WIRED FOR SAFETY
There once was a kid wired for safety,
Whose parents checked texts almost daily.
Yikes!
A scraped knee? Alarm!
A fall? Oh no harm!
But grit got left out, quite unsafely.
At H-E-B, with a tantrum in motion,
The candy aisle stirred up commotion.
Fake tears were applied,
Parents caved, wide-eyed,
And yielded, much to the kid’s sly devotion.
Back in the 80s, we roamed every street,
Blue climbing and biking, feeling the heat.
Bruised elbows, torn clothes,
Mud under my toes,
While today’s kids stay inside on repeat.
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Too true! Unfortunately, parents have been trained to do this. I realized that, once the schools started insisting we sign test papers, even when our child received an A. Thus, the helicopter parent was born.
ReplyDeleteSad but true! The next generation will be incapable of doing anything on their own.
ReplyDeleteAnd never been to a HEB but I know what one is.