As long as there are laws, there will be people trying to get around them.

Personal responsibility cannot be replaced by a law. If you are going to put your kid in day care or a summer camp, check it out.

An article titled Classic kid’s games like kickball deemed unsafe by state in an effort to increase summer camp regulation had the greatest photograph so far this year. A mother sending a kid out to play with a helmet and wrapped in bubble wrap. The article described a new law aimed at getting day care centers to register in New York.

The summer camps were avoiding registration because they claimed they were day care centers. So the state made a list of risk recreational activities. If you allow the kids in your charge to play two games, one of which is on the list then you must register. The list of risk recreational games includes:

This is the hilarious part. Frisbee, tug of war and sack races are safe.

It makes Colorado’s problems with mountain boarding look minor.

Response

The overall effect is the state is saying we can do a better job of protecting your kids then you can, so you don’t have to. Instead of investigating whether the place you are dropping off your kid is well staffed, has a medical plan and is registered, we are doing that for you. Instead of finding out if the place is a disaster and a pit, we will do that for you.

Of course the state won’t, and kids will get hurt and parents will scream and the people who tried to get around the law will get away with the money.

See Classic kids games like kickball deemed unsafe by state in effort to increase summer camp regulation

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