The Worst Toys of 2007 – Part 2

Again same old story , child should be left out to play in mud instead

I remember being a boy, and we use to do stuff that would give an in insurance agent a case of the shivering vapors, much less an organization like WATCH. Once we become adults we forget a simple fact. Kids are incredibly tough. Somehow they keep growing up into guys like me who write these posts.

It's not like we are giving our children swords and spears, guns, or live explosives. Though as a kid I did design a nuclear weapon, and most of us knew how to formulate our own explosives and other lethal toys. Yet somehow, most of us survived. I think sometimes we forget that fun does not depend on having thousands of dollars worth of toys, but upon "male and female created He them," with vigor and creative zeal (appologies to RAH). The way to raise kids is to give them enough freedom to be kids, not to try to insulate them from all possible harm.

Old Folks forgetting how to have fun. Seems when ya old and a drop to the ground could mean death, ya want all others around to aid ya through life, and seeing kids play as ya once did, now only pisses ya off.

Hap, I be older than them thar hills. I remember, as a boy, when my father and I would buy a BIG box of fireworks for $ 5. I had a ball for a month or more. I don't recall a great number of kids getting seriously injured or even killed with fireworks, but they still let minors drive cars with the results that thousands of minors get killed every year. I don't hear any hue and cry to stop teens from driving potentially fatal automobiles! But they restrict fireworks like they were nerve gas vilas. Don't blame the old timers. Blame the "do-gooders" who want to "protect" the kids, but they don't care if thousands more teen agers are killed in or by automobiles!

I have to agree that the nanny state will stifle all fun and innovation in the name of "safety." As to teens and cars you might want to check with the (great great?) grandchildren, since the restrictions on teen licenses are becoming more rigerous every time there is an accident.

The real irony to all this is that by age 18 you are able to join the military and be taught to kill, but you can't drink until you're 21 'cause you're not responsible enough...

I think "WATCH's" diatribe on the pogo stick ball toy is nonsense. Or maybe they are against pogo sticks as well? Heaven help us if a scraped knee caused unimaginable social and emotional trauma!

I think these sheep types have to bleat loudly enough so that the government funding and / or donations from concerned citizens keep coming in....