Just thinking of the stuff we did when we grew up. The traumas that we endured. The crazy stuff in the chemistry labs. All the stupid dares, the dangerous games

Just thinking of the stuff we did when we grew up. The traumas that we endured. The crazy stuff in the chemistry labs. All the stupid dares, the dangerous games, the fights. We somehow plowed trough the whole coming of age thing, without fatalities and permanent damage. And my father was kicked out of his home to a nearby town when he was 14, to be able to attend high school and had to work. Right now we are joking that kids are stupid, and that is the reason they heal so fast ;) The modern sterile parenting excels in increasing the survival chances until adulthood (and with the sterile hypothesis for allergies and autoimmune disorders, may not even that), but at what price.