Yes, and as those of us who have children know - car seats are a HUGE deal! They give new parents individual instructions at many hospitals before they take their babies home. They have free car seat checks through the Ga. State Patrol and many local LE offices (you can take your car with car seat and they will examine and let you know if it is installed properly, fits your child, etc.
Back in the dark ages when I was growing up - we didn't even have car seats. I remember lying down in the back seat floor board and napping while driving long distances on vacation. I don't remember hearing of anyone's child dying in a hot car. They could climb or crawl over to the window as they weren't strapped in. I understand that safety in case of a crash overrides this but it makes me sad to think of him being strapped down, unable to even crawl over and beat on the window to ask passers-by to save him
BBM (an a lil OT)
I don't think those were the "Dark Ages".
These days are.
Every glorious moment of a childhood full of freedom and wonder, has been lost to the 'Safety Generation'. Today's kids are living 'pre-fab' childhoods. Every single waking moment is structured, confined, restricted, and limited to an adults pre planned agenda. A stale and stifled pale imitation of the real thing. All in the name of 'Safety'.
I remember playing stick ball in the street, building tree forts in the woods, that no adult ever set eyes on...
My siblings and I would sneak down to the beach, at midnight, on sweltering summer nights, swim out to the raft, and lie under a gazillion stars, making up stories about them...
It's no surprise to me that I, not only
survived, such a dangerous, unsupervised upbringing...but I thrived on it. I am protective of my littles, but yeah, they climb trees, go barefoot in the grass, we go for Night Walks, and are not opposed to bringing home small wounded animals, regardless of whatever dangerous pathogens might be lurking in their tiny, cold, hairless/featherless bodies.
I would not want to be a child in this day and age. ( where 'playtime' is as stiff and unimaginative, as those New Playground structure things, that bore the heck out of kids!) I feel sorry that Tomorrow's Children will be even farther removed from the Real Thing. But hey, at least they'll be as "Safe" as possible in the cages we build for them right?
And when they grow up, they better just keep any individual expression underwraps, or they too, will face the judgement, and condemnation, for the most minute expression, that steps over the line of socially accepted behavior.
