Not sure I see things exactly the same way over here but I do see some similarities. I've not tried the parenting thing yet. I might give it a go one day but at the moment other things interest me much more. That said, I know if I ever do there will be two cardinal features that I will need to be present 1] promote what it is to have an enquiring mind, 2] I don't give a hoot what you get into providing you get into something. Why, because I think the two biggest blights an individual can be burdened with are caused by the passive acceptance of stuff and apathy.................................Sure, I'd like to think that if I reproduced I'd get them out doing the same sorts of stuff that I'm into. It's difficult for me to envisage having a child that I wouldn't be teaching to sharpen knives, or fish, or how smug you can be in the outdoors amongst others for which the weather is an enemy to be afraid of, and all that. And it's virtually impossible for me to imagine not being able to instil a respect for nature and living systems, an understanding of evolution, and a grounding in as the documentaries call it life on earth. I'm sure there's no guarantee of success though. For all I know I could sire some handicapped effeminate euroweenie that wanders around with trousers at half-mast, that gets all god bluffed, wants to go to Goa to find himself, and believes that Bradley Manning shouldn't be facing a firing squad. Bit like the terrier that wont snap rats. You can try your best, and you'll love it anyway despite that insistent whisper of disappointment that knows it would rather be potato living in some old woman's armpit..........................................That said, I also know that I can be very egocentric and hyperbolic when things irritate me and I'm taking the piss out of them, and it can be very hard to actually find what the right line is when I let go of that and think more critically. For example, I woke up to the news yesterday and the results of a survey were being reported. Apparently something like 18% of school children believed that fish fingers contained pig or chicken. I thought yay, they're getting smarter because of what I thought they'd started to grasp about the lower than dog-food grade
slime that's in a lot of that processed crap. My optimism was short lasting. The next result was that 34% believed pasta was made from meat. I was aghast. Do what? Just how much of a bunch of subtards are these people? More, what kind of ignorant, apathetic, revolting scummy individuals are your parents? Knee jerk reaction: It's like there is a separate race of these monstrosities spawning all over the place, and someone needs to put the antibacterial assault down. Then I get to wondering more. I remember a thing I saw last year about how many children have never seen a cow in the flesh. And that chains on to how surprised I was at seeing the surprise of someone else that had never seen the sea before. I was astonished. It was like watching a puppy encounter snow for the first time. The sea is so commonplace to me, egocentrically, it had never occurred to me how irrelevant and alien it could be to others, and why....................................I doubt I'll ever truly shake my gut feeling about Pussification when it relates to the outdoors. I figure that's probably because it is so ingrained and automatic to me a lot of it doesn't require conscious processing. It seems weird to me when others have to consciously wrestle with the small stuff, make lists about stuff I just know like a reflex, and that kind of thing. It seems even more weird when folks are so detached from it they no little or nothing of it, then suddenly that deficiency discloses itself all at once; I couldn't kill it/eat it, I couldn't light a fire, We ate shrooms and got lost. It's just so damn jarring it's hard not to say Pussy.....................................To remain reasonable I try to combat that tendency in myself by running other worlds through the mincer. Take for example cyberspace: Have a peek a the Tech Support & Help on this very forum and you'll find loads of clueless people that for all practical purposes are every bit the pussy that has been pussified by never been taught how to fish in a different land. I'm not talking about password cracking and penetration testing and stuff that some of us do for fun and others find as boring as collecting knives or stamps, I'm talking about really basic stuff. The cries and whines go up, I can see adverts, I'm getting redirected to another site, I'm getting........ I'm thinking strewth, this site relatively safe compared to many. Sure Quantserve did have a deservedly bad reputation for what it did with user data it collected but how hum, easy fix. And you get a few trivial issues here with stuff that you can control, regulating scripts, blocking stuff in your browser, and running good hosts files on your OS. It's all tiny stuff that can be regulated client side yet you whine like you are a victim with no control. If that's the network you expose to do your banking, buy stuff, chat confidentially, download pr0n, and all that then, you are a moron. You have as much business thinking you can navigate cyberspace smartly as Stephen Hawking does trying to negotiate the jungle in Belize. You're a n00b and a pussy, and it is only by dint of good fortune that something hasn't come along yet and made a food of you...............................Yeah, that helps me regain a bit of perspective despite my natural tendency. I'm sure I could pluck a tweed off a grouse shoot in the rain on a hillside in Scotland and stick him somewhere in which he is the pussy, and not to ramble on a longer I'm going to simply call that place
here. Some kids are raised to know that a McDonald's cup of ammonia in the face and a house brick can be all you need to hold your ground just as well as someone else knows about bear spray in a different environment.
. I see the evidence of “wussification” as an opportunity. There are many more that need to be introduced and led into more natural and positive environments. I applaud the OP for reaching out and offering and more of us should do the same. 
