Comments on: Let kids be kids — not! http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:20:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Al http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17890 Al Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:45:42 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17890 Yayyy Ellie! Al Yayyy Ellie!
Al

]]> By: Ellie http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17891 Ellie Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:50:31 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17891 Tell her "that which does not kill us makes us stronger." 1. Let them eat dirt. 2. Let them drink out of the garden hose. 3. Let them walk in puddles 4. Let them settle their differences with a fist-fight 5. Let someone be picked last for a team 6. Let them get the flu, chicken pox, mumps, measles 7. Let them shoot bb guns, sling shots, arrows This from someone who had scabs on her knees until graduating college ... and just turned 60 (i.e lived to tell about it) Tell her “that which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

1. Let them eat dirt.
2. Let them drink out of the garden hose.
3. Let them walk in puddles
4. Let them settle their differences with a fist-fight
5. Let someone be picked last for a team
6. Let them get the flu, chicken pox, mumps, measles
7. Let them shoot bb guns, sling shots, arrows

This from someone who had scabs on her knees until graduating college … and just turned 60 (i.e lived to tell about it)

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17893 ymarsakar Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:20:43 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17893 This is why JROTC is bad. When humans have something that can get them to ecell at their maximum potential, you will always get somebody or someone out to crush that human potential. This is why JROTC is bad. When humans have something that can get them to ecell at their maximum potential, you will always get somebody or someone out to crush that human potential.

]]> By: Gringo http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17892 Gringo Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:18:35 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17892 One childhood memory is that of feeling as if the school day were ruined when we had to stay inside for recess. All children need some time where they can run wild,let it all hang out, in order to be able to concentrate in school. If that pent up physical energy is not released on the playground, it suppresses mental energy in the classroom. As a child I was continually breaking my glasses in playing. My parents had the patience to pay for their repair and not berate me for it, realizing that the energy of a child and eyeglasses in repair were contradictory terms. One childhood memory is that of feeling as if the school day were ruined when we had to stay inside for recess. All children need some time where they can run wild,let it all hang out, in order to be able to concentrate in school. If that pent up physical energy is not released on the playground, it suppresses mental energy in the classroom.
As a child I was continually breaking my glasses in playing. My parents had the patience to pay for their repair and not berate me for it, realizing that the energy of a child and eyeglasses in repair were contradictory terms.

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17894 Danny Lemieux Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:33:55 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17894 Have the parents sign release forms. Have the parents sign release forms.

]]> By: Al http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17895 Al Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:09:25 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17895 Anything that reduces the kids' opportunity for aerobic exercise increases their body mass index (read fat) and increases their risk for all the "new" pediatric diseases. eg. type II diabetes, slipped capital femoral epiphesis (broken hip joint) etc. There is legal risk in the policy of no soccer or football as well. To say nothing of the idiotic, spineless, chicken livered, paranoid bureaucratic, spirit sucking behavior of the unprincipled principal. Al Uh.. better edit for politeness. Anything that reduces the kids’ opportunity for aerobic exercise increases their body mass index (read fat) and increases their risk for all the “new” pediatric diseases. eg. type II diabetes, slipped capital femoral epiphesis (broken hip joint) etc. There is legal risk in the policy of no soccer or football as well.
To say nothing of the idiotic, spineless, chicken livered, paranoid bureaucratic, spirit sucking behavior of the unprincipled principal.
Al
Uh.. better edit for politeness.

]]> By: Scott in SF http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17896 Scott in SF Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:03:58 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17896 Be thankful they haven't banned running. I'm serious, many schools in San Francisco have banned running at recess. There are parents with their suing guns cocked and loaded, I know because I've been threatened by them too many times. There are also wonderful understanding parents. So the solution is simple. Get the wonderful understanding parents to sue the the cocked and loaded ready to sue parents. That's how the West was won. Be thankful they haven’t banned running. I’m serious, many schools in San Francisco have banned running at recess.
There are parents with their suing guns cocked and loaded, I know because I’ve been threatened by them too many times. There are also wonderful understanding parents.
So the solution is simple. Get the wonderful understanding parents to sue the the cocked and loaded ready to sue parents. That’s how the West was won.

]]> By: Synova http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17897 Synova Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:37:17 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17897 I think I'd "politely" explain that leaders are expected to show back bone and the ban is moronic. I think I’d “politely” explain that leaders are expected to show back bone and the ban is moronic.

]]> By: Allen L. http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17898 Allen L. Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:11:45 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17898 I would make the argument that banning football and soccer does not reduce the risk of injury. There might be a perceived reduction, but does the principle actually have any data that shows the risk of injury is reduced? Simply put injuries will happen when children play, especially boys, but banning certain activities will not reduce that risk. I would make the argument that banning football and soccer does not reduce the risk of injury. There might be a perceived reduction, but does the principle actually have any data that shows the risk of injury is reduced?

Simply put injuries will happen when children play, especially boys, but banning certain activities will not reduce that risk.

]]> By: Joe Libson http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/12/let-kids-be-kids-not/#comment-17899 Joe Libson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:10:22 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2232#comment-17899 Yucko! What craptastic grammar. I blame the late hour and lack of sleep. Sorry Book. :P Yucko! What craptastic grammar. I blame the late hour and lack of sleep. Sorry Book. :P

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