Reading stories like the below make me glad to be living in Switzerland where kids can be kids:
I wouldnât leave the kids of 5, 4 and 1.5 alone in the garden for the safety of the youngest (unless the youngest sleeps in the stroller and the stroller is in some safe corner where it cannot be hit by the ball). 1.5 yo needs constant supervision of someone who is at least 12.
The article aside (and yes, IMO current US ideas of relentless parental supervision are utter nuts), did you read the comments section?
Whole lotta crazy on display thereâŚ
Just for fun, I make sure my US visitors see Kindergartners walking to school all by themselves. Or I take them on a walk that passes by the local forest Kindi, where the little âuns use pocket knives and light fires.
I rather enjoy watching my American visitorsâ heads explode.
(I grew up feral by todayâs standards. Happy times.)
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How times have changed. When I was a kid, pre kindergarten, I would romp around the neighborhood in NJ all alone. I would ride my bike everywhere. Even wondered down to the river to hike along it at times. Mom just warned me not to get into any strangerâs cars.
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At 10YO I walked alone upstream through the canyons overlooking the GG bridge, admiring salamanders and Stellerâs jays. I took apart '50s metal skates and made the famous SitMobile, got the other kids to build their own, and we all raced down the hilly sidewalks, burning up our Keds as brakes.
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When we were young and we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing âHallelujah.â
But you try and tell the young people today that⌠and they wonât believe yaâ.
Luxury!
Apologies to Monty Pythonâs four Yorkshiremen.
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Please apologise again to the actual originators of the sketch.
Written by Barry Cryer, It was never a Monty Python (TV show) sketch. More commonly associated with âThe Secret Policemanâs Ballâ which made it famous, it was originally done pre-Python way back in the 1960s⌠I need to look it up, ah yes, here we go. Four Yorkshiremen - Wikipedia
He only needs to half apologise as according to your link the writers were Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman with probably some imput by Barry Cryer. So somehow at least 40% PythonâŚ
It was also later performed by the Pythons.
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