STOP! You're Turning Your Kids Into Pussies!

Parents: STOP OVER-PROTECTING YOUR KIDS!

They’re built tough like Buddy Lee or Ford F-150 pick-ups. Take it from a grown-up kid who fell off more bikes, out of more trees, burned his hands on more stoves, had golf clubs, baseball bats and unprotected kitchen counter corners violently introduced to his noggin on more occasions than you could imagine. Stitches- Check! Bandages- Check! Casts- Check! Reality- Check!

Down with helmets, elbow and kneepads, rappelling harnesses for climbing ten-foot trees. Cut the umbilical cord, parents. You’re not protecting your kids, you’re wrongfully equipping them with unrealistic expectations of a ruthless and harsh reality to where all the Prozac and Xanax won’t soften their falls when they get shook from the tree of life later on down the road.

Without getting into a debate on the truisms of Darwinist group-think, i.e. ‘survival of the fittest’, it goes without saying that perhaps all of the bumps and scrapes that we ran home to mommy crying about prepared us for the disappointments of later-year injuries. How many of us, were we to have been born 100 years ago, would be dead due to things so minor as a cold, the flu or an ear infection?

Want to know grit? One case in point was Thomas Edison; he was hard of hearing. This was a result of an ear infection that he "suffered" in his childhood. Was he afflicted with “melancholia” as depression was referred to in those days? No, he invented a fucking light bulb. He actually said that it (hearing impairment) worked to his advantage because it allowed him to better focus on his work. In 1927, Edison spoke to a group of 300 other fellow hearing-impaired individuals. He was quoted as saying “Deaf people should take to reading. It beats the babble of ordinary conversation”.

I’ve had my share of adult bumps and bruises- divorce, financial hardships, political bullshit in the workplace, car accidents, theft, etc. and not without some pain to go along with it. I believe that the will of God never takes anyone where the grace of God won't be there to protect them. I smile today because I am fit, happy, and have my OWN MIND with the freedom to THINK FOR MYSELF and that bike ride I had planned (true story) can be replaced with something else since it’s raining outside. This is real life, folks! All of the helmets and elbow pads wont save your kids when they fall off the corporate ladder.

Good Talk!