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Health And Safety For Our Children

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The health and safety experts have been at it again. The age old
tradition of children participating in sack races at schools
sports day, all in the name of that horrendous past time called
fun, have been ruled out on the grounds that it is dangerous.

I suppose it's because of that awful chaffing of the sack cloth
against the children's knees. Sack cloth injuries may not be life
threatening but they are detrimental to the children's quality of
life. After all, we all know what it's like to try and sit cross
legged in a packed assembly hall with a scab on the knee. The
first few times, the scab will crack and hurt like hell and that
pain is the only thing you can concentrate on.

After a few days of this, it will start to heal in the bent
position and then you will be compelled to pick it. Next thing
you know, you are so engrossed in this activity that everyone
else has stood up for singing except you and you are the only
child stood at the front of the hall and made a spectacle of for
not listening. Still, all you can hear is the call of the scab.

For the scabbed knee reason alone, it is easy to see why health
and safety chiefs want the activity banned. Add to that the
danger of the new type of hard grass we now have and there is no
telling where it will all end. Special grass is bred for schools
and high traffic areas that may resemble normal grass but is
pointy, and slicey and downright dangerous. For anyone who has
ever fallen on grass and experienced a grass blade up the
nostril, they will appreciate the need to ban sack races.

Another of those really dicey school events is biology lessons.
For those who just don't give a fig for health and safety rules,
any manner of messy events could occur in a biology room. There
is nothing to be gained from learning from mistakes anymore. Any
mistake that occurs will see health and safety officials clamping
down and stopping the activity before someone gets seriously
hurt. Yay, the health and safety officials!

One primary school intended to show their children the miracle
of life by hatching out chicks from eggs and watching their
development. However, those brilliant people that decide on
health and safety issues could spot the potential danger a mile
away and are insisting that biological, electrical, child and
teacher risk assessments should be carried out before the lessons
went ahead. They also could see the possible risk of infection
should the children be touching the eggs.

Aren't we lucky we have these people to watch out for our
welfare? Where would we be without them? Where would our children
end up? Would we really want well-adjusted children that
understand painful things hurt, dirty things need cleaning and
that life, in general, is messy and risky and fun? Heaven forbid!

What we really need to do is bring our offspring into line with
the healthy and safety rulings that will see them have a long,
dull, risk free life by wrapping them in cotton wool, exposing
them to nothing more than soft food taken from rounded spoons
that have had the edges smoothed off and play them sweet,
delicate music to protect their ear drums. Do not allow them to
see anything slightly antagonistic for fear they will grow up as
criminals - and yes, that means no Tom and Jerry cartoons. We
have a duty to protect the next generation!

Parenting expert Catherine Harvey looks at the new <a
href="http://www.complywise.co.uk/">health and safety</a> rules
to protect our children while at school.

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