Kids these days
Case Yorke speaks the truth. Kids are less active than ever these days - what with the world wired interweb and video games and tellyvision and all manner of newfangled inventions- and so limiting the ways in which they can actually get out and exercise is ludicrous. Kids can get hurt just walking! You can't shield them from all things, all the time.
For whatever reason - busy parents, increased lawsuits, increased incidence of allergies and the depletion of the ozone layer- kids are less likely to actually DO stuff. Especially OUTSIDE. Tagging on (pun intended) these rules about what activities are verboten is just going to discourage physical activity, which kids need. Stuff which is overtly dangerous, like fence climbing, rock baseball, or rolling down steep hills in rusty barrels, OK. That's common sense stuff. But, outlawing tag? What's next, banning Rock/Paper/Scissor because someone might get a bruise/a papercut/slashed?
Let kids play. Injuries will happen, but we can all just remember that kids heal remarkably well, and maybe take the lawyer off of speed dial. My son got bashed in the nose by a kid in his daycare yesterday- needed 2 stitches. But you know what? All kids take their share of lumps over the course of their childhood. I'm not suing the daycare - they do the best they can, watching all these kids. I'm not suing the parents - I happen to know them and they are fine people. I'm not going to have the kid arrested - she's 2, for the love of Eve!!
So once again, America puts another notch in the list of examples where we're just way too uptight. Maybe a nice rousing game of Kill the Carrier will mellow everyone out.
For whatever reason - busy parents, increased lawsuits, increased incidence of allergies and the depletion of the ozone layer- kids are less likely to actually DO stuff. Especially OUTSIDE. Tagging on (pun intended) these rules about what activities are verboten is just going to discourage physical activity, which kids need. Stuff which is overtly dangerous, like fence climbing, rock baseball, or rolling down steep hills in rusty barrels, OK. That's common sense stuff. But, outlawing tag? What's next, banning Rock/Paper/Scissor because someone might get a bruise/a papercut/slashed?
Let kids play. Injuries will happen, but we can all just remember that kids heal remarkably well, and maybe take the lawyer off of speed dial. My son got bashed in the nose by a kid in his daycare yesterday- needed 2 stitches. But you know what? All kids take their share of lumps over the course of their childhood. I'm not suing the daycare - they do the best they can, watching all these kids. I'm not suing the parents - I happen to know them and they are fine people. I'm not going to have the kid arrested - she's 2, for the love of Eve!!
So once again, America puts another notch in the list of examples where we're just way too uptight. Maybe a nice rousing game of Kill the Carrier will mellow everyone out.
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