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Originally posted by justamom
It boggles my mind when I think what lies ahead. Where I remember air raid drills-getting under you desk (DUH-like THAT would help)- will the kids in the future be practicing putting on a respirator or running into showers?
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The last few years I would walk down the street and look at the "fallout shelter" signs and think to myself, "Isn't it wonderful that kids growing up today will never need to know what that means?" And then of course, September 11 happened. So much for that.
Of course there are many problems in the world and were many problems in the world in the "good old days" but it just seems like kids today are so overprotected from the little day to day things of life. My mother was considered overprotective by the day's standards and I climbed trees, played in the creek, went exploring in the forest and had legs full of black and blue marks. I doubt if the kids growing up in my old neighborhood even know there is a creek there. This society is getting more and more insular - eventually we're going to have a class in school called "how to talk to humans."
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