ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY: ARE MODERN PARENTS OVERPROTECTIVE?

-          No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
 

-          WE ARE AWESOME!!!! OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF!!!! 

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!! 

-          First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

-          They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

-          Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered 
with bright colored lead-base paints.

-          We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

-          As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

-          Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

-          We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

-          We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

-          We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV-OR- AID made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.   WHY?

-          Because we were always outside playing....that's why!

-          We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.. 
No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY. 

-            We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. 

-            We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes.

-          There were no video games,

-          No 150 channels on cable,

-           No video movies or DVD's,

-          No surround-sound or CD's,

-          no cell phones,

-          no personal computers,

-          no Internet and no chat rooms.   

-          WE HAD FRIENDS AND WE WENT OUTSIDE AND FOUND THEM!   

-          We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. 

-          We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

-          We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

-          We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. 

-          We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

-           Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

-          Imagine that!!    

-           The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!  

-          These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

-          The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. What can kids today do besides push buttons?

-          We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

-          IF YOU ARE ONE OF THEM, CONGRATULATIONS! 

-          You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

-          While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were. 

-          Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?

NOW READ THE POINTS BELOW AND WRITE AN OPINION ESSAY:

-          ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: WE NEED TO SET OUR CHILDREN FREE

-          Are we smothering our children with love and attention? Are we crippling them with overprotection? Are we carrying out enough surveillance to put Mossad to shame?  Or do we, the helicopter parents, have a point?

-          Is the world a far more dangerous place than ever before?

-          Is it populated with a host of unsavory characters?

-          Do we need to do even more to protect our kids or is all we are doing a little over the top?

-          Read through the comments made by Jay Leno, decide where you stand, formulate your thesis statement and give it all you have got. Remember you need to defend your own view and leave you opponents without a leg to stand on. Go for it
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