Massachusetts School Bans Tag Amid Fears of Injuries, Lawsuits

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. ^ | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 | AP

[bk1000]

I recall hearing of another school's ban on tag because it violated the school's 'no touching' policy.

[MPJackal]

Tag is dangerous? Well hell, better ban slides, softball because you might get hit with a ball or bat, tether-ball since you might get smacked in the face. When I was a kid we played tag, in the woods, at night. We also played baseball, tackle football, smear the queer (it was the late 60's, early 70's, I did not even know what a queer was, and had snow/ice-ball fights. When we got a bit older we played paint-ball.....with BB guns, we also moved our football games to the ice pond (snow removed for traction). We also went hunting and fishing. Thank God I am not a kid today. But I do wish I had gone to school to become a shrink.

[Tokra]

IIRC, in their PC grammar school, these kids had never faced a failure and couldn't cope when it came up in high school.

And in my opinion, that is one of the reasons that teen suicide rates are so high. These kids are so coddled and protected by Mommy & Daddy from every single negative, when the day finally arrives when Mommy & Daddy CAN'T take care of it (which is certain to happen sooner or later) the kid has absolutely no coping skills so they blow their brains out because they don't know what else to do.

Dealing with negatives has to be learned and the only way to learn it is by experience - starting with little disappointments and little frustrations. If a child is not "inoculated" with these coping skills gradually and are instead insulated against them until it is too late - then the young adult is left with no idea how to handle major disappoinments or frustrations.

Parent's who think they are doing their kids a favor by constantly running interference for them have no idea how they are handicapping their children - sometimes with fatal results.

{/soapbox off}