Believe me, I already got the message a few months ago when pediatricians warned about the growing danger of children and stairs. We get the idea; anything fun entails a slight risk, but at a certain point you have to wonder, how desperate are these guys for funding that they actually research crap like the dangers of falling down the stairs or falling off trampolines?
We had one with a net fence around it, but it still scared me to pieces and somebody was always bumping heads and getting their jaws knocked. Thank goodness that was all it was. That sucker is gone now, thank goodness. They are great fun and exercise but too risky for a really serious injury.
Three issues with this: 1) Trampolines are an amazing source of balance and leg-strength for a country that is getting fatter and less athletic. They do not properly exercise in school, as to avoid offending the fat kids. People get hurt on many recreational devices, especially when not used properly, they even said so themselves that over 75% of the injuries are when multiple people are on the tramp. That's like instead of recommending a car-seat for kids, they say to avoid driving. 2) It is strange that a doctor would release something with the appearance of trying to help. They don't want to help, they want to get PAID! Doctors are a huge part of the problem in the medical industry, so any thing I read from a doctor, I simply file it into this category, RUN AWAY AND DO THE OPPOSITE! 3) As long as doctors are passing out narcotics like they are candy, they have zero place in my mind for deciding what is safe. How many people die or go to rehab because of "legal" drugs that the doctors give out? I bet the negative impact of prescription narcotic painkillers out ways the trampoline.
2) Not all doctors are money-grubbers. I come from a family of doctors and surgeons who wouldn't want you for a patient no matter HOW much they got paid. If you routintely do the OPPOSITE of a doctor's advice, you're simply self-destructive, and lucky to still be alive.
Just what do these doctors have to say about climbing trees? Do they offer some standards to adhere to when growing such trees in yard? I tell you what, in our pre-teen and early teen years (before we figured out girls were more fun), you couldn't keep us out of trees! I cannot even count the times that we have fallen through branches, slid down the tree-trunks too fast, or just fell out of the trees! Let the parents and the kids figure out what can be done with trampolines.
dumassmus111 -I do have kids, and they jump on our trampoline almost daily. Sure, they may get hurt, but living your life constantly scared of what might happen is a weak and miserable existence. Kids raised like that are going to make pathetic, weak adults (a.k.a.- liberals) which is what we do have way too much of in America. Let the kid fall off the trampoline once or twice, the results will amaze you.
Permission slip from their parents? are you being serious? I need to let you in a little secret -you're kids are weenies, and aren't going to stand much of a chance in middle/high school if you're the one teaching them about life.
My kids are far from weenies. In fact, one of them is a parole officer in a prison. And she's a GIRL.
"Let the kid fall off the trampoline once or twice, the results will amaze you."
You're an idiot. It isn't just a matter of falling off the trampoline. When you are jumping, you go way higher than the trampoline. To fall onto the ground from that height could be fatal. Especially if you were doing a flip. There is a very great chance that you could break your neck or back.
"but living your life constantly scared of what might happen"
If I was scared of what might happen, I wouldn't have bought a trampoline in the first place and let them jump on it. When you are allowing your kids to do something dangerous, you use a little bit of common sense. It's always nice to be able to see them grow up.
I can see that you are one of those lazy parents with no common sense. I bet you don't even know what your kids are doing or where they are most of the time.
Want to know why your country is in the state it is in now? With so many kids dying? It's lousy parents like you.
That permission slip that had to be signed by the parents was so I knew that they knew what their kids were doing. They were the ones making the decision of whether or not to put their kids life at risk. I was also covering my ass in case something did happen to them.
I don't believe you have a trampoline, but if you do, and you are allowing other kids on it, letting them do whatever, unsupervised, you better hope nothing happens to them. Especially in your country. You guys are "sue" happy. And with people without healthcare, you better believe they will be coming after you! hahahaha
I had a trampoline for my kids, but then I consider myself to be a COMPETENT parent. I'm not too sure there are many competent parents out there.
I had RULES for the trampoline. One person at a time and no one was to go on it unless I was there. I didn't allow flips until after they took classes on it. None of their friends got on it unless I had a written permission slip from their parents. I actually made up slips saying that I wouldn't be responsible if their child were to get injured. Of course that probably would not have held up in a court of law. I only had to ban one child from using it. She was just WAAAAAAY out of control. I was afraid she was going to kill herself.
I also had a FENCE around my yard to keep people out when I wasn't home.
The only time I allowed more than one kid on the trampoline is if they were SITTING on it. As my kids got older, they loved to sit on it with their friends and kinda have a gabfest. It became a "gathering" place. (I still watched them to make sure they didn't start jumping on it.)
Trampolines are very dangerous. One wrong jump and it could be disaster. You are supposed to have spotters around the outside when a person is jumping on it.
by EmpireGeorge---_______-- September 24, 2012 4:36 PM EDT erasmus111, I can just see your kids, when they get their own apartment.....finally, they will take a 5 hour shower and bounce on the bed, without permission for hours....and happily jump around, unsupervised for once in their lives.
So because I supervised them on something that was dangerous, that means I supervised them on everything?
The job of a parent is to keep track of their kids, making sure they are safe and teaching them right from wrong. The whole idea is for them to make it to adulthood in one piece and also turn out to be decent human beings. Something America has a problem with.
