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Sat Apr-05-08 02:07 PM
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Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do |
DarkTirade
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Sat Apr-05-08 02:11 PM
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1. I did two and a half of those things as a kid. |
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Play with fire? Check. Owned a pocketknife? Had a few. I didn't throw a spear, but I did make numerous bows out of some springy trees near my house, and even more arrows out of a bush behind our house that had these nice perfectly straight slender branches.
Never drove or deconstructed appliances, but being a computer geek, instead I deconstructed BASIC, PASCAL and HTML code. :P
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Sat Apr-05-08 02:41 PM
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5. I pretty much covered the list |
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I remember cutting myself with my folding knife once when it closed on me. Live and learn I guess. I also once buried a staple in my thumb while messing around with it.
We didn't have spears but I threw all kinds of missiles from rocks to lawn darts.
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Sat Apr-05-08 02:18 PM
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2. Certainly One Through Four Are Spot On, Sir |
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All were a part of my youth, anyway, along with a good deal of axe-work on an old wood-pile, and getting out the attic window to the roof and then down via the near-by buckeye tree....
It has always been my practice to tell my children and grandchildren that if they do not sport scrapes and bruises, they are not doing their jobs properly.
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Sat Apr-05-08 02:21 PM
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3. My parents didn't necessarily "let" me do those sorts of things. |
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Summer time especially, my friends and I would just be out all day. And yes, we did all sorts of things.
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Sat Apr-05-08 02:41 PM
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4. And take them out of the styrofoam cocoon? |
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Edited on Sat Apr-05-08 02:42 PM by Bennyboy
Are you some kind of MONSTER?
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Sat Apr-05-08 03:17 PM
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6. I totally agree with the dude |
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I did all that stuff as a kid, and so did any kid that was around when I was raising mine. They thank you when they grow up too.
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