What's next? Paper and pencils?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Toronto school bans balls in the playground.

LINK

[LKTraz]

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Wrap the entire fuckin' world up with bubble wrap and call it a day.

Damned idiots. Ok let's ban cars because there are accidents. While we're at it let's also ban: planes, trains, cranes, hockey pucks, paper (due to paper cuts), all forms of fire (might get burned), water (could drown), food (due to possible choking hazards) and....oh wait....then we would all die. Guess that's the only way to keep us safe! Ok new plan! EVERYBODY commit suicide.........NOW!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Yes, the ol' Jim Jones solution.

[Vizth Hal]

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ever watch demolition man? that's what were heading towards, but with out Stallone blowing crap up

[Rhubarb]

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There is a similar ban at the school at the bottom of the hill

There was a compromise. The school provide the balls for the kids to play with at break. The kids have to 'book the ball out' for the session and it cannot be booked twice, so everyone gets a share and made responsible. There is also a designated area too so other kids can't get accidently hit while running about.

I can tell you it is bloody painful getting hit by a soccer ball when you are only 5 years old!
It happened to me at my village school, where there was only two classrooms (infants and juniors). The junior boys would take over the whole playground playing football.
I made the mistake of running behind the pile of coats (goalposts) thinking I would be ok, only they made a goal at the same time

[LKTraz]

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I honestly believe that getting bumps, cuts and bruises is a part of growing up and teaches one lessons.

"Golly gee.....guess I won't do THAT again!" I think the lack of these lessons leads to what we now have in the form of totally overprotective parents and wussy kids who grow up to be ultra liberal clueless adults. As well it contributes to people ending up with no ability whatsoever in dealing with adversity. They rely on "someone else" to take care of it FOR them (like the government) making for nice little scared rabbit socialists.

Hell......by today's standards I and most of my classmates should be dead. Whenever any of my kids got hurt, after making sure it was nothing serious I'd ask them how it happened and if it hurt. When they would answer I'd tell them "Then I guess you'd better not do THAT again!" Most of the time they didn't.

My older daughter was forever injuring herself due to using either poor or no judgment. My comment to her was: "Dumbass!" This sunk in and she eventually began to think before doing something. She told me that she would wonder if she did it would I call he a dumbass. If the answer was probably yes she'd rethink the whole thing.

Mission accomplished, lesson learned.

Maxine is a tough kid and when accidents happen more often than not she gets right up saying "I'M OK! It hurts but I'm ok." She does get it checked out but most of the time she doesn't need any attention and that's the end of it.