Author Topic: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (Read 547 times)

crockett · « **on:** January 09, 2008, 12:06:18 PM »

Found this on another board and thought it was pretty good.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/202/?src=rss

I did them all

MadMan · « **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2008, 12:37:52 PM »

mind listing them out? Can't view videos at work, and I'll probably forget to look when I get home.

DYNAMITE · « **Reply #2 on:** January 09, 2008, 01:47:36 PM »

Pretty fun stuff

And yes i've done all of them too

1) Play with fire (learn how to control it)
2) Own a pocket knife
3) Throw a spear (or throw things in general)
4) Deconstruct appliances
5) Break the Digital Millennium Contract Act (rip cds) - some laws are stupid and require judgment on behalf of the individual.
6) Drive a car

lazs2 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 09, 2008, 02:03:32 PM »

owning firearms should be in there. although.. done properly there is no real danger.

lazs

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2008, 02:13:19 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
owning firearms should be in there. although.. done properly there is no real danger.

lazs

There's danger in everything. Most of all Stupidity.

Shuffler · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2008, 02:21:21 PM »

Stupid parents generally have stupid offspring.

I agree add to the list owning firearms.

I learned to drive in an old 3 speed chevy truck in a pasture of ours. Nothing teaches control like a good ol' muddy field and some horsepower.

lazs2 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2008, 02:38:12 PM »

learn to weld and to ride motorcycles and to kill and cook your own food and to repair mechanical things.

you don't have to teach em how to ride a taxi or how to tip. or what makeup looks the most "natural" on men or their skin tone.

lazs

Curval · « **Reply #7 on:** January 09, 2008, 02:43:12 PM »

Is it Dynamite who can't count or the guy doing the show?

Chairboy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 09, 2008, 03:05:17 PM »

New math, new-ew-ew-ew math! It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it!

DYNAMITE · « **Reply #9 on:** January 09, 2008, 03:48:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Curval
Is it Dynamite who can't count or the guy doing the show?

LOL

It's the guy on the show...

crockett · « **Reply #10 on:** January 09, 2008, 04:26:00 PM »

Too be fair the video is named 5 things, but at the end he says "5 1/2"

john9001 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 09, 2008, 04:34:26 PM »

did all but #5 all the time, no #5 because no CD's back then.

also inported fireworks from out of state and sold them to other kids at a huge markup. I was a preteen criminal.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #12 on:** January 09, 2008, 05:27:05 PM »

Did em all

Both my kids have doen them all. Including my 11 year old
though #5 she did while sitting on my lap

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 09, 2008, 06:12:52 PM »

What kind of name is "Gever"?

Airscrew · « **Reply #14 on:** January 10, 2008, 08:59:13 AM »

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Originally posted by DYNAMITE

1) Play with fire (learn how to control it)
2) Own a pocket knife
3) Throw a spear (or throw things in general)
4) Deconstruct appliances
5) Break the Digital Millennium Contract Act (rip cds) - some laws are stupid and require judgment on behalf of the individual.
6) Drive a car

#5 could also include (for those of us that predate the CD) copying albums to cassettes and making our own mix tapes and them giving them to friends...

did all those plus played with gunpowder, gas, and fireworks, all though not all at the same time...