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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Broken arm or leg-risk play? Yeah, maybe. Broken neck-risk play without parents’ permission? No.

One of my kids was hit in the eye with a foam sword during a sleepover so we spent the next 24 hrs in the ER and next 5 years working with a retina specialist. There was a lot of debate among parents in the class and our friend circle about whether a serious eye injury was a reasonable risk. Full spectrum of opinions. Ultimately, many parents decided that particular household didn’t provide enough supervision for rough play and the parent insisting on inclusion of the out of control much younger sibling who poked my kid’s eye intentionally was too risky. She was irate and complained that her children were being shunned. She couldn’t see that others just wanted to protect their own.[/quote]

This sounds like a made for HBO mini series or something.

It seems like you all fed off each other until this one fluke accident became a nightmare for that family. It really sucks that this happened to your child. No doubt about that. I don't understand why it involved everyone else shunning the whole family. [/quote]

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