What's next? Paper and pencils?

[LKTraz]

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I honestly believe that getting bumps, cuts and bruises is a part of growing up and teaches one lessons.

"Golly gee.....guess I won't do THAT again!" I think the lack of these lessons leads to what we now have in the form of totally overprotective parents and wussy kids who grow up to be ultra liberal clueless adults. As well it contributes to people ending up with no ability whatsoever in dealing with adversity. They rely on "someone else" to take care of it FOR them (like the government) making for nice little scared rabbit socialists.

Hell......by today's standards I and most of my classmates should be dead. Whenever any of my kids got hurt, after making sure it was nothing serious I'd ask them how it happened and if it hurt. When they would answer I'd tell them "Then I guess you'd better not do THAT again!" Most of the time they didn't.

My older daughter was forever injuring herself due to using either poor or no judgment. My comment to her was: "Dumbass!" This sunk in and she eventually began to think before doing something. She told me that she would wonder if she did it would I call he a dumbass. If the answer was probably yes she'd rethink the whole thing.

Mission accomplished, lesson learned.

Maxine is a tough kid and when accidents happen more often than not she gets right up saying "I'M OK! It hurts but I'm ok." She does get it checked out but most of the time she doesn't need any attention and that's the end of it.