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23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

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23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do | The Art of Manliness

Here's the "Cliff's Notes" version

1. Play With Fireworks
2. Hammer a Nail
3. Stick Your Arm Out a Car Window
4. Jump Off a Cliff
5. Use a Bow and Arrow
6. Cook a Meal
7. Climb a Tree
8. Roughhouse
9. Go Sledding
10. Drive a Car
11. Burn Things With a Magnifying Glass
12. Walk or Ride a Bike to School
13. Shoot a Gun
14. Stand on the Roof
15. Squash a Penny on a Railroad Track
16. Sword Fight With Sticks
17. Shoot a Slingshot
18. Explore a Construction Site
19. Use a Pocket Knife
20. Climb a Rope
21. Ride Your Bike Off a Ramp
22. Make a Fire
23. Explore a Tunnel

I'm going to add a few

24. Make a tennis ball cannon
25. Roll down a hill in a tire
26. Jump off a swing
27. Get in a fight
28. Catch a snake

Also, WRT #21, jumping your bike over a ramp is fun. Jumping your bike over your buddy who is laying in the road in front of the ramp is better. Being the kid laying in the road while your buddies jump their bikes over you is totally bad ass!
 
Lutherf said:
23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do | The Art of Manliness

Here's the "Cliff's Notes" version

1. Play With Fireworks
2. Hammer a Nail
3. Stick Your Arm Out a Car Window
4. Jump Off a Cliff
5. Use a Bow and Arrow
6. Cook a Meal
7. Climb a Tree
8. Roughhouse
9. Go Sledding
10. Drive a Car
11. Burn Things With a Magnifying Glass
12. Walk or Ride a Bike to School
13. Shoot a Gun
14. Stand on the Roof
15. Squash a Penny on a Railroad Track
16. Sword Fight With Sticks
17. Shoot a Slingshot
18. Explore a Construction Site
19. Use a Pocket Knife
20. Climb a Rope
21. Ride Your Bike Off a Ramp
22. Make a Fire
23. Explore a Tunnel

I'm going to add a few

24. Make a tennis ball cannon
25. Roll down a hill in a tire
26. Jump off a swing
27. Get in a fight
28. Catch a snake

Also, WRT #21, jumping your bike over a ramp is fun. Jumping your bike over your buddy who is laying in the road in front of the ramp is better. Being the kid laying in the road while your buddies jump their bikes over you is totally bad ass!
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... no to rolling down a hill in a tire.
 
Spartacus FPV said:
... no to rolling down a hill in a tire.
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Well, someone should check the tire to make sure it doesn't have rainwater in it first. Of course, kids do pick up on that after the first incident.

Speaking of incidents, your reply leads me to believe you might have a story to tell us!
 
Lutherf said:
23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do | The Art of Manliness

Here's the "Cliff's Notes" version

1. Play With Fireworks
2. Hammer a Nail
3. Stick Your Arm Out a Car Window
4. Jump Off a Cliff
5. Use a Bow and Arrow
6. Cook a Meal
7. Climb a Tree
8. Roughhouse
9. Go Sledding
10. Drive a Car
11. Burn Things With a Magnifying Glass
12. Walk or Ride a Bike to School
13. Shoot a Gun
14. Stand on the Roof
15. Squash a Penny on a Railroad Track
16. Sword Fight With Sticks
17. Shoot a Slingshot
18. Explore a Construction Site
19. Use a Pocket Knife
20. Climb a Rope
21. Ride Your Bike Off a Ramp
22. Make a Fire
23. Explore a Tunnel

I'm going to add a few

24. Make a tennis ball cannon
25. Roll down a hill in a tire
26. Jump off a swing
27. Get in a fight
28. Catch a snake

Also, WRT #21, jumping your bike over a ramp is fun. Jumping your bike over your buddy who is laying in the road in front of the ramp is better. Being the kid laying in the road while your buddies jump their bikes over you is totally bad ass!
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They are probably going to do half of those things anyway. So, you may as well show them the right way to do them.
 
I'll add walk/swim in the river.
 
Today I read an article where there are some in our society claiming allowing your child to play football is child abuse.

Sigh....

