Kids to be banned from playing tag outside.

[Quazimofo]

http://www.clickorlando.com/family/27381829/detail.html

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Honestly, I'm disgusted with how obsessed parents are with kid safety these days. This isn't the only place I've heard of where parents are limiting kids from having fun. On the radio the other day I heard a dad who was describing a school that sent out a letter to all parents because two kids were arm wrestling. Not violent fighting or anything, just who can wrestle their opponent's arm down. I also heard about a summer camp for kids where they've banned ball tag.

Ugh.

So, do you people have opinions on how kids are overprotected these days? Oh sure, supervision is important depending on how long you leave kids out to play but they need to learn to fend for themselves.

Your thoughts Escapist?

i kinda think they're taking safety way to far the park i jog at put a up a playground its made of plastic and the floor is like this rubber pad thing and there is a giant awning that keeps the sun off of it i remember when i was a little kid and the playground was covered in rocks and the metal slide baked you on the way down

yeah, i always had wood chips and dirt on my playgrounds, and it worked fine. was kinda fun on a hot day to see who had the balls to go down the slide or climb the monkey bars or whatever. at my old school, they replaced the wood chips with some rubber crap which actually hurts more to fall on because it isnt as thick, and they removed the concrete for the basketball area so the balls dont bounce as well and we cant remember where the free throw crack in the pavement was. waste of time and effort i say.

this whole child safety thing really is going too far. especially bugs the crap out of me because they implemented it halfway through grade school, so we suddenly couldnt do the crap we normally did. almost put the nurse out of work too.

 

[Lunar Templar]

http://www.clickorlando.com/family/27381829/detail.html

O.O

Honestly, I'm disgusted with how obsessed parents are with kid safety these days. This isn't the only place I've heard of where parents are limiting kids from having fun. On the radio the other day I heard a dad who was describing a school that sent out a letter to all parents because two kids were arm wrestling. Not violent fighting or anything, just who can wrestle their opponent's arm down. I also heard about a summer camp for kids where they've banned ball tag.

Ugh.

So, do you people have opinions on how kids are overprotected these days? Oh sure, supervision is important depending on how long you leave kids out to play but they need to learn to fend for themselves.

Your thoughts Escapist?

.....
what
the
fuck
is WRONG with people these days? kids can't play out side now?!?! seriously?!

i can't even express fully the level this bothers me,this is just bull shit of the highest caliber

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I remember in elementary school the supervisors during recess would scold kids for running

Just let kids be fucking kids. They want to run and have fun. Getting hurt occasionally is part of that. Soft fucking parents are making soft fucking kids.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

extremely annoying. but i really want to see kids in hoodies playing tag outside after midnight. "fuck the police"

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Oh goody, another reason to post information already known to the well-informed...

 

[Quazimofo]

i don't think its a matter of learning to fend for themselves or supervision or anything. adult supervision is needed at this day in age because of perverts and psyco killers that weren't around 20 years ago.

its these pricks that for some reason get aroused form depriving little innocent kids from having fun. what right does that stupid ***** have to keep these children from having a childhood? she's either doing it because she's bitter, or because she's psychotic.

i think she should be put in the stocks. god they need to bring back the stocks.

hell it would probably work too. im sure tons of people would love a place to legally litter on asshats who committed some minor crime or injustice.

its because while adult supervision is needed now more than ever, people are less willing to do it now more than ever. always expecting the school to be effective supervisors. my mom always made a point to be a chaperone on the field trips my school took, even if she had to drive herself, and always one of my parents came with us to the park or to our soccer games or baseball practice or whatever to make sure we dont get mixed up in the wrong stuff. thats good parenting. more people need to be like my parents

and yeah it sounds like im a momma's boy/daddy's boy, but i really dont fit that label at all. i piss them off and am disrespectful or we dont get along sometimes, alot of the time really (rarely on purpose), so im just any old child. just as i see all of these examples of crappy parents, and remember my own childhood experiences and learn of the context i didnt know at the time (because i was too young to understand), i just have a great respect for all the effort they put in, and all the little decisions they made that had such an impact and taught me all the little life lessons.

 

[LastExpellian]

As for the dictionary thing: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/755936--u-s-school-bans-the-dictionary.

But yes, Carlin had it down. Spontaneity is a virtue for the young before they are pushed in to the big soul-crushing tedium and scheduling of adult life.

And my stand against California so far, only the bottom half from about halfway through San Fransisco all the way south to L.A. Just break it off and let it sink into the sea. Those intelligent people that live there can move to better areas, and when that chunk of land is wiped clean we can bring it back and try again.

 

[Bravo 21]

extremely annoying. but i really want to see kids in hoodies playing tag outside after midnight. "fuck the police"

all of a sudden, as a teenager, I really want to do this. regrettably, the only time i'm running around after midnight is usually cause some of my friends and me stole some of my other friends chips or pop or something.

