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![]() "Jose" wrote in message . net... I was able to get every single one of the 30 or so kids to walk off with me. Scared the crap out of me and the parents that were watching the kids from inside the building. What would you have them do? Refuse to talk to you and run screaming? Say "Hang on. I need to go ask permission to go with you." Is this difficult to grasp? What kind of adults would they turn into? Ones that teach their kids to get permission before wandering off with strangers? We get the kind of society we create. Ones that teach their kids to get permission before wandering off with strangers? -c |
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[gatt] Say "Hang on. I need to go ask permission to go with you."
Ok, that's reasonable. That was not the message I took away from the video I saw, which was to run screaming. I guess I didn't make myself clear. These kids after being taught safety for a week were willing to not just talk to me but walk away from the play ground into the parking lot where I could have easily stuck them in a car an driven away. It wasn't clear, but that was because I read too quickly. What I take away from this is that five year olds are hard to teach behavior to. This is not surprising - it is why it takes so long to raise children. I suspect it comes down to a perception of safety. Kids percieve adults to be safe, not dangerous. For the most part, they are right. My impression (in general) is that our "safety conscious culture" is going a bit overboard, and that this will have (is having) long term adverse consequences. And although children are not little airplanes, the same kind of thinking applies to them too. (just to bring it on topic) Jose -- Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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![]() "Jose" wrote in message ... [gatt] Say "Hang on. I need to go ask permission to go with you." My impression (in general) is that our "safety conscious culture" is going a bit overboard, and that this will have (is having) long term adverse consequences. And although children are not little airplanes, the same kind of thinking applies to them too. (just to bring it on topic) Yeah, I agree with you wholly. I'm sure we've all seen both ends of the spectrum; overprotective parents whose kids end up in trouble and underprotective parents whose kids do the same. Or who don't end up in trouble at all. (I ended up on both ends but managed to stay out of trouble.) If a kid doesn't skin his knees he'll not learn that missteps have painful consequences, nor will he learn that he's tough enough to endure those mistakes and improve because of them. -c |
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