29. play contact sports.
30. Use tools to build things like a tree house or a soapbox derby car or a gocart.
 
vesper said:
Today I read an article where there are some in our society claiming allowing your child to play football is child abuse.

Sigh....

29. play contact sports.
30. Use tools to build things like a tree house or a soapbox derby car or a gocart.
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I don't know about child abuse, but I wouldn't let my kid play football. Head injuries are no joke.
 
Racing two loaded hay racks down a hill sitting on the top bale 7 bales high. Jfthoi, (Remember black light posters)

Shooting bottle rockets at town traffic. (Throwing eggs was really a mess)

I got TP'd a lot as a teacher, loved it; not so much with eggs;

Penny in people in their door rooms;

kicked open the dorm elevator doors when the elevator still had fans at the top and threw lots of 'stuff' in;

Drenched our dorm rug hallways and played water slide;

HS coaches always told us to get our asses out on the back roads; that's how we found KAAY 1090 AM Little Rock back in the late 60s when there was no FM;

Was within two feet on the sidelines when our QB got speared in the neck, halo for several months (please don't do this);

a very great student of mine got a broken neck in wrestling when he wouldn't give on a half Nelson; coaches asked me to go sit with the Moms and calm them; another halo; sat with him on weekends for months in my room;

Kids today think they're inventing the wheel and trying to out stupid us; :mrgreen:

Too bad the Bubba Kush wasn't around then; lots of folks would still be around; though I'm quite worried with this opiod crisis and duragesic fentanyl ;
 
Lutherf said:
23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do | The Art of Manliness

Here's the "Cliff's Notes" version

1. Play With Fireworks
2. Hammer a Nail
3. Stick Your Arm Out a Car Window
4. Jump Off a Cliff
5. Use a Bow and Arrow
6. Cook a Meal
7. Climb a Tree
8. Roughhouse
9. Go Sledding
10. Drive a Car
11. Burn Things With a Magnifying Glass
12. Walk or Ride a Bike to School
13. Shoot a Gun
14. Stand on the Roof
15. Squash a Penny on a Railroad Track
16. Sword Fight With Sticks
17. Shoot a Slingshot
18. Explore a Construction Site
19. Use a Pocket Knife
20. Climb a Rope
21. Ride Your Bike Off a Ramp
22. Make a Fire
23. Explore a Tunnel

I'm going to add a few

24. Make a tennis ball cannon
25. Roll down a hill in a tire
26. Jump off a swing
27. Get in a fight
28. Catch a snake

Also, WRT #21, jumping your bike over a ramp is fun. Jumping your bike over your buddy who is laying in the road in front of the ramp is better. Being the kid laying in the road while your buddies jump their bikes over you is totally bad ass!
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Out of those, I've done #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 26.

I'm a dangerous girl. :mrgreen:
 
calamity said:
They are probably going to do half of those things anyway. So, you may as well show them the right way to do them.
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Parents would always tell me giving their kids the keys for their first time solo at night was their greatest nightmare .
 
NIMBY said:
Parents would always tell me giving their kids the keys for their first time solo at night was their greatest nightmare .
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Daughter of a friend went on her first ride with her high school boyfriend's car. They wrecked a few doors down right after he picked her up. The guy said they barely made it 100 yards.

Thankfully it was a 25 mph road.
 
TheGoverness said:
Out of those, I've done #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 26.

I'm a dangerous girl. :mrgreen:
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Whoa, whoa there, hey now, sweet cakes. This is the Art of Manliness! Go play with your dolls.




:D
 
TheGoverness said:
Out of those, I've done #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 26.

I'm a dangerous girl. :mrgreen:
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Never built a fire? How the hell have done so much on that list, and NOT at least one fire?

OK, here's what you're gonna do. Do some laundry, gather a nice wad of dryer lent, ball it up, set it in your back yard.

Piles some small sticks on it. Light.

Add #22 to your list.
 
calamity said:
Daughter of a friend went on her first ride with her high school boyfriend's car. They wrecked a few doors down right after he picked her up. The guy said they barely made it 100 yards. Thankfully it was a 25 mph road.
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I know I've said this somewhere on DP before but here goes. Remember The NEEDLE and the Damage Done'. Replacing the word needle with what they thought of was the subject for that day's down time. By the time the later classes came in, word always gets around and they were prepared.

alcohol, speed the drug, speed the car, cigs, powders, difficult family life, music lyrics believe it or not; got any???

