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Love this guy. Am this guy. Want to be this guy's friend. Want my kids to be friends with this guy's kids. I wish there were more people like this because just
by balabaster 10y ago
Love this guy. Am this guy. Want to be this guy's friend. Want my kids to be friends with this guy's kids.
I wish there were more people like this because just like him, I am an outlier where I live. My kids don't want supervision, and I don't want to constantly supervise them. I will offer them endless amounts of advice if they want/need it, feed them, clothe them, keep a roof over their heads, love them, but I want my kids to be kids and spend time discovering themselves. I fully approve of his parenting style and tactics. I am with him.
Kudos, truly!
- duderific 10y agoAll except playing on the roof. That's just silly.
- balabaster 10y agoI never fell off the roof... or the 80 ft trees we used to climb. That's not to say that the likelihood of that being zero, however, of the approximately 50 people in my circle of friends that did those things, I only have recollection of 1 falling out of a tree and breaking an arm. I once trod on a nail and had it go through my foot... compared to the countless numbers of sprained wrists, ankles, broken ankles, legs and arms occurring in organized sports. I realize the fallacy of statistics, but anecdotally, 1 broken arm from falling out of a tree in a pool of approximately 50 test subjects vs. more than a dozen in a test pool of similar size for organized sports. I realize that not allowing your kids to do anything is much safer, but at a much greater cost to their happiness.