A while back, we talked about the crazy things that are going on at schools these days. They're not allowed to play Red Rover anymore. No more Dodgeball. No more Tag. No more running. Are you kidding me?
It is absurd that these are the things that parents fight for. "My poor Jonny got hurt. Boys should be playing such rough games." Wah. Maybe Jonny should learn to toughen up. And there's so much whining and complaining about obesity being a bigger and bigger problem (literally?). Same with AD(H)D. Why don't we let them do fun things? Aren't those of us who played those games somehow better off for it?
Actually, I have to take that back. I wasn't one of those kids who played those games. I did every now and then, but mostly I got hurt. So I was the kid who got fat, too. Third grade I was a cute normal little girl. Come fourth and fifth grade, I was a balloon. What happened? I stopped playing on the playground.
Problems aren't solved by telling kids they're not allowed to do things. Kids are just going to find other ways to get hurt that aren't against the rules. It just happens. Let them play. Let Jonny get hurt. Let little Susie get hurt too. They'll learn not to play with kids who are bigger or meaner than them.
Kids learn by experience. Let them!
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