One thing you can't do as a teacher is tell kids what you did as kid .
 
TheGoverness said:
Out of those, I've done #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 26.

I'm a dangerous girl. :mrgreen:
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No reason girls shouldn't do these things!

As far as shooting a bow and arrow, that was part of gym class when I was in school. Granted, most of us kids had made our own well before that. When I saw it on the list I was kind of surprised that schools aren't doing that any more.
 
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Lutherf said:
23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do | The Art of Manliness

Here's the "Cliff's Notes" version

1. Play With Fireworks
2. Hammer a Nail
3. Stick Your Arm Out a Car Window
4. Jump Off a Cliff
5. Use a Bow and Arrow
6. Cook a Meal
7. Climb a Tree
8. Roughhouse
9. Go Sledding
10. Drive a Car
11. Burn Things With a Magnifying Glass
12. Walk or Ride a Bike to School
13. Shoot a Gun
14. Stand on the Roof
15. Squash a Penny on a Railroad Track
16. Sword Fight With Sticks
17. Shoot a Slingshot
18. Explore a Construction Site
19. Use a Pocket Knife
20. Climb a Rope
21. Ride Your Bike Off a Ramp
22. Make a Fire
23. Explore a Tunnel

I'm going to add a few

24. Make a tennis ball cannon
25. Roll down a hill in a tire
26. Jump off a swing
27. Get in a fight
28. Catch a snake

Also, WRT #21, jumping your bike over a ramp is fun. Jumping your bike over your buddy who is laying in the road in front of the ramp is better. Being the kid laying in the road while your buddies jump their bikes over you is totally bad ass!
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Some of that stuff doesn't seem dangerous.
 
Lutherf said:
No reason girls shouldn't do these things!

As far as shooting a bow and arrow, that was part of gym class when I was in school. Granted, most of us kids had made our own well before that when I saw it on the list I was kind of surprised that schools aren't doing that any more.
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Make sure they stand on the roof leaning to the apex, front or back. In big snow winters, we'd jump off the roof into the snow drifts. We used to play a 'toilet bowl' football game in deep snow .
 
Fishking said:
Some of that stuff doesn't seem dangerous.
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I had that list plus done before Kindergarten.

The other stuff that kids need is an appreciation for hand tools. Pump actions screw drivers, hand augers, block planes, etc. Kids need to know how to use that stuff before you hand them an iPhone.
 
Lutherf said:
23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do | The Art of Manliness

Here's the "Cliff's Notes" version

1. Play With Fireworks
2. Hammer a Nail
3. Stick Your Arm Out a Car Window
4. Jump Off a Cliff
5. Use a Bow and Arrow
6. Cook a Meal
7. Climb a Tree
8. Roughhouse
9. Go Sledding
10. Drive a Car
11. Burn Things With a Magnifying Glass
12. Walk or Ride a Bike to School
13. Shoot a Gun
14. Stand on the Roof
15. Squash a Penny on a Railroad Track
16. Sword Fight With Sticks
17. Shoot a Slingshot
18. Explore a Construction Site
19. Use a Pocket Knife
20. Climb a Rope
21. Ride Your Bike Off a Ramp
22. Make a Fire
23. Explore a Tunnel

I'm going to add a few

24. Make a tennis ball cannon
25. Roll down a hill in a tire
26. Jump off a swing
27. Get in a fight
28. Catch a snake

Also, WRT #21, jumping your bike over a ramp is fun. Jumping your bike over your buddy who is laying in the road in front of the ramp is better. Being the kid laying in the road while your buddies jump their bikes over you is totally bad ass!
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1. Play With Fireworks:

Every kid should have the opportunity to shoot a bottle rocket out of his ass.

 
Your Star said:
I don't know about child abuse, but I wouldn't let my kid play football. Head injuries are no joke.
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There are a number of moms who feel that way. I am not one of them. All I can say is thank G-d for dads. If it were up to moms there would be a number of kids who would never see the inside of a hockey rink or a football field.
 
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