Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
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Anonymous
you're not making any sense. r u saying: ban tag = don't want to keep score in kids' sports games therefore ban tag = There are no winners and losers therefore ban tag = kids/parents afraid of losing? DCUM has messed up your brain. |
Anonymous
| There was a thread because a 4 yr. old boy called the OP's DD "Miss Muffet," and most PP encouraged her to tell the teacher or call the kid's parents! In fact, the little boy apparently said, "Miss Muffet...away," and someone talked about "hurtful" this was to the other child. The little girl wasn't even complaining and simply told her mother who had the meltdown. It is helicoptering moms who have created these absurd rules. |
Anonymous
| As a kid, I broke my arm roller skating. My best friend broke her leg (thigh bone) when her horse rolled on it. My neighbor burned his eyelashes, eyebrows, and half his hair while playing with fireworks. Another boy broke his leg on his brother's bicycle. We laughed about all this incidents at our 20th reunion last year. We had a blast growing up. We felt bad for the world our children live in. |
Anonymous
| Tag was recently banned from Bethesda Elementary due to a child running into a metal pole. Pretty traumatic injury requiring lots of stitches to the head. |
Anonymous
And that was somehow the fault of the game? Nobody can conceive of the idea that perhaps a child could run into a pole because the child was....running? Is that next? My son fell off a retaining wall (landscape type) where he was running on the top of it. Guess they couldn't figure out how to ban anything, and we figured he learned his (hard) lesson about paying attention to where he was running. |
Anonymous
Ok, falling or any kind of outdoor activity can cause breaks, and then need for stiches. Falling off of the playground equipment can cause injury as well. Should we just ban all play because there is a potential for a kid to get hurt? What is left, sitting in the grass? Where do you draw the line? |
Anonymous
Ouch. Freak accident though. Why should all poles and all running be banned from here on out? Lesson to kids: 'watch where you are running'. I yell this to my kids on a daily basis as they bike full speed ahead while turning around to talk to me at the same time. My little one likes to watch his reflection in store windows as he runs by--tripping on things as he goes. My kid ran into a wrought iron gate outside of a Starbucks requiring a trip to the ER...I didn't try to sue Starbucks or not allow him to run anymore. |
Anonymous
When my DS was four he broke his thumb badly and bonked his head because he was playing soccer in a gym and ran into the wall. I can't decide whether we should ban soccer, gyms, or walls. Opinions? |
Anonymous
agree, lawyers (including me) often spend lots of time talking hysterical or unreasonable clients with inflated expectations, from pursuing their fucked up self-important agendas ... helicopter parents come in all stripes, professions, colors, shapes, etc. blame them, not one profession. |
Anonymous
| Nope. I picked private school for many reasons, but in part because I wanted my kid to play tag at recess and have Halloween and Valentine's Day parties. |
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Anonymous
| Our school banned "cops and robbers" or any violent game. Said it "incites violent behavior." |
Anonymous
Jesus, we are all a bunch of pussies. No wonder the kids have started shooting up schools. Going to school in this day and age would make a sane person crack. |
Anonymous
| My kid plays tag at recess virtually every day and comes home filthy. That makes me very happy. |
Anonymous
Public or private? |