Our lakes and oceans have far more crap floating in them, but the CDC is warning concerned parents about the dangers of water parks. Pools, play-in fountains spread diarrheal disease, CDC says.Let's just shrink-wrap our kids and give them a self-contained breathing apparatus when they go out the door. If they approach something with wheels, make sure they have a helmet on. Don't let them walk to school even if they live two blocks away... as we all know there are child predators everywhere. If they touch something make sure they use generous amounts of hand sanitizer. And for Pete's sake, don't take your kids to the water park because they are breeding grounds for germs!
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My wife is a helicopter parent, I am the exact opposite. When mom is out doing something, we hustle out and get some (gasp!) potato chips and blow stuff up and run around, fall, scrape the knees and things like that. The horror of being a kid these days.
When I got home from school, my folks would turn me loose and pretty much demand I get out of their hair until dinner. Oh well, you can never go home again, as they say.
No more PB&J sandwiches at school. Some kids are allergic to nuts.
Teenage girls can't bring Midol to school because it is a drug.
Chapstick and Carmex are banned. Got that memo a few years ago from my son's old ISD.
Chapstick is banned? WTF?!? What's the logic behind that?
Yikes, they practically covered us in peanut butter when we went through the doors when I was a kid.
NoVa, something about kids concealing drugs.
At my son's school, one of the teachers said the reason kids couldn't wear their shirts untucked is because a student could then conceal a sawed-off shotgun.
I think the solution is: Fire some teachers that are too paranoid to work.
Lou, you might be interested in reading what the ACLU says about "zero tolerance" in schools. They link the policy to worse behavior problems and low test scores via criminalizing children.
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