Thursday, 9 April 2009
Wussifying The Next Generation
« Does Government Need More Revenue? | Main | What Is It With Dems And Their Unexperienced Candidates »Compared to today's kids, I lived a wild and crazy life style. Yet through all of it, I turned out relatively normal and I don't have any weird side effects from exposure to stuff as a kid. It is amazing how that works out. People have been raising their kids for generations without the hypersensitivity today and their kids have turned out just find. But yet we continue to get stories about freaked out parents who are worried about the health and well being of their kids.
When Pamela Davis was pregnant with her daughter Meaghan, she started to worry about contamination from the lead paint in her Hoboken, N.J., row house. Then she started reading about chemicals in plastic toys and baby clothes treated with flame retardant.
Soon her entire nursery seemed to pose some mysterious threat to her impending bundle of joy. She was surrounded."Once you're aware of one thing it just spreads and you start questioning everything," she said. "You can drive yourself absolutely crazy trying to keep your baby healthy."
Davis's predicament is familiar to many expecting parents.
You have got to be kidding me. These people have way to much time on their hands to be stressing out about such silly crap. I think there time would be better spent playing with their kids rather than worry about their "safety". I guarantee that they will grow up normally without all of the silly protections they are trying to provide them. Of course it doesn't help when "experts" feed the flames of these people delusional paranoia.
Still, Landrigan and other experts say that data from experiments on animals suggest that parents take a hard look at the plastic near their babies, from sippy cups to bouncy chairs, while recognizing that danger
does not lurk around each corner of the playpen."It's important for parents not to feel the products in their homes are dooming their children," said Janie Fields, executive director of the Children's Environmental Health Institute. She recommends that parents
discuss environmental risks with their pediatricians.For Davis, it was important to surround her family with ecologically friendly products and foods that nurture both the planet and her own three children, now 14, 12 and 10.
In 2003, the Davis family created Our Green House, an online store that sells all the trappings of a green nursery, like pacifiers made from natural rubber, organic wool receiving blankets, cradles crafted from sustainable wood, organic formula and glass baby bottles for that organic formula. New products appear every few months.
Alarmed by the recent flurry of recalls of toys tainted with lead paint or unsafe plastic, families are trying to make careful choices about the toys and surfaces that surround their babies, the air they breathe and the food they eat.
Unbelievable. If we are to believe all of these experts it is a wonder that all of us who grew up 30+ years ago aren't already dead from out exposure to the "contaminates" in our childhood. Of course the purpose for all of the fear mongering is not to make sure children grow up safe, but to feed a new and growing industry of "eco-friendly" companies. Companies that thrive of the fears of people.
In the mean time, we are going to have a new generation of kids who are so insulated that they won't be able to handle the real world. It will be generation full of wussies. Not exactly promissing for the future of the United States is it?
