[skeeter@ccia.com]

Is all this safety thing for the kids or for the parents?...I know we use to do thing when kids that would get your hide tanned faster than if sent out to a tannery....so this is the point.....we can't paddle a 'child' in school for punching a teacher..might hurt his feelings...yet as I sit on my porch and watch them walk past the house, they punch signs, run over the hoods of cars, smoke, cuss, punch, kick, spit, at each other and brag about how they f????d up someone..they arent any softer...we just think so.....make them wear a styro helmet on a bicycle when trail riding......when they leave the front yard they punch signs, run over the hoods of cars, smoke, cuss, punch, kick, spit, at each other and brag about how they f????? up someone....
you don't let them mow the grass becaues they might break a fingernail so while you do it for them, they walk past the next neighbor while he is mowing his grass and toss empty pop bottles, trash onto his yard and sidewalk and say words at 6 yrs old that weren't even invented back in our days when they get hollered at..( I still duck when I hear someone say that one big word I asked my mother what is meant when I was a kid) I sure did get a reacton from that one...but I'm still alive...I'm going to tell my mommy you picked on a child....They are way way tougher than most think....not any different than you or I when we fell off the monkey bars or crashed our bikes..and broke a few bones...only thing different now is they break bones by punching signs, windows, pop machines...each other while we ......protect them from themselves...it is all for the parent.....and those that pass the laws to make one wear a helmet...like our past governor of pa did..guess what...he owned a motorcycle helmet factory...someone is making money on all the safety items somewhere...some parent owns those bike helmets.