When Covid hit I remember not being worried and talking to my old friends saying “guys, when it meets our immune systems forged in the free range ‘60s and ‘70s, our bodies are going to collectively shrug and say something like “Is this all you got?” 😂
Btw, we all made it thru alive and kicking. Thanks mom!
We were the same way. My husband works in heavy commercial construction. (Think cranes and giant excavators) As he describes it, they basically eat dirt all day. What better way to harden your immune system. Very, very few on his crew got sick and those who did new never felt terrible. They only had to miss work because they were forced to by the company. Didn’t take long before they just stopped taking the test. Vax compliance was close to zero, btw.
I've done both, and I only became ill while working as an office drone. I heartily concur. I've been working at a screen the last 6 years, but I started vitamin D an Zinc supplements when this flu started. It worked!
🗨 we had destroyed childhood. While the “advances” in parenting of the past fifty years undoubtedly contained some gems, the net effect was a disaster. As with so much else in life, human instincts honed over the millennia were far superior to decades of expert advice.
🗨 two cardinal rules of contemporary playgrounds [...]: One, your child may not get hurt. Two, your child may not hurt another child. Violate the first rule, and you’re negligent. Violate the second and you’re antisocial—borderline criminal.
Exactly! We had to be able to have "situational awareness," and develop basic risk/benefit analysis as kids, to not suffer bodily injuries all the time, get ourselves or someone else killed, lol, or get grounded for life if things did go badly wrong.
We figured it out and learned a lot of skills along the way- one of which was to recognize the incompetent and the bullshit artists among us, cuz, if you listened to THEIR plans, things DID go badly wrong.
Too bad not more of us had that "free range" parenting, or growing up on a farm, ranch or inside a family business where you worked as soon as you could walk.
Taught the same lessons. I'm very worried about the next generations.....that's for sure.
Glad I virtually raised myself. Thanks, Mom, for the opportunity!! And thanks for the care when I was too young to do so. Between both, I think it worked. 🌷🌷🌷
Happy Mother’s Day! And I mean that to all the real moms out there, not the “cat moms” and other “pet moms” celebrated in a bunch of ads I’ve seen this week… I knew our brilliant Gato is influential but this is getting ridiculous…
I hope all you cats teach great literature to your kittens, and thereby help protect them from the illiterate depredations of Big Pharma:
I think y’all will like that post… click over, please, and help us answer one of the enduring questions in modern medicine: are our leading minds pig-ignorant or outright evil?
A few are evil, most are just stupid, "educated fools" - which was, by the way, a phenomena introduced to me by my mother. Educated fools, that is. The more modern way to say it is that "people always rise to the level of their incompetence."
They move in a closed circle. Fail at one high up job and the next opens up to them by their friends.
Look at the woman heading the UK Post Office a year or so back.. She caused several subpostmasters to go to prison when innocent, ruined countless other lives, caused suicides even. Then when it all came out as a computer glitch she was moved to a job at the top of the NHS. Utterly scandalous. How did she not know or suspect? Public outrage caused her to step down. Not sure where she is now., possibly in another well paid job getting thousands for messing up. She should be in prison.
Paula Vennells was her name, if you're interested you can read the whole heartbreaking story in Nick Wallace book The Great Post Office Scandal. She also was forced to step down from two directorship at Morrison's and Dunelm. People like her get their fingers in multiple pies.
Simple. They have degrees and credentials, sometimes even from high fallutin' places like Harvard and Yale and others. People think they can't possibly be stupid if they have a degree, much less a degree from a muckity-muck college.
And it's not as if I'm against education or college. I have a 2 year degree, and I'm glad I do. But people don't understand that there's a vast difference between sitting in a classroom listening to lectures and reading books- and actual real world experience. I think it was Mark Twain that said knowledge without experience is worthless. People also forget that not everyone graduates at the top of their class in college. What happens to the C students? They go on to become bureaucrats and middle managers, that's what. And here we are watching them lay waste to the world.🤷
Thank you, Gato. Today I remember my dear Mom. She was an outstanding woman (before anyone could even think of calling her a "birthing person"). I am so grateful for everything she was and did. And I am so glad that she lived in another time (she would be 99->100 today). Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there.
These are great! Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there. And as a child of free range parenting it was the absolute most free I have ever been in my life (as long as I was home by 6pm for dinner 😉).
Nice tribute. Made me think about my mother after reading it. Mine passed in 1980. She would have been 100 this year. I definitely grew up in the era of free range parenting. No one was trying to structure every moment of every day for us. She did a short relaxing session of Old-fashioned yoga every evening before dinner with yoga master Jim Beam. Skoal to all the moms here.
