[Beastie]

Originally Posted by King Herod

I'm baffled as to why some of the younger FMs on here are taking such offence at a lighthearted post. Clearly us older ones can remember a time when there was no such thing as health and safety and political correctness to worry about, and because we lived through those times we have a yardstick to compare our childhoods with those of our children and the younger generation in general. It's a fact that back in the day children were allowed to take risks, to learn by experience and to take responsibility for themselves, whereas kids today have not had that opportunity given that they are constantly being monitored, supervised, assessed, tested etc etc.

Give it 20 odd years, and the FMs sneering at our trips down memory lane, will find themselves remembering the "good old days" with their own kids!

Yes I agree with you. When I was a kid we had that. We could ride at the back of a trailer when someone was driving a tractor and that through the village. This is why I said people born around my time is like the cross over generation. From getting freedom without any stupid risk assessments to people panicking about their health and sprogs because of probably how the media has shaped it all up to be? I am not sure. It is a range of factors really.