Should snow forts be illegal?
February 15th 2007 04:33
Should snow forts be illegal? It might just come to that after a mother went on TV talking about "the dangers" of snow forts. It was on the news tonight. a seven-year-old and his parents were playing in the snow and made a snow fort. The little boy crawled through and the fort collapsed. The mother said, "He told me he thought he was going to die". The kid was in under the snow a minute or less.
In my opinion it just scared the little boy. But the over reaction could get out of hand as things seem to do in this day and age. I guess you have to keep kids from ever doing anything that could possibly scare them because it could be mentally detrimental. I think you have to live a bit...Children need to fall, get hurt physically and maybe their feelings might get hurt along the way. No one needs teased a lot, but what happens to us as children sometimes can help us be better adults.
Wouldn't it had been an extreme shock if as an adult you just figured out not everyone will like you? What if you didn't break a bone until you were an adult? What if you didn't figure out you're just not that good at sports, since you always got to play and you weren't always picked last even sometimes third, when you try out for a national team and you just don't make the cut? If you don't have a few negative experiences when you are young when should you have them?
What do you think? Should snow forts be illegal because the fort could collapse and scare a child?
In my opinion it just scared the little boy. But the over reaction could get out of hand as things seem to do in this day and age. I guess you have to keep kids from ever doing anything that could possibly scare them because it could be mentally detrimental. I think you have to live a bit...Children need to fall, get hurt physically and maybe their feelings might get hurt along the way. No one needs teased a lot, but what happens to us as children sometimes can help us be better adults.
Wouldn't it had been an extreme shock if as an adult you just figured out not everyone will like you? What if you didn't break a bone until you were an adult? What if you didn't figure out you're just not that good at sports, since you always got to play and you weren't always picked last even sometimes third, when you try out for a national team and you just don't make the cut? If you don't have a few negative experiences when you are young when should you have them?
What do you think? Should snow forts be illegal because the fort could collapse and scare a child?
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