Mowing with child on your lap

Exactly.
My friend and I were recalling growing up out in the yard, the field, the woods, driving the old bomber car on the gravel roads, shooting things with the bow and arrow / .22, playing with gallons of gasoline, running around with a machete chopping down trees and blowing up yellow jacket nests with firecrackers.

Now he lived for 8 years in a little apartment in a complex and his kids rarely went outside. The oldest boy about 12 cant do anything sensible. He is completely like a deer in the headlights and the rest of the kids younger are growing up the same way. Fortunately they got a house with an acre back yard so maybe the kids might learn something about the physical world around them..

Society wants people to turn to jelly, live in a beehive, fully reliant on the one day supply of coffee, water, food and the laws and systems for their safety, guidance and protection.
Sucking on the teet every morning. Buying useless crap which either out-dates or breaks in 6 months to fill up a microcosim in an overpriced condo stacked on top of millions of others doing the same damd thing.

Just wandering around bumping off the padded walls built of laws in the guidance-protection system designed to keep us from accidentally over extending our accepted approved bubble.


:puke:

bkbond12 said

I've been hit in the head with a 2" rock that was thrown from a push mower about 30'. Maybe that's why I'll putt around the yard with my 3 year old daughter on a three wheeler, or let my 6 year old sit on my lap and drive my Mustang, or let my 7 year old shoot a .22 or maybe why I let my 9 year old drive my truck done the driveway or backroads by himself.

Everything is dangerous or a bad idea this days. Obviously, I'm around whenever they are doing something and I'm worse than any soccer mom. I'm vigilant as hell, but I'd never let them do something overtly dangerous. People can criticize if they want, but my kids will look back and remember these times as some of the best in their lives. I have also known more kids than not who are incapable of doing ANYTHING because their parents didn't let them, show them, or teach them how to. My children also know that if they abuse a priviledge or attempt something without me, that I will whoop their a$$. Yeah, I spank my children, but only when they absolutely deserve it and never in excessive force. I guess I'm a bad parent, but at least my children will be competent when they're older.

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