In America, all I read about is the NEGLECT of children. They are being caged, locked in closets, tortured, shot. From the sounds of it, most parents don't know where their kids are or what they are doing. Which explains all the crime.
There are 12 times more children killed by gunshot wounds in America than there are in all the industrialized nations combined.
Yeah, you just keep doing things your way and we will keep doing things our way.
My kids are kind and polite. They aren't drunks or druggies. They both have good paying jobs, and like I told dimwit, above, they ain't no wimps.
You are calling me, paranoid??? HAHAHAHAHAHA! If anyone is paranoid, it's you Republicans. You gotta have your wee guns to protect yourself from the GOVERNMENT, and all the other imagined boogie men! Hahahaha!
Hey, AAP! 1 in 100 kids is being diagnosed with AUTISM in this country. 1 in 6 has a DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY. 10% OF US CHILDREN HAVE ASTHMA, 25 in 100,000 DIABETES, 4 in 100 has FOOD ALLERGIES! Trampolines are low-hanging fruit, easy to shake your finger at and costs you NO EFFORT WHATSOEVER. It's long past time to address what's causing American's children to be chronically ill.
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1) Trampolines are an amazing source of balance and leg-strength for a country that is getting fatter and less athletic. They do not properly exercise in school, as to avoid offending the fat kids. People get hurt on many recreational devices, especially when not used properly, they even said so themselves that over 75% of the injuries are when multiple people are on the tramp. That's like instead of recommending a car-seat for kids, they say to avoid driving.
2) It is strange that a doctor would release something with the appearance of trying to help. They don't want to help, they want to get PAID! Doctors are a huge part of the problem in the medical industry, so any thing I read from a doctor, I simply file it into this category, RUN AWAY AND DO THE OPPOSITE!
3) As long as doctors are passing out narcotics like they are candy, they have zero place in my mind for deciding what is safe. How many people die or go to rehab because of "legal" drugs that the doctors give out? I bet the negative impact of prescription narcotic painkillers out ways the trampoline.
If you do have kids, and this is what you have to say, then you must be one of the INCOMPETENT ones I was talking about.
There seems to be a lot of them in America.
Permission slip from their parents? are you being serious? I need to let you in a little secret -you're kids are weenies, and aren't going to stand much of a chance in middle/high school if you're the one teaching them about life.
My kids are far from weenies. In fact, one of them is a parole officer in a prison. And she's a GIRL.
"Let the kid fall off the trampoline once or twice, the results will amaze you."
You're an idiot. It isn't just a matter of falling off the trampoline. When you are jumping, you go way higher than the trampoline. To fall onto the ground from that height could be fatal. Especially if you were doing a flip. There is a very great chance that you could break your neck or back.
"but living your life constantly scared of what might happen"
If I was scared of what might happen, I wouldn't have bought a trampoline in the first place and let them jump on it. When you are allowing your kids to do something dangerous, you use a little bit of common sense. It's always nice to be able to see them grow up.
I can see that you are one of those lazy parents with no common sense. I bet you don't even know what your kids are doing or where they are most of the time.
Want to know why your country is in the state it is in now? With so many kids dying? It's lousy parents like you.
That permission slip that had to be signed by the parents was so I knew that they knew what their kids were doing. They were the ones making the decision of whether or not to put their kids life at risk. I was also covering my ass in case something did happen to them.
I don't believe you have a trampoline, but if you do, and you are allowing other kids on it, letting them do whatever, unsupervised, you better hope nothing happens to them. Especially in your country. You guys are "sue" happy. And with people without healthcare, you better believe they will be coming after you! hahahaha
I had RULES for the trampoline. One person at a time and no one was to go on it unless I was there. I didn't allow flips until after they took classes on it. None of their friends got on it unless I had a written permission slip from their parents. I actually made up slips saying that I wouldn't be responsible if their child were to get injured. Of course that probably would not have held up in a court of law. I only had to ban one child from using it. She was just WAAAAAAY out of control. I was afraid she was going to kill herself.
I also had a FENCE around my yard to keep people out when I wasn't home.
Trampolines are very dangerous. One wrong jump and it could be disaster. You are supposed to have spotters around the outside when a person is jumping on it.
erasmus111, love your parenting, but a permission slip ?
See my reply to the dumb ass above.
And on the bacteria or virus crap, I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
erasmus111, I can just see your kids, when they get their own apartment.....finally, they will take a 5 hour shower and bounce on the bed, without permission for hours....and happily jump around, unsupervised for once in their lives.
So because I supervised them on something that was dangerous, that means I supervised them on everything?
The job of a parent is to keep track of their kids, making sure they are safe and teaching them right from wrong. The whole idea is for them to make it to adulthood in one piece and also turn out to be decent human beings. Something America has a problem with.
In America, all I read about is the NEGLECT of children. They are being caged, locked in closets, tortured, shot. From the sounds of it, most parents don't know where their kids are or what they are doing. Which explains all the crime.
There are 12 times more children killed by gunshot wounds in America than there are in all the industrialized nations combined.
Yeah, you just keep doing things your way and we will keep doing things our way.
My kids are kind and polite. They aren't drunks or druggies. They both have good paying jobs, and like I told dimwit, above, they ain't no wimps.
You are calling me, paranoid??? HAHAHAHAHAHA! If anyone is paranoid, it's you Republicans. You gotta have your wee guns to protect yourself from the GOVERNMENT, and all the other imagined boogie men! Hahahaha!