http://www.artofmanliness.com/2017/06/28/23-dangerous-things-let-kids/
I did not shoot a gun until my first job at the state police crime lab right after I graduated. I never squashed a penny on a railroad track. Other than that I did all the rest. Playing cowboys and indians with my buddies I rubbed my face with theses nice red berries that looked like war paint on your skin. I was laid up for a week with poison sumac.
I think I did all of these except squishing a penny on a train track and maybe standing on the roof. I can't remember a time I went on the roof bit could be wrong.
The fireworks were without my parents knowledge. They were chill about most "dangerous" things but had a zero tolerance policy for fireworks. Mom was an er nurse and saw too many exploded hands to be OK with it.
The only one I don't recall is 'parking lot driving' as a young kid. I believe the first time I was behind the wheel when I was 15 and that was in a supervised session up north with my mom.
All of them.
All of them, though the driving by myself wasn't actually something my parents "let" me do, it just happened when I was 14. End result-not good.
I advocate that all kids should do these things (except driving without their parents' permission).
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 12, 2017, 10:44:28 AM
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2017/06/28/23-dangerous-things-let-kids/
I did not shoot a gun until my first job at the star police crime lab right after I graduated. I never squashed a penny on a railroad track. Other than that I did all the rest. Playing cowboys and indians with my buddies I rubbed my face with theses nice red berries that looked like war paint on your skin. I was laid up for a week with poison sumac.
All but fire a gun, drive a car (unless steering while sitting on Dad's lap counts as a little kid), use a bow and arrow (still haven't done that) and penny on railroad track.
all of them and more like drinking from the garden hose in summer, swimming in abandoned quarries etc.
I never put pennies on the railroad but definitely put rocks on them.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 12, 2017, 11:33:42 AM
I want to see the penny.
Given a little time, and I could probably produce some. However, truth be told, they'd be ones that I did with my daughter a few years ago after regaling her with tales of putting pennies on the track in my own youth. We did dozens one weekend when we were at a camp with a nearby train (and some nickels and quarters, too). I'm certain that I don't still have any from when I was a kid.
/Yes, I did see the teal.
All of them, now the question is what age did you do them at? A lot of these things I did relatively young thanks to Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, which I highly, highly recommend people getting their kids in and from what I've been told Girl Scouts is catching up with Boy Scouts in terms of the outdoor activities they do.
I will say, what I don't recommend is doing what my group of friends, is take the bike ramp one and standing on a roof one too far. We jumped off the roof on multiple occasions and not just into pools. We also one day set-up a bike ramp such that we could ride down my driveway to my neighbors curb where the ramp could launch us into a big oak tree in their lawn......how I survived past 10 is a miracle.
Good point MU03ENG. Many of those activities are Boy Scout merit badges. And the ones that weren't usually happened on camp outs anyways.
I was up on roofs after the Blizzard of 78. Jumping off of roofs into snow drifts. Actually sledding down a church roof on to a massive snow pile in an alley. Still have never fired a gun or bow and arrow. Did most of the rest.
Quote from: Stronghold on July 12, 2017, 12:03:03 PM
I never put pennies on the railroad but definitely put rocks on them.
Rocks were the best, just sparked like crazy.
No to cliff and no to car. Does a gun count if it was at the state fair? If not then no to that. Did everything else. By the way where the heck did y'all find a cliff to jump off?
What would you say the age limit cut off is for this?
Quote from: BagpipingBoxer on July 12, 2017, 02:07:29 PM
No to cliff and no to car. Does a gun count if it was at the state fair? If not then no to that. Did everything else. By the way where the heck did y'all find a cliff to jump off?
seemed like everyone owned either a BB gun or a pellet gun when I was a kid
Quote from: BagpipingBoxer on July 12, 2017, 02:07:29 PM
No to cliff and no to car. Does a gun count if it was at the state fair? If not then no to that. Did everything else. By the way where the heck did y'all find a cliff to jump off?
Boundary Waters while canoeing on a High Adventure trip for Boy Scouts
Edit: a gun is a gun is a gun.....
drove my first car at 14. '69 Chevelle.
Where is 'have unprotected sex with a man in a windowless van?'
Gotta ax Yankee on dat won, dude, hey?
Did every single one of those things, although I was an older kid for a few.
For example, the first time I drove a car by myself without a license was when I was 15 and had my learner's permit. I felt like going to McDonald's a couple miles away and figured my parents (who weren't home) would never find out. Well, my mother ran into one of my friends while shopping, and my friend said, "I didn't know he had his license yet." To which my mom said, "He doesn't!" Got grounded for that one.
Also ... "climb a rope" ... I was TERRIBLE at it. I did try to climb ropes on many occasions and I did get several feet into it, but I never got anywhere near the top.
Finally, "explore a construction site" ... We had one really close to my house, and friends and I used to go there all the time. When I got a little older and realized girls were cute and soft and smelled good, I had a couple of girls (on separate occasions) that I used to make out with at night "at the pipes." We could squeeze into the site through the gate under the chain and locks. Oh, Colleen Casey ... where are you now?
Quote from: tower912 on July 12, 2017, 01:06:51 PM
I was up on roofs after the Blizzard of 78. Jumping off of roofs into snow drifts. Actually sledding down a church roof on to a massive snow pile in an alley. Still have never fired a gun or bow and arrow. Did most of the rest.
This.
Shoveled all the snow of Dr. Walman's roof and jumped off his garage. Same snow storm.
I've been on a few more roofs the last 27 years.
yall frequent 'artofmanliness.com', though? smh
All of them before the age of 13 except the bow and arrow... I was 15 for that.
Where's "sneak into a casino" and "sell cigarettes to other kids in your jr. high class"?
Did all but one, happy to report my kids have done 90% plus of these as well.
