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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI your judgement is likely driven by fear and and unconscious need for reassurance. [/quote]

Fear, yes! There is an epidemic of reckless teenage boys doing willfully dangerous things and it has to stop. This time no one else was injured but that is often not the case. Parents of boys need to DO BETTER. You can't just check out once they hit 6th grade like so many do. [/quote]

My theory is that young children are so padded and overprotected by parents these days, desperately lacking adequate exposure to the physical world, that when they become teens and naturally separate from their parents, they’re abilities to assess risk and consequences are f*cked.[/quote]

Blah blah blah every generation says this

You are an idiot [/quote]

Every generation says this? No, they don’t. Nobody says GenX kids were padded and overprotected. Quite the opposite. We played outside all day, completely separate from adults. Our parents never knew where we were. We learned to navigate the world by living it in realtime.

Nobody says that about most previous generations, either. Maybe Boomers to a certain extent, who were a bit coddled after the horrors of WW2. But nothing like kids today.

UMC kids today grow up in tightly controlled environments orchestrated by adults—travel sports, summer camp, constant extracurriculars. There’s little opportunity to learn from benign errors either because the environment is so contrived or because there’s always an adult there to catch them. [/quote]

That’s because consequences are bigger today.  No one had a video camera taping everywhere you went and every stupid thing you did.  You didn’t have to be concerned about your digital footprint and every silly thing you said online.  There’s little opportunity to learn from benign errors because society is less forgiving.  Don’t blame the parents.[/quote]

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