Just like Grokster Steve’s post on the Nashua Elementary School’s continuing the sissification of American (“ooh, someone might get hurt!!!”), we see someone else saying “TOO MUCH RISK – you can’t do that!”.
Tell me, which sport or activity do you think (there are three) are those that the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, & Nutrition are SO dangerous for kids that they demanded that the US Postal Service scrap the entire stamp run? Seriously?
Now remember, this is not a school setting – there are no playgrounds involved. No real people, either. Cartoon figures, really (and they even hide the ‘toons innocense by blanking out their faces even). I looked at all of those activities and remembered back many years (and pounds) ago and went “I did them all”! OK, not so much the skateboard as the poly wheels hadn’t yet been invented and those boards road rough – but I did a lot of roller skating instead.
I definitely took part in the 3 risky “non-safe” activities – and nothing got scrambled on my part, at least badly. Sure, I had my share of bumps, bruises, scrapes, and strains. Couple times, enough to sideline me a couple of times but that’s part of growing up – learning “don’t do that like that again!”.
Oh, those activities?
The first offending stamp depicts a child performing a cannonball; the second a child skateboarding without kneepads; the third a child performing a headstand without a helmet, according to Linn’s reporter Bill McAllister.
Growing up, I lived at the local community pool: “cannon balls away!” all summer long. Already mentioned the skating. But I never knew that required equipment for headstands was a noggin-knocker.
Other questionable stamps included a batter without a batting helmet, a girl balancing on a slippery rock, and a soccer player without kneepads or shin pads
Sheesh – it’s a wonder I survived at all. You?
It really is a shame that adults nowadays have decided that kids are to be prevented from what hurt them as kids. These helicopter type proxy parents have decided that THEIR rules trump what really was fun back in the day. I look around at kids nowadays and feel sad for them – brought to this activity, then this one, and out again to something else. Adults / parents have this nutty idea that unless the event is scheduled and supervised, no kid could POSSIBLY be having fun. Gone are the days when we neighborhood kids banded together and “fought” the other neighborhood kids in whiffle ball, tag, hide n seek, softball, baseball, basketball, bike racing, Cowboys and Indians, playing Army; you name it, we competed as there was always the first aid kit at home and the occasional run to the ER for a couple of stitches. That’s life.
Not sheltered.
No decision has been made on the stamps – I guess somebody is going to get hurt in the Political Correctness fight…
