Remember all the great toys we had as kids? Jacks? Marbles? Well, now they are deemed DANGEROUS...they are *choking hazards*. The baby might put it into his mouth and CHOKE. Well, bless the his heart, babies have been putting things into their mouths for 6000 years. Mamas USED to watch out for this and rescue the baby before he choked or at least teach the baby the word NO and he would obey. Now we are too busy. Too busy with out favorite TV show or our facebook farms to teach and train our kids.
And what about the older kids? They love Legos...ah ah ah...*choking hazard*. GI Joe? Small parts, *choking hazard*. Barbie dolls? Ah ah ah, the baby might choke on a high heel shoe. OR, we might take the time to teach our children to pick up after themselves and if they fail, they lose the toy until THEY can be trusted! Don't blame the baby!
What about we adults? Don't expect me to listen to preaching on loving my enemy, it is a *choking hazard*. Don't expect me to read the Bible, I might choke on it. Don't ask me to listen to godly music, it might make me choke.
It is time to accept personal responsibility for our own actions instead of passing it off as a *choking hazard*.
I just copied this from a blog, but I've seen various versions of the same thing all over. It pretty much explains how liberals have made the world so much more dangerous than it used to be.
ReplyDeleteHow did we survive 50 years ago?
We drank water from the tap not a bottle and nobody knew about the dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids
No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you.
Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn't smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.
While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.
We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn't that clean we just didn't swallow it.
We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.
If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.
But most of all we were allowed to be kids.
To dream, to invent and to play.
It's no wonder that the generation that grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today.
Thanks for those years and all those "BAD THINGS" that is why we are who we are today.