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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Playground Safety Going Overboard

More than 15 million lawsuits will be filed in state courts this year, according to tort reform advocates.
And that tendency to litigate first and ask questions later might be hurting the country's kids.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the trend toward litigating every minor accident that happens in our lives, as well as constantly adhering to the "safety first" motto, could be creating weak, overweight, neurotic children.

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5 comments:

  1. good, take away all the playgrounds! keep your rotten kids in the house playing video games, feeding them chips and watching them get FAT!

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  2. It's ridiculous how over the top Playground 'safety' has become, my daughter has been scolded for doing handstands and cartwheels at recess, last week she was told that she would lose recess if she was caught doing them again.
    Kids aren't allowed to run in gym, in place of gym equipt it's now fooze ball tables and air hockey... absolutely ridiculous.

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  3. There's big money in safe play grounds. Your money.

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  4. Are we surprised at the guardians of all don't allow normal activites. Face it we have all become soft and it has bleed into the children.

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  5. 15 million lawsuits on playgrounds

    wait for the ones on the skate park

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