Is There Anything These Days That Is Not A Danger To Children?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2686823/Loom-bands-health-risk-says-GP-Parents-told-craze-damage-childrens-circulation-schools-introduce-bans.html

/// But now head teachers are increasingly banning pupils from bringing the bands to school. ///

/// There are reports they have been used as catapults in classrooms and led to playground disputes over copying designs. ///

Wow catapults in the classrooms, years ago it was common practice, an elastic band around two fingers, firing a piece of ink sodden blotting paper was common practice in the classroom of yesteryear.

[kvalidir]

The thing is everyone can be dangerous if you choose to look at it like that. We have a particularly large block of cheese in the fridge- imagine if I dropped it on my foot- you can really take things too far and I don't think it improves things. Health and Safety is fine in serious scenarios but kids playing conkers and wearing bracelets should really be left alone.

[Svejk]

you could have someone's eye out, AOG. ;D

[DrFilth]

i think the problem aog is that these days you have where there is blame there is a claim in the past people did not put claims in when hurt

[Gromit]

A stupid import from the US.

// Cheong Choon Ng, a Malaysian immigrant to the US with a degree in mechanical engineering, wanted to impress his daughters. After watching them making bracelets with small rubber bands he realised his fingers were too fat to copy them so he created a wooden board with push pins to make more complex versions. After a few iterations, his daughters traded their fingers for their dad’s board.

The bracelets they created become so popular amongst their friends that one of his daughters encouraged him to try to manufacture and sell the loom to others. Ng invested his entire savings of $10,000 to manufacture the looms in China (after finding his budget was too small for US manufacturers). After a year of making YouTube videos showing what you could make with the Loom, buying Google ads and trying to sell the product online, he finally sold 24 looms to Learning Express, a US toy store chain.

In business jargon, Learning Express franchise owner Cindy O’Hara became the Rainbow Loom Evangelist. O’Hara’s enthusiasm for the product went from providing in-store demonstrations to customers to classes in her stores. And so it began.

Millions of kits have been sold in the past two years. //

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/technology/58818/rainbow-loom-the-craze-that-makes-the-internet-look-good#ixzz373YMLvS2

[DrFilth]

aog an example ( not kids ) of people worried about a claim , h and s


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671976/Two-prisoners-climbed-roof-jail-heatwave-offered-SUN-CREAM-wardens-healthy-safety-reasons.html

[belrec]

I saw the picture of the kid with blue fingers, it did look a bit scary but that is to do with educating your kid rather than the bands themselves.

As usual the media have blown everything out of proportion and made a big deal about nothing.

[ludwig]

I think this is how they castrate some animals, ie stick a tight elastic band around their knackers until they drop off.

[pixie373]

They do, Ludwig. The bands have been banned (if you like) in some of the schools around here - but that is more to do with distraction in lessons than h&s. Not all children were waiting until breaktimes.

[whirlyhurly]

Oh for the good old days of spud guns & pea shooters !

[sherrardk]

You can still get spud guns.

[whirlyhurly]

Really? yeah !

[ludwig]

When I was at school we were banned from throwing snowballs because the headmaster was ahead of his time health and safety wise. He thought someone might get a lump of ice in the eye.

He didn't mind teachers throwing those wooden blackboard* rubbers at people though.

*Yes blackboards - it was the olden days.

[237SJ]

I remember when those clackers that you bought at the fairground were banned at school. It`s nothing new although these days it`s more through fear of litigation as much as anything so I suppose you can`t blame the schools for covering their backs. It`s just a fad that will be short-lived anyway.

[anotheoldgit]

ludwig

/// Yes blackboards - it was the olden days. ///

Don't you mean 'The good old days'?

[naomi24]

Not sure what was good about being hit on the head with a wooden blackboard rubber.

[Mamyalynne]

Every craze or new fad that we went through and all generations since, had the potential for an accident.

It happens and always will.

[pixie373]

Aog- //Is There Anything These Days That Is Not A Danger To Children?//

Interesting that you added "these days" now the child mortality rate is at an all-time low.

[Mamyalynne]

Nothing worse than a paper cut and they've been around ages now.

[inksplotter]

I don't think AOG was talking about viruses.

[pixie373]

Neither was i:-)