Quote Originally Posted by hatidua View Post
I don't know how it is in other towns around the country these days but in Boulder (yeah, I know....) my neighbors kid's soccer teams (mostly 8 year olds) don't keep score as they don't want anyone to "lose".

Nobody spanks their kids, they have "time-out's" (which doesn't seem to have much impact...at all).

I mentioned at a party last Winter that a snowboarder had terminally connected with a pine tree at a local ski resort and the parents looked truly horrified that their kids might have overheard that someone died.

I'm fairly happy in knowing that I won't be around in 50 years to see what all of this coddling will lead to. Sometimes I run around in my backyard with scissors just to feel young again.
We will have a nation of biebers, obamas, and other gurly mens