the pussification of american kids continues

ohskigod

this is why I dont have kids

http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2006/10/18/features/feature37.txt

its like were raising sheep at this point :mad:

Skynut

Kids should never have to risk getting hurt.
Almost anything a kid does can result in harm especially if it is considered fun by the kid so therefore, we should stop all fun activities and force the kids to sit in circles burning bugs with magnifying glasses and pulling wings off of flies.

AndyGwis

OMG, that's terrible. I remember laying out across pavement to catch a touchdown pass during recess back in elementary. I also almost lost a fingure during the obstacle race during field day. . .

Aren't cuts, bruises, casts, and the sort all just a part of being a kid? What's cooler than having kids sign your cast when you're in 4th grade and having a cool "how I broke my arm" story to tell and embellish.

I guess I should buy stock in human bubbles since it looks like it's heading that way. One word, plastics!

Skynut

P.S. I wonder where Bill Gates would be today if he were not allowed to take any chances when he was younger.

AndyGwis

actually, if someone told me Bill Gates refused to play tag or touch football growing up, I would definitely believe it. . . probably the whole techy-image.

Stereotypes, although potentially harmful, are often true.

bert26

That really breaks my heart (and pisses me off). I had a blast playing those games when I was little. We used to play game called "Smear the ****" which consisted of tackling the guy that had the ball. He then gave it up and the next guy got chased and tackled and so on.... The name back then had FAR more to do with rhyming than with sexual orientation. Hell, we were only 7 years old and could care less.

While I'm at it - I also hate when score isn't kept for kids' games. Ties are nice but just don't happen that often in real life.

Just my .02

Chris

tommyboy

So wait, let me get this straight. The hate to see their kids home playing video games all the time, but then pull something like this.

"Come on son, stop playing video games and go outside and play. Just no football, release, tag, baseball, soccer, or anything else that requires running real fast" (Translation to kid, go and smoke some good weed);)

Skynut

It all started when they replaced the tanbark with rubber mats.
Or was it the Southpark dodge ball episode?


I remember playing smear the ****.

bobman1235

Can't say anything that hasn't already been said, but all of you folks with kids should start standing up to this **** rather than just sitting here complaining about it.

The real problem is of course, lawsuits. The school is afraid of beign sued by all the cash-happy crazies out there.

The good news is, this kind of thing USUALLY goes in cycles. One generation gets fed up with the extremes of the previous generation and push it the other way. Our current ultra-conservative societal push is based on rebellion / fear from the 60's ultra-liberal do-anything crowd that their kids will do the same. Hopefully our kids generation will be fed up with being coddled and will ... uncoddle their kids. Hopefully.

dkg999

Kids are going to explore, and exploring dangerous activities is just part of the right of passage! It's when we don't recognize that and try to instill how to keep yourself safe that it all starts to go wrong. My kids (9 and 11) ride horses, atv's, dirt bikes, and shoot pellet and .22 rifles. They have been taught how to be as safe as possible, they have never riden and atv or dirt bike without helmet, gloves, chest/spine protector, googles, and proper clothing so they think anyone who doesn't "gear up" prior to riding is weird! It's when the over-protected kids grow up and then decide to explore the dangerous activities without a clue as to how to be safe that disaster beckons!

reeltrouble1

Lou,

You should see these new cadets we get, pitifull, pitiiiifulllll, pitifulpitifulpitifull. It is the time of the pacifist not the king, Middle Earth is in danger.

RT1

ahorvitz

AndyGwis wrote:

OMG, that's terrible. I remember laying out across pavement to catch a touchdown pass during recess back in elementary. I also almost lost a fingure during the obstacle race during field day. . .

Aren't cuts, bruises, casts, and the sort all just a part of being a kid? What's cooler than having kids sign your cast when you're in 4th grade and having a cool "how I broke my arm" story to tell and embellish.

Exactly! I remember sliding into a base to beat a tag, only the base was on asphalt, and I ended up having small pieces of glass and pebbles removed from my leg before getting a few stitches. That's supposed to happen once in a while. It builds character.

No surprise that this is going on in my home state of MA. The Newton, MA public schools barred any reference to, or celebration of Halloween in school last year. Sheep, yes, sheep.

shack

I guess they can all play patty-cake....

No wait....that can get pretty agressive. What if a kid misses and patty-cakes another kid in the nose?

Maybe the hokie pokie?

NO....probably not. They could fall or step on someone's foot or who knows what could happen when they "shake it all about" :eek:

bert26

What if a kid misses and patty-cakes another kid in the nose?

Patty Cake as a verb! I love it!

What about those 5 foot falls from the monkey bars? Throwing the kickball AT someone to get them out?

All things of the past. :mad:

bobman1235

bert26 wrote:

Patty Cake as a verb! I love it!

Verbing wierds language.

MSALLA

The scarry part about this is it's our generation thats coming up with these jackass (a.k.a. PC) rules. I hate do gooders that go over board.

PolkThug

Skynut wrote:

It all started when they replaced the tanbark with rubber mats.
Or was it the Southpark dodge ball episode?


I remember playing smear the ****.

bark? Heck we had gravel. Picking gravel out of your knees was a normal activity.

If we weren't so sue happy here in good ole USA, this wouldn't be an issue.

daniel_paul_

I was going to post this outrage. I was so mad I couldn't think of something to type.

This is why we through my brothers son around like a toy. I had him diving off the dresser on to an air matress. He just turned 5.

