Knee jerk reactions

**MSTRS:Me** · 9th April 2005, 12:26

Prompted by the UK pillion thread & reading of a push to ban baby walkers after the death of a baby. This baby was able to reach & pull on a powercord connected to a TV that then fell on the baby, causing severe head injuries leading to death. WHERE WAS THE PARENTAL SUPERVISION? It is impossible to protect everyone from everything so why try by removing all reason for individual responsibility. And what will happen to the Darwin Awards?

**Hitcher** · 9th April 2005, 16:13

The problem wasn't the baby walker, rather an unstable TV. Maybe TVs should be banned?

**MSTRS:Me** · 9th April 2005, 17:05

But only in houses with babywalkers ?

**James Deuce** · 9th April 2005, 17:15

No, anyone could bring a baby in a walker into a house with a TV, so we may need to ban houses.

**Skyryder** · 9th April 2005, 17:15

I have a natural aversion to a lot of what I call 'growing up' aids. These include baby walkers, outriders on bycycles, floatation devices, especialy those wing things that were the rage a few years ago. Just seems that some people can't wait for their kids to progress or else they want to push them before they are ready.

In my humble experiance kids get a much greater sense of achievment when they master the 'natural obstacles' of growing up, be that walking, swimming or riding or anything else for that matter.

Skyryder

**MSTRS:Me** · 9th April 2005, 17:31

Originally Posted by Skyryder

I have a natural aversion to a lot of what I call 'growing up' aids. These include baby walkers, outriders on bycycles, floatation devices, especialy those wing things that were the rage a few years ago. Just seems that some people can't wait for their kids to progress or else they want to push them before they are ready.

In my humble experiance kids get a much greater sense of achievment when they master the 'natural obstacles' of growing up, be that walking, swimming or riding or anything else for that matter.

Skyryder

You are quite right of course. The 'natural obstacles' include things like falling TV's, boiling kettles, deep swimming pools, pillionpegs that can't be reached etc. I'm not really winding you up. Kids will always learn through experiment & pain is a great teacher, just have to keep your eye on them to avert anything too extreme. This is where many parents fall down & then want to blame something else. Which was my original point.

**James Deuce** · 9th April 2005, 18:13

I think we should ban original points.

**Jackrat** · 9th April 2005, 19:34

Originally Posted by Jim2

I think we should ban original points.

Why worry,they never last long around here anyway.

**Krusti** · 9th April 2005, 21:12

Ban babys...Solve all the worlds problems in the long run

**Skyryder** · 9th April 2005, 22:38

Originally Posted by MSTRS

You are quite right of course. The 'natural obstacles' include things like falling TV's, boiling kettles, deep swimming pools, pillionpegs that can't be reached etc. I'm not really winding you up. Kids will always learn through experiment & pain is a great teacher, just have to keep your eye on them to avert anything too extreme. This is where many parents fall down & then want to blame something else. Which was my original point.

I tend to agree with the point that you are making. Kids learn coordination through mistakes and some are painful. But some of these so called aids lead to a false sense of security, where if they were left to develop their natural coordintion they will master the goal more quickly. Seem to recall some study on this somewhere that found that aids slow down the motor-coordination development. Anyone have any info on this??

Skyryder