Safety Rules
Ever wonder why our society has so many useless safety rules? Like not climbing up the slide, or not playing dodge-ball? Sure, the justification is to keep children safe and out of harm; but every single little thing anyone, not just children, does has a risk of injuring you. Even typing, as small a task as it seems, has a significant risk of you getting electrocuted. All societies throughout history employed these rules to keep their children and people safe. All that is, except the Native Americans. For being "savages", they seemed to be more civilized than any other society on Earth. Being "one with nature", respectful of the land, non-secular, and so efficient with tools that they had absolutely no concept of value, made them an incredible civilization(s). What about them pertains to this topic, you ask? Well, it's the way they raised their children. They never told them, "no no" or, "you can't do that". When a child reached out to touch the fire, his parents let him. Let him learn for himself why you shouldn't touch fire. Obviously, it wasn't totally exclusive of everything; they would keep children from doing something that would end in their death (such as running into a herd of stampeding buffalo or jumping on the thin ice of a frozen lake, or trying to walk down the stairs before they were ready). What do you all think?
Ever wonder why our society has so many useless safety rules? Like not climbing up the slide, or not playing dodge-ball? Sure, the justification is to keep children safe and out of harm; but every single little thing anyone, not just children, does has a risk of injuring you. Even typing, as small a task as it seems, has a significant risk of you getting electrocuted. All societies throughout history employed these rules to keep their children and people safe. All that is, except the Native Americans. For being "savages", they seemed to be more civilized than any other society on Earth. Being "one with nature", respectful of the land, non-secular, and so efficient with tools that they had absolutely no concept of value, made them an incredible civilization(s). What about them pertains to this topic, you ask? Well, it's the way they raised their children. They never told them, "no no" or, "you can't do that". When a child reached out to touch the fire, his parents let him. Let him learn for himself why you shouldn't touch fire. Obviously, it wasn't totally exclusive of everything; they would keep children from doing something that would end in their death (such as running into a herd of stampeding buffalo or jumping on the thin ice of a frozen lake, or trying to walk down the stairs before they were ready). What do you all think?