I was having a beer in a cowboy bar one night, there had been a high school rodeo in town that day, and as a joke I said parents who let their children participate in rodeo should be arrested for child abuse. Oops!
As we get older, as you have pointed out, we start to realize the bull shit that was forced down our throats when we were children and how its affects still live in us. Great post! Should be required reading for us all!