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09/30/2007: "Left and right conspire to ban childhood"

Just recently a Colorado Springs, Co., elementary school banned tag during recess, joining other schools that have prohibited this childhood pastime. Upon hearing this, I thought about the movement to ban cops and robbers, musical chairs, steal the bacon, and the kill-joys' most frequent target and this writer's favorite childhood school game, dodge ball. Then there's the more inane still, such as the decision by the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association to prohibit keeping score in kids' tournament play.

There are many ways to describe this trend. One might say it's a result of the left's antipathy toward competition, the increasing litigiousness of the day, or the inordinate concern with self-esteem and hurt feelings. Then, if I am to speak only of my feelings, the word stupid comes to mind. Really, though, regardless of whether the motivations are good or ill or the reasoning sound or not, at the end of the day I find a conclusion inescapable. Slowly, incrementally, perversely, boyhood is being banned.

[ The Nanny State is the product of a liberal trend toward enforced equality and an attempt to undo nature in the name of justice for the weaker. It is pity and guilt and horror, and it makes for a more powerful state like that of the Soviet Union. The left starts it; the right is complicit. Only National Socialism stands against them both. ]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/09/banning_boyhood.html