When I rode my bie for miles to visit friends as a kid....there was no such thing as a bike helmet.

Skinned knees were common...with no band aids....cause we didnt need em and most band aids were too damned small.

Parents today (mainly the women) are just retarded over the fact that thier little hump trophy might get uncomfortable and cry they need to know that the world will change just for them. I look at my sister for this example...

She got a 4 year old who runs her house and my sister tries to negotiate and barter instead of giving that kid the @$$whippin that brat needs.

I put up with it and do my best to be a good uncle. I have told my sister..."You are only setting up her boyfriends to put up with a whining b!tch who is gonna demand that they jump through hoops for her every whim"

My sister said..."I know! But, I just can't tell her "NO"

I love my sister's ugly kid. But, she is gonna grow up to be a flat out b!tch.

What my sister doesn't understand is that SHE is the one who loves that kid....the rest of us just put up with her.


The same is true of every other squalling little hellion out there. If it is your kid...you love em. The rest of us gotta put up with those b@st@rds cause we gotta. Discipline your kids before someone who DOESNT love them beats them till they pee on themselves.

Just trying to help

Stop trying to pick a fight with me Equus...

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Males and Females were designed to procreate not fight or see who is the toughest. I am a great believer in equality. This nasty world is very unequal and we are in the process of making things more balanced.

Good thing you missed our Army/Navy brawl then as an army guy hit one of my shipmates and I hit him; however we were outnumbered two to one and I ended up with a broken nose. It wasn't about being the toughest but I wasn't letting someone I care about get hurt.

I believe members of our society ARE wimping our kids!

When I was in school, I played alot of volleyball. I took a pretty powerful spike straight in the face, teared up because I got hit right between the eyes, took a time out until my vision cleared and got right back in the game. I don't think taking away the pain of learning helps them in the slightest. If that ball hits you, you learn to dodge move, and that's how major league sports players learned their moves.

I love that Krupa mentioned bike helmets. That has always been a pet peeve of mine, a symbol of overprotection. As a kid, I always used all my senses when dealing with traffic - look for cars, listen for engine or tire noise, sniff for exhaust fumes if the wind is blowing towards me....sometimes you can even feel the vibration from a particularly large truck. To me it was common sense. Stay alert, but multi-task. Eventually it becomes second-nature. As a result, I've never been hit by a car or had to dive out of the road to avoid being hit. I still ride a bike as an adult, and there is A LOT more traffic now than when I was kid.

As those who have read some of my past posts may know, my mother tended towards being overprotective. I played rugby in college as a way of rebelling against her not allowing me to play football in high school. But I also did many things as a kid that she never would have allowed. I was her "problem child".

Quite honestly, I'm proud of the things I did as kid that my mom didn't like. Since that does not read well, let me illustrate.

I climbed to the top branches of 40+ ft tall trees. I learned how to balance my weight so that I could sit on the thin top branches without them snapping. If I hadn't used my head then, those branches would have snapped under my full weight, and I would have fallen. I never did.

I loved to explore rocks, especially caves and overhangs. My mom was worried I would encounter a den of snakes. I didn't let her fear stop me from doing something I enjoyed, especially since my father had always had a fear of snakes which I never shared. I also never encountered snakes while doing it. I may have just been lucky, but now as an adult, I know more than I did then.

Given the areas I went, encountering a mass of snakes while crawling through rocks was highly unlikely. If I did so near the Connecticut River, along the shoreline of Long Island Sound, or in the central to northwestern part of the state, disturbing a nest of snakes could have been a real possibility. (There are rattlesnakes in some parts of Connecticut - the Eastern Diamondback - as well as Copperheads near wetlands.)

I went cliff jumping, and it was one of the most surrealistic experiences I have ever had. Despite the fears I had at the time, I never regret doing it. I would do it again. But as a teen, if my mother had ever known that I jumped off a 75 foot cliff she would have gone ballistic. She would have done anything to prevent me from doing it, and I would not have been the same person.

This all said, I do have some confidence issues, but I am also smart enough to know how they came to develop. Even if I struggle with myself, that doesn't mean I can't use my own understanding of the problem to prevent others from making the same mistakes. Unfortunately, I do see a rise in the number of parents making those mistakes, and they are righteous about it.

We are becoming a nation of fear, amongst other things.

I'm a teacher of 2 yr olds. If one of my kids falls down outside, gets back up and is crying ... I first inspect them for any blood. and if there's no blood I tell them to brush their hands off and then to go play. Sounds horrible but if the damages aren't worth a band aid and a clean up ... then I believe tough love should come into play. I was never a a fall down and cry kid. I just got back up and continued whatever it was I was doing.

Those are the words of a real warrior!

HELL FU(WHOOPS)EN AYE YEAH!!!

MASSIVE RESPECT!