Thinking it was okay

[Rens]

Yes,This is true. I had a coworker(different area same department) whom I helped have a baby. Her husband worked with my husband. Every time I turned around that baby was in the hospital sick. So one day I stopped by my husband's job and I saw her husband and I asked about his family as I had not seen his wife in a while. He told me that the little girl was back in the hospital sick again. I scolded him and said "You all are keeping her too clean! Put her on the floor, let her get dirty so her immune system can develop. And stop killing her immune system with all of those antibiotics. She never will get well if you don't let her immune system develop!" I was a bit testy but his wife is a nurse, she should have known. My mom would say you need to eat a peck of dirt before you die. LOL. I never knew what she meant when she said it, but now I do agree. Kids who are allowed to eat a little snot seem healthier than those whos parents rush them to the docter if they develop a sniffle.

My ex was like that. He got hysteric if the oldest as a baby just put anything in his mouth, a plastic toy, whatever. He said a friend of him cleaned all the kids toys with alcohol.

 

[MoreCoffee]

My ex was like that. He got hysteric if the oldest as a baby just put anything in his mouth, a plastic toy, whatever. He said a friend of him cleaned all the kids toys with alcohol.

Getting them started with drink young eh?

 

[Brighten04]

My ex was like that. He got hysteric if the oldest as a baby just put anything in his mouth, a plastic toy, whatever. He said a friend of him cleaned all the kids toys with alcohol.

:rofl3:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMhHzucl9lI

:rofl3:

 

[tango]

I see a lot of memes on Facebook where adults my age and up say stuff like "When I was a kid I did such and such and such and I lived through it" but yet these are the same groups of people who now have failing health. Don't you think it was related to such and such and such? For example drinking water out of an outside hose where there are now warnings about cancer?

I guess there's a huge difference between the people who smoked Camel because that's what their doctor recommended, and the people who climbed trees without filling in a dozen Health and Safety forms beforehand.

Back in the day when it wasn't considered child abandonment to go to the end of the road to get some milk while leaving your six-year-old home alone I imagine there were occasional instances where something did go badly wrong. But the answer to the problem is to make sure things are out of reach rather than to insist that no child is left unsupervised for more than a nanosecond.

When I was a child, if my parents went out for the evening and left me with a childminder they didn't expect to be contactable in an instant for every little question the childminder might have had. There weren't even cellphones back then, if there was a problem the childminder dealt with it. If you didn't trust the childminder to deal with it, you found a different childminder. Now it seems parents won't even turn their cellphones off in the theater because if little Jimmy sneezes and the childminder is scared they want to be contactable, and never mind everyone else in the theater who have the show disrupted.

Of course it doesn't help that the media wants to sensationalise things so we see things like "bacon causes 100% increase in cancer risk" only to find that if you dig into the numbers the truth is that if you eat your body weight in bacon every day your cancer risk rises from 0.00003% to 0.00006% - technically the numbers support the headline but even ignoring the amount of bacon you'd have to eat to cause 100% risk increase the chances of actually having the problem remain miniscule.


I think a lot of the issue isn't that there weren't problems in years gone by, more that the response to the problem is totally out of proportion to the problem. We see ever-sillier regulations put in place, paired with a patronising "if it saves just one life it will be worth it", and yet this line of reasoning apparently doesn't apply elsewhere. It seems we're happy to condemn children to a life of obesity because they weren't allowed outside on their own but howl in indignation if a child is allowed to walk the 400 yards to school unaccompanied.

 

[Brighten04]

Fear is systematically being placed on our world.When I was a child, we went everywhere we could go on our bikes, far from home and parental supervision. Parents thought nothing about going to the supermarket while we kids played from yard to yard or sat watching cartoons on the t.v. It was the same for my children. IDK, it seems that everything is over regulated because of the carelessness of a few.

 

[Cassia]

I guess there's a huge difference between the people who smoked Camel because that's what their doctor recommended, and the people who climbed trees without filling in a dozen Health and Safety forms beforehand.

Back in the day when it wasn't considered child abandonment to go to the end of the road to get some milk while leaving your six-year-old home alone I imagine there were occasional instances where something did go badly wrong. But the answer to the problem is to make sure things are out of reach rather than to insist that no child is left unsupervised for more than a nanosecond.

When I was a child, if my parents went out for the evening and left me with a childminder they didn't expect to be contactable in an instant for every little question the childminder might have had. There weren't even cellphones back then, if there was a problem the childminder dealt with it. If you didn't trust the childminder to deal with it, you found a different childminder. Now it seems parents won't even turn their cellphones off in the theater because if little Jimmy sneezes and the childminder is scared they want to be contactable, and never mind everyone else in the theater who have the show disrupted.

Of course it doesn't help that the media wants to sensationalise things so we see things like "bacon causes 100% increase in cancer risk" only to find that if you dig into the numbers the truth is that if you eat your body weight in bacon every day your cancer risk rises from 0.00003% to 0.00006% - technically the numbers support the headline but even ignoring the amount of bacon you'd have to eat to cause 100% risk increase the chances of actually having the problem remain miniscule.


I think a lot of the issue isn't that there weren't problems in years gone by, more that the response to the problem is totally out of proportion to the problem. We see ever-sillier regulations put in place, paired with a patronising "if it saves just one life it will be worth it", and yet this line of reasoning apparently doesn't apply elsewhere. It seems we're happy to condemn children to a life of obesity because they weren't allowed outside on their own but howl in indignation if a child is allowed to walk the 400 yards to school unaccompanied.

I wonder if you could quote the experiment that was done with someone eating their net weight in bacon to crunch that ratio. I'm wondering if that's in true mathematics or absumptive mathametics?