Next they'll ban walking

And then sitting. I think that's at least "medium risk level 1"...

My daughter would be banned for life - she cartwheels as a form of general locomotion.

isn't Townsville where the Power Puff Girls live?

When I was 8-9, us girls used to do handstands against the wall, one after the other to see how many we could 'pile up'. The strongest girl would go first, then the other and so on, until we were as many as 7 girls stacked together like you would stack folding chairs against a wall.
We fell on top of each other many times, scraped our knees and elbows, then cleaned the blood with saliva, dirt (yeah, we had our tetanus shots… so we were ok) or water from one of the taps in the playground – and then did it again to see if we could get our number up to 8.

Cartwheels were for wieners, unless you were doing them 2 feet away from the girl next to you, while she was also doing a cartwheel.

The ground was concrete, not grass. I'm still here, still walking, and the worse that happened to any child while I was at school was a boy who broke his collarbone while climbing a tree.
The school didn't get sued. Things like that used to happen and were considered normal when I was a kid...

"The city of Townsville!"

Apparently playing Tag is banned also. My 6 y.o. nephew got in trouble for it and had to bring a note home and have one of his parents sign it or he would have been put in detention.

Maybe we should just put all the kids in giant plastic bubbles. Seating could be a problem though.

O.o

not so long as they have proper supervision!

I'm going to encase my children in plastic bubbles so that they cannot run, play, swing, jump, or do anything else that could possibly hurt them. And of course, when they're all tremendously obese, I'm blaming the schools for not providing enough time for physical activity everyday. Those b*****ds.

Seriously, if kids wanna flip, let them flip. Believe me, if they get hurt, they won't do it again.

Sigh...I weep for the next generation.

This makes me wonder what the Olympics would have looked like if these idiots were running the schools of oh, say...Usain Bolt, Micheal Phelps, Shawn Johnson, etc.

Might as well get rid of recess.

This is why kids do drugs at a young age... no one questions why they are sitting around staring at the wall anymore.

I'm guessing the people who are getting hurt the most are the middle school boys.

Here you go sweetie this is your area. Do not leave the area. You are free to turn around in a clockwise motion very slowly and carefully. Keep your arms tucked securely at your sides so you don't touch your neighbor in their space as that may hurt or offend them. In your space you may not jump up and down as you might fall over and hurt yourself or those around you thus causing a lawsuit.....

Oh good grief!

You just made me think of penguins for some reason.

Childhood is officially ruined. If I have kids, I'm shipping them off to the Outback or Africa or somewhere where kids aren't treated like delicate flowers.

Yeah, I'm all for dumping kids in the Amazon.

And parents wonder why their children all have to be on meds for ADHD. We forbid them from running around outside like idiots, which is what you're supposed to do when you're a kid. Sheesh.

You just reminded me of that tv show "It's me or the dog." This British dog trainer helps people train their dogs so that the dogs aren't as rambunctious and dangerous. And one of the most common factors of a dog being so aggressive is that doesn't get enough exercise each day! Imagine that.