Love the pics! Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Today is your day! (Or as my wife reminds me, “364 days a year are Father’s Day, thanks for the 1 day a year I don’t have to care for you morons!” 😂❤️
I give 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓hood its due respect, which is the reason I refer to those women who've given birth and raised children as 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔. In our house, we called our 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 by the nickname, "Mom." Some of our friends used the nickname "Ma." Yet outside of the house when introducing our 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 to others, we always said, "I'd like you to meet my 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓..." That's because we didn't have "Moms." We had 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔.
I never thought about the word usage before. I now recall when introducing my Mom to friends as Mom but others as Mother. Interesting. Thanks for kick starting my brain. This Mom is tired.
For me, it's the "casualization" of everything -- including sacred 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓hood -- via language and other means that insidiously diminishes and destroys.
Note the cute little Cheetos have quite a lot of white fur on their backs - may be mimicry of honey badgers to discourage larger predators (who have learned from painful experience).
Funny how so many of us actually survived free range parenting and so have fully functional immune systems?
When Covid hit I remember not being worried and talking to my old friends saying “guys, when it meets our immune systems forged in the free range ‘60s and ‘70s, our bodies are going to collectively shrug and say something like “Is this all you got?” 😂
Btw, we all made it thru alive and kicking. Thanks mom!
We were the same way. My husband works in heavy commercial construction. (Think cranes and giant excavators) As he describes it, they basically eat dirt all day. What better way to harden your immune system. Very, very few on his crew got sick and those who did new never felt terrible. They only had to miss work because they were forced to by the company. Didn’t take long before they just stopped taking the test. Vax compliance was close to zero, btw.
My husband says, and I concur, people who WORK don’t get sick. For a number of reasons...
I've done both, and I only became ill while working as an office drone. I heartily concur. I've been working at a screen the last 6 years, but I started vitamin D an Zinc supplements when this flu started. It worked!
And can, at very least, somewhat think for ourselves.
🗨 we had destroyed childhood. While the “advances” in parenting of the past fifty years undoubtedly contained some gems, the net effect was a disaster. As with so much else in life, human instincts honed over the millennia were far superior to decades of expert advice.
🗨 two cardinal rules of contemporary playgrounds [...]: One, your child may not get hurt. Two, your child may not hurt another child. Violate the first rule, and you’re negligent. Violate the second and you’re antisocial—borderline criminal.
Pity the Child --> realclearwire.com/articles/2023/04/04/pity_the_child_891624.html
Bring back those crazy, terrifyingly
thrilling
sling-you-off-if-you-don’t-remember-to-hang-on-for-dear-life merry go rounds.
Yeah, I’ve been slung off onto the non-spongy, non-protective, non-padded dirt but that’s how we learn!
Exactly! We had to be able to have "situational awareness," and develop basic risk/benefit analysis as kids, to not suffer bodily injuries all the time, get ourselves or someone else killed, lol, or get grounded for life if things did go badly wrong.
We figured it out and learned a lot of skills along the way- one of which was to recognize the incompetent and the bullshit artists among us, cuz, if you listened to THEIR plans, things DID go badly wrong.
Too bad not more of us had that "free range" parenting, or growing up on a farm, ranch or inside a family business where you worked as soon as you could walk.
Taught the same lessons. I'm very worried about the next generations.....that's for sure.
Glad I virtually raised myself. Thanks, Mom, for the opportunity!! And thanks for the care when I was too young to do so. Between both, I think it worked. 🌷🌷🌷
Grandmother now. Free-range parenting--been there, done that. Same for Yoga. Good one, Gato dear.
Happy Mother’s Day! And I mean that to all the real moms out there, not the “cat moms” and other “pet moms” celebrated in a bunch of ads I’ve seen this week… I knew our brilliant Gato is influential but this is getting ridiculous…
I hope all you cats teach great literature to your kittens, and thereby help protect them from the illiterate depredations of Big Pharma:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-is-not
I think y’all will like that post… click over, please, and help us answer one of the enduring questions in modern medicine: are our leading minds pig-ignorant or outright evil?
A few are evil, most are just stupid, "educated fools" - which was, by the way, a phenomena introduced to me by my mother. Educated fools, that is. The more modern way to say it is that "people always rise to the level of their incompetence."
I've always wondered about that saying. If true how in the hell did they get where they are, because they were failures at many, many steps before??
