At what point did safety of children become our priority as a society? Bicycle helmet were for the kids with obsessed moms. Now they are called MILF's. Safety belts in vehicles are now the airbags. And I thought that was science fiction from the Challenger. I realized that parenting became important when Johnny Gosch was kidknapped. History lesson? Johnny Gosch was kidnapped in West Des Moines and the world in which I enjoyed was shook up. No more going to the park on my own. Safety became, and still is, an obsession. No longer can a kid skin his knee and not know how. We as country have become a sensitized nation. Too easy to jump to conclusions and not think that maybe kids will be kids. A kid cannot be a kid without the stipulation that a pedophile lerks next door. I want to see that same type of free spirit and easygoing nature that I think that I once had. The world is complicated, but I hope that it shouldn't be that way for someone young and oblivious to what is to come their way.
Eric,
Who is America
1 comment:
I took a day to think about this one before commenting. As far as kids go they still have the same inquisitive minds and innocence as kids did 50 years ago, that will never change it just seems to fade younger and younger as time goes on. As far as people victimizing children, it happened then and it happens now. I think that back in my day and before if a community got wind of someone in their community that hurt a child they beat the hell out of them and ran them out of town on a rail. That was a time when the childs well being came before political correctness.
Glad to see you back blogging!
Post a Comment