Kids to be banned from playing tag outside.

[lettucethesallad]

I remember the good old days - no helmets when skating or tobogganing, being home alone for a few hours in the afternoon when I was 8, going swimming without parental supervision, running like crazy people, bumping my head on sharp corners. Kids need to learn that there are consequences - fall out of a tree and it hurts, so hold on better next time. This safety obsession is just ridiculous, and the day I have kids I'm not having any part of it.

 

[Dwarfman]

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Jeez! And I thought it was bad enough when they banned Mugby back in primary school.

 

[Yopaz]

And now we got another explanation to child obesity. Thank you American parents for explaining that you're doing more than just feeding your kids junk.

 

[Moriarty]

Stupidity of the escapist strikes again, in the 9 pages of this thread there are propably seven people who read the actual article.

A 100$ fine may be exagerrated but letting children play tag in a driveway or parking lot is equally stupid.

 

[Astoria]

*Sigh* they complain about kids ebing obese and then they do something stupid like this. What happened to kids being able to just be kids? Part of having a good childhood is getting a few bumps and bruises, I myself have a couple of great scars. Everything is just so damn overprotective these days that it's ruining everything, I pity kids growning up these days.

 

[Chris646]

Okay. This is the second time in the past 12 hours that I have been ashamed to be a human.
Here's a thought; every time a parent or adult attempts to outlaw fun or change something for political correctness, put said parent or adult in jail for... about a month. We need this.

 

[Yopaz]

I remember the good old days - no helmets when skating or tobogganing, being home alone for a few hours in the afternoon when I was 8, going swimming without parental supervision, running like crazy people, bumping my head on sharp corners. Kids need to learn that there are consequences - fall out of a tree and it hurts, so hold on better next time. This safety obsession is just ridiculous, and the day I have kids I'm not having any part of it.

And I?m sure your parenting skills will be greatly appreciated when your children are in a hospitable bed or worse.

You know, when most people get hurt, they don't end up in hospital. I've had 2 concussions, cracked open my head 3 times, almost cracked my teeth twice, destroyed my upper lip and fell of my bike countless times. I have been to a hospital a few times because of things that can't be prevented, and to get x-rays or ultra sound. Kids fall, kids get hurt, it's natural.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Urge to kill

RISING....

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Heh, old news. I haven't been able to play tag since second grade. It's sad how when one person gets hurt/does something stupid, it's ruined for the rest of us.

Now it has been 14 years since I was in elementary school, I don't believe tag was banned then, though I don't think anybody at my school played tag, maybe we thought it was boring.

What did happen was that we were banned from bringing our own baseball bats and baseballs to school to use on the schools baseball field at recess, we couldn't even use the ones the school had in the gym closet. We got to for about a week when in sixth grade, but then some parent that was working at the school as an assistant, confiscated our gear and told us we had to use a stupid brown plastic bat and a plastic ball.

That effectively killed playing baseball at recess. The plastic ball was hollow inside and it was so light that if the pitcher stood regulation distance from the batter, no matter how hard the pitcher threw it, the ball wouldn't even make it to the batter. We then tried having the batter throw the ball up in the air and hit it, but even with the hardest hit, it would only fly six or seven feet in front of the batter, which of course doesn't even make it to the regulation distance from batter to pitcher.

The idiot parent and recess teachers were puzzled why we quit and just decided to depressingly walk around the playground with nothing to do.

I also remember when some punks vandalized the only basketball goal on the playground. The school, instead of putting in a new basketball goal, they put in one of those stupid towers that have four chutes and when the ball goes in, you don't know what chute it will come out of. "Oh, why aren't the kids having fun with the basketball?" Well stupid school planners, could it be that since there is no basketball goal we can't have fun with the basketball?

Kids these days are being harmed by the stupid Liberal mentality of "Everybody must be watched over and taken care of for their own good, so they don't get hurt, or the horror that they accidentally hurt somebody else."

It certainly can't be pinned on Conservatives, just look at all the highly dangerous sports around, they are mostly popular with and played by Conservatives. Conservatives understand that life can be dangerous, but it doesn't mean we should roll little Timmy and the other kids up in bubble wrap and make it mandatory that each kid stand at least six feet away from each other.

