Comments on: Unwrap the cotton wool and get real http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/ Work is just something I do between bike rides Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: eccles http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 eccles Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:46:48 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/#comment-1350 <p>heh, not yet :-) My riding style isn't really appropriate to have children on the back. We have started planting trees that are fun to climb tho.</p> <p>I think she was aware of that, and a bit worried.</p> heh, not yet :-) My riding style isn’t really appropriate to have children on the back. We have started planting trees that are fun to climb tho.

I think she was aware of that, and a bit worried.

]]> By: Simon http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Simon Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:48:55 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/#comment-1351 <p>It's incredible just how profound an influence childhood freedoms have on adult behaviours. Had I not been free to pull my dad's old Apollo 10-Speed from the shed (from the dust and cobwebs and the redbacks that made them, from the boxes of sharp tools and old books and the faint, greasy whiff of two stroke) - had I not been free to take that bike and go for a long ride to no place special - I doubt I'd be riding to work now, never mind enjoying it.</p> <p>Brunswick Street may be bumpy, but have you ever tried riding an unsealed country road on 27" rims? Ouch.</p> It’s incredible just how profound an influence childhood freedoms have on adult behaviours. Had I not been free to pull my dad’s old Apollo 10-Speed from the shed (from the dust and cobwebs and the redbacks that made them, from the boxes of sharp tools and old books and the faint, greasy whiff of two stroke) – had I not been free to take that bike and go for a long ride to no place special – I doubt I’d be riding to work now, never mind enjoying it.

Brunswick Street may be bumpy, but have you ever tried riding an unsealed country road on 27″ rims? Ouch.

]]> By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Treadly and Me Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:35:59 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/#comment-1352 <p>Congratulations. Started looking for kiddie seats yet?</p> <p>Gee, that new mother is in for <strong>one rude shock</strong>. It ain't no bruise on the arm.</p> Congratulations. Started looking for kiddie seats yet?

Gee, that new mother is in for one rude shock. It ain’t no bruise on the arm.

]]> By: eccles http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 eccles Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:04:30 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/08/05/unwrap-the-cotton-wool-and-get-real/#comment-1353 <p>I concur. We have a little boy on the way, and my partner has been most relieved to hear about all the insane things my brothers and I did... because even tho there were incidents that would have been dangerous, we're all still alive, healty and hale.</p> <p>There's also a problem where if you deny kids a chance to learn thoroughly about their environment, their ability to evaluate risk accurately goes to pot. You can't judge how dangerous something is without some experimental context. (as a related example, one of the women in the antenatal class said she had no idea how to rate labour in terms of pain because she's never had any injury more serious than a bruise.. so she was full of trepedation).</p> I concur. We have a little boy on the way, and my partner has been most relieved to hear about all the insane things my brothers and I did… because even tho there were incidents that would have been dangerous, we’re all still alive, healty and hale.

There’s also a problem where if you deny kids a chance to learn thoroughly about their environment, their ability to evaluate risk accurately goes to pot. You can’t judge how dangerous something is without some experimental context. (as a related example, one of the women in the antenatal class said she had no idea how to rate labour in terms of pain because she’s never had any injury more serious than a bruise.. so she was full of trepedation).

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