Saw an article in our local paper today about a complaint made to a School, by a Mother of two girls who are students at that school...
The two girls had to do "yard duty" and pick up rubbish (paper mostly, apparently) at lunchtime.
The Mother was complaining because the girls were not given gloves to wear.
Floods of responses came in about it; mostly along the lines of "harden up", and "get rid of the cotton wool" etc.
I felt the same to be honest. I have 3 kids and we get em out into the wilderness and scrub around at every opportunity....good for the immune system and all that.
It seems that parents are getting way too precious about their kids when you hear stuff like this; get 'em out and get 'em in the dirt....get em out on the farm and so on and so forth.
What do you think?
The two girls had to do "yard duty" and pick up rubbish (paper mostly, apparently) at lunchtime.
The Mother was complaining because the girls were not given gloves to wear.
Floods of responses came in about it; mostly along the lines of "harden up", and "get rid of the cotton wool" etc.
I felt the same to be honest. I have 3 kids and we get em out into the wilderness and scrub around at every opportunity....good for the immune system and all that.
It seems that parents are getting way too precious about their kids when you hear stuff like this; get 'em out and get 'em in the dirt....get em out on the farm and so on and so forth.
What do you think?