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Re: A Trampoline

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Post by spiderfarmer »

Waterluvian wrote: post #9

I went on a backyard trampoline once as a kid and it ended with the entire neighbourhood searching for me. I just couldn’t stop playing with my friends and was hours late for curfew. I had forgotten to tell anyone where I was. Fortunately, I integer overflowed my mom’s level of worry and she was too glad to have me back to be angry. Though, seeing her unwind from genuine terror was more effective than any level of sc…

> seeing her unwind from genuine terror was more effective than any level of scolding

That's what every parent needs to understand. Learn your children to empathise with you and parenting will be a lot easier than Mr. and Mrs. Hothead want you to believe.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by dominicrose »

Waterluvian wrote: post #9

I went on a backyard trampoline once as a kid and it ended with the entire neighbourhood searching for me. I just couldn’t stop playing with my friends and was hours late for curfew. I had forgotten to tell anyone where I was. Fortunately, I integer overflowed my mom’s level of worry and she was too glad to have me back to be angry. Though, seeing her unwind from genuine terror was more effective than any level of sc…

I saw a kid crying in the middle of an elevator, she was twice the size of a step. And then the parents were angry at the kid as if that would make them appear as responsible parents. It doesn't.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by hgomersall »

gryfft wrote: post #4
1970-01-01 wrote: post #2

The hidden costs are in the ER visits

Almost everyone I knew who broke a bone growing up broke them on a trampoline. As an adult, every story I've heard involving someone's kids and a trampoline ended up involving a cast at best. ... And yet. I wonder. I can remember the feeling of freedom and joy in my body as a child, joy in movement itself that I have never recaptured in any meaningful way no matter how I ever tried to motivate myself to exercise... S…

Swimming is not dangerous. Not being able to swim or being a weak swimmer is dangerous. Open water is also more dangerous in various different ways.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by gitowiec »

Me and my family we live in a 60 square meter flat. I bought a trampoline for my kid. We used it like 3 or 4 times. I store it in a basement, thanks god I have relatively big basement.

Re: A Trampoline

#65

Post by apples_oranges »

danw1979 wrote: post #60

I had exactly the same thoughts when I had my arm twisted to buy one for my 6 year old son. 10 years later, it’s still out there, netting ripped, legs all rusty, plastic getting brittle. And my 16 year old son still loves to bounce around on it with his 9 year old brother.

You can buy parts to make it as new again

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by TeMPOraL »

bobsmooth wrote: post #53
y7 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did this common-sense-defeating liability culture actually start in the US? From a European perspective it is really strange to be liable in situations like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine

I find most of the CYA/liability things around childcare in modern west to be stupid (or amusing), but having nearly drowned in an abandoned pool as a young teenager, after wandering into it alone and getting stuck underwater for a moment throughout my own stupidity, I very much appreciate the idea described here, and think it's good.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by TeMPOraL »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #24
dlcarrier wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My parents dug a hole in the ground for a trampoline, so it was flush with the ground. It was great because you couldn't accidentally fall off, and it was safer than doing any given stunt on regular ground.

A great idea but it's not the main cause of kids at ER because of trampolines: the main issue is two kids hitting each other, not one kid falling of the trampoline. Say the head of one kid hitting the jaw of the other kid. That's the main issue (my source is a doctor friend who worked at ER and refused to have a trampoline for his kids). So I came up with a very simple rule: one kid at a time in the trampoline and I…

Interesting. It's probably why every single trampoline my wife and myself ever saw (and she previously worked in a place that, every May, pivoted from their furniture business to importing and selling trampolines for the May break seasons), had a label saying only one kid is allowed at a time.

Though obviously this is CYA, because same label exists on trampolines sized for 1 kid and those sized for 10 kids.

Also honestly jumping alone is not as fun as jumping in a group.

Re: A Trampoline

#68

Post by croisillon »

i thought it would be the nth metaphor for LLMs: you can jump high with it but not really move forward and on your own you're still at ground level

but then i read the article and it's about things we believe would be great to have until we have them and they're so costly and big that we keep them...

maybe it was really the nth metaphor for LLMs after all

Re: A Trampoline

#69

Post by d3k »

I see a dark pattern in suburban France. Every house with kids has its trampoline, and often a play-frame and a pool too. Now, kids play with those a bit from time to time, but they rarely go to a friend's house, because they have their own thing there. So if there is a park, a pool or a trampoline in a park nearby, I would rather use them. I believe it is better for social and environmental reasons.
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