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Playgrounds Too Safe?

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Blackthorne TA, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. Blackthorne TA

    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Being too safe may cause other problems including fearfullness.

    I don't have kids, but I have thought for a long time that safety is getting ridiculous.

    The article states that tag has been banned and my favorite game as a child, dodgeball, has been gone for years.

    It's gotten so bad, that one school in South Florida has banned all running! WTF?! :nuts:

    I don't think minor scrapes and bruises or the occasional broken bone should be so uppermost in concern in playground design... what do you think?
     
    Blackthorne TA, Jul 21, 2011
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    I agree, its getting rediculous. Kids are not allowed to use suntan lotion in school now, incase another child is allergic.
     
    Shoshino, Jul 21, 2011
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    It's ridiculous but until the courts stop seeing it as the schools fault everytime somebody has an accident then it'll continue.
     
    Déise, Jul 22, 2011
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    Scars build character is what I've always thought.

    It's kind of shameful that the parents of today have seemingly forgot how much fun some of the things that they did as children could be and have declared them to dangerous for their children.

    I don't have children now, but my wife and I have talked about it. She has some heart issues that need to be sorted out before we can try, but she is also an LPN and sees all the horrors than come into the hospital. So I have feeling that she'll be the mom who bans tag from the backyard while I'll be the dad that tells my kids to clean the wound with the garden hose and get back on the bike.
     
    Ben Snow, Jul 22, 2011
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    That's nothing. When I was a kid growing up, pretty much every day of my summer vacation I would ride my bike - WITHOUT A HELMET! What were my parents thinking? It's a wonder I survived to adulthood at all.
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, Jul 22, 2011
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    That is true. Bike helmets didn't become a big thing until I was 10 or 11. Then lots of kids started wearing them. My parents started forcing my sister and I to wear them but at that point I had been riding a bike for a good 6-7 years without a helmet.

    The scary one is that all my life I have played hockey and sure in the arena were the rules required a helmet I wore one, but on outdoor rink with terrible ice and large crowds I wore a touque instead. I easily could of cracked my skull in a wipe out.
     
    Ben Snow, Jul 22, 2011
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    Not to mention that we'd leave at 9:00am, and when we weren't back an hour later, my parents wouldn't send out a seach party! No wonder I have abandonment issues!

    I realise that times have changed from when I grew up (and yes, I grew up. Shut up.), and in some respects, children require more protection to keep them secure from sicko's, but the playground issue is ridiculous; cuts, scrapes and bruises from playing are part of growing up.
     
    Splunge, Jul 22, 2011
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