Kids bringing footballs to elementary school

[Anonymous]

I would talk to the principal. There needs to be far better supervision if kids are having these kind of injuries. A hit to the head could be very serious.

[Anonymous]

I have 4yo and 6yo boys. I would be upset if one of them got hit with a football hard in the head. I would be upset the same way that my 6yo tripped on a basketball, fell and scraped his knee. Of course I would not think footballs or basketballs should be banned. That is a ridiculous request.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I moved my child to an all boys school.

You took her to the doctor because a football hit her.

Maybe she has a headache from her anxious mother.

Maybe I should have elaborated. She has a massive bump and felt dizzy right after. Headaches continued on and off. We called the doctor's office and were told to have it checked out. Please, school me on how to be as good a parent as you are.

Okay, I will "school" you on being a good parent.

1. Teach your child to catch a ball.
2. Teach your child to be aware of her surroundings, not everybody has to change their behavior just in case little Larla might be touched with their play equipment.
3. Teach your child that some kids need to run and play and sometime they play rough, it is okay, nobody is going to die.
4. Next time your child has a scrape don't make such a big deal out of it.
5. Stop exaggerating, nobody is getting a huge bump from a football and feeling dizzy for days, you should have gone with black eye or hurt nose, a little more believable.
6. Suggest to the school they have an area of delicate flowers but please do not take away other kids ability to have fun, burn energy and be normal kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why I moved my child to an all boys school.

You took her to the doctor because a football hit her.

Maybe she has a headache from her anxious mother.

How does this address the OP's problem? Are you advising the OP to move the OP's child to an all boys school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I moved my child to an all boys school.

You took her to the doctor because a football hit her.

Maybe she has a headache from her anxious mother.

How does this address the OP's problem? Are you advising the OP to move the OP's child to an all boys school?

OP does not have a problem, she is the problem.

[Anonymous]

I would check with the principal. MCPS has pretty defined standards on this stuff for elementary schools. I also find that a small group of kids often plays some pretty athletic games of ball, forcing the majority of the kids into a smaller space on the play yard. That's not fair. One of the ways in which your daughter is already learning she is a second class citizen. The school needs to make sure everyone has their space, whether to burn off their energies or to feel safe during recess.

[Anonymous]

OMGoodness I'm glad my kids were grown when we moved to DC. You are complaining because your child was hit in the head with a football. First, sounds like your kid needs to either learn to catch, learn the phrase, "heads up", pay more attention to the world around her, spend more time playing outside, and stop being such a baby about a bump.

It would never occur to me to call the doctor over a bump from a football. But then, my boys played football and my girls played soccer, so getting the occasional injury wasn't quite the shock for us that it must have been for you.

Poor child - I do pray she makes a full recovery. You might want to get her some therapy later. PTSD is very real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I moved my child to an all boys school.

You took her to the doctor because a football hit her.

Maybe she has a headache from her anxious mother.

Maybe I should have elaborated. She has a massive bump and felt dizzy right after. Headaches continued on and off. We called the doctor's office and were told to have it checked out. Please, school me on how to be as good a parent as you are.

Okay, I will "school" you on being a good parent.

1. Teach your child to catch a ball.
2. Teach your child to be aware of her surroundings, not everybody has to change their behavior just in case little Larla might be touched with their play equipment.
3. Teach your child that some kids need to run and play and sometime they play rough, it is okay, nobody is going to die.
4. Next time your child has a scrape don't make such a big deal out of it.
5. Stop exaggerating, nobody is getting a huge bump from a football and feeling dizzy for days, you should have gone with black eye or hurt nose, a little more believable.
6. Suggest to the school they have an area of delicate flowers but please do not take away other kids ability to have fun, burn energy and be normal kids.

Do you have anger issues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I moved my child to an all boys school.

You took her to the doctor because a football hit her.

Maybe she has a headache from her anxious mother.

Maybe I should have elaborated. She has a massive bump and felt dizzy right after. Headaches continued on and off. We called the doctor's office and were told to have it checked out. Please, school me on how to be as good a parent as you are.

Okay, I will "school" you on being a good parent.

