For those that feel this is not a BIG PROBLEM well . . . I totally disagree While we have more IMMEDIATE or more URGENT problems this does not mean they are MORE IMPORTANT I think this soft sugar coating leads to attitudes and behaviors that cause other problems. A kid that has never known pain may not be sympathetic to another person's pain. A Kid that has never felt loss . . may break when he finally does . . . You have to fall down . . .to learn how to rise Almost every great success . . .started with failure and pain childhood physical traumas are the physical manifestations of this they relate to the mental processes Rocket River
I got a game involving a tree. You go stand over against a tree, put an apple on your head and I'll shoot arrows at the apple. Come on, it will be fun.
You mean like holding on to the edge of merry-go-round. Have several of your friends run and push it as fast as possible, then when you are completely dizzy, you fly off and tuck and roll as best as you can.
yeah, the merry-go-round was dangerous, but the rest of the playground hasn't changed much. you can still jump fifteen feet in the air off the swings.
When my son was born last year, we were given one of those shopping cart/restaurant high chair protector things. My sis-in-law gave it to us saying that it will help to protect him from germs, etc. My thought was and is, if you don't get sick, how do you build immunity? What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. There is very little of that in today's parenting.
My youth - water hose My kids - bottled water from the fridge. We used got to this on play ground with a 30 ft concrete pillar with about 10 chains haing down with handles. All you had to do was run, hold on and you would be spinning around about 5 -10ft off the ground.
You sure that wasn't a Phil Hendrie bit? It sounds familiar. Was the guy's name Vernon Dozier, by chance?
In the Midwest, we had the Ice Covered Slide. After a good day of sleet, both the slide and the area at the bottom of the slide would be covered by ice. If you could make it up the steps of the slide without slipping and cracking your jaw, you could jet down the slide at light speed and plop right onto the ground. If your tailbone survived the drop you then went skiping across the ice uncontrolled, into any number of other things on the playground. The Ice Covered Slide claimed many of my friends.
my sister got a brand new bike for christmas and me and my friends took it out ghost riding for the day. its final ride was into the bayou, it was beautiful. my sister was crying and devastated when she found out and i got the crap beaten out of me. however, neither one of us would have grown to be the paradigm of toughness that we are without the experience.
I went to the hospital after playing smear the queer. We were running though someones yard chasing the "queer" and a tree had a low branch that hit my face. It cut my eye lid and I had to get three stiches in it that night.
On the dodgeball issue, I totally agree with the coach. I wasted nearly 2 years at TH Rogers Jr high playing dodgeball in PE while the coach sat in his office. The few days that we got to play softball or hoops were memorable. PE is for exercise and skill development, not entertainment. Having said that, my kids don't even get regular PE at their school now because of budget cuts.
You people are all p*****s. Back in the day, we used to live in caves and all, with no light and warmth until that whole knocking-the-stones-together fad came about. Dodgeball? We had to dodge, like, boulders rolling down hills. And what the hell is with that wimpy language thing? You want to settle an argument with someone, bash him over the head with a club. You want to ask a girl out, bash her over the head with a club. Scraped your knee when you were a little kid? Boo friggin' hoo.. at your age I was out busting my ass hunting woolly mammoths, son
