Earliest Big Event You Remember

[Milo Maltbie]

I'm with Camp and James here; I remember all of that stuff. What do you think is worse for a kid, having fear of Nuclear War or active shooters and pandemics?

The important thing is that we install fear into their hearts before the joy of life can run off the rails. How else can we maintain the social control necessary for advanced industrial civilization?

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[Brownski]

What do you think is worse for a kid, having fear of Nuclear War or active shooters and pandemics?

I don’t know but my kids don’t seem that upset about either. They always joked about the inadequate measures the school district came up with in response to the active shooter threat. Covid gets similar treatment from them and their peers.
Danger Boy and his friends have been roaming around town on their bikes all summer. They’ve been into every casual restaurant that has reopened so far. Junior disappears with my car for hours at a time so his crew gets to wander a much wider radius.
I make sure they have a mask and make them promise to use it when appropriate. That’s the best I can do.

 

[Warp daddy]

When they see one of their friends die ,it WILL have meaning .

Till then the average adolescent and twenty something assumes that they are bulletproof .


It will,take Harsh reality to bring them back to earth ....just sayin'

 

[jasonwx]

When they see one of their friends die ,it WILL have meaning .

Till then the average adolescent and twenty something assumes that they are bulletproof .


It will,take Harsh reality to bring them back to earth ....just sayin'

sad , but true

 

[Brownski]

When they see one of their friends die ,it WILL have meaning .

Till then the average adolescent and twenty something assumes that they are bulletproof .


It will,take Harsh reality to bring them back to earth ....just sayin'

“Just sayin” doesn’t make it less of an insult. Statistically you’re wrong of course. Even in the heart of the covid crisis where we live, they haven’t and likely won’t lose one of their peers to the disease. They lost their grandmother a couple months ago so they understand the whole life/death thing already

 

[Warp daddy]

Yes that has always been the case .

I am particularly concerned right now with recent news yesterday in the Journal of Pediatrics in a study done at Massachusetts General Hospital that young children who may be asymtomatic can be "super spreaders" .

This study found that the kids even tho not displaying signs have VERY high levels of the virus in their system .

Think about in schools where kids have "always been spreaders of most respiratory issues " , schools ARE perfect incubators . Scary indeed , i think we are heading into a perfect storm

 

[Campgottagopee]

Me 1986 ish

Glacier glasses and all!!!!

 

[Warp daddy]

“Just sayin” doesn’t make it less of an insult. Statistically you’re wrong of course. Even in the heart of the covid crisis where we live, they haven’t and likely won’t lose one of their peers to the disease. They lost their grandmother a couple months ago so they understand the whole life/death thing already

B ski , my comments were not personalized at all, it was a generic statement based on 3 plus decades in the education business and dealing with That cohort and their behavioral anomalies , attitudes and the resultant effects . The statement is in fact VERY accurate

 

[Brownski]

So what are you saying? That death is generally more real once someone you know has died? Duh. They know.

 

[Warp daddy]

You seem to want to argue , believe whatever you choose .