Happy Friday,

I wanted to share a little lighter side to the message of the week (can’t be too serious all the time).

I found this article quite humorous and painfully true. For those of you who are over 30, you will read this and laugh out loud. You will quickly realize that if raised in today’s world you would have missed out on many of these endearing memories below. Our parents would have been publicly chastised or worse, arrested for neglect. Yet, times were simple and life wasn’t seen from such a fatalistic point of view.

For those of you who are younger than 30, eat your heart out. See what you missed out on? I challenge you to run around your yard today with a stick. It is not likely you’ll poke out your eye. . . do you know anyone who ever poked their eye out?

We wonder why people are risk averse. We have raised a generation of kids who are so cautious and live in fear of everything. Take some risks. It will feel invigorating.

From The Organic Prepper: With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods.

Here’s the problem with all of this babying: It creates a society of weenies.

Below, you’ll find 10 childhood activities no one used to consider “extreme” or illegal… but could get some parents thrown in jail in some places today:
1. Riding in the back of an open pickup truck with a bunch of other kids.
2. Leaving the house after breakfast and not returning until the streetlights came on, at which point you raced home ASAP so you didn’t get in trouble.
3. Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the school cafeteria.
4. Riding your bike without a helmet.
5. Riding your bike with a buddy on the handlebars, and neither of you wearing helmets.
6. Drinking water from the hose in the yard.
7. Swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes (or what they now call *cough* “wild swimming”).
8. Climbing trees (one park cut the lower branches from a tree on the playground in case some stalwart child dared to climb them).
9. Having snowball fights (and accidentally hitting someone you shouldn’t).
10. Sledding without enough protective equipment to play a game in the NFL…
You can read the full list of 25 at TheOrganicPrepper.ca.

Live inspire, be abundant and fulfill your destiny,