1868!colubridae wrote:The Dawktor wrote:Yeah Colu'- I agree BUT that was 1923!colubridae wrote:two of my most treasured memories are school trips. Lower sixth form.
One down a working coal mine.
The trip down in the cage was phenomenal. Walking to the coal face where miners were oprating machinery. Huge chunks of rock dropping from the ceiling onto their backs, they barely fliched. The noise, smell, dust and heat were awesome.
The other to a working steel mill. Again the noise, the heat. My class-mates and I watched awestruck as an oxygen lance was lowered into a giant crucible of molten steel and pumped with oxygen. The noise was quite staggering. It’s over 40 years ago and I still have vivid memories of the experience.
Sheet steel shooting out of rolling mills with jets of water playing on the red hot metal.
Modern kids miss out on these things.
1968
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Robert_S wrote:Damn. When I was in the first grade I was shooting a shotgun with my dad, shooting a bb gun alone, water skiing, taking a boat up a creek for hours either alone or with a friend, riding my bike for miles, carving everything with a pocket knife...
I couldn't see raising a healthy child any other way.
Only, not with your dad, Robert.
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I used to be a lot more protective over Felix when he was a toddler than I am Erin now. But even then I encouraged him to do things that other parents would either consider dangerous (climbing and similar) or unhealthy (eating stuff off the floor). Erin is naturally more adventurous and independent and I couldn't stop her doing dangerous things even if I wanted to.
A while back I had an argument with several lifeguards who were trying to stop me from letting Felix climb the sea wall. I had to get quite angry with them for them to fuck off.
A while back I had an argument with several lifeguards who were trying to stop me from letting Felix climb the sea wall. I had to get quite angry with them for them to fuck off.
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Junior Fortuna has also had, at age 11, his share of scrapes and other experiences - and just a couple of weeks ago he attended his first camp as a Boy Scout (vs. the comparatively cushy Cub Scout camp) - the boys not only had to plan, pack, haul, and cook everything themselves with minimal adult intervention, but they spent some time alone in the woods and made their own shelter for overnight. I was most proud of him. 
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I going to send my kids to Catholic school. That'll roughen them up and teach the some tough-love.
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In a very localised place...Animavore wrote:I going to send my kids to Catholic school. That'll roughen them up and teach the some tough-love.
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There's an ol' Catholic saying - A happy child is a sinful child.Bella Fortuna wrote:In a very localised place...Animavore wrote:I going to send my kids to Catholic school. That'll roughen them up and teach the some tough-love.
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