For The Record

I don’t know, when you read posts on the social sites there is a lot of speculation and judgement. Seems to be a lot of bubble wrapped children and entitlement. I followed a few sites about gardening, diy and the like. People ask for advice and members condemn and bicker, doesn’t sound practical at all. Not a calm space by no means. Got to have thick skin, or block and delete. I guess it’s easier to debate with the faceless.

Gen X, so I’ve been told has thick skin. We rode bikes with no helmets, no hands, no brains. I am pretty sure I still have a rock in my knee. Once you were old enough, you raised yourself from sun up to sun down. No one was home to cry to. I remember doctoring a friend that got their foot stuck in the spikes and chains of their bike. I put out a fire once that my friends set and it got out of control. They ran, I put it out with a coat luckily. We went through culverts in the Humber river that were eight feet high and shimming through ones that went down to three feet. It would be pitch black, with an occasional light from a manhole cover from the major road above. Like I said no brains.

Lots of sketchy stuff and maybe that is why we over protect our kids, because we lived to tell about it. If we did get caught there were consequences. Not pretty consequences, hard knocks. A lot of runaways back then, to avoid the consequences. If your kids can’t approach you with the truth, they will lie. You have to communicate, be accepting and forgiving. There should always be consequences to fit the behaviour. Learning and gaining independence with proper choices is pretty key. Give an inch, they take a foot, you have to set the bar. You always let them try the first time and base future answers on the results you received. It is hard to let them go it alone, it is how you both grow.