safe but boring playgrounds
safe but boring playgrounds
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- prophetone0
in the piece: broward county has banned running in playgrounds... are they kidding me?
and don't even get me started on sports days. i grew up wanting to get that 1st place ribbon on sports day. and of course i didn't always get it. and i had to cope with the disappointment. now.... kids are all given blue ribbons so as not to damage their fragile little minds because somewhere along the line someone decided healthy competition is too traumatic for kids nowadays.
blows my mind.
- We teach our kid about how stupid all that is. She understands intuitively about good, better and best. I think it'smikotondria3
- something you have to teach out of kids, like racial or gay tolerance.mikotondria3
- I agree. Kinds need to learn failure, respect it, and figure how to avoid it.mg33