I am always amazed that my generation survived with all the evil, dangerous things we had to eat not mention the dangerous playground equipment we had to endure.
I had to laugh when an Australian study recently found that playground injuries continue to rise despite safety improvements. One of the suspected reasons: the safe new play structures are so boring that kids are taking more risks in order to have fun.
But you can't go around afraid of everything. It's too exhausting! No matter how careful you are, bad stuff happens (diaper rash, stitches, all your friends assigned to another class). And it's seldom the end of the world.
Read the whole article. And quit worrying so damn much. We survived and so will our kids and their kids and so on and so on...
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Yes, it is true. The baby boomer's have created more "problem children" than parents of 50 years ago. We are bad and I don't mean that in a good way.
Problem behaviours include acts that hurt others, such as being disruptive, aggressive or delinquent.
The behaviours range from lying and running away, to fighting and bullying, theft and vandalism.
In other words we have raised a generation or two or three or... of spoiled brats. That spare the rod and spoil the child theory worked really well now didn't it. You worked more hours to put a nice fancy roof over the head of the ungrateful little buggers. You worked weekends to pay for all them damn toys you wish you could of had when you were a kid and this is how they repay you. You would have been far better off working your normal 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and then spending all that free time with the kids under a little bit smaller roof with less of those toys. Just like the good old days. Hind sight is 20/20 after all.
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