The Eight Never-Nevers
Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 1 month ago to Education
My kids' school plays this exact video, has them sing the songs, and promotes the message. Just read this summary because you can never get those two minutes of your life back if you watch the video.
Your grown-ups will protect you and sure things are good. They're there for you to keep you safe.
1. Never-never touch a gun.
2. Never-never play with fire.
3. Never-never go on wheels without a helmet.
4. Never-never dive right in. Ask before you get wet.
5. Never-never use sharp tools alone.
6. Never-never pet a dog without asking your grownup.
7. Check for traffic both ways before you cross the street.
8. Never-never ride in cars unless you're buckled up.
The cool thing is my kids seem to detect intuitively it's crap.
My son mentioned that adults who are old and gray and remember when kids could run around and play without adults constantly keeping us safe take it less seriously.
Possible reasons for the hyper-safety:
- Maybe there's a segment of the population, a segment >>50% women, who wants to focus on kids, but starting in the 90's started feeling uncomfortable saying their wants aloud. They did feel comfortable saying circumstances demand they make sacrifices. So they made parenting more complicated and difficult to get what they wanted without admitting it.
- Maybe people who were old enough to be aware of the Sept 11 attack but under 18, people who are now 21 to 34, were affected in such a way to make them more cautious.
- Maybe the hyper-safety stuff in the school is motivated to help the few kids whose parents are really irresponsible and leave dangerous things lying out without teaching their kids to respect them.
I do not believe there's a figure like Toohey behind it asking young people their dreams and then purposely quashing them. I do not believe politicians in Washington are the cause either; they respond to the zeitgeist rather than drive it. The only part I believe might be have a political motive is which one got the top Rule #1 position.
At any rate, the video reminds me how important it is to teach kids to handle guns, fire, and tools responsibly and to be skeptical.
Your grown-ups will protect you and sure things are good. They're there for you to keep you safe.
1. Never-never touch a gun.
2. Never-never play with fire.
3. Never-never go on wheels without a helmet.
4. Never-never dive right in. Ask before you get wet.
5. Never-never use sharp tools alone.
6. Never-never pet a dog without asking your grownup.
7. Check for traffic both ways before you cross the street.
8. Never-never ride in cars unless you're buckled up.
The cool thing is my kids seem to detect intuitively it's crap.
My son mentioned that adults who are old and gray and remember when kids could run around and play without adults constantly keeping us safe take it less seriously.
Possible reasons for the hyper-safety:
- Maybe there's a segment of the population, a segment >>50% women, who wants to focus on kids, but starting in the 90's started feeling uncomfortable saying their wants aloud. They did feel comfortable saying circumstances demand they make sacrifices. So they made parenting more complicated and difficult to get what they wanted without admitting it.
- Maybe people who were old enough to be aware of the Sept 11 attack but under 18, people who are now 21 to 34, were affected in such a way to make them more cautious.
- Maybe the hyper-safety stuff in the school is motivated to help the few kids whose parents are really irresponsible and leave dangerous things lying out without teaching their kids to respect them.
I do not believe there's a figure like Toohey behind it asking young people their dreams and then purposely quashing them. I do not believe politicians in Washington are the cause either; they respond to the zeitgeist rather than drive it. The only part I believe might be have a political motive is which one got the top Rule #1 position.
At any rate, the video reminds me how important it is to teach kids to handle guns, fire, and tools responsibly and to be skeptical.
Also for an another at least, I do not require a bucket in a restaurant.
Be grateful that "smellovision" does not exist. I've read that it is a rare special treat in movie theaters~
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Except to visit you sometime...would be nice, don't ya think?
We last Sunday we stopped in Missouri
At a gas station that had a huge fireworks store included and my wise wife said no fireworks.
It was good advice as I have a large supply in the garage already.
I consider any star to be a wild force of nature.
Uh, but what warm water? Heated swimming pools?
It be them thar ain't gotta lick ah sense Yankees whut moves tuh Florida ter go swimmin' durin' winter.
My kids had a totally different experience with me.
What surprised me was that I could pick up all the local stations with my Direct satellite TV. They were more interested in rain related traffic accidents than they were the weather.
That same storm swelled as it moved into Georgia yesterday afternoon, forming tornadoes that caused damage.
I am under the impression that the fertility rate had dropped by the time I was born in 75, but the hyper-structured hovering starting in the 90s when the word "soccer mom" was coined.
There was an episode of Star Trek Deep Space nine in Jan of 1993 that reflects this. The kids on the space station would spend their free time watching ships arrive from distant lands. Sometimes they misbehaved and got in trouble. "The problem is there's no structured activity for them...," a character explained. I think the line reflects a cultural change in the 90s. The show presents the claim as an enlightened policy of the future, but I have come to think it's better for kids to spend their free time hanging out dreaming of far off lands than in enrichment programming designed by adults.
I just missed this this stuff. If I had been born in '85 instead of '75, I would never have ridden my bike around and had a kid world separate from the adult world.
My Grandmother had a place at a lake on the other side of our town...always hoped I'd inherit the place but that didn't work out.
We New Englanders take pride in dealing with the cold weather and water...it's like a badge of Honor.
But it's summer compared to the upper midwest though.
My grandmother was one of 12 children, and her father was a successful farmer in North Carolina. In an era with less disease prevention, and a need for trustworthy farm hands, both were motivation for large families. Vaccines have made childhood survival more likely, and automation has significantly reduced labor needs.
Do believe I was about nine when I learned that, as long as I was wearing blue jeans, I could just stand in place and feign a yawn should another kid throw a whole string of lit firecrackers at my feet.
more in Tia Juana and then have an unsafe and insane 4th on Esterro Beach including roman candles from behind the dunes ...and bottle rockets ...lots of bottle rockets which go well with (at then cheap) tequila.
Also one time my daughter (9 at the time) hid a bunch of M80s under the driver's seat of my van and I didn't find out 'till we got home. I was astounded--could have been blown through the roof. When I quit shaking I asked her why she did it, she artlessly told me, "dad, you don't lie well and I was afraid the border cop would catch us."
One summer we went swimming in a lake with Connecticut cousins back when Beatles sang "I Want To Hold Your Hand."
They were used to some really freaking freezing water!
Half Swede me had been spoiled by a sizable lake in the Florida Panhandle my folks had a place built by.
Often in late August you actually had to swim down about five feet just to find water that would cool you off.
PS...grew up in the central hills of Connecticut...with some of the steepest hills in the whole state.
There was just something about the way he always smiled when he'd say that.
I was born in Massachusetts before we moved. So from four-years-old on, I never saw any snow while growing up in Dothan, Alabama, half an hour from the Florida state line by driving the speed limit.
Here in the Birmingham area? Yeah, it snows every once in a while. This winter it snowed one whole day and stuck on the ground for two or three days more.
There was a very rare blizzard followed by a serious ice storm three years later back during the 90s.
Al Gore claimed the blizzard was due to global warming. Recall Rush laughing about that 'un on the radio.
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