Re: An unusual sight

"Barry Seymour" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| "Spamvireslayer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| "indigo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| > No, I meant coddle. Meaning no adversity, they don't have to work to do
| > things they want to do. Got soccer practice? Ride your bike or walk, the
| > exercise will be good for you. Too many parents wait on their kids hand
and
| > foot and drive themselves insane in the process (and the marriage
suffers).
| > Spoiling is buying them everything they want.
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| Not really, spoiling is also not making them get off their increasingly
fat arses and
| walk or ride their bikes, or at least go outside and play.
| I'm probably one of those parents. However, I live in LA. Our school is a
block away, but even that is too far to let my
| eight-year-old walk without us going into a paranoid fit. It's a big, busy
street and it's F***ING LA. Sad.
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| Same thing regarding 'go out to play.' I used to do that when was a kid,
but I lived in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (forest
| out the back door) in a small town and it was the Sixties. (Which means
the Fifties since it was such a backwater area. Heck
| the Sixties didn't arrive there until 1972!)
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| I wish I *could* just let 'em ride their bike and/or walk to school, I
wish they *could* just 'go out and play.' It's a sad
| and scary world.

It's much the same all over.  Too many dangers that kids are not and cannot
be equipped to handle by themselves.