We can't always shield our kids from mistakes and harm all the time, and we shouldn't. Let kids be kids, it is okay if little Timmy falls down and scraps his knee.

 

[Cobaltmotari]

BRING BACK MOTHERFUCKING NATURAL SELECTION!!!

Seconded. There are several good reasons why people believed it happened.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

It's not about parents being overprotective- its about schools being paranoid about getting sued. It's the American legal system that's at fault.

Spoken like a true fool that got their knowledge of the world from a bad comedian. Do you actually know how the US legal system works?

Thanks for the insult. I appreciate that. It's not like I've actually worked inside the American schooling system and know what I'm talking about. It's not like I come from a long line of educators. That would be ridiculous.

Do you know how much bureaucratic and arbitrary red tape is created in American society simply to avoid getting sued? The "WARNING: HOT" sign on coffee, for instance. How about fire codes which list something as simple as a shoe left outside of a dormitory room in a 10 foot wide hallway as a fire hazard?

It's the same with schools. I'm not saying that parents aren't involved, but it's largely the school's fault when something like tag is banned. Sure, it may be perfectly willing to allow tag if nobody complains, but as soon as one parent calls in, it bends to that parent's will and bans it because it's safer than doing otherwise, as it is liable for any injuries children sustain when under their watch. I've seen this happen before, firsthand. Yet, whenever a post is made here about something being banned, the entirety of modern parents are criticized for being "too soft." What a load of crap. This is just a rose-colored view of our pasts, wherein we think we were raised better than the new generation because...uh...yeah. Parents are largely the same as they were when we were growing up- there are still wide swaths of parenting styles. Its just that when one parent ruins it for everybody we make a blanket judgment of the whole group as opposed to attacking the school for standing up to the parent.

I understand what you're probably getting at- that any lawsuit a parent might try to make about a child harming himself or herself due to tag would likely be dismissed as frivolous, but many schools are too scared to take that risk. Do you think they really care if a kid scrapes his or her knee and even breaks a bone playing tag? They might have basic human sympathy, but I doubt anyone in the school board thinks tag is barbaric, violent, and should be banned. They'd just rather be safe and stop kids from playing it so that they're not liable if they get hurt.

Also, how am I supposed to have gotten my view of the world from bad comedians? Nothing I said even resembled a joke. I understand that this is often true of bad comedians as well, but I wasn't trying to be funny. I was simply trying to defend a group that I think was getting attacked rather unreasonably- a few overprotective parents are not a good enough sample size to say that modern parents are too soft.

Don't open your argument with an ad hominem next time.

EDIT: I'll admit that I made a mistake. I didn't clarify my first post well enough. I was being a tad off-topic there and talking about schools as opposed to this specific circumstance. This post was the a clarification of what I meant concerning my first post. Still, I doubt that the homeowner's association that the article mentions is banning tag because it truly cares for the kids. Things are hardly that simple. It's likely that they just don't want kids running around, being loud, and trespassing on other people's yards. Stupid, but probably why they're banning tag.

 

[Chris646]

Okay. This is the second time in the past 12 hours that I have been ashamed to be a human.
Here's a thought; every time a parent or adult attempts to outlaw fun or change something for political correctness

This isn?t political correctness. and I fail to see what?s so wrong with parents trying to keep their kids from hurting themselves

I am aware that this is not political correctness, but an earlier topic also made me ashamed of humanity, and that was on political correctness, so I included that too. You fail to see what's wrong with parents trying to keep their kids from hurting themselves because you aren't really looking at both sides of the issue. There is nothing inherently WRONG with a parent wanting to keep their kids from hurting themselves, but for the kid, they see it as a nuisance because the way I see it, if a kid gets injured from doing an activity, they will associate it with pain and not engage in it anymore. Not to mention the fact that the kids talked about in this topic are being banned from playing TAG of all things. But what do I know? I'm not even old enough to drive a car.

 

[jackpipsam]

I remember card games been baned but thats about it

 

[Android2137]

I have only one word for this. Whhhhyyyyyyy?!

From what I can tell though, the parents find it stupid too. They aren't saying that their kids should be playing in streets or parking lots, but lack of playgrounds forces them to do so.

 

[chiggerwood]

This is just ONE of the reason I want HOA's banned in the U.S. they're usually a fascist regime, and they answer to NO ONE.