RememberSchiff Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Risk is positive, risk is good, ... adventure playgrounds ...like Scouting once was. https://www.today.com/video/risky-play-like-adventure-playgrounds-could-benefit-kids-and-parents-1265972291896?v=b https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-much-risk-good-kids-parents-make-case-more-adventurous-n886256 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagledad Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 24 minutes ago, RememberSchiff said: Risk is positive, risk is good, ... adventure playgrounds ...like Scouting once was. https://www.today.com/video/risky-play-like-adventure-playgrounds-could-benefit-kids-and-parents-1265972291896?v=b https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-much-risk-good-kids-parents-make-case-more-adventurous-n886256 Good article, of course as you pointed out, we are the choir. Still, I didn't see a little red wagon, so there is still some risk management to prevent permanent injury. This reminded me of a article I read yesterday, apparently some famous movie star posted a video of their family swimming and her husband throwing their young son out of the water into a flip before he landed back in the water. Just the day before my son was telling his 2 year old daughter about how grandpa threw him in the air and flipped him and her aunts and uncles in the pool when they were around her age. She isn't too far from it herself, maybe this summer (me or her dad? I hope, I hope...). But, the point of the article was the number of parents (moms) who posted (or Tweeted?) that they were bad parents. Thanks RememberSchiff. Barry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treflienne Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 47 minutes ago, RememberSchiff said: Risk is positive, risk is good, ... adventure playgrounds ...like Scouting once was. https://www.today.com/video/risky-play-like-adventure-playgrounds-could-benefit-kids-and-parents-1265972291896?v=b https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-much-risk-good-kids-parents-make-case-more-adventurous-n886256 According to the nbcnews article "Trained “playworkers” monitor the children, though they step in only if absolutely necessary — much like lifeguards." And according to https://govisland.com/things-to-do/activities/2018-playgroundnycs-yard "There are play:groundNYC playworkers in the Yard at all times." Not exactly free range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJCubScouter Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Treflienne said: According to the nbcnews article "Trained “playworkers” monitor the children, though they step in only if absolutely necessary — much like lifeguards." And according to https://govisland.com/things-to-do/activities/2018-playgroundnycs-yard "There are play:groundNYC playworkers in the Yard at all times." Not exactly free range. No, not exactly free range, and the video shows that too, with the parents crowded around on the outside of the fence. Despite the efforts to revive "free range parenting" (which my parents just called "being a parent"), I think it is coming back in only a limited form. Witness the fact that the playground has an "executive director" (though admittedly she seems to be in charge of more than one playground) as well as the parents encircling the playground. I also would like to know more about the replicas of dismembered human body parts strewn throughout the place. Added: I also note that one of the kids was wearing an "It's Better in Canada" t-shirt. And I did not know that one of G.W. Bush's daughters is a reporter on the Today Show, but that's because I don't watch tv on weekday mornings. Edited June 28, 2018 by NJCubScouter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RememberSchiff Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 26 minutes ago, NJCubScouter said: Despite the efforts to revive "free range parenting" (which my parents just called "being a parent"), I think it is coming back in only a limited form. IMHO, Scouting should be leading the comeback of "free range parenting" My $0.02, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagledad Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, RememberSchiff said: IMHO, Scouting should be leading the comeback of "free range parenting" My $0.02, Not a chance. Great idea, but you are talking about the group that doesn't allow little red wagons, water guns and lazar gun games. I guess there could be some discussion for the lazar guns, but that is still too much on the helicopter parenting side and should be left up to units. Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WonderBoy Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, RememberSchiff said: IMHO, Scouting should be leading the comeback of "free range parenting" My $0.02, I feel like we're still having a hard enough time selling this ideal to some of our own. While visiting my oldest last night for Family Night at his very first week at summer camp, I found myself having to repeatedly explain to other parents from our Pack why I wasn't spending any time with the Troop at camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_in_CA Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 50 minutes ago, RememberSchiff said: IMHO, Scouting should be leading the comeback of "free range parenting" My $0.02, Which was Mike Rowe's point in his recent rant. I agree with both of you and Mike Rowe. But I'm afraid Eagledad is correct, the BSA is too afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJCubScouter Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 The BSA's trend lately seems to be toward removing some of the specific rules and telling us out here in the field to "use your best judgment" or, stated another way, "if something goes wrong, it's your fault because you decided what to do, not us." And, at the same time, in a number of ways, treating us like we are morons persons of deficient intellectual capabilities. What could go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJCubScouter Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 And I still want to know more about the free-range disembodied legs and torsos and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSScout Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 The three words no Scoutmaster likes to hear: "Hey, watch this ! !" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David CO Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 On 6/28/2018 at 11:57 AM, RememberSchiff said: IMHO, Scouting should be leading the comeback of "free range parenting" BSA would do this if only they could find a way to turn free-range into fee-range. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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