06-02-2011, 03:36 AM
(06-01-2011, 09:58 PM)--Pete Wrote: We have, indeed, become a nation of cowards.
It's really easy to become a "coward parent", when the media plasters all of the dangers kids can possibly face in today's world. Not a day goes by that you don't hear of a child being abducted, or accidentally drowned, or hit by a car. And then you hear the rhetoric. "Well, any parent that allows their child to walk unsupervised near a swimming pool is a BAD PARENT!" And it's hard to argue with that. The possibility of a child drowning when not walking near a pool is zero, and possibility of a child drowning when walking near a pool is greater than zero. Solution? Never allow your child to go near water, ever.
I totally agree with your opinions though. I'd LOVE for my kid to have the carefree "do whatever you want" childhood that I did, but it's really hard as a parent to let go and trust that he'll come home safely when the media yells at us that kids are very fragile creatures that need to be watched very carefully and here are fifteen very graphic examples why.