All but
Penny on a train track (Just never went to them)
Explore a tunnel (We didn't have any near us?)
Rope Climbing (I did small ropes at playgrounds/rock climbing but our school didn't have one of those huge ones)
walk to school (We lived 14 miles from school. We took da bus)
Quote from: #UnleashRowsey on July 13, 2017, 01:48:18 AM
walk to school (We lived 14 miles from school. We took da bus)
Weak excuse.
I used to walk to school ... 20 miles each way ... uphill both ways ... and it was always in a blizzard.
Hoo's gonna start a thread axin' at watt age virginity was lost, hey?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on July 13, 2017, 07:30:08 AM
Hoo's gonna start a thread axin' at watt age virginity was lost, hey?
It'll happen some day doc don't worry
One thing I didn't see on the list that definitely should be: riding your bikes to the local swimming hole (be it pool, pond, or lake) and swimming for hours until the sun is low and you have almost no energy to bike back to home.
One of my fondest childhood memories was in the late 80s in the summer in Ohio, all of my friends in the neighborhood (must have been 10 of us) riding the 5 minutes to the community pool at like 10 in the morning and we didn't leave until almost 8. My mom would give me 10 bucks for the whole day for food, which I'm pretty sure I spent only on soda, Nerds, and M&Ms. We'd like sharks and minnows, survival, beat each other up, and a whole bunch of other games that would probably cause trigger warnings these days. Good times were had by all.
Quote from: mu03eng on July 13, 2017, 07:57:01 AM
One thing I didn't see on the list that definitely should be: riding your bikes to the local swimming hole (be it pool, pond, or lake) and swimming for hours until the sun is low and you have almost no energy to bike back to home.
One of my fondest childhood memories was in the late 80s in the summer in Ohio, all of my friends in the neighborhood (must have been 10 of us) riding the 5 minutes to the community pool at like 10 in the morning and we didn't leave until almost 8. My mom would give me 10 bucks for the whole day for food, which I'm pretty sure I spent only on soda, Nerds, and M&Ms. We'd like sharks and minnows, survival, beat each other up, and a whole bunch of other games that would probably cause trigger warnings these days. Good times were had by all.
I "triggered" a girl on memorial day by inviting her to a party where there was going to be drinking. She was 23
Also missing from the list: "go off-roading in a Chevette"
Quote from: #UnleashRowsey on July 13, 2017, 09:29:04 AM
I "triggered" a girl on memorial day by inviting her to a party where there was going to be drinking. She was 23
What does that mean?
Probably shot her, her?
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on July 13, 2017, 10:35:51 AM
What does that mean?
I guess whatever the 2017 meaning is? Conversation went like this
"hey were having a party on Monday. Beer baseball fireworks and grilling. Want to come"
"you cannot imagine how much you are triggering me by asking"
Sooooooo
??????
Quote from: 4everwarriors on July 13, 2017, 07:30:08 AM
Hoo's gonna start a thread axin' at watt age virginity was lost, hey?
I hope to get there by the time I turn 80!
Quote from: #UnleashRowsey on July 13, 2017, 04:40:27 PM
I guess whatever the 2017 meaning is? Conversation went like this
"hey were having a party on Monday. Beer baseball fireworks and grilling. Want to come"
"you cannot imagine how much you are triggering me by asking"
Sooooooo
??????
That's why I asked. I have no idea what triggered means now. To me it means having a panic attack. But it seems to have been changed into something else now.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on July 13, 2017, 05:32:58 PM
That's why I asked. I have no idea what triggered means now. To me it means having a panic attack. But it seems to have been changed into something else now.
I think your definition is correct. And there are some true forms of triggering that are backed by science. Such as a soldier with ptsd having fireworks triggering flashbacks.
But it seemed to morph into a more laughable scenario. Such as when someone says your triggering them by saying you voted for another politician
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on July 13, 2017, 10:35:51 AM
What does that mean?
TRIGGER [TRI-gur]
'Merican slang an anthropomorphized tiger who's put up with way too much sh|t from that damned bear on the other side of the woods.
https://www.youtube.com/v/HDIkjzIAph8
Quote from: mu03eng on July 13, 2017, 07:57:01 AM
One thing I didn't see on the list that definitely should be: riding your bikes to the local swimming hole (be it pool, pond, or lake) and swimming for hours until the sun is low and you have almost no energy to bike back to home.
One of my fondest childhood memories was in the late 80s in the summer in Ohio, all of my friends in the neighborhood (must have been 10 of us) riding the 5 minutes to the community pool at like 10 in the morning and we didn't leave until almost 8. My mom would give me 10 bucks for the whole day for food, which I'm pretty sure I spent only on soda, Nerds, and M&Ms. We'd like sharks and minnows, survival, beat each other up, and a whole bunch of other games that would probably cause trigger warnings these days. Good times were had by all.
You just wait eng. By the time he's about 12 you'll want #nored gone for hours at a time too!
Quote from: BagpipingBoxer on July 13, 2017, 07:40:43 AM
It'll happen some day doc don't worry
Brilliant work, young pugilist!
Any one piss on the third rail?
The good news is that here in the U.S., there is no shortage of kids who get to shootin'!
As the Washington Post reported last year:
In 2015, there were 58 shootings committed by toddlers, or more than one every week. The drumbeat of tragic shootings involving children barely able to walk has continued unabated this year.
Since Jan. 1, there have been 51 shootings involving toddlers in the United States. By this date last year, there had been 47 toddler-involved shootings.
In the majority of this year's cases, the child picked up a gun and shot himself or herself. (The overwhelming majority of toddler shooters are male.) In 16 of the 39 self-shooting incidents, the child's injuries proved fatal.
Given that toddler shootings far outnumber terrorist shootings in the U.S.A., isn't it time we ban toddlers?