Wrap them up in cotton wool. - Page 2

SPUGGIE J · 13-02-2007, 19:33

What next have them walking around the playground in uniformly spaced columns?

So no footy in case you get tackled.
Rugby a no no as its bodies running into each other flat out.
Cross country in case you get a sprain.
Athletics because you could pull a muscle.

Billcat it only takes one politariat bam to start a trend in these curly worleywold we have in this country.

grego · 13-02-2007, 20:44

Didn't realise that kiss chase was banned too, used to love that, though same as Lettie wasn't chased often. Children need to run round and get scrapes and bruises its part of growing up!

SPUGGIE J · 13-02-2007, 21:02

Part of the blame lies with the threat whether real or persived of being sued for not looking after children.

panther · 13-02-2007, 21:09

bloody stupid!
why bother having a playground if you cant play?

like spuggie said, the threat of being sued probably has something to do with it!

cashman · 14-02-2007, 00:37

this is completely ridiculous, the geek who has come up with this crap should be disciplined. its great being a kid so let em be KIDS.

WillowTheWhisp · 14-02-2007, 11:12

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

Part of the blame lies with the threat whether real or persived of being sued for not looking after children.

Maybe parents should be asked to sign a disclaimer when their child starts school.

SPUGGIE J · 14-02-2007, 11:19

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Maybe parents should be asked to sign a disclaimer when their child starts school.

Some properly wouldnt just in case something happened and they lost their chance. Me I would sign a disclaimer.

panther · 14-02-2007, 14:24

when my daughter goes on a day trip with a school they want to know the in and outs of everything.......are they up to date with jabs, are they allergic to anything, emergency numbers, doctors numbers....etc..etc,
and thats not just once its everytime they go somewhere, i dont know why they dont just keep it for reference, we didnt have nowt like that when we where kids!

SPUGGIE J · 14-02-2007, 15:43

Panther that would just be too easy for them and besides which it would mean them checking. They reckon they would be safer getting this info each time in case of changes but Ireckon its laziness.

West Ender · 14-02-2007, 16:43

This sort of thing makes me furious. So a child may hurt him/herself? It's part of growing up, for goodness sake.

I think back to the way I played as a child, back in the Dark Ages, diving off a hay loft head first into a pile of straw (on a concrete floor), climbing trees etc. and, in the school playground, British Bulldog (fiendish) and chain-tig (if you were on the end you could almost go flying). I sometimes wonder that I survived it all - but I did, often with scabby knees and scraped hands and once with a badly sprained ankle and a dislocated thumb. I was healthy though - and happy.

panther · 14-02-2007, 19:49

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Originally Posted by West Ender

This sort of thing makes me furious. So a child may hurt him/herself? It's part of growing up, for goodness sake.

I think back to the way I played as a child, back in the Dark Ages, diving off a hay loft head first into a pile of straw (on a concrete floor), climbing trees etc. and, in the school playground, British Bulldog (fiendish) and chain-tig (if you were on the end you could almost go flying). I sometimes wonder that I survived it all - but I did, often with scabby knees and scraped hands and once with a badly sprained ankle and a dislocated thumb. I was healthy though - and happy.

I broke my arm twice when i was a kid!
today it would probably be accused as child abuse! bloody daft!!

the worlds gone soft!

shillelagh · 14-02-2007, 21:03

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Originally Posted by panther

when my daughter goes on a day trip with a school they want to know the in and outs of everything.......are they up to date with jabs, are they allergic to anything, emergency numbers, doctors numbers....etc..etc,
and thats not just once its everytime they go somewhere, i dont know why they dont just keep it for reference, we didnt have nowt like that when we where kids!

They ask everytime because sometimes there are changes and the parents forget to tell school and so if something does go wrong and they have out of date information what would happen? Everyone will blame the school for not having up to date information on the kids.

West Ender · 14-02-2007, 21:05

When my son was 5 he was brought home from school one afternoon by his teacher. He looked like a neanderthal with a forehead twice normal size and rapidly going purple. Teacher said he had fallen off the climbing frame in PE. I said thanks for bringing him home (they'd had him lying down in the staff room for 3 hours!), bathed his head, gave him his tea and put him to bed - no concussion. Next day we spent all morning at the hospital where he was tested for a detached retina as he said he couldn't see properly but everything was fine and his forehead went down in about a week.

The thing is
1) we didn't sue the school
2) the hospital didn't suspect us of child abuse
3) no one tried to stop him climbing, jumping etc. in the future - or skateboarding, playing football/rugby/cricket, all of which injured him in one way or another from time to time.
4) he's still alive and well - and nearly 42

I think he was about 23 when he told me he hadn't fallen off the climbing frame - he'd dived off it.

WillowTheWhisp · 14-02-2007, 23:40

When children go on school trips, even very basic ones like a walk to the park, the school has to do a risk assessment and prove that they have looked at all the possible things that could happen and taken steps to avoid them. It seems like total madness compared to the rough and tumble we were used to when I was a kid.

SPUGGIE J · 14-02-2007, 23:53

I have had plenty of baumps scrapes and bangs on the head and i am ok I think.