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Animator vs. Animation
I got a small bucket of balls at the driving range and was pleased with how well I was hitting them. Then I walked over and played the front nine and made a total mess of things. The swing fell completely apart. I'm convinced that if I'd gone from the ninth green back to the driving range the swing would have reappeared. There's something about carrying a score card and knowing I'll be writing down a number that gets inside my head. 90 % of this game is 80% mental.
We're doing something a little different this Sunday. The sermon will involve some "audience participation." We'll start by working through the first half of Psalm 107, one of my favorite passages. I hope it works.
A very sad story from West Michigan that made the news here. A 5-year old girl was out playing on a playground set with her friend when the swing's rope got wrapped around her neck. The playmate went in and got the girl's mother. "She won't wake up." The EMT's got a pulse started but she's in critical condition.
I first read the story on the WOODTV.com website which I check daily for news from "home." At the bottom of the story were a couple of paragraphs about playground accidents that injure children. "Safe Kids Greater Grand Rapids" says that 150 children have died over the last 10 years in playground accidents. "Safe Kids said the best advice for parents is supervision - have eyes on their kids at all times."
I hope the parents of this little girl never read that story. It will only add the burden of guilt to their grief.
Any child's death is sad, but given the number of kids and the hours they spend at playgrounds all across this country, 15 deaths per year is statistically insignificant. My guess is that more children than that die from any number of everyday household events - baths, stairs, not to mention riding in cars.
And suggesting that parents should "have an eye on their kids at all times" is neither realistic nor healthy. Parents neither can nor should. Yes, children of a certain age require constant supervision. But a 5-year old can play in the yard with a friend for a reasonable amount of time so long as a parent is nearby - as was the situation in this case.
This poor mother must be overwhelmed with concern for her daughter's condition. She is not guilty of neglect in any form or degree and doesn't need an agency suggesting she somehow failed her little girl.
Terrible accidents happen and this is one of them. I get irritated with people I assume are well intentioned but who seem to think that every accident could have been, should have been avoided. Given free reign they will have us all in bubbles afraid of anything that moves and half the things that don't.
Sherry sent a great suggestion for that cactus: High Five.
I like it!
Animator vs. Animation
I got a small bucket of balls at the driving range and was pleased with how well I was hitting them. Then I walked over and played the front nine and made a total mess of things. The swing fell completely apart. I'm convinced that if I'd gone from the ninth green back to the driving range the swing would have reappeared. There's something about carrying a score card and knowing I'll be writing down a number that gets inside my head. 90 % of this game is 80% mental.
We're doing something a little different this Sunday. The sermon will involve some "audience participation." We'll start by working through the first half of Psalm 107, one of my favorite passages. I hope it works.
A very sad story from West Michigan that made the news here. A 5-year old girl was out playing on a playground set with her friend when the swing's rope got wrapped around her neck. The playmate went in and got the girl's mother. "She won't wake up." The EMT's got a pulse started but she's in critical condition.
I first read the story on the WOODTV.com website which I check daily for news from "home." At the bottom of the story were a couple of paragraphs about playground accidents that injure children. "Safe Kids Greater Grand Rapids" says that 150 children have died over the last 10 years in playground accidents. "Safe Kids said the best advice for parents is supervision - have eyes on their kids at all times."
I hope the parents of this little girl never read that story. It will only add the burden of guilt to their grief.
Any child's death is sad, but given the number of kids and the hours they spend at playgrounds all across this country, 15 deaths per year is statistically insignificant. My guess is that more children than that die from any number of everyday household events - baths, stairs, not to mention riding in cars.
And suggesting that parents should "have an eye on their kids at all times" is neither realistic nor healthy. Parents neither can nor should. Yes, children of a certain age require constant supervision. But a 5-year old can play in the yard with a friend for a reasonable amount of time so long as a parent is nearby - as was the situation in this case.
This poor mother must be overwhelmed with concern for her daughter's condition. She is not guilty of neglect in any form or degree and doesn't need an agency suggesting she somehow failed her little girl.
Terrible accidents happen and this is one of them. I get irritated with people I assume are well intentioned but who seem to think that every accident could have been, should have been avoided. Given free reign they will have us all in bubbles afraid of anything that moves and half the things that don't.
Sherry sent a great suggestion for that cactus: High Five.
I like it!
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