Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

[pokerfan]

http://divinecaroline.com/article/22111/41772--video--five-dangerous-things-let

[DarkTirade]

1. I did two and a half of those things as a kid.

Play with fire? Check. Owned a pocketknife? Had a few. I didn't throw a spear, but I did make numerous bows out of some springy trees near my house, and even more arrows out of a bush behind our house that had these nice perfectly straight slender branches.

Never drove or deconstructed appliances, but being a computer geek, instead I deconstructed BASIC, PASCAL and HTML code. :P

[pokerfan]

5. I pretty much covered the list

I remember cutting myself with my folding knife once when it closed on me. Live and learn I guess. I also once buried a staple in my thumb while messing around with it.

We didn't have spears but I threw all kinds of missiles from rocks to lawn darts.

[The Magistrate]

2. Certainly One Through Four Are Spot On, Sir

All were a part of my youth, anyway, along with a good deal of axe-work on an old wood-pile, and getting out the attic window to the roof and then down via the near-by buckeye tree....

It has always been my practice to tell my children and grandchildren that if they do not sport scrapes and bruises, they are not doing their jobs properly.

[alphafemale]

3. My parents didn't necessarily "let" me do those sorts of things.

Summer time especially, my friends and I would just be out all day. And yes, we did all sorts of things.

[Bennyboy]

4. And take them out of the styrofoam cocoon?

Are you some kind of MONSTER?

[Inchworm]

6. I totally agree with the dude

I did all that stuff as a kid, and so did any kid that was around when I was raising mine. They thank you when they grow up too.

:applause: