That's a question I'll bet many ponder, from reading old newspapers and remembering things of the past, there has always been bad people out there, I think its more prevalent today, the population has increased quite a bit and then some. The news today is chock full of some of the worst things a person can imagine, daily it seems, though I know it was just the same 30 years ago, maybe you did not hear it so often or it had the same frequency. Kid I rode the school bus with, best one of the whole family, he got preyed upon, assaulted well in an "unnatural" manner lets say to keep it G rated, and was murdered, left in a ditch, hot early summer, he was badly decomposed when they found his remains, and they never caught the person who did it, the case is still open today. Place where I lived in those days was full of some really odd folks, you had best watch your backside, my mother had to fend off a home invasion at my grandparents farm, using a browning gold trigger 12 ga. shotgun, someone was trying to bash the door in. My father was home on leave and arrived just after, state police showed up too, my father just happened to show up as the guy ducked into the woods, he fired a few shots at him. You can't make this crap up, its unreal at times what you may have to deal with in places you'd never even think you would. I lived there for almost 3 years, rural as heck, in the mountains, party line telephones, have a friend there today, with 2 young girls, told him to pay close attention at all times, it has not changed one bit. I live with the mindset at any given time someone could show up, needless to say, you bug me at night, in the dark, you won't like what happens, I lost a good friend to a killer at point blank range in the head for no good reason, just the money in his pocket which he gave up, killer shot him anyway, its out there and always will be, one has to be prepared not paranoid, just prepared. Well that's kind of my philosophy, never let your guard down.
I know I wanted to drive, and I'd be the first to learn how to run any piece of equipment, tractors, trucks, anything, and did as much as I could, it helped later having a good feel for these kinds of things early. Looking back, I don't know that I was all that ready or educated, but had enough common sense to stay out of trouble, but also never really had any real instruction, that creates an element of danger, ie; running a rotary mower, I knew what it could do, but never gave it any thought, cutting saplings, brush in overgrown fields going back to crops, there was an innocence about it, that could easily have gotten you in serious trouble. I hit a round rock in one field, softball size at the largest, and it went clear up my back side, never hit me, and cleared the hedgerow, easily 40' trees, that and side hills while on a 2010 narrow front, without those experiences, you may not learn to respect things so much. There is no way I'd allow a kid to do any of what I did, without a lot more instruction and hands on working side by side. Same as you said, allowing them to do as many of us did, have freedom to run in the woods, or down the road somewhere, roam at a fair, or any of it, there are way too many predators out there and though they won't get the benefits of such freedom like we did, there has to be a way to make up for that, most kids are bright enough, they do know a lot more at an earlier age, no denying that is true today, its really getting them to listen and absorb what you say, how you do that is an art, and those that do identify with good mentoring, often times are way ahead of the pack. I think my parents liked scare tactics, no diplomacy or discussion/instruction, they were more like cops in a patrol car hiding behind a bill board, screw up, right on your tail, never saw that on the opposite side when doing good or things are ok, normal guidance and all that, never happened, they were always busy, so like so many of us left to our own devices, that somehow made it through some risky times, it does build character without any doubt, but today you have to find another way to get the same thing accomplished. A lot of people find it sad to shield and shelter kids so much, due to the risks out there, knowing how it was way back when.
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