Can we do the same to RETIRED AND OLD POLITICIANS?????????
Just have to find the right person-circle to FEED THEM TO.....
No one's going to eat that! Not even starving cannibals!
Can we do the same to RETIRED AND OLD POLITICIANS?????????
Just have to find the right person-circle to FEED THEM TO.....
Oh well, just a thought before we pollute our gardens with the "new fertiliser" made from "old fertiliser".No one's going to eat that! Not even starving cannibals!
Came home today to learn my husband gave my kids a driving lesson and bought the oldest a small shotgun.
(My kids are nowhere close to driving age.)
I suppose I'll just take some deep breaths and try not to be a helicopter mom.
That does make me feel better! It was just on our property here.If it makes you feel any better, I drove on a highway at age 7. Before seatbelt laws and all of that my uncle would set me on his lap (more like on the edge of the seat between his legs) and let me steer! These were country type roads...but, that was when I started to learn to drive.
That does make me feel better! It was just on our property here.
I figure my husband's right. They need to learn just in case. It's just that they still seem like babies to me!
I guess he figured if I was old enough to cut a straight line in the grass with the lawn tractor...it was time. Then my dad used an old rototiller engine to make a wood go cart for us. I was about 9 then.
After that he bought a scooter that went about 50 and seated two. He taught us how to drive it and let us take it around our country block whenever we wanted. My brother and I would sometimes take it on the back roads to town in the summer and get ice cream with our allowance money. My mom had a fit. My dad just shrugged.
The way people tell it today, it is a wonder all of us didn't end up dead with all of the things we used to be allowed to do!
Look at it this way Survivor, the earlier they learn to drive, the more "muscle memory" they will have, and the safer drivers they will be when they get their licenses and get on the road. Not just from lots of practice, but also, it won't be as big a thrill to start driving and maybe they won't do the foolish things *some* of us () did when we got turned loose on the roads.Came home today to learn my husband gave my kids a driving lesson and bought the oldest a small shotgun.
(My kids are nowhere close to driving age.)
I suppose I'll just take some deep breaths and try not to be a helicopter mom.
Good point!Look at it this way Survivor, the earlier they learn to drive, the more "muscle memory" they will have, and the safer drivers they will be when they get their licenses and get on the road. Not just from lots of practice, but also, it won't be as big a thrill to start driving and maybe they won't do the foolish things *some* of us () did when we got turned loose on the roads.
I say encourage it, don't discourage it.
Same with shooting...
I have a friend I work with regularly who got pulled over and arrested for driving cross country somewhere in Arkansas as he was on his way to see his grandmother. He was 12 and they put him in an orphanage in little rock where he had to scrub the baseboards with a toothbrush to get supper. No joke. I verified the toothbrush part by meeting someone else who lived in the orphanage.Look at it this way Survivor, the earlier they learn to drive, the more "muscle memory" they will have, and the safer drivers they will be when they get their licenses and get on the road. Not just from lots of practice, but also, it won't be as big a thrill to start driving and maybe they won't do the foolish things *some* of us () did when we got turned loose on the roads.
I say encourage it, don't discourage it.
Same with shooting...
Not helping, Bill. Not helping.I have a friend I work with regularly who got pulled over and arrested for driving cross country somewhere in Arkansas as he was on his way to see his grandmother. He was 12 and they put him in an orphanage in little rock where he had to scrub the baseboards with a toothbrush to get supper. No joke. I verified the toothbrush part by meeting someone else who lived in the orphanage.
Also , the officer complimented him on his driving skills.
I grew up around sawmills and logging operations, was driving loggers and lumber trucks at age 12 and working on our farm with large tractors, combines and cultivators, One day after we got out of school for summer break we went to mill to work and absolutely loved working there and on farm, Was NO video games or cell phones back then at all,I don't remember when I first started driving, but it was probably a tractor or feed truck first at a very young age. Silly things like government permission slips (aka licenses) didn't mean much to dad, and still doesn't to me. When cars came out with seat belts dad would cut them out of our vehicles. Any time we buy new vehicles the first thing I do is disconnect all of the safety buzzers and the day-time running lights. I know when to turn my lights on, and I'll decide if I want to wear a seat belt, which is seldom.
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