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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 58142" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>AMEN!!!</p><p></p><p>Amazing how things have changed with the seriously overprotected kids since then (as well as the parents who make every attempt to protect their kids from "normal" everyday "harm").</p><p></p><p>Also amazing that these (us) "naturally grown kids" have lived as long as they have and have accomplished the many things they have.</p><p></p><p>I will also be amazed if these "new crop kids" who have been overprotected, over-regulated (with safety things), fed sterilized food and water, and lived pre-programmed scheduled lives live to be as old as some of us old-timers, who (among other things):</p><p></p><p>1. Ate a sandwich resting on top of a corral fence post.</p><p>2. Took an occasional drink out of a running creek.</p><p>3. Washed the grease off our hands with gasoline or diesel fuel.</p><p>4. Got frequent cuts from working around the farm and just licked the blood off or washed off our hands in the stock tank (or, let our dog lick our wounds).</p><p>5. Put "Blackleaf 40" (a toxic poison) on wasp, scorpion, & bee stings.</p><p>6. Spent lots of time outdoors, doing physical chores, etc., and never seemed to be seriously over-weight (except a few).</p><p>7. Made up our games and seemed to be capable of amusing ourselves without mama or daddy "programming" all of our leisure time.</p><p>8. Used motor oil for hand lotion.</p><p>9. We stood in the fields and flagged for crop dusters to spray pesticides in our fields.</p><p>10. We did have to wash our hands before we SAT DOWN at the dinner table, though...</p><p></p><p>And, the list goes on and on.</p><p></p><p>Am I missing something here? If so, then why are so many of us living to be 60, 70, 80, 90 if all the "hazardous" things we did were that hazardous? We didn't have AIDS, Allergy Problems, Attention Deficit Disorder and all the other modern diseases--we just lived "clean hazardous lives" in an era when Work was sacred and the tune of the day...leisure was only considered after all of your chores were done...if you still had the energy.</p><p></p><p>We shot rabbits, squirrels, coyotes and not each other as kids. We respected our teachers and parents. And, we even got another whipping when we got home (if we got one in school). </p><p></p><p>By "modern" over-protective, ultra sanitary kid raising standards...hey...I should have died 30 years ago...LOLOL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 58142, member: 9"] AMEN!!! Amazing how things have changed with the seriously overprotected kids since then (as well as the parents who make every attempt to protect their kids from "normal" everyday "harm"). Also amazing that these (us) "naturally grown kids" have lived as long as they have and have accomplished the many things they have. I will also be amazed if these "new crop kids" who have been overprotected, over-regulated (with safety things), fed sterilized food and water, and lived pre-programmed scheduled lives live to be as old as some of us old-timers, who (among other things): 1. Ate a sandwich resting on top of a corral fence post. 2. Took an occasional drink out of a running creek. 3. Washed the grease off our hands with gasoline or diesel fuel. 4. Got frequent cuts from working around the farm and just licked the blood off or washed off our hands in the stock tank (or, let our dog lick our wounds). 5. Put "Blackleaf 40" (a toxic poison) on wasp, scorpion, & bee stings. 6. Spent lots of time outdoors, doing physical chores, etc., and never seemed to be seriously over-weight (except a few). 7. Made up our games and seemed to be capable of amusing ourselves without mama or daddy "programming" all of our leisure time. 8. Used motor oil for hand lotion. 9. We stood in the fields and flagged for crop dusters to spray pesticides in our fields. 10. We did have to wash our hands before we SAT DOWN at the dinner table, though... And, the list goes on and on. Am I missing something here? If so, then why are so many of us living to be 60, 70, 80, 90 if all the "hazardous" things we did were that hazardous? We didn't have AIDS, Allergy Problems, Attention Deficit Disorder and all the other modern diseases--we just lived "clean hazardous lives" in an era when Work was sacred and the tune of the day...leisure was only considered after all of your chores were done...if you still had the energy. We shot rabbits, squirrels, coyotes and not each other as kids. We respected our teachers and parents. And, we even got another whipping when we got home (if we got one in school). By "modern" over-protective, ultra sanitary kid raising standards...hey...I should have died 30 years ago...LOLOL. [/QUOTE]
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