Climb a Tree

Why do parents sign their kids up for multiple activities outside of school? For example, I know some parents (won't mention names to protect their idenity) that have their kids in dance class, gymnastics, swimming, piano lessons, softball and soccer. What in THE heck? Did nature become so boring for kids that they refuse to run around outside playing tag? You can get much better excersize and the extra bonus, it's free!! Parents spend anywhere from forty bucks for enrollment up to $120.00 a day for lessons. Ridiculous? I'd say so. Apparently parents are trying to get their kids 'involved in activities', they have nothing better to spend their money on or they are trying to get their kids out of the house. Here's an idea... send them O-U-T-S-I-D-E to play! Oh but I guess it's too dangerous for them. We don't want wittle Sally Wally to get hurty wurty. Don't you have a fear that our children are going to grow up to be afraid of their own shawdow? Pretty soon a law will be enforced that all children 'MUST WEAR HELMETS IN SCHOOL'. (Just in case they fall down off of the jungle gym and land in a pile of wood chips). Who the heck hasn't fallen and landed on concrete?

If kids don't know what it's like to really get hurt, how are they going to react as adults when they cut their finger on a soup can? I don't want to see our country run by no-nonsense, non intuitive, wimpy, uneducated slumps just because they weren't ever told to go climb a tree. Are we going to see a future of everyone walking around in a plastic bubble? I sure hope not.

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