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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
If the bogeyman gets me I blame Gobsmacked.
I was going to say that I don't wrap my children in cotton wool in case they suffocate and I might get arrested for child abuse.  |
There are a number of excellent threads doing the rounds that emphasize the difficulties of parenting and the effects of a nanny state. We must at all cost protect our children for all forms of abuse including bulling at school and not least sexual abuse both within and outside the family that goes without saying. One of the growing issues today “also excellently put in a recent thread” is Health and Safety. Currently within our schools there is the issue of stopping school trips, holidays and life experience classes (day release and work experience courses) because of the misinterpretation of the statute and the Reponses of both Government and the Courts to recent accidents and loss of life of children attending our schools. If we continue down this road our children and our children’s, children will never experience childhood itself. It’s only a 150 years ago that our ancestors deprived children of a childhood by sticking them down mines and under looms in the mills at the ages of five or seven, now we protecting them from life experience out of person fear and a over protective state. Just a thought……….