“Mom, you wanna hear something pretty stupid? Kids can’t jump off the
swings at recess or they’ll get in big trouble. I mean, what if there’s an emergency like a fire or something? I think the school should think about stuff like that.” Jay-9
I think I might call the school and complain about their irresponsible swing policy.
I have to side with Jay on this one. Society is really trying to suck the joy out of child. Part of the fun of swinging is seeing how far you can jump.
Is it any wonder the tips of all his shoes are shredded? Let the kids jump, I say!
I tried that a few years ago but my adult size butt wouldn’t let go of the swing.
I’d like to see a video of that.
My husband did that last year and landed on his shoulder. He still feels the pain from it today.
I had a similar incident while attempting to demonstrate cartwheels.
Or like the did at our schools….remove them completely!
(Read your tweet about super powers….moms have ESP ya know…we know what’s going to happen before it happens.)
…and we also have eyes in the back of our heads.
Honestly, I’m surprised they even have swings at your kid’s school. Tell him to count himself lucky! Next they’ll ban slides.
Seriously, though, my daughter got hit in the head with a swing when someone did that. It came flying back and gave her a big goose egg on her forehead. She was swinging in the swing next to it. That was some amazing swing jumping to not only jump out of a swing, but also nearly knock out your swinging partner in the process. That kid had skills.
Maybe he had little rockets attached to the bottom of his shoes…or maybe he just imagined to.
Just so he can rest assured, I did some research and apparently the occurrences of actual fires around kids swing sets is very rare. But that’s still a stupid rule!
How about fires on mulch? Did you come across that in your research because apparently you’re not allowed to run on the mulch either. He got busted for running last week and had to sit during recess. I haven’t heard the end of it. The injustice of it all!
Government schools.
Hahahahahaha… kidding.
Next they’ll have to eat with spoons in the cafeteria. Forks are too dangerous…you could get poked in the eye.
Swing, Jump, Duck and Cover…
it’s all about being prepared, right?!
You better cover or you’ll get clocked in the back of the head with the empty swing.
Another example of our attempts to “baby-proof” the world. How dangerous can it be to jump out of a swing? I’ve done it a thousand times without injury. I could probably do it today without hurting myself too much….maybe not. Swing jumping is a sport…I’m surprised they even have swings at the school anymore.
I think they should add Swing Jumping to the Olympic line up. I mean, they have Synchronized Swimming, right?
Len, I’m voting you in for Olympic Swing Jumping. I bet you take home the Gold!
Seriously, I went to the school’s playground last week with my daughter and a friend of hers, and while I was sitting there along the outer ledge of the area around the swings, I notice my daughter swinging higher and higher and thinking to myself, “OMG, she’s going to jump!” (I guess maybe had I been paying attention to the fact that she had already drawn the line in the gravel to which she was going to jump over, only a foot or so away from me, I would have known this was coming!) Sure enough, she did. Before I had a chance to stop her. And it scared the living CRAP out of me as I watched her body curl up and land and slide into the gravel! SO……I can only imagine how an entire swing-set full of children threatening to “jump” would have just about any school official a little unnerved!!
How about when they wind themselves up a thousand times and then let go. It’s amazing they don’t vomit and then knock someone’s teeth out.
Oh yeah, that’s almost as bad!! I remember the story that my Mother broke some kids leg when she was in school and they got twisted really tight and then when they were untwisting, she accidentally knocked him into the bars of the swing and broke his leg!! It’s funny how that image will scare some away, and then there are those that want to see if that could really happen!! Daredevils these days!!
Exactly! I think the guys from Jackass are a perfect example of that type of thinking.
My life was shattered the day they banned see saws!!!
We still have seesaws at our local playground. Everytime I’m on one, I worry about shattering my tailbone.
Your kids seriously have a future in law. Which I hope they’ll avoid in favor of a future that’s actually awesome, like them.
Aww! Thanks, Deb. I love how righteous kids can be.
They should just cut down the swings as they’re much too dangerous anyway.
I think they should have to sit on the ground and twiddle their thumbs.
Oh for goodness sakes!!! I supposed next they will expect kids to wipe their noses on tissues instead of their sleeves.. The world has gone mad!!!
In this house, someone is wiping the contents of their nose on the bathroom wall. I’ve yet to figure out who it is!
Gross!!!
You got that right!
I no longer jump out of swings since I’ve become mortal. Thank heavens you put your kids’ conversations in here or we’d forget we used to live forever.
Wasn’t it great when we thought we’d live forever? God, I miss those days.