Posted on 09/29/2012 3:07:37 PM PDT by varyouga
Recently it was banned from a playground in England, the topic of a sex convict’s confession in New Zealand, the subject of a child’s funeral here in the United States and the reason for a 911 call in my own back yard.
Can you guess what it is?
Hide and Seek. Yes, hide and seek.
In our era of parenting, there are two philosophies regarding children’s interactions with the world that have seemingly emerged. Philosophy one views the world as a mostly safe place that we need to allow our children to freely experience and explore, and philosophy two views the world as a mostly dangerous place that we need to protect and shelter our children from. Then there are those who fall somewhere in the middle, parents who are aware of the dangers of the world but not fearful, and are concerned about their child’s safety but not obsessed. I think those are the type of parents we should strive to be.
So whether you subscribe to philosophy one or two, whether your agree or disagree that games like hide and seek should be banned from school yard, or whether you see bad things as happening to children all the time or as a rarity, it’s important to try to reach middle ground and address serious dangers around seemingly harmless things.
Like hide and seek.
Whether you advocate for playing hide and seek or not, there are principles of the game worth considering: • Hide and seek promotes secretive play. The nature of the game is to not tell anyone where you are and what you are doing. • Hide and seek asks children to hide and not come out. The nature of the game is to ask children to hide so they can’t be found. • Hide and seek sends mixed messages. The nature of the game asks children to do what we’ve always told them not to. • Hide and seek requires mind skills young children may not have. The nature of the game requires you to differentiate between hiding for real and hiding for pretend play.
When it comes to hide and seek, what you choose to do it up to you. What’s important is that you’ve come to your decision from an educated and informed place.
This article is reason number 73 of, “why a Russian woman is a better choice as a wife”.
” no more imaginary friends.”
I miss Little Moo!
My great grandmother used to say “Patch em up and send em back to the front”.
Yeah and I miss - hmm, never mind.
FMCDH(BITS)
Indeed, she probably aborted all of them, but has "studied a lot" and "conducted extensive research" on parenting. She is therefore in a position that commands respect; YOU should listen to HER telling YOU how to be a parent.....she is the expert after all.
Then they were stuck in there........Good Lord, the amount of blood when I finally pried my mouth open.
I’ve banged myself up plenty from biking. Then there’s the other times when I went down and almost screwed up my eye, got knocked out, almost had the other eye bitten by my aunt’s dirty little something something of a dog when I was a kid.
How about a game called “Hide” my older cousins used to play with the younger ones. The little ones would go hide while the old ones covered their eyes and counted to one hundred. By that time the younger ones were gone and the older ones could have some fun. :-)
And yet we’ve all grown to be adults. I think people learn more from mistakes(injuries) than their successes.
No more Musical Chairs, because it is not fair to leave someone out.
No more Hop Scotch, because it is not nice to make fun of people who might only have one leg.
No more "Red Rover" because it is racist, American Indians might object.
No more playing Tag because saying "You're it" might be considered bullying.
No more "Ring around the Rosey" because saying "we all fall down" doesn't give anyone a choice if they want to stay standing.
No more "Patty Cake" because saying "and put it in the oven for baby and me," is selfish, it is not sharing and spreading the goodies.
All of this is possible reasoning in the eyes of the looney Left.
Yeah, like how not to ride a bike down stairs. Put too much of your weight forward, and you fall on your face. I still have a subdermal chip in one of my front teeth from that, when I was around 13.
Haha, probably without a helmet too. I learned that if you wedge your foot in between the front tire and frame, you do a front wheelie. If your going too fast, you fly over the handlebars. It’s really a miracle that boys live to be men.
Yeah, I stopped wearing a helmet around the age of 12. If I was wearing one at the time I face planted, it would’ve caused my chin to hit first and I may have lost some adult teeth, if not cracked my jaw.
I know that trick too. Happened to me, although I was going into a garage too fast, hit the front brake and flipped the bike just to stop. Fell in some really nasty water that had leaked from the ceiling, and ended up smelling like vomit. Definitely wasn’t a fun 10 minutes.
As an aside, I’m surprised I’ve never broken a bone, and the only surgeries I’ve had were scheduled ones dealing with my ear.
There’s a couple indentations in my right shin from a pedal slamming into it about a dozen times, sometimes twice in one day.
I have those same dents in the shin. I’ve broken quite a few bones though, and received stitches multiple times. I like to call them character builders.
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