On Jun 18, 12:22*pm, Vic Smith
wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:27:37 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Jun 18, 10:23?am, wrote:
On Jun 18, 8:48?am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:25:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
You must home school your children, it's way too dangerous to allow
them on a school bus, and those school hallways are just way unsafe,
what with hard walls and floors, a fall could be a disaster

As hard as this maybe to believe, I've actually run into this exact
justification fo rhome schooling.

No joke. ?:)

One of the stooges who has been the most verbose about this seems to
not know too much

This link clearly disputes his opinion:

http://whatparentsshouldrealize.blog...ngerous-things....

There are many, many studies linking linking parents overprotecting
children and stress, drug use, social withdrawel, inability to cope
with anxious moments, etc.

I forgot, we also should never, EVER teach them to ride things like
motorcyles responsibly. They may then grow up to be responsible adults
and not need someone to do their thinking for them.

I told all my kids about motorcycles *- "You can't have one, and don't
get on one. *Won't matter what a fantastically skilled and safe rider
you are when a car or truck pops you off the bike."
Of course we always lived in the city or close in burbs. *Lots of
traffic. *Might have done different in the sticks.
There's a million ways to teach responsibility.
Take them sky diving and teach them to rig their own chute.
Have them test the ice when ice fishing season starts.
Safe boating practices comes right to mind.
Just make sure every time they do something right they don't get
whipped. *You need positive reinforcement of good behavior.
Fiscal responsibility is best taught early on. *What I did with mine
was pay them *a quarter to not eat dinner, then charge them 20 cents
for breakfast.
There were 7 of them, and they were allowed to pool resources, so they
learned teamwork too.
They all did just fine last I knew. Haven't heard from them in some
years.
Remember what Ann Landers said.
"Your children don't come from you. *They come through you."
That was one wise lady.

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There are those here who think that you should be turned into "child
protective services" for allowing your kids the freedom to *test the
waters* so to speak. You are suggesting skydiving, they will certainly
throw a hissy fit about that if they whine about a small low powered
motocross bike!
I had a mini bike at around 9, then motorcycles, then racing motocross
ones, then snowmobiles, then racing snowmobiles. What the fools don't
understand is the responsiblity is vast from doing something like
that, you have to maintain, fix, get race ready, enter the races, etc.
Besides, I always, always take time for my kids, they love doing
things with me as much as I love doing things with them. I just don't
think it'd be the same if I had to put them in full body armour to go
fly a kite.....