Kind of long but fun to read...

[jodifla]

I know dozens of kids in my generation who rode in the backs of pickup trucks and are fine, and of one adult who died. I don't understand your point. The safest activity, no - but as with the new ban on cribs with drop-sides, there've been about ten deaths in nineteen years (figures not accurate, I don't have time to find the actual stats) yet there are millions of those cribs used safely every day.

The point of the e-mail is, there's so much we did safely yet now find necessary to protect our kids from doing? Why? This part, especially, was interesting:

"These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers,
problem solvers, and inventors ever.
The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas... "

If everything is planned out for recent, current, and future generations, and if they're protected from all potential hazards, who will take risks? Who will problem-solve? How can you solve a problem if you don't know one exists; or even if you know one exists, if you don't have the tools to know how to fix it what can you do?

Great post, and well put. Another one of those rare times we agree!