Being scared and having some pain makes life far more fun. And everyone **** that the kids are overweight!

danger boy

our company did a media (TV/internet/newspaper) viewer research of all age groups. interesting fact is that in the year 2010, which is only three years away.. the age group between 18 and 29 will be the largest population group.

Research shows that this age group likes information at their disposal and leisure.. saying that don't have time to watch the local news at 5 or 6pm anymore because their lives are to busy. Preferring to instead get it over the internet when they have time. Ok, i can understand that, we'll all doing more with less resources these days.. we'll all busy.

Another interesting fact i found out today that this age group wants to be recoginized for "just showing up" they don't want any kind of award, they want to get singled out for showing up.. ie: work, dinner out, etc. They need the affirmation to be able to make it thru the day. OMG!

There were lots more interesting facts for this age group.. those are they ones I thought were interesting.

I do have to say that research showed this age group is smarter overall than Gen X'ers, and baby boomers, etc. Scoring higher (overall) on SAT's, etc.

PolkThug

danger boy wrote:

I do have to say that research showed this age group is smarter overall than Gen X'ers, and baby boomers, etc. Scoring higher (overall) on SAT's, etc.

Its because they use their text messaging to cheat!

bobman1235

Ah, don't talk about the future, in 2010 I'll be turning THIRTY! Heavens to murgatroid.

michael_w

Zero wrote:

...Hell there was even a game where you stood against a brick wall while another kid 8 ft or so away hurled a ball as fast as they possibly could. I forgot that name.

I really feel sorry for these lil runt's.

We called it redass

I'm glad I got out of school before all this crap starts to really take hold of the majority of schools. Some of the most fun time were playing games like bombardment (dodgeball with a twist) and football.

steveinaz

It robs the kids of their childhood. ****, skinned up knees, stitches, cuts, bruises, all part of growing up. What do we do, strap them all in wheel chairs so they don't get hurt? Give me a frickin break.

I agree fully with the phrase "Pussification of American kids"

MacLeod

Definitely!

Neal Boortz was talking about this on his show and some dimwit mom called up supporting the idea saying that her kids arent afraid to go to school now.

His reply summed it up best. "Madame, youre raising a candy ****!"

F1nut

I'm speechless.

Holydoc

bobman1235 wrote:

The real problem is of course, lawsuits. The school is afraid of beign sued by all the cash-happy crazies out there..

Exactly! This has nothing to do with coddling the children or some undercover attempt to protect them. It has to do with protecting the school and the staff of the school.

Do not blame the children or the school. It is the Lawyers and those parents who cannot accept the fact that accidents do and will happen. Until our society takes a stance and rids this world of frivolous lawsuits, those lawyers who initiate them, and the judge that lets them stand, you will continue to see a decline in people accepting responsibility.

This angers me to no end to think that a parent would sue a school because their child was tackled and got a scrapped knee... but they will. After all didn't a lady sue McDonalds because she was too stupid to realize that coffee is served hot and that you should not attempt to drive while drinking hot coffee? Hell, my blow dryer has a warning on it that says Not to be used in the shower. This was caused by some jerk using it in the shower, getting shocked, and then suing because he did not have the brains/common sense to take responsibility.

Personally I do not want to save all these people who are too stupid to not use a blow dryer in the shower or blame someone else when they spill their own drink. I do not want to continue to pay higher and higher insurance bills because some family sued a doctor because their baby was born ugly (yes... that happened right here in my small community).

You want your children to have sports in their future? Then take a stance and express your concern over this frivolous lawsuits and actions by passing a law that fines the person that files an idiotic case. Fine the lawyers that file ridiculous actions. Fine the judge that prosecutes for not using common sense.

Don't blame the children or the schools. Blame the hypocrisy that protects us from cleansing the gene pool!

*steps off the soapbox*

ohskigod

ahorvitz wrote:

The Newton, MA public schools barred any reference to, or celebration of Halloween in school last year. Sheep, yes, sheep.

NO F%CKING HOLLOWEEN!?!?!?!?!?!? dude, I missed that memo.

wtf is going on up there :mad: (not aimed at you by the way )

I'm probably going to open a pandora's box, but does someone want to fill me in on any Holloween debates I've missed out on? Oh God, its the wiccan religion thing isnt it!!!!

Dennis Gardner

I rode my bicycle into a pile of weeds only to find the weeds were covering a barbed wire fence. The hole torn in my flesh didn't hurt near as bad as when my Mom told be to get that blood out of the house and wash it off with the garden hose.

How was I suppose to know that those sprayers on the end of the hose would shoot clear to the bone and fill my leg full of water?:eek:

Oh yeah, I still think that bike helmets should be a crime with the fashion police. Any shape but that "Alien" lookin' mess they are.

ohskigod

Dennis Gardner wrote:

How was I suppose to know that those sprayers on the end of the hose would shoot clear to the bone and fill my leg full of water?:eek:

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OOOOWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

betcha learned a lesson that day...LOL

Dennis Gardner

ohskigod wrote:

OOOOWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

betcha learned a lesson that day...LOL

Never claimed to be a quick learner, but can assure you I got that message in a hurry!!

burdette

This is why I now force my kids to run with scissors. No son grows up a **** after he's taken Fiskars to the groin or forehead.

We also have family "play with fire" night.

And, I put them in a sheet-metal room with a BB gun.

Nothing a dousing of mecurichrome and an hour of Bugs Bunny can't cure.