would have mumbled an apology. Now he gets hauled off to the pokey and takes a plea.
Ah. No one, including the writer, finds it worth mentioning that the parents are killing the kids?
Fifty five million reported surgical abortions in the US since 1973. Estimates triple that of chemically induced abortions
CDC has these statistics.
In 1973 the APA delisted homsoexuality as a mental disease, and life changed.
Now instead of being shunned and chased out of neighborhoods the faggots were accepted and celebrated. And with the faggots come child molestors (as every faggot is, or must be considered as, a child molestor. Cross perversion boundary and the others get crossed far more easily)
So now we have neighborhoods where perverts are accepted and our children are no longer safe. Of course we’re not going to let them out of our sight.
Then we have to add to that the rash of kidnappings and rapes. Another plague of perversion that was enabled by that 1973 decision. If we cross one perversion boundary, it’s much easier to cross teh next one. We’ve had two college girls in the last 4 years disappear from a town near here. They finally found one’s body and they are still looking for the other one. My girl is smaller than either of them. If they were snagged off the street than what’s to prevent my girl from being snagged?
If we had suitable penalties for sex criminals (death or castration come to mind) then we’d have fewer sex criminals. It used to be that child molestation was an instant 20 years. Now it’s not so sure. If the molestor is a faggot it’s likely they’ll get off with a hand slap as they are “born that way” accoridng to the rest of the faggots that have infested our courts.
This country has got to return to God and the values and ideals of our Founding Fathers else we are hopeless
My forked stick that replicated an M-1 Garand and Murial Air-Tip cigar butt from when we used to play “Army” are still around here somewhere.
(grin)
abortion?
What scares me about this “vanishing children” phenomenon is what it’s doing to kids’ imaginations. We had a treehouse when we were kids (nowadays you’d have to get an EPA Impact Analysis done and the Sierra Club would burn your house down if you drove a nail into a tree), and that treehouse was Fort Apache, a bombed-out store in Bastogne, a pioneering settlement on Alpha Centauri (and the spaceship that got us intrepid explorers there), the fast attack submarine Sea Lion or a swift three-masted corsair. We defended it with picket-fence swords, tree-branch cannons, and laser ray-guns shaped oddly like mom’s broom handles and with sound effects that left us so hoarse we could hardly ask for the mashed potatoes that night at mess call. Our imaginations soared and sometimes our games would last for days.
With all that mindpower replaced by 3-D flashing images and Dolby Surround-Sound and Mattel Scratch-n-Sniff, a machine does all the mental heavy lifting for you. And it directs you where IT wants you to go, not where the random flight of your imagination would take you.
Maybe I’m just a geezer but I’ll take my treehouse.
"But there's no one to play with!" I'd protest.
"Play with yourself!" she'd say.