Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:32:00 +0200, "Giusi" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Leonard Blaisdell" > ha scritto nel
>> messaggio
>>
>>> "Giusi" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> What do you think they did before TV? I'll bet if you talk to
>>>> someone over
>>>> 60 they'll tell you they did all the same games other kids did.
>>>> Kids don't
>>>> care about gloomy, grownups care.
>>>
>>> A couple of weeks ago, I took my granddaughters past a gas station.
>>> I told them that it was a trampoline park in 1962 when I was
>>> fifteen. I explained that lawsuits and insurance premiums killed
>>> all of the trampoline parks off.
>>> Today, in our local rag, I see that trampoline parks are making a
>>> comeback. I suspect they won't be here for very long.
>>> I miss the old days when local issues didn't become national laws.
>>> I'm amazed that kids can still ski without inciting a bad parenting
>>> rap.
>>
>> They've redesigned trampolines to make them safer. There is a soft
>> "fence" just inside the support so that a kid can't hit his neck or
>> head on that metal anymore. I saw them at the beach. I suspect
>> there will still be waiver policies, and certainly age signs.
>
> Trampolenes sound like a very stupid idea to me... way too easy to
> become seriously injured, even killed... what's wrong with ball... I
> remember kids playing hard all day with only a pink rubber ball.

Hmmm... Pink ball? Or video game? I know which one I'd pick!