On the overall idea of not needing to qualify and put disclaimers on every little thing in society, I'm completely down with that. It goes to my question of "why did we stop trusting kids to figure things out on their own?" When did parents stop understanding how to parent? The same late Boomers and early Gen X-ers who got to ride their …
On the overall idea of not needing to qualify and put disclaimers on every little thing in society, I'm completely down with that. It goes to my question of "why did we stop trusting kids to figure things out on their own?" When did parents stop understanding how to parent? The same late Boomers and early Gen X-ers who got to ride their bikes across town and who were told "Don't come home until the streetlights come on" decided that THEIR kids could only have a scheduled and supervised "playdate" for fear some molester was waiting around the corner for them if they strayed a block or two from the house.
I blame all those breathless "Datelines" where we blew up the fears of society into a ratings grabber. Helicopter parents are the *default* now (at least on the Left Coasts) and "free range" parents are eyed warily. Talk about losing all sense of what boundaries are appropriate!
On the overall idea of not needing to qualify and put disclaimers on every little thing in society, I'm completely down with that. It goes to my question of "why did we stop trusting kids to figure things out on their own?" When did parents stop understanding how to parent? The same late Boomers and early Gen X-ers who got to ride their bikes across town and who were told "Don't come home until the streetlights come on" decided that THEIR kids could only have a scheduled and supervised "playdate" for fear some molester was waiting around the corner for them if they strayed a block or two from the house.
I blame all those breathless "Datelines" where we blew up the fears of society into a ratings grabber. Helicopter parents are the *default* now (at least on the Left Coasts) and "free range" parents are eyed warily. Talk about losing all sense of what boundaries are appropriate!