to think that wrapping our kids in cotton wool does more harm than good?

[madhousewife]

I've just been reading through some hilarious stories on 'chat' about 'utterly insane things our parents did' and it made me start to wonder what kind of stories my kids are going to tell - i seem to be more concerned with getting them to eat their veggies and keeping the house clean and preventing them from getting hurt than letting all of us have some real fun and real experiences. I wonder what they are going to look back on and think of their childhood?

Meant to say we played out and roamed a few streets away, but in those days the road was quite quiet. Nowadays the road my childhood home is in is a rat run between to A roads and cars speed down there. When my sister was 10 she had a febrile convulsion in the middle of the road in front of a lorry, but I nowadays she would probably have been run over several times.