Dirt Is Good
When I was a kid in the 1950s our parents loved us just as much as parents loved their children today. But they were content for us to go outside and play in the muck, to climb trees and hillsides, to...
View ArticleThe Inverse Proportion of Dirt
When I was a kid, I bet I ate a whole field’s worth of dirt as I played. My mates and I mucked around in the Thames which, in those days, was little better than a sewer; we got colds and upset...
View ArticleNZ Nannies Try To Ruin Rugby
I have written before about how our children are being softened up to the point that they are losing vital physical and psychic resistances. I have also written endlessly on the damage the...
View ArticleParanoia, Protectiveness, or Simply Parental Control Issues
The following map was tweeted on Twitter this morning. It purports to show the difference in freedom allowed kids when, say, I was young and today: There was no source given for this map so who knows...
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