it is funny how lame the world is becoming.

We played kickball and dogeball on asphalt, we used to climb a rope in the gym that was at least 20 feet tall, in 3rd grade I got thrown across a room into a desk by a teacher for being a smart ass......

Now everyone thinks their kids will get hurt by everything....but those same parents also put up with their kids being total smart mouth-aholes to them too

a quick grab of the face with some "twisted sister like yelling" will solve that fairly quickly but people are too lame these days.....you get a time out...

 

Yeah i remember playing kickball. We didn't care what the temp was we were kids and we hated bein locked up inside so we went outside and ran around and everything. one time, i accidently pegged this kid in the head. i got him out, but i had to say sorry. and we kept playing. no lawsuits, no crying. just childhood.

 

exactly... we played that you threw the ball at the person.... now you have to run up and gently touch them....


can't wait to see what will happen in the next 20 years.... everyone will run around with floaties on theirs arms (just in case it rains and they fall into a puddle) and helmets on 24/7 (you never know when a meteor will fall).

 

Yeah, sure! I'm not paying $300/mo for a Catholic private school for them to throw my girl into the rain and wind. Otherwise, there are free schools for that.

P.S. Maybe you all had superhuman immune systems as a child, but my daughter gets easily sick if caught by wind and rain, and that's all that matters to me.

 

Antibodies.

 

MDrGreene.com
Cold Air and Colds
My son is four months old. The baby sitter takes the kids outside. It's rather cold and windy here in Japan. Is it dangerous to my son's lungs or respiratory system to inhale cold air?
Japan

For generations, parental wisdom has held that cold air is not good for children's respiratory systems. In particular, cold air has been thought to cause colds (thus the name). Earlier medical traditions have tended to agree with folk wisdom. Over the last fifteen years or so, the prevailing medical opinion has shifted to a different point of view. The more recent thinking is that cold air does not cause colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, or other respiratory infections. Scientifically designed experiments have been carried out to prove the theory that cold temperatures do not cause the common cold.

Studies conducted at the University of Virginia made the news when healthy adult volunteers cavorted in the snow with few clothes on and were found no more likely to catch respiratory infections than their companions indoors. Subsequently, at McMurdo Station, a US research base in Antarctica, several important studies have been carried out. (What better place to study the effect of cold temperature than Antarctica?) People in isolation at this base tended to get no colds at all -- unless visitors came from the outside. Specific viruses that the visitors brought to the station worked their way through the research compound at a rather leisurely pace, approximating the rate of cold acquisition in other climates. This demonstrated that cold temperature itself does not cause colds.

 

To me, the wind and drizzle are more dangerous than just "cold".

As I've said, when she gets sick, we all get "sick" by taking care of her and missing work and stuff. We don't need the extra pains and hassles, especially when paying for a private Catholic school. Got it?

 

i love when kids and parents try to shield their kids from germs like at chuck e cheeses... they bring the hand cleaner stuff.......

we go straight from the bathroom to eating pizza.... if it doesn't kill ya it makes you stronger!

 

Without washing hands and with little poo stuck between the fingernails too, I guess.

And no, we are not that excessive with our children. It's just that we're not fond of their getting unnecessarily sick. Not fun for both!

 

Washing hands doesn't do anything in terms of bacteria, that's why hospitals don't use soap. They use alcohol based foam products and they wipe real quick before it evaporates...