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I think playing cops and robbers at school or anywhere is NOT an appropriate game for children to play.
I was stunned one day while watching a little boy and girl about 7 years old playing cops and bad guy and how they mimiced cops and bad guys at that age. When childrens playing is geared towards violence.. to me that is alarming.. And we wonder where all these violent adults come from?
Yes, but not in school. We played those games in the neighborhood.
Um, not sure where you went to school, but we also played at school too- called recess- before we had "monitors" breathing down our necks ruining every little bit of fun you could have
I think playing cops and robbers at school or anywhere is NOT an appropriate game for children to play.
I was stunned one day while watching a little boy and girl about 7 years old playing cops and bad guy and how they mimiced cops and bad guys at that age. When childrens playing is geared towards violence.. to me that is alarming.. And we wonder where all these violent adults come from?
Yeah- how dare those kids learn and act out that their our consequences for bad behavior They should stick to playing marbles or jacks instead
When kids at school playing games like cops and robbers in which knocking and sit on each other, what should the Teacher to do?
to let them play or stop them?
thanks it's Important
Play which involves knocking other kids down or sitting on them isn't allowed at our schools. The teacher or yard monitor would be required to stop children taking part in that type play.
It is terrible to think some kids would like to grow up to be police or military. The horrors!
I know!
I worry now that my son is in a public school. Considering he's grown up on a military base with a Marine father he is very into "good guy bad guy" play. He do "bang bang with his finger gun etc. I'm just waiting for him to get expelled for bringing a weapon to school....his finger gun
This is part of the problem why so many kids are "diagnosed" ADD or ADHD. It is because they are not allowed to actually play anymore to get out all of their energy. Kids can rough play a bit without harming each other or even having the INTENTION to harm each other. All this crap started when schools had to start doing away with fun games like dodgeball, tag, and any other sport where someone would have to get picked last (oh boo hoo)
Oh, and kel6604- you better not let your kid even say bang band.. he may get detention, recommend to go to therapy sessions and be labeled "that kid" for the rest of the year...lol
Me and my friends still play rough and we are 24! Just yesterday we where in a tickle fight that turned into wrestling which turned into me hitting my head on the door jam. I literally laughed for 15 minutes about it and so did my friend after she saw that I was fine. Ya know why? Because I fell down ALOT as a kid. I still have little scars on my knees and elbows from falling down. I am also not afraid of little cut and I almost always have a bruise somewhere on my body (anemic). My roommate in college once went to the hospital because she cut herself shaving. No joke.
This is part of the problem why so many kids are "diagnosed" ADD or ADHD. It is because they are not allowed to actually play anymore to get out all of their energy. Kids can rough play a bit without harming each other or even having the INTENTION to harm each other. All this crap started when schools had to start doing away with fun games like dodgeball, tag, and any other sport where someone would have to get picked last (oh boo hoo)
Oh, and kel6604- you better not let your kid even say bang band.. he may get detention, recommend to go to therapy sessions and be labeled "that kid" for the rest of the year...lol
Um, not sure where you went to school, but we also played at school too- called recess- before we had "monitors" breathing down our necks ruining every little bit of fun you could have
We played on the play equipment or played soccer or tag football on the playground, not games where kids were being sat on. All in fun, those games can be ok, but school playgrounds are simply not the place for them.
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They should stick to playing marbles or jacks instead