How do they do it?
They move in a closed circle. Fail at one high up job and the next opens up to them by their friends.
Look at the woman heading the UK Post Office a year or so back.. She caused several subpostmasters to go to prison when innocent, ruined countless other lives, caused suicides even. Then when it all came out as a computer glitch she was moved to a job at the top of the NHS. Utterly scandalous. How did she not know or suspect? Public outrage caused her to step down. Not sure where she is now., possibly in another well paid job getting thousands for messing up. She should be in prison.
Paula Vennells was her name, if you're interested you can read the whole heartbreaking story in Nick Wallace book The Great Post Office Scandal. She also was forced to step down from two directorship at Morrison's and Dunelm. People like her get their fingers in multiple pies.
Yeah. Suck up to the right people. NEVER speak the truth. ACT like you know what you're doing in front of underlings. YELL when you know you're wrong.
Simple. They have degrees and credentials, sometimes even from high fallutin' places like Harvard and Yale and others. People think they can't possibly be stupid if they have a degree, much less a degree from a muckity-muck college.
And it's not as if I'm against education or college. I have a 2 year degree, and I'm glad I do. But people don't understand that there's a vast difference between sitting in a classroom listening to lectures and reading books- and actual real world experience. I think it was Mark Twain that said knowledge without experience is worthless. People also forget that not everyone graduates at the top of their class in college. What happens to the C students? They go on to become bureaucrats and middle managers, that's what. And here we are watching them lay waste to the world.🤷
Canada's PM had the right last name.(+ good hair & socks).
The Peter Principle.
Evil. I don't need to read anything to know what my eyes and ears tell me.
Thank you for sharing that! So true, so relevant!
Little bit of both I’m thinking.
So "cat moms" are not real moms? What planet did you come from?
Thank you, Gato. Today I remember my dear Mom. She was an outstanding woman (before anyone could even think of calling her a "birthing person"). I am so grateful for everything she was and did. And I am so glad that she lived in another time (she would be 99->100 today). Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there.
These are great! Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there. And as a child of free range parenting it was the absolute most free I have ever been in my life (as long as I was home by 6pm for dinner 😉).
and then home again when the street lights went on 😀
And did my chores. : )
4:30 pm, here.
Nice tribute. Made me think about my mother after reading it. Mine passed in 1980. She would have been 100 this year. I definitely grew up in the era of free range parenting. No one was trying to structure every moment of every day for us. She did a short relaxing session of Old-fashioned yoga every evening before dinner with yoga master Jim Beam. Skoal to all the moms here.
Thanks, Mom. I miss you...
Beautiful images to go with a beautiful sentiment. To Mom.❤️
❤️Mew-chas gracias ❤️
Mum of 5 here and yes, the yoga definitely helped at times. Love to all the mums today and everyday.
Free ranging will always beat the pants off of silly 15 minute cities.
Love the pics! Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Today is your day! (Or as my wife reminds me, “364 days a year are Father’s Day, thanks for the 1 day a year I don’t have to care for you morons!” 😂❤️
I give 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓hood its due respect, which is the reason I refer to those women who've given birth and raised children as 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔. In our house, we called our 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 by the nickname, "Mom." Some of our friends used the nickname "Ma." Yet outside of the house when introducing our 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 to others, we always said, "I'd like you to meet my 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓..." That's because we didn't have "Moms." We had 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔.
I never thought about the word usage before. I now recall when introducing my Mom to friends as Mom but others as Mother. Interesting. Thanks for kick starting my brain. This Mom is tired.
For me, it's the "casualization" of everything -- including sacred 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓hood -- via language and other means that insidiously diminishes and destroys.
I was def not a helicopter mom.
Both daughters turned out brilliant.
Happy Mother's day to all of you Mothers out there!! 🥰😂
Me neither. All my neighbours that I was the most neglectful parent that ever lived. But they all survived, and grew up to be strong free-thinkers.
Hubbs and I are just talking about this.
my daughters both graduated high school valedictorian, in Loudoun County Virginia back in the day
They are both moms now. My older daughter married a really chill guy.
My younger daughter married a control freak.
It is interesting to see how each with their own personalities and perfections deal with things. Hubbs and I were pretty chill with our kids.
Life just keeps going. I wonder what all of those neighbors of yours think about their kids now or in the future.
Note the cute little Cheetos have quite a lot of white fur on their backs - may be mimicry of honey badgers to discourage larger predators (who have learned from painful experience).
Lovely wishes for Gato Mom!