See this post.
Also why Eve is never permitted to jump on anyone else's when there are other kids on the tramp.
Hope RH+ is back on her own side of the gurney soon.
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5 comments:
Urgh. This is not making me feel better about Julius' constant forays onto the neighbor's trampoline. He loves it. Spends an hour a day on it, at least -- I think it's going to really help him while away the days of summer. But now I'm wondering whether I should buy a new net for it.
Yeah, Anonymous-known-to-me, I was wondering about that, to. Didn't meant to freak you out, though.
I'm very torn on this. Mimbles has the world's safest trampoline, and if I could fit one in, I'd have one too.
I adored our trampolines as a kid (despite the greenstick fracture I got from the first one - but that was solid vinyl and we had put the hose on it...). But on the other hand, a 6yr old died in Australia yesterday in an accident, which ironically, appears to have been caused in part by a helmet he was wearing. Just awful.
I always have problems with risk vs fun situations. As a child, I always felt that the Powers That Be were entirely determined to remove all fun. One of my indignations was the requirement to wear a seatbelt, so I am not claiming rationality on this point. But I's really rather see a safe trampoline rather than its demise.
Ariane, I completely understand. I do think we've gone way too far in the other direction in the US, at least in my cohort, trying to control risks we can't control and creating kids with no sense of independence in the process. I allow Eve to jump on other people's tramps, as long as she's the only kid on the thing.
Some of this is the non-rational thing: there are risks I can tolerate and risks I can't. I make no claim to rationality in that regard. This is a risk I can't tolerate, and so we don't have one. On the other hand, I do allow Eve to ride without a booster seat even though she's not yet 4'9", and there's some risk associated with that; it's a risk I can tolerate.
And what makes it "the world's safest trampoline"?
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