At 25 Jun 2009 16:51:38 -0400 JoeSpareBedroom wrote:


> > Seems like a cool service, but it's a backpacking trip- they're not
> > visiting Indiana Jones' Temple of Doom! Whatever happened to the days
> > when an "emergency camping kit" was a bottle of water purification
> > tablets, a box of waterproof matches, and a good old-fashioned flare
gun ?
> >
>
>
> You don't have kids.


Three, in fact. I don't, however, have teenagers yet.

I find I'm pretty lax compared to other parents in my peer group, but
tighter than my parents' generation was. (My kids wear seat belts, for
example, rather than sliding around the "wayback" of the station wagon
hoping for sudden turns like we did!)

I was never the type, for example, to lock the toilets shut, or cover
electrical outlets with those stupid plastic clips. (My kids hopefully
won't learn about electricity like I did- by bending a pipe-cleaner into a
"U", shoving it in an outlet and blowing a circuit breaker!)