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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on April 24, 2011, 01:22:16 PM
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-23-11 10:28 PM
Pinatas: A Bad Idea for Your Child's Party?
Vanessa Bartlemus, Yahoo! Contributor Network
A blindfolded child is let up to some poor helpless papier-mâché animal hanging off a tree by a string. They have a stick or a bat in their hand, and they proceed to whack the animal with all their might. Other children are cheering on the fight. When the piñata is broken open, candy spills out. Everyone rushes to grab as much candy as they can. It's every kid for them self.
Doesn't sound like such a good party game when it's put like that, huh?
Piñatas are not a good idea for your child's party. Children should never hit anything with a stick. Even worse, kids can get piñatas in their favorite character too. Doesn't anyone slightly cringe at the thought of their child whacking Dora the Explorer or Elmo around with a baseball bat? What is that doing for a child's character? Getting a flower or car piñata is only slightly less worse.
People carefully teach their children, from the first time they playfully hit as a baby, that hitting is wrong. They don't allow hitting in their family and they don't spank. But then children are allowed to hit piñatas to the breaking point. Then they get candy; they are rewarded for violent behavior!
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So what are some better alternatives? There are now pull-string piñatas...which get rid of the hitting element. Your child pulls a string and the contents of the piñata fall out. That way, your child can have the experience of having a piñata at their party, without the violence.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5550034/pinata...
The bonfire here is a pretty sizable one. BUT. The Primitives gathered are all mocking the OP, who dares not show his head in this thread again.
--You know its bad when a story is sooooo PC that even the Primitives reject it.
Oops, forgot the linky dink. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=949925&mesg_id=949925
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Doesn't anyone slightly cringe at the thought of their child whacking Dora the Explorer or Elmo around with a baseball bat?
Not really.
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unrec for stupid political correctness that kills everything fun & kills tradition. Hannah Bell Apr-23-11 11:28 PM #1
Agree with you 100% MicaelS Apr-23-11 11:30 PM #2
Ditto... dbackjon Apr-23-11 11:31 PM #4
Same here. Terry_M Apr-23-11 11:59 PM #13
No shit!!! pipi_k Apr-24-11 02:15 PM #90
hear, hear! cali Apr-24-11 04:49 AM #23
I agree. FLPanhandle Apr-24-11 09:58 AM #31
I agree too. blueamy66 Apr-24-11 10:06 AM #34
Agreed WillowTree Apr-24-11 10:09 AM #36
I agree. Surely this person is not serious. Arkansas Granny Apr-24-11 10:13 AM #38
Whoa whoa . . . "stupid", "kills"? WatsonT Apr-24-11 10:15 AM #41
Yes. This is silly PC crap.
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-24-11 02:18 PM
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91. The lameness is strong with that one.
An existence relentless in the pursuit of all encompassing boredom and mortal sterility.
Secular puritan.
TSS is a giant *****.
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:rofl:
TSS is a giant oozing *****.
fixt
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Thirty or so years ago if you told me there were people who said that it was bad for a kid to HIT a pinata filled with candy BUT it was perfectly okay for a kid named Steve to "hit it" with the "it" being a kid named Bob I would have said you were crazy.
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I'm pretty sure that when I was a kid, no one in my little whitebread town had ever heard of a pinata, and childhood was still pretty cool.
We had rock fights.
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I'm pretty sure that when I was a kid, no one in my little whitebread town had ever heard of a pinata, and childhood was still pretty cool.
We had rock fights.
We didn't have many rocks. We had clumps of dirt. We also had sand spur fights.
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We didn't have many rocks. We had clumps of dirt. We also had sand spur fights.
Bottle rockets and Roman candles. Ahh those were the days.
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So I guess Practical Pistol or Single Action winner-take-all matches are out for my kids' parties too...?
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Now if it was a Bush pinata the DUmmies would all love it.
If it was an Obama one, well that's racism.
:-)
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I'm getting Carleigh a Spongebob pinata for her birthday. We are such bad parent's.
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Thirty or so years ago if you told me there were people who said that it was bad for a kid to HIT a pinata filled with candy BUT it was perfectly okay for a kid named Steve to "hit it" with the "it" being a kid named Bob I would have said you were crazy.
Not steve2470. Stevenumbers is strictly straight. He'll hit anything, but only if it's female, or at least sort of female.
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Nearly every birthday party we have had here for our three kids have involved piñatas - However, if the weather is likely to be bad, I will modify the piñata the night before into one with pull ribbons. Only one will rip open the hatch and send the candy tumbling out.
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Not steve2470. Stevenumbers is strictly straight. He'll hit anything, but only if it's female, or at least sort of female.
I don't think he's above what fiction writers call "Willing suspension of disbelief."