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Dare you put your kids in this?
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Sturmwolke
#1 - 2012-08-21 11:55:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Sturmwolke
Maruntabo- The Forest Kindergarten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNl5p1M96xE

Reminded me a lot about my childhood where we played rough and explored everywhere unsupervised.
Dirt was my friend. Ah those were the good days.
Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-08-21 13:13:00 UTC
If I had kids I would try and expose them as much as possible to the outside. If they fall and get a few scrapes, so what. I would not want wussy little kids afraid to step outside.

I never went to kindergarten, but I went a lot outside when I was a kid. Playing in the mud, the forest, the sea side and the sea in the summer (supervised when near sea).

Early school days we had some big cool climbing stuff on the playground. Now a days its all trivial sterile stuff not challenging kids at all.
Sin Pew
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2012-08-21 14:36:34 UTC
As a child, all I had to do was cross the road in front of my parent's house to be in a huge forest, I've spent countless hours, day en even night out in the wild, alone or with friends, running, climbing, stunting, playing war, fighting or whatever.
Oh the spankings I've got because I've ruined pants, shirts and shoes ... good times.
Had I kids, I'd rather see them do that than stay hooked to a console/computer/television.

[i]"haiku are easy, But sometimes they don't make sense, Refrigerator."[/i]
Shameless Avenger
Can Preachers of Kador
#4 - 2012-08-21 15:16:05 UTC
I see no problem with it. City-parents that never camp out might get spooked. Of course, local fauna has to be taken into consideration... I'm in Florida, we have bears, snakes, alligators and freaking panthers. So dress child with good boots, teach him to keep at distance from the lake and make sure he can run really fast.

"This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro"
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#5 - 2012-08-21 16:06:41 UTC
My kids would live in a tent if I'd let them.

Next year, or maybe the year after, we're going to take a 3-week roadtrip from Texas to California and back. We'll start by driving up to OK City and following Route 66 as best we can, all the way to LA. On the way we'll stop and see old volcanoes, Meteor Crater, the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, and whatever else catches our interest. In LA we'll spend some time at Disneyland and a few other attractions before making our way back along I-10, which will take us through White Sands and Carlsbad.

I want my kids to understand just how BIG this country is. Too many people are growing up hopping planes from one metro to another, never really understanding just how much of they world they see only from miles up.

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Charles Baker
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-08-21 16:41:26 UTC
Childhood is not complete without trips to the hospital, i for one had my first trip at age 6 after stuffing several skittles in my nose.
Jim Era
#7 - 2012-08-21 16:45:42 UTC
I think the real question....
do you dare to have kids?

Wat™
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#8 - 2012-08-21 18:08:34 UTC
Charles Baker wrote:
Childhood is not complete without trips to the hospital, i for one had my first trip at age 6 after stuffing several skittles in my nose.

My 7-year-old got his first stitches a few weeks ago, split his nose doing acrobatics on a stool.

His 5-year-old brother has recently learned to climb the walls in the hallway so that he can touch the ceiling. I'm expecting a broken limb sometime soon.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-08-21 20:04:21 UTC
No, there's enough japanese weirdness in Japan already P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BgE2sQ_Ry0

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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#10 - 2012-08-21 21:55:38 UTC
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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#11 - 2012-08-21 22:01:57 UTC
I`ll try again



how the hell did your child manage to stick a couple of these up it`s nose !

skittles !

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Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2012-08-21 22:15:31 UTC
You know you're raising your kid right when you find a mostly-intact june bug (beetle) in his dirty diaper. Smile
Charles Baker
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2012-08-21 23:37:03 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Charles Baker wrote:
Childhood is not complete without trips to the hospital, i for one had my first trip at age 6 after stuffing several skittles in my nose.

My 7-year-old got his first stitches a few weeks ago, split his nose doing acrobatics on a stool.

His 5-year-old brother has recently learned to climb the walls in the hallway so that he can touch the ceiling. I'm expecting a broken limb sometime soon.


And they'll look back on it as the best childhood ever.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#14 - 2012-08-22 00:56:25 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:
You know you're raising your kid right when you find a mostly-intact june bug (beetle) in his dirty diaper. Smile


That, or you leave the window open and his light on all night. If your child's first word was "moth" you might have a problem.

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Anyanka Funk
Doomheim
#15 - 2012-08-22 02:17:37 UTC
"Children, address your father as 'FC' and always have a scout".