Hi NN - I don't think anyone's taken offence at your remarks - I certainly haven't! I do agree with you that children need to be able to play outdoors safely and to learn about things in a practical way. If you were to read through some posts I've made in the past you'd see that I have many happy memories of playing outdoors all day during my childhood - doing things which today would make some parents shudder - e.g. riding around on my pony or my bike without a helmet and fishing for tiddlers in local streams and ponds.
I think children have always been at risk in terms of "predators", but in the past - and certainly when I was a child, people in the local area obviously knew who the "risky" ones were and warned children in a subtle way.Maybe they even "had words" with them too - but of course I couldn't have known about that then. I think children were allowed to grow up more slowly, without the present-day pressures"of advertising on TV, violent video games, "celeb" culture and so on. It's rather sad when I think about it and makes me grateful for the opportunities I myself had.
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Sorry to have created so much ire with was an innocent question.This was not intended.
Still ,on reflection,if it enabled people let of steam by giving their opinions it might have served a some use. .
****The only thing that comes to mind is that opinions are like bottoms everyone has one .
Hi NN - I don't think anyone's taken offence at your remarks - I certainly haven't! I do agree with you that children need to be able to play outdoors safely and to learn about things in a practical way. If you were to read through some posts I've made in the past you'd see that I have many happy memories of playing outdoors all day during my childhood - doing things which today would make some parents shudder - e.g. riding around on my pony or my bike without a helmet and fishing for tiddlers in local streams and ponds.
I think children have always been at risk in terms of "predators", but in the past - and certainly when I was a child, people in the local area obviously knew who the "risky" ones were and warned children in a subtle way.Maybe they even "had words" with them too - but of course I couldn't have known about that then. I think children were allowed to grow up more slowly, without the present-day pressures"of advertising on TV, violent video games, "celeb" culture and so on. It's rather sad when I think about it and makes me grateful for the opportunities I myself had.
This has been an interesting debated
Wondered what people think about social housing ?
NB . Liked opinions and bottoms , great phrase must try and use it
I think brown field sites and empty houses first , really don't think green belt should be built on