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Here is the deal; last night I was browsing through newsstories when one in particular caught my eye. The title implied something soridiculous that I thought it had to be a joke but lo and behold it was nojoke. So without further ado here is thelatest of dumbest ideas I have ever head, a list that is starting to getalarmingly long by the way. Picture this summer camp, a place where children gathertogether to make new friends, spend time with old ones, spend nights in cabins,and fully enjoy being outdoors. Its a perfect place for those young thrillseekers to get their adventure fix. But wait we have a problem because asignificant part of summer camp is being deemed too dangerous. Can you guesswhat it is? Thats right the games. I couldnt believe it when I first heard it either butapparently New York State bureaucrats are saying games like Freeze Tag, RedRover, Kick Ball, Wiffle Ball and Dodge Ball pose a significant risk of injury.News flash so does getting out of bed every morning and yet it is a daily partof life. With these games being deemed dangerous a new law has been passed thatany summer program that offers at least one of these risky games is subject tostate regulation which includes a $200 dollar registration fee and on site medicalstaff. A little extreme dont you think?I think its extreme, ridiculous and most of all stupid. Igrew up playing all these games, sure there was a risk but I never gotseriously injured from playing them. You know what I did get? Enjoyment andhappiness. I still remember playing these games in both grade school and summercamps. I would get to spend more time with all my friends, I could play and befree, and I got good exercise. It was just a wonderful and fun experience; onethat I still hold with me to this day and now the government wants to take thataway from the new generation.It looks like someone needs to remind the government that oneof the biggest problems this country is facing is obesity in children. Theyhave already altered physical education in high school and now they are goingto greatly reduce in when the kids are younger. What are they trying to do? Accordingto the news stories they are putting laws in place to outlaw free play. Arethey high? Whats next, a law to outlaw video games because the kids might hurttheir thumbs on the controllers? Its madness I tell you, total and completemadness. But it isnt just the obesity issue, this affects so muchmore than that. The world can be a very cruel place and these games build kidsup for facing the real world someday. Some people may think of them as justbeing games but they arent. They teach children teamwork, and how to bestrong. Its alright for a child to comehome with bruises and cuts and scrapes, in fact it will do them more good thanharm. For whatever reason it seems like the new thing is overly babying the newgeneration, taking everything away that could potentially harm or scare them.Dont you know that by doing that youre setting them up for failure? You want your children to be able to face any problem thatcomes their way, you want to have confidence that they will be alright once youregone, that they can take care of themselves. When I was young I lived in a forest so I was always getting intotrouble; falling down the hills, getting chased by the neighbors dogs, andclimbing trees. I used to walk through that entire 4 acre forest barefoot and Icould run through there like it was nothing. I came back home with all mannerof cuts and bruises but I was tough. My parents loved me but they knew that itwas good for me to go through that and they were right. I know now that if Ihadnt gone through what I did then I wouldnt have been able to get throughsome of the hardest moments of my life. Its wrong for them to take these experiences and lessonsaway from these kids because in the process they are taking away valuablememories and some of their tools for survival. Remember a risk equals a reward.Its better to risk a few injuries and come out on top with the skills the kidswill learn from these games. I say we let these kids enjoy their childhood andprepare for their adulthood by playing these games and put an end to theseridiculous laws.
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