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Schools keep our kids safe from Hula-Hoops; Good intentions may create nation of chubby wimps
By alynsen @ 4:35 PM :: 203 Views ::
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By Betsy Hart, The Chicago Sun-Times
School is back in session. Beware Hula-Hoops. Seriously.
A good friend told me she witnessed her suburban elementary school have its teachers gather their students and explain, as they sat cross-legged on the playground on their first day of school, the dangers of that 1950s icon, the Hula-Hoop.
The teachers dutifully instructed the young children that one must not swing the Hula-Hoop around one's neck as we all did as kids. Ditto one's arms. Do not roll the Hula-Hoop, similar to a game our grandparents played known as ... "hoops." All such things are off- limits.
Was there some recent death spree involving kids and Hula-Hoops of which I am not aware? In repeating this to my own children, my 9-year-old asked, "What do the teachers think they might do with the Hula-Hoop, choke on it?"
Out of the mouths of babes, and all that. [More]
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