31 Jul 2006, 9:05am
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by Mr.
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Kids to be issued helmets as soon as they’re born

Along with helmets, a full Self Contained Breathing Apparatus will be issues, along w/ a neoprene suit w/ a Kevlar mesh lining. A built in airbag system is also being considered, in case the kid falls, he or she won’t bruise anything.

Built into the new suit will be a voice activated system that can access email and cell phone services, a built in HUD so that computer or gaming consoles can be accessed from the suit, and a brand new system that takes noise filtering to an all new level, by being able to program in certain voices, such as a parent, teacher, or any authority figure, and cancelling out their voices. This way, the child may experience life to the fullest w/o having to worry about anything external slowing them down……

This is what I see coming. Some of the things that we did as kids are now being punished to what seems to be extremes. Things that our parents did for us, like take us on a back road or out somewhere remote to let us drive the car under very close supervision is now landing parents in jail for YEARS for child endangerment. Its now being seen as abuse to even reprimand a child for not listening, and blatantly disobeying rules that are set forth. Children [edit] now have the authority to call the police on their parents because the parent is not letting them do something, even if the child doesn’t deserve it (like being grounded). Parents are considered abusive if they try and push a child academically, so that they won’t have a future in flipping burgers or working as a fuel pumping specialist their adult lives. On top of that, the education system is now focusing on pure education, taking out activities like PE or recess, since they don’t overall benefit the child…for children, especially boys, that have the excess energy that they would normally expel on the playground are now being medicated because they don’t know whats wrong with the kid…he’s entirely too energetic.

The benefits of being a child that gets out and plays with other kids, get the energy out through physical activities, and generally just doing things that kids worldwide do, is now being seen as ‘The Devil’. I don’t understand how shielding a child from everything from bumps and bruises to other kids is ever going to get them to develop in a natural way. And as a parent, how is it going to be that I don’t even have the authority to teach my kid, but instead just leave it up to someone else.

It’s a sad day to realize that one day, I’ll probably be sitting in jail, with the rest of my life in ruins, because I took my kids out to play or took them out to teach them something, and even though nobody will get hurt in any way, I’ll be seen as someone who threatened the child’s life. I will take my kid out to climb a wall or show them the proper way in handling a weapon, and I’ll be lumped in with the same parents that lock their kids in the basement and starve them or the ones that drive drunk with the kids not buckled in the backseat.

I just don’t get how we’re expected to be parents, but being told not to be parents. It doesn’t matter. In the famous words of Chuck Murphy, ‘RAGE!’ . I’m not scared to do the right thing, even if I’m punished for it.

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