[at-l] what is safety, and/or America's wimpification?

[Kurt Cedergren]

In grade school "we" use to run barefoot all summer long at our camp in
Plymouth, MA. Exploring the woods, building forts, climbing trees, laying on
the grass at the end of the airport runway watching planes land, catching
pickerel, collection empty (mostly) rifle shells at the local target range,
swimming out in water over our head, etc, etc. All unsupervised. The world
and it's wonders where ours to explore.

One day I broke my arm while attempting to do a back flip from the top of a
sand pit wall. OUCH! No one ever suggested to my parents that they sue
someone to cover expenses. No one told them they deserve compensation for
pain & suffering. It was part of growing up.

Today we coddle (most) of our children and structure their every waking
moment.
They are safe... they are obese.

Onestep




On 3/8/07, rcli4 at comcast.net <rcli4 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> And these very small losses are acceptable until it is your child or
> grandchild  that gets hurt.
>
> Clyde
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Clark Wright" <icw at wardanddavis.com>
> > So true - so true . . . and what we as parents and voters and jurors and
> > citizens need to keep in mind is that there WILL be some (very, very
> small
> > as a percentage) number of deaths, injuries and accidents associated
> with
> > living an exploring, adventuresome - meaningful - life . . . and we need
> to
> > be better prepared to fight with our own words, votes and actions so
> that
> > this simple, tough reality does not scare us off from what is such an
> > important part of growth, development and LIFE itself!
> >
>
>