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#144603 - 08/18/08 03:41 PM Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Last Friday I was doing some sea fishing at bottom of cliffs just outside Arbroath (east coast of Scotland) with some friends. Nice day out, we caught some mackeral and ling cod and watched the dolphins swim by and Typhoons fly by. About half way through the day a group of local children had turned up (it being the local school holidays) and proceeded to jump the cliffs into the sea (about 60-80 feet in height) in much the same way as in this youtube video. There was no aldult supervision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxK88kV6A4c

It was good to see the games console generation hasn't taking over completely. whistle










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#144611 - 08/18/08 05:00 PM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
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I think you guys are way too hard on the so called video game generation.

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#144612 - 08/18/08 05:12 PM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: Nishnabotna]
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Acceptable to me. Every kid should have the chance to be adventurous and have fun smile
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#144619 - 08/18/08 06:18 PM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: Todd W]
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My inlaws claim we are "careless" with our children when they see the bumps and bruises from playing outdoors. their belief is children should sit quietly in front of the TV and they wonder why I don't let them babysit.

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#144646 - 08/18/08 08:42 PM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: ]
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never broke an arm or leg, but fingers and toes, yeah. Dad always thought gettting brused falling off things, or running into things was part of childhood. I do know I did get bruised more than a few times when Dad took me outside and taught me "to learn how to fall" - saved more than a few bruises later - he even taught me how to do a PLF
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#144664 - 08/18/08 10:33 PM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: KG2V]
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My dad didn't spend a lot of time in my life; he was always too busy. But he passed on enough, I think.

Splinter? You want me to take it out, or can you? [After the first big, painful production with dad, we always just took care of splinters on our own.]

Fishing? Hiking alone in the mountains? Building fires? Here's a pocket knife your grandfather gave me, just don't tell your mother.

Bleeding? Rub clean dirt in it, the bleeding will stop, wash up with soap and water after a while. If it gets infected let me know. Infected? That's good, your immune system is getting stronger. Let me know if you get fever or have stranger than usual dreams. Fever or really strange dreams? Good that shows your body is really fighting something and getting stronger. Let me look in your eyes, take your pulse, check your throat, and check that fever. Here better come see me at breakfast and dinner to take these pills, or, You're fine, go play.

My dad is a Harvard Med grad and retired vascular surgeon. Between garage surgery to spay and neuter the pets, and visits when he took me to the hospital labs and pathology departments I learned at least two things: my dad did his best to show me his love, and I never wanted to be a doctor because that took my dad away too much.

I hope enough kids find a way to spend time goofing off outside, getting cuts and bruises and splinters making the same mistakes we did. I worry that zero-tolerance for mistakes and pain inhibits kids from developing judgment and confidence. And, too many lawsuits.



Edited by dweste (08/18/08 10:35 PM)

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#144691 - 08/19/08 02:01 AM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: dweste]
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#144694 - 08/19/08 02:15 AM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: OldBaldGuy]
BobS Offline
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I certainly hope kids don’t do some of the things I did when I was a kid, they would take the kid and parents to court over some of it. eek


It seems lots of things are acceptable outdoor behavior in kids other then chopping a few branches off a pine tree.
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#144809 - 08/19/08 08:07 PM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
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Sounds good to me, assuming they have the sense to check the water is deep enough before the first one jumps off the cliff!

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#144921 - 08/20/08 01:33 PM Re: Acceptable Outdoor Childhood Pursuits [Re: ]
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