kids are soft today and if we don't watch out they will become even softer and finally be the turning point in humans civilisation and not for the better.
i think it's ridicules that parents cannot physically punish their children, kids neat to be beaten, not to an inch of their life, but in any clan in the wild, wolfs Lions even Dolphins what ever if you fuck up you get physically beaten and you learn by that.
Well Nico, I do have kids, and they surprise the hell out of you. Given the right circumstances they are tough as nails. My son seemed to be "soft" so my wife suggested he go to a 3 week outdoors school, Outward Bound, in the mountains of North Carolina.
He spent 3 weeks sleeping on the ground, eating crayfish, spent 3 days alone in the forest as part of the "solo" training, and climbed a 500 foot cliff. When I asked him if he was shocked at the experience, he said that it was hard the first couple days, but then you get used to it.
Kid totally blew me away by his matter of fact attitude. This was a boy who liked to play XBox all the time, lol.
As for the 10 year old girl in a physique contest, as long as she wants to do it, more power to her. The key is to let her decide what level she wants to participate at. And of course, at that young age, her parents need to keep an eye out for "predators". But hey, that's no different than letting them go to the local mall. Bad people are everywhere.
