Comments on: Child Abuse https://www.raggedclown.com/2009/05/21/child-abuse/ forget about today until tomorrow Fri, 03 May 2024 13:24:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Ragged Clown https://www.raggedclown.com/2009/05/21/child-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-97141 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:26:54 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=1502#comment-97141 In reply to Matt.

Was talking about this today. Did Ben get his freedom?

]]> By: Matt https://www.raggedclown.com/2009/05/21/child-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-9778 Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:57 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=1502#comment-9778 Agreed. Not sure if I’ll still agree when Ben’s old enough for it to make a difference, but I hope so.

]]> By: Captain Groggy Swagger https://www.raggedclown.com/2009/05/21/child-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-9776 Fri, 22 May 2009 16:39:13 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=1502#comment-9776 I agree with this so much. When I was a kid I was riding my bike a mile to school at 8 years old. I was allowed to play at that same age a quarter of a mile away at the creek, you know, where there is water and rocks that could kill me! Nothing happened to me. I learned about the big bad world, I saw nature, I learned how to use crosswalks, I learned how to use buses on my own on a whim to go travel to the mall. I rolled around in the mud and swam in the water catching crayfish. I made forts out of sticks and jetsam. My parents did not seem to have that irrational fear that could have kept me cooped up inside, I was just told when to be home. I got sick less than other kids. My mother said it was because they let us play in the mud and not turn into plastic bubble kids.

The way I see parenting conducted now is really based on fear. One article about the dangers of pacifiers and hundreds of thousands of parents are throwing away their baby pacifiers in disgust and frowning on those who would continue to use them. A 10 year old kid walking around alone creates suspicion because we are not used to seeing it because someone somewhere on some news channel started saying that was a sign of irresponsible parenting.

It’s all nonsense.

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