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Childhood dangers: then and now : Comments
By Peter West, published 8/8/2007How are our children managing to grow up in such a dangerous world?
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By the way, my mother 'did the messages' too, I have a feeling it is an Irish expression. Just going to the supermarket isn't 'doing the messages,' but if you have to go to the Post Office, buy petrol, or pay some bills, as well as the grocery shop, then the activity becomes 'doing the messages.'
Parents, consider giving your kids a little more freedom, a cut or a burn, or even a broken leg, isn't going to kill them - and most strangers are perfectly harmless, just like you and me.