1. Teach your child to catch a ball.
2. Teach your child to be aware of her surroundings, not everybody has to change their behavior just in case little Larla might be touched with their play equipment.
3. Teach your child that some kids need to run and play and sometime they play rough, it is okay, nobody is going to die.
4. Next time your child has a scrape don't make such a big deal out of it.
5. Stop exaggerating, nobody is getting a huge bump from a football and feeling dizzy for days, you should have gone with black eye or hurt nose, a little more believable.
6. Suggest to the school they have an area of delicate flowers but please do not take away other kids ability to have fun, burn energy and be normal kids.

Do you have anger issues?

Nothing about that sounded angry. Spot on. I know this may come as a surprise, but in most parts of the country, getting hurt at recess isn't a big deal. No sane person would call the doctor over a bump from a football, and football is a standard playground game for both boys and girls. DC parents raise really weak kids, in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I moved my child to an all boys school.

You took her to the doctor because a football hit her.

Maybe she has a headache from her anxious mother.

How does this address the OP's problem? Are you advising the OP to move the OP's child to an all boys school?

OP does not have a problem, she is the problem.

It's not possible for a football (or any other ball) to hit somebody in the head hard enough to cause a head injury? It's not possible for kids to get injured at recess? You may not agree with OP's solution, but that doesn't mean there's not a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Nothing about that sounded angry. Spot on. I know this may come as a surprise, but in most parts of the country, getting hurt at recess isn't a big deal. No sane person would call the doctor over a bump from a football, and football is a standard playground game for both boys and girls. DC parents raise really weak kids, in general.

That depends on how you got hurt, and how much you got hurt -- doesn't it? Falling at recess and scraping your knee is not a big deal. Getting your collarbone broken because a bigger kid leapfrogged over you (this happened to a friend of mine at recess in the 1970s, in the midwest) is a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I moved my child to an all boys school.

You took her to the doctor because a football hit her.

Maybe she has a headache from her anxious mother.

How does this address the OP's problem? Are you advising the OP to move the OP's child to an all boys school?

OP does not have a problem, she is the problem.

It's not possible for a football (or any other ball) to hit somebody in the head hard enough to cause a head injury? It's not possible for kids to get injured at recess? You may not agree with OP's solution, but that doesn't mean there's not a problem.

Not the poster you are responding to, but no. A football tossed by an elementary school kid is not going to cause serious injury. If someone was a couple of feet from her and intentionally beamed it at her head....maybe. But a football thrown on the playground is not going to cause anything more than a bump or bruise. Especially when we are talking about little kids.

This was nothing more than a ridiculous over-reaction by a typical DC area helicopter parent. My oldest broke his arm playing football and had to have surgery to repair it and it NEVER occurred to me that football should be banned. Kids get hurt.

[Anonymous]

My kid broke a collarbone playing soccer. Should they ban leapfrogging and soccer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Nothing about that sounded angry. Spot on. I know this may come as a surprise, but in most parts of the country, getting hurt at recess isn't a big deal. No sane person would call the doctor over a bump from a football, and football is a standard playground game for both boys and girls. DC parents raise really weak kids, in general.

That depends on how you got hurt, and how much you got hurt -- doesn't it? Falling at recess and scraping your knee is not a big deal. Getting your collarbone broken because a bigger kid leapfrogged over you (this happened to a friend of mine at recess in the 1970s, in the midwest) is a big deal.

And this is where we differ- my youngest broke his collarbone wrestling with a friend on the playground. We went to the ER and had him checked out. Six weeks later he was fine. Nothing about it was a "big deal". It was kids playing.

A big deal is a serious illness, weapons at school, natural disasters, etc. Kids getting hurt is called life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Nothing about that sounded angry. Spot on. I know this may come as a surprise, but in most parts of the country, getting hurt at recess isn't a big deal. No sane person would call the doctor over a bump from a football, and football is a standard playground game for both boys and girls. DC parents raise really weak kids, in general.

That depends on how you got hurt, and how much you got hurt -- doesn't it? Falling at recess and scraping your knee is not a big deal. Getting your collarbone broken because a bigger kid leapfrogged over you (this happened to a friend of mine at recess in the 1970s, in the midwest) is a big deal.

And this is where we differ- my youngest broke his collarbone wrestling with a friend on the playground. We went to the ER and had him checked out. Six weeks later he was fine. Nothing about it was a "big deal". It was kids playing.

A big deal is a serious illness, weapons at school, natural disasters, etc. Kids getting hurt is called life.

If you don't think that a broken bone and associated ER visit (and bills) are a big deal, then ok, you don't. You have very high standards, I guess.