All Children Should Be Delinquents

Re:All Children Should Be Delinquents by lifeisstillgood on Sunday July 13, 2014 @02:24AM (#8026803)

As a parent of two young kids, I agree - as long as the delinquency does not actually injure them or others badly, and they stay away from red-heads with loaded fucking guns!

Which is the whole problem - the reason we say "dont do that it will hurt" is that it probably will hurt. Yes kids need to learn their own limits, and I want that to happen. I just would prefer not to have the lesson end in A&E.

I think mobile technology will enable a longer "lead" - but then who wants to be on a lead.

I think ultimately - I am my dad :-)

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Re:All Children Should Be Delinquents by smoyer on Sunday July 13, 2014 @08:23AM (#8027191)

I took my kids to play with loaded guns ... when they end up bruised from the kick-back of a shot-gun and see a clay pigeon turn to powder mid-air, they gain an appreciation for why guns aren't really toys. We played with toy guns while growing up, but I never would have considered trying to open my dad's gun cabinet.

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Re:All Children Should Be Delinquents by saraid216 on Sunday July 13, 2014 @02:38AM (#8026818)

Um. ...red-heads...? Do you mean hotheads, perhaps?

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Re:All Children Should Be Delinquents by e28eta on Sunday July 13, 2014 @04:59AM (#8026975)

I believe it's a reference to the article

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Re:All Children Should Be Delinquents by lifeisstillgood on Sunday July 13, 2014 @06:53AM (#8027086)

Yeah - kid who was presumably abused by parents, sold drugs, beat up other kids, had access to firearms. Kind of glossed over a backstory in the article I felt.

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