 

[SodaDew]

bunch of goddamn pussy's who feel banning fun will make them feel big and important...

 

[LordBojangles]

Response to one quote in the article: Oh no! Not climbing on a power meter! Not the exact same thing I did literally every day while waiting for the bus in elementary school! That's dangerous!

 

[fluffybunny937]

I remember when I was a kid we were encouraged to play outside. What got banned was bringing our gameboys and pokemon cards. Seriously everyone was bringing their pokemon games and cards to school until the elementary school banned it and then we played tag, four square, basket ball, and etc again.

This should give you an idea of how old I am. Since this was second grade, for me, and this was generation one Pokemon.

 

[Sporky111]

The problem is "supervision". Adults can't be assed to watch the kids, so they just make more and more rules so they don't have to.

 

[Tomo Stryker]

BRING BACK MOTHERFUCKING NATURAL SELECTION!

I'll promise you that those people that think that war and violence don't serve anything will be the first to go, along with the people that don't exercise or learn to take a bruise or two in their life.

In my school years there was one rule made by the kids for the kids. If you step up to play the game then your volunteering for pain, so if you don't want to that is fine. But the second you step on that line you have no right to complain.

Although I was paraphrasing, that was the rule. But the same applies to real life, so there is no reason to ban this. Your banning learning.

 

[thenoblitt]

just heard a story today from my friends little sister, she said that her friends parents werent home and they were playing outside and the overprotective people that lived next door called the cops on them because they were wearing sandals, thats it not cause they were home alone, but because they had on opened toed shoes

 

[Chatato]

Hate to bring patriotism into this but... Man I love being Australian, at the moment I'm still in highschool and during sport the teachers just don't give a Damn E.g One sport class last year it had been raining and we were playing A.F.L the teacher had split us up into two groups(Boys and Girls, which may have been classified as sexist now that I think about) but while he was instructing the girls he let us off to do whatever the hell we wanted, in short the whole thing disintegrated from Footy to Tackle Whoever the Hell has a Ball so yeah that pretty much ended up with everybody fighting and nobody really caring about football.
For another example at our school we still play Dodge-ball (Admittedly with foam balls but they still hurt if you get hit)and the rules are bloody simple: Throw the damn ball at whoever you can see on the other team, even if you get hit in the face you don't go to sick bay, all it means is that you're still in the game because it doesn't count, I mean hell I got hit in the face with and American Baseball in primary school and all it mean was a non-forced apology from the person who threw it.
I think all of these safety precautions are just getting damn ridiculous I mean next they'll ban anything that has less than four wheels and for anything that does they'll put extra wheels splayed out on the sides to make sure they don't fall over and get a nasty boo-boo however with all of this said for gods sake protect your kids but if they want to play just let them go out and friggin' play.

In short: I love Australia, Parents are over protective, Just let kids do whatever the hell we want.

 

[BanthaFodder]

fuck these parents.
at least whenever my little brother pisses me off by hitting me with a NERF sword or some such shit, I'd still rather have that then have him be one of these pussified zombies...
reminds me of that one Simpsons episode with the school uniforms...
*walks slowly*
"tag, you are it."
*walks slowly*
"now you are it."
"understood."

 

[silversnake4133]

Huh, this reminds me of a story I heard that wasn't too long ago when government wanted to get rid of recess altogether so kids would study more.

All in all, I don't think this is an overprotection or a prevention thing. To me, it's probably just a ploy for government to swindle more money out of people via stupid fines while attacking the heart strings of parents so they won't question their motives. I mean $100 in fines just because your kid wanted to go outside and play, really? Sure, it wasn't bad enough that they're severely condensing the education system and trying to abolish the Arts (visual arts, music, sports) from schools, now they're going to put a fine on recess activities.

Something has to be done, otherwise there will be no future. Nothing will get done because kids won't have the courage to go through with anything. Nor will they have the bravado to get back up, dust themselves off and try again. (Not only that, but obesity will be out of control.)

 

[Formica Archonis]

I think I'll leave this URL here for everyone: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/

It's a great place to find more of this insanity. Like:
http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/outrage-of-the-week-mom-who-let-kids-play-outside-threatened-by-cops/

 

[imperialwar]

Going out on the extremist view.
This is simply the governments plan to do away with professional sports.
You know how much land is wasted creating sports venues and parks ?
All this land could be better used to build more skyscraper Apartment buildings, which the government can collect massive land taxes from.
Plus this also shifts the community focus from the sporting elite to the more intellectually elite. And isnt that really what the future is all about ? Look at this day and ages politicians... when was the last politician that played sport for his college ? The geeks are in power and are doing away with sports.. that'll teach them jocks to be better then the geeks !!