Are we softening up our kids?

We have everyone has to win system. You know, can't have

any one deal with failure.

Then we have the buy presents on one kid's birthday, for all the kids, so the other kids don't feel left out.. so much for a special day for the kid whose birthday it is.

Now we have taken the monkey bars out of the parks and

on the news. there is the removal of swings.  SWINGS..

SWINGS, FOLKS.. How many millions of children have

been on swings all over the world? How many children

got killed?  Maybe in the past 100 years there is maybe 50,

if that.  How many have been hurt.. well, there we do

have a few hundred? ... in 2 years.  None seriously.

Considering how many trillion, over the last 100 years

that we all have been swinging, at school, at parks and

in the back yards.

What a shame to remove them. Richland, Washington has

them removed.. and Spokane is heading that way.. Don't know how many more will be running with the crowd. Spreading to the park or school near you.  Will they outlaw swings in your back yard?

Yes, if you aren't careful, you can fall off the swing. Or if

one is dumb enough or not paying attention, you can

get hit by the feet of someone as you walk in front or behind

a swing in motion. But to take it away because

of the few?  

Say nothing of the thrill of the swing itself. Be

you the wild and crazy one, like myself.. who went as high

as I could..even trying to have one leg of the unit leave the

ground... and some times jumping off while the swing was

6 feet up in the air. 

Or just the lull of the slight swing, as you daydream about anything.  Or having your parents swinging you for the first time. Or even swinging your sibling, or they swing you...You pushing your child?

To miss all of this?

WHAT A SHAME.