23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

The art of manliness ^ | June 28, 2017 | Brett and Kate McKay

[dznutz]

I did the bumper skiing thing after getting off the school bus back when I was about 10. And to prove a teen doesn’t think things through, I bumper skied on cars doing donuts in a parking lot that had bare patches of pavement exposed.

Something like this? Herman Munster

[TXnMA]

Re-read my post. In every case, I started off with minimum risk and allowed increased risk as limits were learned.

I'm sorry that you had to witness and treat the results of high-risk activities -- performed by the unfortunates who jumped right in at the life-threatening level -- without the benefits of having learned their imitations through incremental experience!

Thank you for your long service to humanity!!

[rlmorel]

Hahahaha...I’ll bet the dog loved that...liver probably tasted like steak to him!

When I was in the USN, they would occasionally serve steak at sea. they were circular in shape, about six inches across. Not great steak, but...I used to put a couple of pats of butter on them to give some moisture to them because they were always overcooked, but...steak was steak!

One day, I went down to the crew mess, and they had steaks! So I put one on my tray, sat down and sawed off a piece. It was EXTREMELY dry, and bone white. When I put it in my mouth, it was disgusting...

Not steak. Liver.

The company that supplied them probably used the exact same thing to cut them into disks as the steak. Same size. Looked the same from the outside.

[Kickass Conservative]

I left off one thing.

After the Dog died (probably from Beef Liver Poisoning), I was in a quandary. Then I noticed the Heating System Grate on the floor next to the TV.

A couple of years later my Parents had the entire HVAC System replaced. The HVAC guy found some Fossilized Beef Liver inside the Duct Work and I was busted when my Mother and Father confronted me with the Evidence.

I should have insisted that my Parents buy us another Dog as soon as the first one died. LOL

[rlmorel]

LOL, that’s great!

Kind of reminds me of the time when I was 13 years old, my brother had a minibike (the old kind with a lawnmower engine) that didn’t work, so I got it in my head to disassemble the motor and find out what was wrong with it (even though I had no idea about motors)

I drained the gas tank into a large cup. To my surprise, as the gasoline entered the styrofoam cup, it immediately disintegrated.

I found an old Maxwell Coffee can, and drained the gas into that. Curious, I threw a piece of the cup into it, and it disappeared.

Fascinated, I threw the rest of the cup in...poof. There was a bag of styrofoam pellets, and I wanted to see how many I could throw in before it wouldn’t dissolve them anymore, and I was astonished. It was like magic. I grabbed a screwdriver and stirred the viscous goo, and still disappeared!

Now I had this can of thick goo with a screwdriver in it, and I didn’t know what to do with it, so I stuck it behind an old cabinet.

A year later, when we moved out of the house, my dad and I were cleaning out the garage, and I looked over to see him quizzically holding a coffee can with screwdriver sticking out as he ran his other hand thoughtfully through his hair...:)

Needless to say, I didn’t volunteer anything!

[Big Red Badger]

I think you invented Napalm!

[numberonepal]

Bailing out of swings?

With a back flip.

[IncPen]

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